The first halt in our 15-day Uttarakhand road-trip was Jeolikote, a little hamlet about 17 kms before Nainital. When confronted with the question, “Where to stay in Jeolikote?”, we chose The Cottage Jeolikote. Located just as one enters Jeolikote, the Cottage is not difficult to find. Ask anybody, they will […]
Our first stop in our Uttarakhand road-trip was at Jeolikote, a little hamlet about 50kms away from the Pantnagar airport. The drive from the Pantnagar Airport to Jeolikote took us a little more than 90 minutes. We arrived at the Pantnagar Airport at about 3pm on a mid-May afternoon, and […]
Uttarakhand has two airports — one in Dehra Dun (the capital town) and one in Pantnagar (located in the south-east tip of Uttarakhand). For our Uttarakhand road-trip, we flew down from Mumbai to Delhi on an Air India flight, and took a connecting Air India flight from Delhi to Pantnagar. […]
The idea was to run away from the mundane and run to the offbeat… to run away from the heat and stress. And most importantly, from chores, chatter, crowd and cacophony… The cooler climes of Uttarakhand, the lure of its hills and the Himalayas beckoned.. But this plan for an Uttarakhand […]
Vada Pav is synonymous with Mumbai/Maharashtra. It is the most easily available breakfast, snack, filler in the state, irrespective of the day and time. Here’s the BEST Vada Pav guy in case you are driving to Alibagh or Kashid or on the old Goa Highway — Shri Dutt Vada Pav! […]
Pondicherry, or to be politically correct, Puducherry, is a beach town in the east coast of India. Not big enough to be a state, but distinct enough to have its own identity, Pondicherry is a Union Territory of India. Long known for being a settlement of the Dutch, Portuguese, English […]
Dukes Retreat in Khandala is fantastic … Didn’t realise it till I landed up there! Khandala is a 2-hour drive from Mumbai and lies in the beautiful, verdant Western Ghats. Go past the second Lonavala exit and drive a short bit more to reach Dukes Retreat. Sprawling and very well maintained, you are […]
We were in Udaipur for 4 nights and 3 days over an extended Diwali weekend. India’s city of lakes turns into a dreamland during Diwali, what with every house, neighbourhood and monument lit up with the Diwali lamps and lights; and all of them getting reflected in the lakes….dreamland, as […]