We went to Matheran when Ridi (our daughter) was just 3 months old. Travel restrictions in the third trimester of my pregnancy and three more months of almost ‘staying at home’ after our little one came, had made us impatient. Horribly impatient. So what if our baby was ‘so young’? […]
We are a family of biryani lovers. Even my 6-year old, who is otherwise notorious for her foot habits and eating-time, will slurp up her plate of biryani in a snap. We make them at home, but also greatly relish the ones that are available in restaurants outside. Here’s a […]
Cherrapunjee tour takes an entire day. About two and a half hours to three hour’s drive from Shillong city, best is to start at about 7 am in the morning, reach by 10am and have four-five hours in hand before you set out to get back to Shillong. The other […]
Bhandardara is the place to go to when you want to do nothing on a holiday. For, there isn’t much that you can do there anyway. Other than just soak in nature, stare out into the hills, be delighted by the lake and splash a little water here and there […]
The 3day-2night stay at the Rann Utsav was replete with experiences…. 1st day: Sight-seeing started with a trip to a nearby village showcasing the daily life of people in the dessert. It certainly didn’t look like a real village – put up for visitors, with women asking for INR 50 […]
As I said in my last blog (Destination #RannUtsav in Gujarat — Celebrating the Rann of Kutch), once you alight from the bus upon reaching Kutch, you are amazed by the scale at which the local government has planned the #RannUtsav. Easy check-ins at the welcome – tent, with the […]
Rann of Kutch was a long longed destination. Every year we seemed to be postponing it citing some reason or the other. But, in October 2012, Jayant finally booked a 3 days/2 nights trip to the Kutch Utsav — a part of the much advertised Gujarat festival organized by the state […]
If you want to see the real India, you need to get out of the posh areas and Malls and head to the old part of Indian cities … Whether its Chandni Chowk in Delhi, Aminabad in Lucknow, Charminar and old part of Hyderabad etc. In Mumbai, it has to […]