Hitchhiker’s Guide to Kedarnath 2
Day 6 Started with early morning bus to Sonprayag , where I reached around 9:30 a.m. On the bus, I made another friend from Gurugram with whom I travelled for next 2 days.After breakfast , due to my experience in…
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Kedarnath 1
Details of Kedarnath Temple : The temple at Kedarnath, the Jyotirlinga of Shiva is open only for six months of a year (April-November).The temple is at a height of 3,583 m (11,755 ft) on the shores of Mandakini river. Like Badrinath, in Kedarnath…
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Badrinath
Details of Badrinath: Badrinath is a very important Hindu pilgrimage destination , as it is one of the four 'Char Dhams' and 'Chota Char Dhams' pilgrimage sites. The temple is also one of the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu, holy…
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Gangotri – 2
On the journey to Gangotri I got to know 3 people from Haryana , Punjab and Kerala . We went through a scenic 4 hour long journey to Gangotri . We got a glimpse of Himalayan snow mountains on the way.…
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Gangotri – 1
I reached Dehradun by train on Day 1 and from there I started my Hitchhiking in Uttarakhand. Dehradun is located in the Doon valley, which got its name from Drona valley , named after the royal guru of the Pandavas…
Weekend Road Trip to Ooty via Bandipur
First step in planning the Ooty trip is to book the train for Ooty to Cunoor as the tickets are tough to get , even though there was a direct sale of some tickets at the station generally there will…
Weekend Road Trip to Jog falls and Sringeri
History of Sringeri : We planned to visit Sringeri for my kid's Aksharabhyasa . The name Sringeri is derived from Rishyashringa-giri, a nearby hill that is believed to have contained the heritage of RishiVibhandaka and his son Rishyashringa. Rishyashringa appears in…
Travelling through Western Ghats
After passing through the Hoysala empire we joined back to the NH75 at Bhage near Sakleshpur around 3 P.M ,The Ghats from Bhage to Gundya via Sakleshpur are very scenic but the road condition is very bad . One of my…