Our social norms come up with instructions that says never talk to strangers but the moment you start traveling solo you slowly become used to interacting with strangers and talking to them. These strangers make an interesting part of your stories later. When traveling solo talking to a stranger is important otherwise you’ll die of…
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Photo Essay: Goa in Monsoon
The monsoons in Goa are magical and gives you the best of the Konkan coast. The amazing greenery and clouds in this season brings a totally different side of Goa in Monsoons The Landscape in this season when traveling by road from Bombay to Goa or from Bangalore side is lush with greenery. Although…
Photos Essay – A Trip To Ajmer Sharif
Popularly called Gharib Nawaz, the benefactor of the poor, Khawaja-ji established the Chishti order of Sufism situated in Rajasthan a few kilometers away from Delhi and Jaipur. His successor of the spiritual order was Khawaja-ji’s disciple Hazrat Bakhtiyar Kaki, whose shrine is in Mehrauli, south Delhi. Hazrat Kaki was succeeded by his pupil Baba Farid….
Shravanbelagola: Stairway to Heaven
Jainism is a dharmic religion (that also includes Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism). Popular for prescribing non-violence against any living being and believes that every living soul is divine. There have been 24 Jain Tirthankars, lord Mahavir being the last of them on whose notes the foundation of Jainism is laid. Shravanbelagola is one of the…
A walk upto Nrupatunga Betta
I just reached Hubli and was looking wishing to visit some place different other than lakes and malls. Asking around I came to know that there is a hilltop outside the town called Nrupatunga Betta. A local at Unkal lake told me that the place is actually a pile of dirt and I will only…
The Land of Kings: Pattadkal
Ganges is the most auspicious river for Hindus and is the reason that makes Varanasi of such importance because Ganga flows from South to North here. This little piece of information that comes from thousand kilometers away from a smallest of the villages called Pattadkal. After waiting for an hour finally I got a bus…
Sandstone Chronicles: Badami
Leaving Hubli in the morning I took a bus for Badami. The place is famous for its rock cut cave temples and this was going to be the last stop of my destination. I reached Badami after a 3 hour long ride on a KSRTC bus with farms on both sides and through villages. This…
Travel Diaries: Hubli
My Karnataka summer trip was about to end and Hubli was the last destination in my list. I traveled to Hubli because of two main reasons, reading about Dandeli national park and visiting the cave temples of Badami. Compare to Shimoga and Hassan, Hubli is little too far away from Bangalore and takes almost 11…
Shettihallli Holy Rosary Church – Where ruins tell a story.
Shettihalli is a small village that is 2 hour bus ride away from Hassan. While going through the internet I came across this church that became a must visit for me. Holy Rosary church was built in 1860 on the banks of Hemwathi river along with a river that existed near its banks. In 1960…
Travel Diaries : Hassan
After Shimoga I took a late night bus for Hassan. This city was not in my travel plans but the more I went through the internet and information it made me sure that this place was worth visiting. There were few temples from Hoysala era, an abandoned church and a huge statue of bahubali that…
