When it was announced that Starbucks is coming to India the hype surrounding the news was like aliens landing on Earth or Dinosaurs living again. So I got a chance to visit Starbucks Delhi for the first time back when they opened their first outlet in Delhi, after an unsuccessful attempt to buy a coffee…
Kanpur Food Trail
Kanpur like most of the cities in Uttar Pradesh is known for different and special food items served all across the city. I was in Kanpur last year and after tasting the food I was wanting to write a food trail blog in detail about this city. The day I reached Kanpur I had a…
Language Barriers and Sunny Leone
I was in Shimoga and after three days of stay I checked out of my hotel to leave for Hassan. Realizing that it would only take some 3 and a half hours to reach there I decided to take a late night bus. The only problem was that I didn’t know what I was supposed…
Travel Diaries – Shimoga
My last two blogs updates are enough to let you guess that I traveled to Shimoga after I returned from Hampi. Hampi somehow turned into a not so good experience worth remembering this time mostly because of wrong travel decisions and wasting a huge amount of money on transport from Bangalore to Hospet. I decided…
Agumbe – Reliving Malgudi Days
Sometime back while re-reading Malgudi days I came to know that Malgudi days was shot in Agumbe that is some 2 hour journey from Shimoga. Agumbe holds the second position after Cherapunji in terms of highest rainfall and is a famous rain forest along with King Cobra preservation center. I took a bus going to…
Jog Falls – The White Beauty of Karnataka
This year in March I went to Jog Falls while I was in Shimoga. I had some expectations like the time I was here for the first time. But the moment I reached here my expectations were gone. Jog falls had become another victim of summers and both two out of four waterfalls had dried…
A 3 day Heritage Guide to Ahmedabad
Few months back in March I got a chance for a short stay in Ahmedabad. The official work for which I was supposed to be there was supposed to happen on two days and I had a long gap in between so being a traveler I decided to set myself to explore this city’s…
Tips to make your Hampi experience worth visiting.
Hampi is one of my favorite places I like to visit again and again. As a first timer you might wonder what people do here during there long stays when most of the Indian tourists leave the next morning complaining that there was not much to do here. Hampi has something to offer for everyone…
Lady in the Kitchen
‘My father died 4 year back, my mother followed him a year later. It was a bad time, I lost my job soon after and my relatives all of a sudden forcing me to marry someone of their choice I didn’t even know who he was.’ Walking around shops of Hampi I came across this…
Travel Solo vs Travel in Groups
I am a person who likes to travel solo because it requires less planning and hence saves a lot of time and money but then I have met people who cannot travel solo and need a group to travel with. There are pros and cons of in both ways to travel and a lot…