Travel Blog with a focus on North East India
When in the Naga hills, the evenings are nippy and the night skies are clear, and life is usual and quite, something exciting also goes on nearby. Something which happens only once a year and brings people from all over India and beyond. Nagaland state’s annual tourism festival is by far the biggest tourism festival …
“Hampi is overwhelming!” I have said it in the past and I say it again, Hampi is a place like no other. Be it the grandeur, the history of one of the biggest kingdom or its immensely rich architecture. Or be it the huge boulders, the colorful Hampi market, or the mythological stories of Khishkinda Nagri, Hampi …
Tipping in India isn’t common everywhere. While guests and tourists have been tipping in restaurants in India and for other services in the big cities or touristy places, there had been no ‘tipping culture’ as such in small towns. But, things are changing. As more and more tourists, domestic and international, are exploring India beyond …
The trail we were on was slippery, the sky overcast with dark monsoon clouds hovering overhead and a roaring pahaadi river below that was nothing less than scary. It was a tricky situation to drive in and to be honest, we were on our toes all through the forty minutes or so of the drive. One small …
Rant Alert. Skip to story? I had planned to write a round-up post of 2017, something like this one before the previous year ended and then by the end of January, I had planned to have written at least a handful of travel stories here on the blog. The reality, however, turned out to be completely …