For a while I had been dreaming of visiting India’s only Marine National Park in the Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat. The dream came true last winter when I visited the region. Theoa is 27 km from Jamnagar. When Paresh, the forest guard and I left Theoa Guest House in the morning on our motorbike, the […]
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Unlike most of the treks in the Himalayas this particular one is to be undertaken between November and March. The area abounds in birds and the climate this year allowed for an extension of the birding season into April. We were fortunate to have for company, our friend Vasuda Pandey, who hails from Nainital and […]
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A news clipping in a Chennai daily announcing the arrival of myriad migratory birds to the nearby sanctuary of Vedanthangal caught our attention. We excitedly planned a day trip to the Sanctuary, setting out at the crack of dawn on a Sunday morning. Speeding through near empty roads we quickly arrived at the fork on […]
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Mid November saw me conducting a workshop for Traditional Birth Attendants in a remote village near Berinag in Uttarakhand serviced by a NGO called AVNI. After completing the workshop, we trekked and ‘jeeped’ back to the base centre in Tripuradevi for late lunch. At the meal we were joined by young international volunteers who […]
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The legendary river Sarasvati, flowing over 1600 km from Mt. Kailash and joined by tributaries arising from Swargarohini peak in the Banderpoonch massif and passing through Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat made the region lush. Quest for the elusive River has been on my mind for some time now and this October […]
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Narkanda (2,708 meters), at the base of Hatu, offers a spectacular view of the snow capped peaks of the Himalayas. It stretches from the Srikhand Range in the east to the Kinner Kailash of Kinnaur in the northwest, and all the way across to the peaks of the Tons and Yamuna catchment in Uttarakhand. Narkanda […]
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Bhoramdeo, approximately 130 kms from Raipur airport, is a region that boasts of spectacular beauty. The erstwhile princely town of Kawardha (located 18 kms away) forms the main gateway to the region although Mukki gate of Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh also affords a second entry. The forests of Bhoramdeo are resplendent with medicinal […]
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Anticipating the customary fog would play havoc with the flight schedules this winter we cleverly booked our travel to Chennai by the Tamil Nadu Express of the fourth of January to discover that we did not fare any better. The train took a beating soon after Delhi – woke up to a chilly morning at […]
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A long weekend, granted by one favourably positioned Id, afforded a memorable winter trip. We started on the Delhi- Ambala Highway early on a cloudy Friday morning equipped with packed breakfast. Two kilometres after Shahbad, we took a right turn by the side of hotel Prince. Following a much needed tea and breakfast break we […]
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Day excursion to Masroor in Himachal Pradesh happened to be one of the highlights of our summer vacation at Mcleodganj. The temple standing magnificently on a hill crescent is a unique example of monolithic temples in the sub Himalayan region. In the absence of inscriptions and any other epigraph or literary records the patronage of […]
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