Kodai is the spot we visited more than thrice and never boring. It is an over night journey from Chennai to Kodai road and then by bus from this sport for 3 hours. This was a sudden trip planned. It was for 4 days after the board exams of my daughter we all wanted a break as though we also wrote the exams ! Indeed the pressure was to that extent. We took the overnight train to Kodai road and reached early morning the Kodai road station. We hired a cab from here to the hills. We did stop over for [View Full Entry]

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It was a long time wish to visit the Andamans though heard lot of it right from child hood in books and through friends. It was again as usual in the month of May 2008 we set off to Port Blair from Chennai on the 10 th May. It was quiet humid and the flight took off at 6 am. We were all excited as in two hours from then we would be landing in the emerald islands and enjoy the enchanting beauty. It was 7 am in the clock after an hour of take off when we heard an announcement [View Full Entry]

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Well, to go to Chittoor again, a busy town in the state of Andhra Pradesh - South India- was a long time wish as I had spent my child hood days here. The roaming around the hills, forests, going around the lovely Greamspet lake are still fresh in my memory though over three decades have passed by. My dad was a bank Manager here those days. We have even scaled the round shaped “Bodi Konda “which is at the town entrance. This is a massive sized rock mountain and at the top is a fresh water pond; I had climbed along [View Full Entry]

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This summer May 2006 it was really a good trip to Nainital & Corbett National park. We set off by Jet on 11 the May'06 from Chennai (the capital of Tamil nadu state in South India) to Delhi and took the over night train to Kathgodam. This is the last rail head and after this, its only roads and hilly tracks. On reaching at 7 am headed to Nainital in a local taxi, it was a lovely morning with cool breeze and fresh air and greenery all around. As we started on the elevated road it stared raining and we stopped [View Full Entry]

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Nestled among the Javad hills - a part of the Eastern ghats - near Vaniyambadi town on National Highway from Chennai to Bangalore - is the scenic tourist resort of Yelagiri. A hill station of its own class. At about 250 kms away from Chennai and at nearly 1400 mtrs above sea level, Yelagiri is the perfect weekend getaway for the family and friends. This is a tiny hill station near Chennai just 4.50 hours drive, many are not aware of a hill station so close to Chennai!! The sleepy town is quite and calm only 4-5 hotels and they are [View Full Entry]

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Come Summer and its travel time. The destinatin is Gangtok, Nathulla & Dargeeling starting from Kolkata the year 2007 during May. We reached Calcutta on a humid afternoon , after checking in the hotel were off to the local places. My friend Viswanath's daughter Sandhya accompanied us for the trip & was a good company for my daughter through out.The local trip started with the famous Howrah bridge, the botanical gardens were for the day one. The victoria memorial the land mark of kolkata was of course in the list. The second day stared off wtih a visit to the Belur [View Full Entry]

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Chennai is the capital city of Tamilnadu state in South India. It was on a Sunday morning when we decided to drive down the sea shore along the long marina beach and just thought why we don’t visit the Fort. Though we are living in the city of Chennai for a pretty long time we have never visited this Fort so far and we now decided to make it. We have passed through the majestic fort several times but never attempted to go in. Before I start off, many people of Chennai have not seen this place like it always happens; [View Full Entry]

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It was year 2006 the trip to Coorg was planned very fast as we had very little time to plan. We set off on a week end to Bangalore by train and from there to Mysore by road. The road trip from Mysore to Coorg was too good the place is also known as Mercara or Madekere, a small town with lovely lush green hills, tea gardens and a pleasant climate. This lies in the eastern slopes of the western Ghats. As we approached the place we could feel the cool breeze of the hills. The cab driver was quite friendly [View Full Entry]

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May 2005 and this time it was Shimla, Kulu & Manali. Though I had seen snow and snow fall , my daughter was very particular to see snow clad peaks and enjoy the weather. We then planned for this lovely trip to Shimla, Kulu & Manali. The starting point was Chennai. We flew down to Delhi and took the early morning Shatabdi express to kalka the last rail head to go to Shimla. There is a toy train running from kalka to Shimla but since it is too long a trip we took a cab to Shimla keeping in view of [View Full Entry]

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