Sachin
Sachin Bharadwaj Joined: February 8th 2009
Logged in: August 25th 2009
Logged in: August 25th 2009
My primary blog is: http://sachinb.blogspot.com This is where I do my reportage of places and events I goto.
My photography links are: http://www.photo.net/photos/Sachin%20Bharadwaj and http://www.flickr.com/photos/sachinb
Do drop a line or two if you like my work.
In case someone is looking out for a travel-writer-photographer, I'm open for such positions.
Travel Blog Posts
Janapada Loka (translates to Folk World), is located on Bangalore-Mysore highway on the outskirts of Ramanagara. It's a 15 acre area containing museum, photo gallery, demo village, lake and open-air amphitheater. The entrance tickets are priced Rs. 10 and the photography permit inside the museum costs Rs. 100. The garden is well maintained with lots of flowering plants and bamboo trees as a result of which there is a healthy fauna presence inside. I was told that every second and last Sundays of all months will have folklore performance and the place is closed on Tuesdays. img={http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NGgVlvoN6PA/Sg5_d1wClzI/AAAAAAAAEp4/CU3enIXskC4/s1600-h/IMG_9322.jpg} center It's a good idea to start visiting the area from Lokamatha Mandira, the museum which has got a great collection of various materials used by the villagers in their routine - cradles, measures, ladles, ves... read more
The same article with photographs is published here: Guatemala At 8 in the morning, a delicious breakfast of toast, marmalade and huevos a la Mexicana was ready at the forest lodge we stayed in. We had breakfast, thanked Vicente for his hospitality and boarded a mini-bus that dropped us to San Javier. We waited at San Javier bus station for about half hour, before we were picked by another mini bus that took us to Frontera Corozal. At Frontera Corozal, we boarded the launch on the same Rio Usumacinta on which we had sailed to Yaxchilan ruins the previous day, just that we sailed in the opposite direction. The river was crowded by people busy with their laundry and ablution. I kept pondering how courageous those people were, they were carelessly swimming and bathing despite the ... read more
For photographic version of this article, please visit: Peregrinación de San Juan de Los Lagos I have seen pretty much all kinda landscapes in Mexico...selvas, deserts, mountains, valleys and done pretty much all kinda adventures...swimming marathons, canyoneering, getting lost in mountains and what not. There was one thing pending that I had to do - Pilgrimage, and am I'm glad that I could do it before my stint in Mexico could get over. Peregrinación de San Juan de Los Lagos, is the second biggest pilgrimage in Mexico, next only to Peregrinación al Tepeyac. Located in the state of Jalisco, San Juan de Los Lagos is a small town with nearly 40000 habitants. La Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos, attracts thousands of pilgrims every year especially during 2... read more
Xinjiang - where deserts, marshes, meadows, snow capped mountains, forests and plains live in perfect harmony. Located in the north western part of China, this province borders with Kazakhstan, Kirgistan, Russia and Mongolia thereby containing plethora of ethnic groups - Mongols, Kazakhs, Kirghs, Muslims to name a few. The incredibly diverse and vivid landscapes could be experienced during traveling; deserts change to alpine forests to bald brown rockies to lush green forests. Here I've tried to describe my recent odyssey to this marvelous place on earth, in quite an elaborate manner. Urumqi, the capital of the province, is like any another Chinese city, only notable difference being the boards had Urdu scripts alongside Chinese. Since we touched down at dinnertime, the pleasant smell of the kebabs did not take much time to hit our senses. We ... read more
4 guys, Verna diesel, NH17 - perfect ingredients for a Goa trip. After getting ditched by 2 of them, Ashok and me decided that we gotta hit Goa, just two us!!! After a heavy breakfast at one of the famous idli hotels near Tumkur, the sun started blazing torridly but Verna's cooling mechnaism kept us cool and comfortable. High school memoirs, playful pranks, music critiques and pee-breaks made our journey a very lively and joyous. After a cheap meal at Haveri the tarmac ahead was so smooth and less curvy that speed did not fall below 100. The limpid twilight of Palolem beach welcomed us, Ashok tried his best to reach before sunset but we lost the race. Nevertheless my camera captured few neat shots in the dusky faint light. We rented a shack (Rs. 300 ... read more
This is an old article, originally published here: http://sachinb.blogspot.com/2007/10/matter-of-life-and-luck.html This is the story of how stupid and yet how lucky and propitious can a person get. If I'm here writing this story, it is due to sheer luck I had accumulated. I'm not sure whom should I be thanking but I presume that everyone one of you have mattered for me to be alive and share this story, accept my wholehearted thanks. Among many lessons I learnt after this incident, the most important one, trust me, Nothing Is Larger Than Life. The Trek After cancelling the hike to the magnficient Cerro de la Silla at the last moment, Keno and myself decided that we should go elsewhere. I was very much lured by Pico Cuauhtémoc in Cerro de las Mitras for the challenge and adventure it ... read more
