Ti hK
Ti$hK@ Joined: June 17th 2009
Logged in: June 18th 2009
Logged in: June 18th 2009
Travel Blog Posts
Calm river ganga
Today, after a refreshing early morning walk at a park near our guesthouse and a lovely breakfast of toast and eggs, we set off for Rishikesh, 22 km away. The temperature at 10 a.m. was a blazing 40 degrees celsius... and during the day went up to around 45 degrees celsius... so sunscreen and caps really came in good use!! The Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam Limited (GMVNL) had a tourist help centre near the Lakshman Jhula.. After asking a few questions we came to know that there is a provision for rafting a few kilometres down the road... and at a place called Kaudiwala some distance away... We parked our car near the tourist center and hailed one of those famous blue autos to take us to the Lakshman Jhula, a kilometre away.. The jhula (bridge)was ... read more
Har-ki-pauri
Our train, the Rajdhani Express reached the Delhi Nizzamuddin Station today.... The journey from Bangalore by AC 3 tier was extremely comfortable and the food was good - all thanks to our railway minister Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav. According to my dad's plans we were to take a car from Delhi and drive to the various places in Uttranchal. The car my dad drove was the Maruti Swift DZire.. an excellent car that ran on diesel and gave us literally no trouble at all... The journey to Haridwar was a bit off a pain because of the traffic in Uttar Pradesh. The traffic, i must say i horrible!! Truly Horrible!! With bullock carts and ordinary vehicles travelling on the same road and honking as much as they want.. In the north, the trend is that unless ... read more
