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Torsa Joined: January 5th 2006
Logged in: May 31st 2006
Logged in: May 31st 2006
Travel Blog Posts
Hi, Well coming back to it all..so we reached Jaipur from Delhi n the afternoon. It had alovely wheather. Not very cold, not very hot. Just optimum. This desert state has Hot climate but since it ws winter the day time wheather was quite lovely. We boarded a hotel. It was this typically Rajasthani hotel, with that kind of decking. The gorgeus sandstone clour walls were beautiful. It was nice. After getting fresh we decided to move out and just see the town. we had no idea what to do and where to go, except for the fact that i had some of my frnds whose ancestral home is in Jaipur. They advised me on the local front as to what is better and what not. We went to the RTDC office to seek details about ... read more
International Kite Festival, Ahmedabad ‘dheel de, dheel de de re bhaiya…’, the popular number from Bollywood’s basket aptly sums the excitement and thrill in the kite festivals held across the world, and delves into the Indianised face of the grand fiesta. The most renowned kite festival of India takes place at Ahmedabad on January 14 to coincide with uttarayan and Makar Sankranti. But it was as early as 200 bc, that Huen tsang of China flew a kite at night to scare the army of the Han dynasty. In the 930 Ad its Japan who first mentions ‘shiroshi’( meaning paper bird) which is considered to be the predecessor of the modern day Kite. China took it up as a popular sport between 960-1130 AD. China also attached some myth with the flying of kites and that ... read more
Jaipur...as beautiful as ever! There must be so many reasons as to why a person visits a place, sometimes it could be wander lust sometimes a quest to know or sometimes a quest to fall in love. I cant excatly tell why I landed up in Jaipur...only one word that i can recount right now to summarise the reason to be there is nothing but 'search'. Today its just past an year that I visited the place which changed my perception of the word 'travel' at large. It would be quite queer though but true that it was initially indeed a search for someone. In detail, its like this that I had met a certain guy in a music show a few years back. I suddenly realised that I had a crush on him after the ... read more
