Contrary to popular belief, Assam is actually not only teeming with insurgents and tribals. There are a group of people who have a different association with Assam and swear by it - the lovers of tea. The life long tea drinkers who can smell the difference between a darjeeling, assam or south indian brew. In their hearts, Assam holds a fond place for its tea is considered to produce one of the world’s finest liquor. Assam’s landscape would be incomplete without miles of tea bushes - its own green gold. The Tea Industry in Assam is symbolic of a different era, [View Full Entry]

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“In the heart of a smoking mountain” Indonesia - the largest archipelago in the world....and an undiscovered treasure trove of adventure, mystery and natural beauty. Being an Indian, i am a seeker of these things in my travel...it is not so much the sights as the stories associated to each place that grab my attention and imagination. A chance, unplanned trip to Berastagi, also known as Brastagi turned out to be just the place that fueled it. Berastagi is a cozy hill station just two hours from Medan - the commercial capital of North Sumatera, Indonesia. It is a st [View Full Entry]

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Holidays are a getaway from one’s world of work, making a living and surviving through the day-to-day squabbles with nature. Travel to unknown destinations means that you switch off your mind - “let your hair down”. Mine was a similar endeavour - to come back home to Guwahati and go to a place that I had wanted to visit with my family. Little did I know that this would be far from just a getaway, that it would become one of the most astounding visual journeys of my life! The trip to Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh was a final product of [View Full Entry]

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Have you ever had the opportunity to visit a place at the best time of the year? If you have, some of you will agree with me that it can be a pretty traumatic experience. All the scenic ‘must see’ places are strewn with human heads, hotels that cost triple the amount, every intention you have of spending a quiet, relaxed holiday is shattered in queuing up for various things beginning with a dinner table to a shop counter, not to mention the entrance of a “must see” structure. How that could be a vacation to get away from a [View Full Entry]

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