Chandigarh

Akshay my son joined CHC Consulting and was posted in Chandigarh, India  to start their offshore development center. He moved to India with his wife in January 2017 and started the office in Mohali, a suburban town of Chandigarh from scratch. After our tour of southern India for three months, we came back to Delhi …

Port Blair, Andaman Islands

We had early morning flight on 14th September from Hyderabad for Port Blair. We left home around 4.15am  in Uber. It was raining heavily all thru night. I was worried we may get stuck and not reach the airport in time. Cab driver was good and made it in time and we could board the …

Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam

While staying with Jaideep, he planned to have, mundan,  head shaving ceremony of his daughter, Kajori at Tirupati, which is one of the most important Temple city in India. He wanted that we should also come along . Being an Atheist,  I was not inclined to accompany them there but he convinced me that it …

Hyderabad, Telangana

It was a long train journey by a slow passenger train, which stopped almost at every station. As express train was departing late  mid night, we decided to travel thru this train as timings suited us better  . We started at 6.30pm on previous evening from Bijapur and reached Secunderabad Junction at 8.30 on 3rd …

Bijapur, Karnataka

We left Badami by cab on 31st August morning with plans to see important tourist attractions on the way to Bijapur. First stop was at Pattadakal, which was around 15 miles notth east of Badami .  Here also  they have temples built by Chalukya kings during their reign from 4th to 7th century AD. Most …

Badami, Karnataka

Drive to Badami was thru interior rural Karnataka roads, which were narrow and broken. It was a  good decision to hire a cab as bus route was not direct and it would have stopped at all stops taking double the time. Our hotel  booking was at KSTDC Hotel Mayura Chalukya. We reached comfortably in 3 …

Hampi, Karnataka

  Our train ride from Hubli to Hampi was just 2 1/2 hours . It was comfortable. Train journey is much better compared to Bus as you have more leg room and the best part is that there are restrooms available. We reached Hospet, nearest station to Hampi  around four in the afternoon. We had …

Hubli, Karnataka

We had to hire a cab to reach Madgaon railway station,  which was almost 50 km away from our hotel. We preferred to travel by train because it passes thru Doodhsagar waterfalls, which does not come on the way if you travel by road. These magnificent waterfalls are on border of Goa and Karnataka. We …

Goa

We left Karwar on morning of 20th August after night stay there at Sterling Emrald Bay Resort.  Sumit Goel, Shubha's father was nice enough to lend us a car from their Karwar office to show us around Karwar and then drop us at our Hotel in Goa.  We wanted to visit war museum in Karwar, …

Gokarna, Karnataka

We left for Gokarna on 16th morning by state roadways. Nearest bus stand to Sharavathi Adventure camp was Kargal, a small town with only one direct bus to Gokarna at 10.30am. We were dropped at bus stand by Camp van. The journey uptill Honnavar was thru western ghats and then it was coastal road along …