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Hampi Ajanta Ellora Travelogue - Day 1

Namaste. Long time :D Just blogging the travelogue cz I got many requests abt it after I shared it on my whatsapp status. Disclaimer: If u r to browse my previous articles, plz know that many things have changed since the time I wrote them. So my past opinions abt many things may not be applicable now. So with that aside, let's go... It had been a long, long time since we actually went on a holiday. Not counting Goa temple visits and the places around (I ll probably make a separate post on Goa). With the COVID "holidays", we spent the last couple of years also without any long distance travel. And finally this year, we finally made one. Earlier we could visit places during off season and enjoy most of the places without any crowd. But with school, we have to schedule our travels during the breaks. So Christmas break it was. We hit a bit of a luck here too. The school announced Christmas holidays in the week prior to Christmas, i.e, from 17 - 25 Dec (as opposed to 25 ...

Trip to Auli - Day 2

Contd from previous post " Trip to Auli - Day 1 " Neither of us realized the alarm go off at 4:00 AM and when we finally did get up, it was 8:30 AM..!! :-O The only other option to reach Joshimath was to travel the 8 hours/300 kms by taxi. We knew it was going to be Rs. 3000 (as per our hom ework) two-way, as in we have to pay for the return journey as well. But it turned out to be Rs. 4000. We tried our bargaining skills with the taxi federation or whatever there, but to no avail and so we were put on an Ambassador car, our driver being a Akram. He later introdu ced hims elf to us as Vikram. The views on the outskirts of Dehradun were good. It was very foggy as well. E ven at 10:30 AM, the visibility remained hampered. There are a lot of camping sites on the way. There are lots of shops the locals have set up that offer camping, trekking and rafting. The camps looked inviting with tents and gazebo kind of things set up on the river side. The river itself was blue...

Trip to Auli - Day 1

The trip started on 9 Jan, 2010 at the vee hours of 4:00 AM. The hardest part of getting up so early and the next hardest part of giving directions to our house to a confused taxi driver tackled, we were all set to the airport. I had not expected the roads and the lightings to look so spectacular in the dark. It was better than Mumbai's Queens necklace :D Reaching the airport (Bangalore International Airport) and checked in, had an expensive Idli/vada/sambar (Rs. 90) and roamed around the duty free shops till it was time to leave. The Go Indigo flight was scheduled to take off at 6:30 AM. The gates opened at 5:50 and by 6:15 we were tucked in nicely in the aircraft, though the leg space was a little cramped. We even got to see the sunrise on our flight and it was oh so beautiful. Landed at Delhi (Indira Gandhi International Airport) by 9:00 AM. The outside temperature was 10 degrees. It was cold, tolerable and thick smoke was visible when people spoke :D Our next destination wa...

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