Archive for the 'Travel' Category

Recent Travels — Manali-Naggar and Goa

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The last two months gave me opportunities to revisit Manali/Vashisth/Naggar in Himachal Pradesh and Goa! This post goes over some of that experience and offers some helpful bits of info for people to use.
Manali/Vashisth – June 08
This was our first self-driven trip to Manali and Naggar. The drive was expected to be longer than any [...]

Goa - Part II - Bird-watching

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Armed with birding reports from the net, I’d meant to cover some birding hotspots of Goa over our 7-day stay in March 2008. The actual birding experience turned out to be lukewarm because we weren’t lucky with our bird guides in two places and it became clear that bountiful birding required multiple visits to the [...]

Goa experience in March 2008 - Part I–Hotels and Roads

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Goa isn’t that far from Delhi/Gurgaon but it took us about 8 years to bring it back to our travel schedule. I’d made the first trip when Kabir was a 3-year old toddler and Kishore had a 3-day seminar to conduct at the International Centre. My second trip was a few years ago when web [...]