bills.bushahrtimes.com
WordPress.com’s ’2011 year in blogging’ annual fact-sheet for bushahrtimes threw up some interesting facts, most amusing of which were the search terms used by visitors, leading them to our blog. The annual report goes on to say, “Some visitors came searching, mostly for zeebra, taxi bill, reckong peo, dhankar monastery, and lachen“. Now this ‘taxi...
Summer 08: Har-ki-Dun
We went on a trek to Har-ki-Dun in May 2008. This is not a day by day account of how or what we did or didn’t do, that should interest you as a possible trekker to this place. Guide books can do a far better job; go buy one. Or to get high on one...
Valley of skeletons
We recently completed the roopkund trek (16-25th september 2011) in Uttarakhand (India). The route we followed was: Lohajung – bigan tal – lohajung – wan – bedni – ali – baguwabasa – roopkund – paatarnachaniya – wangbhandar – kanol – sutol – setail. Following is an account of it written for Times of India –...
Unplanned Kilometres
Wake up early, get hold of our rented bikes, have breakfast, leave by 8 or 9, drive to the lake, enjoy the fabulous setting of the 2700 metres high lake, click some pictures; all the while trying to resemble those cool hippies who drive around on macho cruiser bikes, drive back just in time for...
Somewhere in Iceland…
Eyjafjallajökull’s nearest active neighbours are Katla, to the northeast, and Eldfell, to the southwest. Hence they are considered the mom and the doctor in this representation of how when you are sick, and you try to speak while you puke, you can pretty much expect your name to be miss-spelt. Perhaps Eyjafjallajökull’s real name is...
The tradition of non-traditional new year trips
The agenda A group of 5 people set out to experience the desolate topography of North Sikkim. High on list is visiting the blue waters of Gurudongmar Lake, driving through the uninhabited Yumthang valley, and chilling under the winter sun at Lachen and Lachung, two main villages of North Sikkim. If the word count of...
UNUSED (things that never saw the client nod): TBR cover illustration
This illustration was part of a larger cover idea for the magazine ‘The Brand Reporter’ by afaqs. The Jun 16-30 issue had a cover story on media houses diversifying into event management. This poor chap lost to the other...
Spiti left bank trek
Difficulty level: easy to moderate Number of days: 6 Route: Poh(3280 mts.) to Kaza via Dhankar (3640 mts.), Lhalung (3620 mts.), Demul (4234 mts.), Komik (4275 mts.), Langza (4224 mts.). Reaching the base of the trek: the best option would be to start the trek from Poh, though it can be done the other way...
Why you should be going there: Yuksom
When we went to Sikkim, we didn’t really have a plan in mind concerning ‘things to do’. We had to use up our semester-end break, so thought of going someplace far off. Sikkim was a good choice as one of our group members had to ‘mandatorily’ visit his home in Calcutta for at least a...
List of provisions
List of provisions stacked for the trip to Tsomo-riri (3 days/ taxi/ 4 people + 1 driver) Trip dates: 27, 28, 29 June 2007 The bill dated 26th of June 2007 was supposed to feed 5 people for 3 days. Of those 5 people, 4 brains were put into preparing this list. And the best...