Triund is like a Friday night. You can very well see what is ahead and you know what you have just left behind. The tingling of a cool weekend to look forward to and the madding week left behind. We all know what that feels like. And Triund feels just like that. 3 I like [...]
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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 [...]
I was sold on Chitkul more than two years back. And I have tried to sell it ever since. To whoever has 4 days or more, and is willing to travel. I, in all my sincerity, urge them to fit in another one and half hours into their bone-jangling 10-hour journey time starting from Shimla. [...]
And to be more specific: travelling in the Himalayas. When I first received THE call from WWF offering us a project to design a brochure on the topic of high altitude wetlands, I almost dropped the phone. Similar waves of pleasure gently hit us repeatedly through the next 2 months to its completion. The costing [...]
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 [...]
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller So, THAT is what I have been doing wrong! Taking off from i-sol’s earlier post about planning before a holiday (he himself has confessed that I am one of the [...]
“The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought,” said Sun Tzu in Art of War. In my earlier post, I had written about how the intrepid traveler prepares for each trip like a general for a war. I am willing to lay my neck on the [...]
There is this old chestnut about George Mallory. When someone asked him why he wanted to climb Mt Everest, he replied, “Because it is there.” Mallory was the forerunner of the intrepid traveler or Homo Intrepidus Traveleris. Resolute, determined to reach the destination by hook or crook or hitch hiking, she prepares for every trip [...]
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 [...]
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