And So I Travel...

10 people

Shimla Railway Station Platform
Doing what... Singing songs for 3 hours, songs on demand, songs of our choice, songs of my team's choice, and songs just like that...
leading the brat pack... your highness :D
Occasion... my team outing... took a train to Kalka... an open three wheeler to the bus stand, a bus to Shimla...
and loved it...


3 People...
Arobindo Sanjit Gaurav...
On our way back from McLeodganj...
Argued on India and various situations for over 3 hours... non stop... stopped only when the throats started hurting of speaking...


5 people...
On the banks of Pangong Tso... high up in the mountains... looking at water, hills, mountains and nothing at the same time... walking around doing nothing and all by ourselves...
Subbu, Me, Pondy, Gupta and Deepu... in Ladakh...


4 people...
Uttarakhand...
Drove around the state for 4 days... almost 12 hours everyday... with minimum words spoken...


Friday worked hard... started driving in the evening... and drove almost continuously till 0800 hrs next morning... over 12 hours again...
Met Ankur for the first time... and Neitya and Nidhi and uncle and aunty for the first time too...


Salt Lake to Korunamui to Hawrah to Belur Math to Dokkhineshwar to Harwah to BBD Bag to Esplanade to Park Street to Robindro Shodon on a richshaw, bus, boat, bus, ferry, and my tired legs...
alone...
My date with Kolkata...
Thanks Aro for keeping me company on the phone and helping with directions...


4 people... adventurous...
trying to climb up a hill top the difficult way...
realizing that they have done something really stupid when they found out that it was no defined path... and they made their own way through rocks, stones, cactus plants, and no spaces and vertical falls...
Welcome to a different Pushkar with Me, Gupta, Adi and Shubhi... oh... and how can I forget reaching Pushkar in a li'il less than 6 hours? top speek 160kmph... vehicle : the rocking Petra !!!


Flight to Banaras... and an overnight sleeper class to Ambikapur... humidity, rattling seats and dust...
Boat ride in the Ganges
Aarti from the top of a boat...
Disgusting commercialization of the temple...


Delhi - Rishikesh - Chamba - Dhanaulti - Dehradun - Delhi...
one tank full in my Palio...
first long drive
Loads of Buransh all around
Sunset and sunrise in the hills
Telling a German friend about India... so loads of talks and drive and silence all around... with Aro, and Martina


About 15 hours of drive...
about 4 hours of trek...
Snow and Snow all around...
White gets a new definition...
and Snowfalls gets a new viewer...
Tungnath... with Tushar, Deepu, Aseem, Subbu and a few more...

Cab full of people...
Raft full of people...
My favorite Left front seat...
Water all around... water all over... every Rapid like never before... Three Blind Mice, Return to Sender, Good Morning, and many more...
Flowing in water.... sleeping on the sand...
Fun, Team, Cheers, Loudness...Tushar, Me and a few more... many times...

I have

• looked into silence
• heard nothing
• talked with myself
• shouted
• driven
• walked
• trekked
• loved
• hated
• liked
• adored
• cried
• slept
• counted stars
• took a bath in a mountain river
• not spoken for hours
• talked for hours
• had heart to heart conversations with strangers
• almost died
• felt like God
• felt with God
• seen myself getting wet in rain
• made a fool out of myself
• driven fast and very fast
• enjoyed my own singing
• cursed
• smiled
• thought
• remembered
• been surprised
• been disappointed
• fallen in love
• let go

when I traveled...

Did i say I have also taken a few pictures when I traveled? :)





p.s. If you want to read about my travel tales... look for the link on the top of the page called "I Travel I Tell" and if you are interested in having a look at the pictures, check out the column on the right with links to all the photo trips... Enjoy...

And I thought it was only fair to have a few pictures in this post too :) so here we go...

On my way back from Hemkund (near Valley of Flowers)

Early morning in Rishikesh... for my favorite sport... Rafting...

From a drive to Uttaranchal.... 4 days... 12 hours everyday...

Triund... top of the hill... greenest of green grass...

We almost got stuck here because of how the trek path was... somehow managed to cross without falling off the hill... This is Tushar...

Corbett Falls... about 45 minutes from the Jim Corbett...

Golu Devta Temple @ Chitai... somewhere in Uttaranchal... from the same drive as I mentioned above...

Lansdowne... Me Deepak and Aseem... long drive that was... from Delhi to Lansdowne to Haridwar and Rishikesh... all in one day...

One of my favorites pictures EVER... from McLeodganj... Me Aro Gaurav and Sanjit went on a drive...

After the trek in the to VoF and Hemkunt... 4 days in the hills... and these were brand new shoes before i started...

One of the many times I went Rafting... love it love it love it..

Amiad from Israel... who rafted with us once...

On my way back from Bhakra Nangal... This is called Painting the Town Red :) Jai Radha :)

Bharatpur... bird sanctuary...

On my way back from Tungnath...