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26/02/08

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...

24 comments:

  1. Dude, u sure are enjoying life...u are ACTUALLY living it!

    Mast!

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  2. sahi likha.....bilkul mast.......made me remember all those trips along with lansedowne one which u didnt mention......spl when we had tea in wilderness out there on the road to nowhere..........and yeah i still remember sitting out there beneath the stars and looking at tibet near pangong.......awesome........
    ab agli trip par aise hi nanda devi dekhna chahta hoon............or maybe shivling.........

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  3. :-) lovely post. I think I am inspired too to write about my adventures in wilderness...total wilderness...

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  4. *Envy you*
    :)
    P.S.: Forgetting the innumerable cuppas of T that you washed down?

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  5. do i say.... you have come a long way dude...... keep flowing as always.......

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  6. bhaiya marte marte kab bache tum?

    aur ullu ke pathe, B ke L, mera naam kyu nahi figure kar raha salle puri post mein

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  7. # Anjuli...
    thanks... i love living...

    thanks...

    teri ye foto bahut achchi hai...

    # Deepu...
    :)

    that was one helluva trip too bro... that bloody guest house with more insects than trees around :D and the long long drive and the visiters on the view point :D

    Pangong was AMAZING

    next time for sure...

    # ThatWasIt...
    sure thing :) go ahead...
    thanks...

    # Reeta...
    you should :D

    how many of them I write about? Deepak mentioned one above :)

    # Slip...
    you bet...

    thanks...

    # tushar...
    muafi... muafi...
    kuch update kiya hai maine...

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  8. arrey wah, arrey wah, arrey wah...pics bhi.....

    fundu pics!

    next time mujhe bhi le chalna, kya mast life hai yaar!

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  9. wah bhrata, ab much better hai

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  10. # Anjuli...
    ji zaroor... aap accessible hui to zaroor invite karenge aapko :)

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  11. chandigarh???? ya rishikesh???

    teri tabiyat thik hai?

    glycodin pi le todi si

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  12. *ENVY YOU ENVY YOU ENVY YOU*
    meraa no. bhi aayega :)
    and need I mention.. awesome pics!

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  13. Made me remember in what a weird way we are good frnds. How we got introduced,,,dont know,,,met first time on a dhaba in the middle of highway,,and me with full family...the craziness of me doing booking for leh while chatting on IM from US;;;;;lovely memories and i am sure we will be adding to them in times to come..

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  14. # Burf...

    bhai Rishikesh rishikesh... ye lo naya comment...

    Oh and I almost died when we had a head on collision with a motor boat in Rishikesh... when I was on the raft... tu bhi to thaa saale tab !!!

    I was on the second seat on the left... and saved my head from being thrown away from my body somehow... fell into the water... realized that I am inside after a few seconds... tried coming out... could not... phew... handed over the pedals... and kept floating and waiting for you guys to pull me into the raft...

    # Elusive...
    all the best all the best all the best...
    mere bhi dena apna number jab aayega :)

    yea... loved the pictures myself :)

    # Ankur...
    Haan bhai... its been crazy and its been amazing... God bless !!!

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  15. PB tum thode younge younge se lag rahe ho ek aad pic mein not that u dont look young now... but i hope u know wat i mean...

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  16. # Aqui...
    purani fotos hain yaar... 2006 and 2005 ki... thoda sa young lagtna to banta hai na :)

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  17. Has le :P
    How many nahi...u didn't mention them all together even once in this post :P
    Deepak ka abhi padha comment...

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  18. now i m pondering were u good then or now... :)

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  19. # Reeta...
    yea... i did not... wrote this post the way it came out actually... free flow... chai nai aayi dil/dimaag mein to nai likhi :)

    # Aqui...
    hum tab good they... ab good se better hain :D

    # Kay...
    :) hai na :) at times i look at my life and say WOW too....

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  20. hey are these the travel tales of all those years you have been traveling and the most obvious pics tell about the amount of fun you must have had.Must have been quite Nostalgic! a good write up.
    Cheers,D

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  21. # deep...
    not really... this is just a part of the entire travel extravaganza :) thoughts were there on the top of my mind when I wrote this yesterday !!!

    Thanks...

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  22. Om...ghantiyan, diye, aur painting the town red...classy pictures hain...ekdum timeless beauty type...

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  23. #ThatWasIt...
    yo :) thank the you:)

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