Kuchaman fort is built atop on a steep hill in Rajasthan, and was built by the Gurjar Prathihara dynasty near to the Sambhar Salt Lake from where they used to do the salt trading, and if I believe the locals here they did it for around 200 years, till they [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Review of Kuchaman fort, offbeat getaway
Posted in Weekend Destination, accommodation, accomodation, adventure, animal rides, art, booking, booking tickets, craft, delhi, desert, forces, foreigners, fort, history, holiday, holidays, hotel, hotels, india, jaipur, kuchaman, kuchaman fort, lesiure, life, mahal, mountains, nted havelis, offbeat, outdoors, palace, people, rajputs, reservation, resort, summer, sunset, temple, tour, tradition, travel, trip, vacations, village, weekend gateways, weekend getaways on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ranikhet a perfect hill station
Posted in Chaubatia, Weekend Destination, accommodation, accomodation, adventure, appartments, bhalu dam, booking, booking tickets, camping, camping holidays, cottages, delhi, foreigners, forest, forest walk, free tickets, golf, golf course, green, hiking, hill station, hills, hindus, history, holiday, holidays, honeymoon, horse riding, hotel, hotels, india, jogging, lesiure, life, monsoon, mountains, nanital, nature, outdoors, people, plateus, ranikhet, resort, running, shopping, summer, sunset, trip, upat, uttaranchal, vacations, valley, valleys, village, weekend gateways, weekend getaways on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ranikhet is in Uttaranchal and a perfect hill station to visit. Ranikhet is a very silent and beautiful weekend getaway from Delhi. It is 58 km away from Nainital. Its story goes like this; many years ago, a beautiful Kumaoni queen Rani Padmini fell so deeply in love with the [...]
Varanasi a religious destination
Posted in Weekend Destination, accommodation, accomodation, adventure, art, bird, boating, booking, booking tickets, british, children, darbanga ghat, dasashwamedh ghat, delhi, foreigners, ganga, ghats, green, hindus, history, holiday, holidays, hotel, hotels, india, lesiure, life, manikarnika ghat, monsoon, nature, people, religious, river, sacred, sadhus, summer, sunset, temple, tour, travel, trip, varanasi, vishwanath temple, weekend gateways, weekend getaways on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Varanasi one of the city of pandits in orange chaddars and wooden sandals, a city where a smoky haze of funerals, and according to Hindu mythology it is supposed to be the first city on earth, I have no clue why they have named it so, will find out in Google [...]
Review on Chamba hotel
Posted in Weekend Destination, accommodation, accomodation, adventure, booking, booking tickets, british, camping, camping holidays, chamba, children, classic hilltop, cottages, delhi, dinner, foreigners, forest, forest walk, free, free tickets, garden, green, hill station, hills, hilltop, himachal pradesh, hindus, holiday, holidays, honeymoon, hotel, hotels, india, lesiure, massage, monsoon, mountains, nature, offbeat destination, outdoors, package, peaks, people, plateus, point, reservation, reserve, resort, river, shimla, summer, sunset, swiming pool, tour, travel, trekking, trip, vacations, valley, village, weekend gateways, weekend getaways on October 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Chamba is a junction to higher and better known destinations in the Tehri Hills, near Shimla: Gangotri, Yamunotri, the ancient and vanishing town of Tehri itself. We found the Hilltop Classic Resort which was located on the top of the hill above the township and is 4 star hotel. The resort [...]
Kanha, the best national park in Asia
Posted in Weekend Destination, accommodation, accomodation, adventure, animal rides, asia best national park, bird, bird watching, booking, booking tickets, camping, camping holidays, children, crocodile, delhi, elephant, farm, foreigners, forest, forest walk, free, garden, green, holiday, holidays, hotel, hotels, hyena, india, kanha national park, lesiure, life, monsoon, national park, national parks, nature, offbeat destination, outdoors, park, people, reservation, reserve, sand, shopping, summer, sunset, tiger, tiger den, tour, travel, trekking, trip, vacations, weekend gateways, weekend getaways, wildlife, wildlife sanctuary on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Kanha is in Madhya Pradesh and is situated 165km away from Jabalpur. It is known as the best national park in Asia. It is one of the perfect weekend destination in India. The area covered by this wildlife sanctuary is 940 sq km and is home to tiger, leopard, hyena, buffalo [...]
Jubbal a weekend getaway
Posted in Weekend Destination, accommodation, accomodation, adventure, children, cottages, foreigners, forest, forest walk, garden, green, highway, hill station, hills, himachal pradesh, hindus, history, holiday, holidays, honeymoon, hotel, hotels, india, jubbal, jubbal palace, landscapes, lesiure, life, monsoon, mountains, nature, pabbal river, plateus, reservation, resort, shimla, tour, travel, trip, vacations, valleys, weekend getaways on October 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Jubbal is a princely state which is in the east of Shimla and near the valley of the Pabbal River. It has the newest refurbished palace turned heritage property. It is in the midst of a rural outpost hidden from the world. It is the place for apple orchids on the slope [...]
Kasauli, weekend getaway
Posted in Weekend Destination, accommodation, accomodation, adventure, appartments, booking, children, cottages, delhi, foreigners, forest, forest walk, garden, green, hill station, hills, himachal pradesh, hindus, history, holiday, holidays, honeymoon, horse riding, hotel, hotels, india, kasauli, lesiure, life, monsoon, mountains, nature, offbeat destination, outdoors, package, park, people, plateus, reservation, resort, rock climbing, summer, sunset, tour, travel, trip, vacations, weekend gateways, weekend getaways on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is nothing practically to do in Kasauli, just to lie down, trudge the surrounding hills, comfortable walks in the nature. It is a perfect weekend destination for Delhi people. It has not been exploited as Shimla; it still lives with its charm. Stroll down through Upper to Lower Mall [...]
The Crocodile Farm
Posted in Rajasthan, accommodation, accomodation, adventure, agra, animal rides, british, chambal river, children, crocodile, crocodile farm, dholpur, foreigners, green, highway, hindus, history, holiday, holidays, india, lesiure, life, medication, monsoon, nature, offbeat destination, outdoors, people, travel on October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When I was a kid I always use to visit my Father’s brother home in Dholpur a small district in Rajasthan only 45 minutes run from Agra and 30 mins run to the famous Chambal River were Phoolan Devi used to live. There was a farm house near to Chambal [...]
Uchagoan a weekend destination from Delhi
Posted in Weekend Destination, accommodation, accomodation, adventure, cannons, delhi, foreigners, fort, garden, garhmukteshwar, havelis, highway, hindus, history, holiday, holidays, honeymoon, horse riding, hotel, hotels, india, jogging, lesiure, life, monsoon, nature, offbeat destination, outdoors, palace, people, reservation, roam, rooms, summer, tour, tradition, travel, trip, uchagaon, uchagoan, vacations, village, weekend getaways, white haveli, zamindar on October 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Along with my office group I went to Uchagoan weekend getaway from Delhi which is a heritage property and a fort, situated near Garhmukteshwar. We started early morning on Saturday and reached there in 2 ½ hours from Noida Mor. The place was beautiful in between a small village. The [...]
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