At the bend of the Yamuna River, just 2 kilometers away from the Taj Mahal, lies the magnificent Agra Fort. It is so close to the iconic Taj, that most tourists...
We left Agra the next day and started driving back towards Jaipur. Fatehpur Sikri was on the way and we decided to stop there for the day. Considered to be one ...
The access to the Taj Mahal (at least the one we took) was so horrible that by the time we reached the entrance, I was actually wondering if it was worth all th...
My first trip to the Taj Mahal happened some years back when on a weekend my daughter and I ventured out on a road trip to Agra. It was during winter vacation a...
On a sunny afternoon of 1893, an English archaeologist, Edmund William Smith from the Archaeological Survey of India stares at a pristine marble tomb in Agra an...
Veiled gossiping women with babies on their hips stared at us as we walked by. The air was scented with green guavas and clusters of young litchis swayed in a m...
With the temperature in the plains rising and the Indian summer reaching its peak, there has not been a better time than now to head for the hills. School summe...
Okay! Let's get a few things cleared before I move on with this post. First of all, I was super lazy in Manali. My offbeat Manali was real slow traveling during...
Manali happened by chance. I had no intention of going there and no reason to stop when a flat tire changed all that. The year was 2010 and I was on a lon...
If ever an anticlimax can be beautiful, then Bir trip was very successful at that. Although my expectation from the place that is, paragliding in Bir did not co...