Hong Kong is a bustling place, teeming with activity and if you are on vacation and want to stay in a quiet place but still be able to access all the hot spots of the city very conveniently, then The Royal View Hotel is THE place for you.…
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A visit to the hallowed city of Amritsar, situated in Punjab, a northern state of India is sure to have a purifying effect on the mind and soul. This city is the spiritual and cultural centre of the Sikh religion and has a rich as well as poignant history.…
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We had landed in Istanbul in the morning and then taken a domestic flight which had brought us to Goreme, a town located in the famed Cappadocia region of Turkey. The town is spectacularly located among the “Fairy Chimney”, rock formations.…
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Darjeeling, the romance of this lovely place had seeped into our blood streams and we woke up asking for more on our second day in this Himalayan hill station, which was once a retreat of the Colonial British Raj.…
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Darjeeling! The name in itself is enough to evoke visual imagery of verdant tea gardens, of a small train chugging excitedly up a hilly terrain, of a romantic hill station nestled high up in the mountains.
No wonder we were feeling very excited when we landed in Bagdogra, the nearest airport from where Darjeeling is a 65 kilometres drive.…
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Summer is in the air, the air packs a hot punch and the mouth gets parched and thirsts for water.
In such hot climes, thoughts of the gallons and gallons of water hurtling down a ravine and the cool spray as the water drops hit you, come as a welcome respite.…
Weekend drive to the magnificent Shivanasamudra Falls Read More »
It was one of those lazy, sunny, Sundays when you just don’t want to do anything!
I was lazing in an armchair watching the vast blue sky from my window when I spotted a lone yellow kite swaying in the breeze high up in the sky.…
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I woke up to a cold, gloomy morning and opened the front door to collect the morning newspaper; All the social media platforms and the internet cannot replace my morning cuppa with the morning newspaper!
The headlines screamed at me !…
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Crystal clear waters of the sea gently caressing your feet as you sit on the soft white sands of the beach underneath the shade of a swaying palm tree, and all you can hear is the gentle lap-lap of the waves and your own heart beating.…
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We strolled leisurely on the pedestrian and smoke free M.G.Road, the central shopping area of Gangtok, Sikkim. It was already dark and the open air mall was brightly lit and tourists moved around either shopping or window shopping, the air was chilly as winter was setting in and we hugged our jackets closer.…
A road trip from Gangtok to Nathula at an altitude of 14,400 feet Read More »
