Trip to Andaman Islands
December 2014 Trip to Andaman was in my mind for several years. Since my daughter has school holidays only during April-May, October and Christmas I had to plan something during that time. The preference was Christmas time as weather would not be great … Continued
Panchapalli dam – A little known place near Bengaluru
25 October 2014 It is one of those Sundays where I had nothing to do. I remembered an article in a forum about a reservoir near Bengaluru. I had forgotten the name as I had seen the article long back, … Continued
Belum cave – A long natural cave
23 November 2014 During our return journey from Gandikota, we made a visit to this cave. It is about 60 km from Gandikota. From Bengaluru it is about 300 km via Ananthapur. Entrance to the cave Thanks to the publicity … Continued
Bhaktapur – A cultural gem of Nepal
October 2014 Bhaktapur was the capital of Nepal during Malla kingdom. Today it is a small city in Kathmandu valley. But the place has retained its Palaces and Temple in old form thus getting the status of UNESCO world heritage … Continued
Biggest Banyan tree in the world – Thimmamma marimanu
22 November 2014 When we planned Gandikota trip, we were asked to visit Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple at Kadiri. The Temple turned out to be a religious one with little architectural value. Without wasting much time we came out of the Temple. But … Continued
An amazing place called Gandikota
22 November 2014 Prologue I had been hearing about this place for past couple of years. Seeing the photos, it was hard to believe that they were taken so near to Bengaluru!! But our neighbor Andhra Pradesh was on constant boil for last … Continued
Everest base camp, day 8, 9: The retreat
October 2014 If everything went well, we should have started towards Lobuche. But things were not rosy. Subbu’s condition had become bad. Climbing up was out of question. It would be foolish if we had tried in such conditions. If … Continued
Everest base camp, day 7: Acclimatization day at Dengboche
October 2014 Dengboche was a beautiful place. But the cold weather kept us indoors for most of the day. Thanks to Kindle loaded with books, I never had a boring time. Wi-Fi came at NPR 600 per hour, was only … Continued
Everest base camp, day 6: Debuche to Dengboche
October 2014 We had NCell signal on mobile till Namche Bazaar. But at Debuche it was only Nepal telecom that worked though the call quality was very bad. Debuche to Dengboche elevation map Subbu felt that he was unnecessarily carrying … Continued
Everest base camp, day 5: Namche Bazaar to Debuche
October 2014 It would be one more gruelling day for us. The elevation plot below shows that the net altitude gain between Namche Bazaar and Debuche was about 1,100 feet but for that we had to lose 3068 feet and climb back 4149 … Continued