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Kerala 1: Kochi to Alleppey

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 | By krodin | Views [127]

Kerala Kerala has long held a certain fascination for me. The combination of saltwater sea, freshwater Backwaters, Western Ghats, and lush rainforests evoked a mystical magical world in my imagination, and I thought it would be a fitting place ... Read more >

Tags: historical sites, lake cruises, nature

Almora to Baijnath

Sat, 8 Oct 2022 | By krodin | Views [117]

Almora, Bagheshwar and Baijnath The drive from Nainital to Almora consists of windy hill roads with some steep hairpin turns. There was more damage on this stretch of the road from the monsoon rains than even the section from Delhi. ... Read more >

Tags: mountains, on the road, temples

Thiruvanananthapuram Temples and concluding thoughts

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 | By krodin | Views [109]

Temples & Beach: Thiruvananthapuram & Kovalam I had a hotel booked on the beach in Kovalam for the last couple of nights and the drive went through Thiruvananthapuram, so I stopped at a couple of the temples before heading further south.... Read more >

Tags: beaches, reflections, temples

Forest Owlet Is No Longer Extinct

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [105]

THE “FOREST OWLET EXTENSION” was a logistic nightmare requiring three-hour drives each way from our plush hotel outside Mumbai to the Tansa Forest area where we picked up a local guide. Connie, Richard and I were actually outnumbered by guides ... Read more >

Welcome Back!

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [102]

AFTER OUR THREE-MONTH INDIAN ORDEAL in 2014 we'd had enough. It isn't that India is so bad, it's just the cumulative stress, noise, squallor and crowds that get to you. Yet here we are, freezing our butts in a third-rate hotel in smog-shrouded Delhi, ... Read more >

Tal Chappar National Park

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [98]

INDIAN TRAINS ARE AN EXPERIENCE, even if you travel inside, not on the roof! After a 3:30 AM wake-up, Rob from Rockjumper and our local guide, Bablu, herded the eight of us to Delhi station in the dark and wrangled several porters to carry our bags up ... Read more >

Ranikeht to Corbett

Sun, 9 Oct 2022 | By krodin | Views [94]

Ranikhet to Corbett Today’s sacred highlights included visits to the Dunagiri Devi Temple in Dwarahat and in Ranikhet, the Jhula Devi Temple and Ram Mandir. The day ended with a very muddy, but nonetheless beautiful, walk through the ... Read more >

Tags: mountains, temples

Winding Down

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [91]

RAJ OWNS DESERT COURSER ECOLODGE and drives like a lunatic but seemed to know where every bird in Little Rann of Kutch could be found—he should since his father started the place 40 years ago! Even before we dropped our bags he lead us to a pair ... Read more >

Desert National Park

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [82]

AFTER A FREEZING MORING IN OPEN jeeps Bablu’s sharp eyes spotted a pair of Great Indian Bustards in the tall grass of the Thar Desert. At 150 meters they were difficult to see and impossible to photograph. We found another pair—or possibly ... Read more >

Incredible India

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [79]

SOMEONE ONCE TOLD US THAT YOU had to have a reason to visit India—a yoga retreat or a meditation seminar—maybe a hip replacement. I had to keep reminding myself our reason was birding—especially amid the dust and squalor, 4AM wake-ups, ... Read more >

Nainital

Thu, 6 Oct 2022 | By krodin | Views [112]

Nainital, Uttarakhand, India The province of Uttarakhand in Northwest India borders Nepal on the east, Tibet on the north, Himachal Pradesh on the west and Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to the south. It used to belong to Uttar Pradesh under the ... Read more >

Tags: festival, lakes, temples