It was a long day! We drove from Udaipur to the beautiful Jain Temples of Ranakpur situated in dense forest. The grand temple is built out of marble and supported by 1444 pillars, no two of them alike. The carvings on the marble were exquisite. But what interested me more was the forest surrounding the temple. I never imagined Rajasthan to have anything apart from...
If untouched stretches of white sand beaches, gigantic forests that look straight out of Jurassic era and exquisite marine life is your thing, then Andaman might be the destination for you! Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a group of 572 islands in the waters of Bay of Bengal closer to Thailand than to Indian mainland. The islands are at a distance of approximately...
We all know beaches of Andaman are awesome, but that is not all. The history of the tribes, the settlers who migrated years ago, the Jurassic era kind of forests and not to forget the clear blue waters, Andaman is a backpacker's paradise. Seen here is one such brilliant blue beach of Little Andaman. Far far away from my beloved mountains and Himalayas, I took...
**UPDATE** Answered few more new questions. Check them out in the new section So turns out in the last post I missed out few questions because of some goof up in email forwarding. Here are the answers to more questions. For the uninitiated, few weeks ago I asked my readers to Ask me Anything and I would answer. **NEW Questions** Vamsi Krishna asks...
Few days ago I posted here that you could Ask me Anything and I'll answer. As promised here are your answers. Thank you all for participating! :) Renuka asks “I want to know about your most challenging travel experience in terms of photography.” I have to say photographing in the outdoors during monsoons was the second toughest, first being taking portraits of strangers, which...
First to give a short update, I just came back from an amazing trip to Andaman and I have lots of stories to tell and lots of photos to show. But have been really busy at work so that'll have to wait a bit. On another note, 5 of my images have been published in National Geographic Traveller October Issue. To be associated...
Following the monsoon photo essay series, today I bring you a photo essay on the incredible monsoons of Sikkim. The earlier posts are here - Monsoons of Maharashtra and Monsoons of Karnataka. Little was known about travel to Sikkim in monsoons, I was discouraged by almost everyone to head there in the rain but with no where else to go, on an impulse...
The weekend before last weekend I was riding in rain. But do you know what I did last weekend? I literally lived up to the saying "Journey is the Destination". Bangalore - Satara - Mahabaleshwar - Mahad - Poladpur - Mangaon - Nizampur - Mulshi - Paud - Pirangut - Pune - Bangalore. Brief stay at Mangaon, otherwise I was on the move for most...
