Discover the beauty of Italy on a tailor made holiday!
The beauty of a luxury tailor made holiday is that you can decide exactly where, when and how long you want to stay at a particular destination. This works particularly well if you want to explore different areas of a country, or more than one country. Tailor made holidays, by the way cater specifically to ones individual requirements so one can get exactly what one wants to experience. Read more...
Travel to Thailand to Learn How to Cook Thai Style!
This is a Guest Post provided by Penny Swift for Travel Insurance Cover, an Australian travel insurance company. Penny is a freelance writer as well as an avid traveler and enthusiastic cook.
I love travelling and I love cooking, so whenever I can, I take a cookery course that teaches me about the cuisine of the country I am visiting.
My most recent holiday was to Phuket in Thailand, inspired not in the least by my love of Thai food. Read more...
Priya Q on September 2nd 2011 in Guest posts, Information / Reviews
Well this article is not about any hotel, but about India’s most remote hotels! Get Away From it All!
Whether in a jungle, or across the plains, in the desert, or on mountains, remote Indian Hotels are strategically placed to really make it possible to “getaway.” One of the many wonderful things about travel in India is that cheap hotels are in plenty.
But for the traveler who’s looking to hide in its farthest reaches, here is a list of India’s best remote hotels:
The Alsisar Mahal
Location: Alsisar Village | District Jhunjhnu, Alsisar 331025, India Read more...
Priya Q on August 24th 2011 in Guest posts, Information / Reviews
View of the Kanchenjunga from Rinchenpong(pic credit: Varsha / Ranjit)
Rinchenpong also boasts of the old-world but absolutely striking Rinchengpong monastery. The local sightseeing also includes the Poison Lake and the Heritage House. Rinchenpong begs you stay for at least two days and that’s what we did. Our last leg of travel included visiting a bit of West Sikkim which prides itself about Pelling. Pelling offers splendid views of the Kanchenjunga range. At Pelling you can also visit the Khecheopalri Lake (a sacred lake to the Tibetans and Buddhists) and the Singshore Bridge (the second largest hanging bridge in Asia). Read more...
Priya Q on August 19th 2011 in Guest posts, Information / Reviews
Baba Mandir, Nathula Pass (pic credit Varsha / Ranjit)
A few kilometers ahead of the Pass you will see the Baba ka Mandir, a venerated shrine of Major Harbhajan Singh. Singh was a soldier who in 1962 drowned in a glacier during the Indo-Chinese war. As per the army legend, Major Singh popularly known as Baba to the faujis, appeared in a fellow soldier’s dream and asked him to build a Samadhi in his name after his death. And right up to this day the army continues to send his personal belongings home every year to drop Baba home during the vacations. (A soldier from the army carries a picture of Major Singh and visits Singh’s native village of Kapurthala) Read more...
Priya Q on August 17th 2011 in Guest posts, Information / Reviews
Small although beautiful, Sikkim in the eastern Himalayas offers perfect views of the snow-capped mountain peaks, verdant valleys, rich culture, delightful cuisines and luxuriant flora & fauna. Sikkim state is landlocked borders with Nepal in west, Bhutan in the east and Tibet in the north.
We read about it in our geography books and looked at its photographs very many times; but it’s a different story altogether when you get to visit it in real. That’s Mount Kanchenjunga; the crowning glory of Sikkim. The third highest mountain in the world is a spectacle and promises to offer its splendor in grace and style. Read more...
Priya Q on August 15th 2011 in Guest posts, Information / Reviews
A herd of yak grazing on a patch of pale grass spotted during a drive to Taklang La
Farming community using horses for tilling their fields and sowing wheat
A monastery that stood atop a small hill in the shadow of a large mountain
Diskit Monastery is the oldest and the largest Buddhist monastery in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh. Close to the Diskit monastery on the opposite side one can see a 32 m tall statue of Maitreya Buddha on a hill. One thing unique about this statue is that it’s a statue of Buddha depicting him sitting on a chair and not on the ground with his legs crossed. Read more...
Priya Q on August 13th 2011 in Guest posts, Information / Reviews
Leh Palace
Overlooking the Ladakhi Himalayan town of Leh, Leh Palace once accommodated the royal family. In ruins now, restoration work is undertaken by the Archaeological Survey of India. With its majestic setting Leh Palace is a tourist puller.
Leh Palace
Pangong Lake / Tso
People swear by the sheer beauty of this place. A lake that reflects various shades of blue, as the day progressed. Pangong Lake freezes during the winter lake despite it being salty.
Pangong Lake
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Priya Q on August 11th 2011 in Guest posts, Information / Reviews
Open the gates to your soul, for now you are in Ladakh. Well, that’s what Ladakh has in store for you if not more – tranquility, oneness with the supreme power and your inner self.
I thank Deepak Gulati for letting me use photographs from his trip to Ladakh. Deepak is a computer programmer currently based out of Amsterdam. He loves traveling, photography and reading. He regularly blogs at Sanctuary of Random Keystrokes.
There were so many nice and stunning views that I decided to do a series on Ladakh. Hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I did ! I have also tried to include as much information I could that might help you in planning your trip to the heavenly Ladakh. Read more...
Priya Q on August 9th 2011 in Guest posts, Information / Reviews
Having filled our bags with bargains, we left for Phuket the same day. On landing in Phuket, we booked the PhiPhi Island tour for the next day. It is highly recommended that one book such a tour because of two reasons. Firstly, PhiPhi Island is accessible only by ferries and travellers who are not a part of such packages are charged more. Secondly, passengers who book a tour at the airport are given a free shuttle to their hotels. Public transport is nonexistent and taxis are very expensive. Our hotel, Ibis Kata was an hour’s drive from the airport. Had we not booked the tour for about 1000 baht, we would have spent 800 baht just for the taxi back to the hotel! Click for details on Ibis Kata Read more...
