Hindustan Times
I went home to Delhi for a week over Holi and, in a fashion familiar from when my brother and I were younger; my parents bundled us into the car and took off on a holiday into the hills. We went to quaint Bhimtal, the lesser-known but far more beautiful spot on the seven-lake circuit that Nainital presides over. Read more
(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Neha Dara on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Filed under Travel · Tagged Bhimtal, Chandigarh, crack of dawn, delhi, Holi, Kharagpur, Mussoorie, off-road
Yesterday, I was reminded of the really cool thing about travel – the way it plucks you out of one context and plants you in another, completely different from the first.
You don’t have to embark on a long journey for this, flying across continents or from one hemisphere to another. It can be as simple as getting on a plane in the pouring rain in Mumbai and, two hours later, arriving to Delhi’s crazy, dry heat. From water logging to praying for the rain. Read more
(6 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Neha Dara on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Filed under Travel · Tagged delhi, guidebooks, long journey, Mumbai, new destination, unexploited nature
