This piece was written by celebrated cricket writer R.Mohan for The Deccan Chronicle and Puliyogare Travels Sabah, also known as Malaysian Borneo, has been famous for centuries as the ‘land below the wind’ Travel brochures are known to exaggerate but…
One must, I always believe, travel with little or no idea of what one’s destination looks like. Apart from the name itself, which to me seemed like an English word rounded off romantically with an extra letter, I knew little…
When we decided to visit Kodaikanal this summer, I searched for a new imagining of the place. In my memories from childhood, this was the hilly town with dense pine forests, winding roads to lonely places, and a unique attraction…
The words ‘staycation’, and ‘daycation’ were new to me. Both, as you might have guessed, are not ‘vacations’ but almost qualify. I wasn’t sure which category an overnight trip to a hotel in Velachery would fall within. But every bit…
After our 4 day stay in Bhimtal ending on a high note with the swim in the Sattal lake, we headed to Almora. The river Kosi runs along the road from Bhimtal to Almora. With the river bed dry in…