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My Wish list: Places to go in India before I die

East or west, India is the best! So I have decided that before going out of India for a vacation I will first cover as much of India as I can… SO here is the list of places I want to visit before I die: Ladakh (Tibetan script: ལ་དྭགས་; Wylie: la-dwags, Ladakhi: Hindi: लद्दाख़, Urdu: لدّاخ, Hindustani pronunciation: Neolithic [ READ MORE ]

North-East Trip – Day 7

Location: Dzongri Base Camp to Dzongri Peak Distance: 2 Kms Height: 4200 mts Date: 6-Oct-09 Dzongri peak gives the best view of Mount Kanchenjunga, but to see it we had to reach there before sunrise.  After previous day’s high altitude sickness, I woke up [ READ MORE ]

Sikkim Trip – Day 6

Location: Tshokha to Dzongri Distance: 9 Kms Height: 14000 ft Date: 5-Oct-09 The day started on a good note. After last night rains, the morning was bright & sunny. It is said that at high altitudes weather is best at early morning between 5 [ READ MORE ]

North-East Trip – Day 5

Location: Trek from Yuksam to Tshokha Distance: 12 Kms Height: 10000 ft Date: 4-Oct-09 The day started early for us, as we had to get ready to start our trek. It was the bright sunny day and that reflected in my mood too. I was full of [ READ MORE ]

Sikkim Trip – Day 4

Location: Yuksam Height: 5000 ft. Date: 3-Oct-09 Yuksom is around 138 kms from Gangtok. We started from Gangtok at around 0900 hrs. Our guide, Lalang Subba, came in morning to pick us from our hotel. The Jeep was loaded with the food ration for the next 1 week. On the [ READ MORE ]

North-East Trip – Day 3

Location: Gangtok, Sikkim Date: 2-Oct-09 We started for Gangtok at around 0800 hrs. The highway was bad, in fact too bad to be called even roads and that’s the state of roads I observed in most of northern part of West Bengal. On the way we stopped at an arc-bridge (one of its kind in India) over [ READ MORE ]

North-East Trip – Day 2

Location: Binnaguri Cantt, West Bengal Date: 01-Oct-09 This was a very exciting day… woke up early and then later went to the firing range where all the officers and their teams were practicing for a competition to be held in UK next year. I was taught finer details of firing a Light Machine Gun (LMG) and the [ READ MORE ]

North-East Trip – Day 1

Date: 30-09-09 Day start at 0300 hrs 0500 hrs – Wow! What a start for the trip. Its pouring cats & dogs today. Low visibility from my home to airport, thanks to express highway i reached on time. Its 0530 hrs and I m on board on Indigo flight to Delhi. Both air hostess, Jaspreet & [ READ MORE ]


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