It all started when my wife saw a newspaper insertion about a proposed tour of the Himalayas during the month of May 1999 ! Yes- I am gonna share with you all, a jaunt we went over two decades back! Things would have definitely changed from the time we undertook the trip – be it … Continue reading The Mighty Himalayan Experience →

Just to think about – it seems like only yesterday- WOW -it is about a decade ago – a gift from my wife for my golden jubilee birthday – an exotic two week family trip to the dreamland Switzerland. Although I have shared my experience of this country in an earlier blog ‘The Alpine Dream’, … Continue reading SCINTILLATING SWISS →

Belonging to a country which has its God’s own land created by Lord Parasurama, an incarnation of Lord Maha Vishnu according to Hindu mythology, it is no wonder that a sense of bondage is attached to a place across the seas – a place with innumerable temples, a place which has its umbilical cord relations … Continue reading ISLAND OF GODS →

A flashback!!! The year is 2007- our first visit to the granary of wealth in the world – Abu Dhabi- the Capital of the United Arab Emirates. In less than an hour’s drive from the periphery of Dubai cruising at over 120 miles speed on the black carpet dotted with white lines laced with the … Continue reading B(eautiful) C(ity): A(bu) D(habi) →

Nothing is more sinner than not a trip to Grand Canyon after visiting Vegas- the Sin City. A grueling, boring 6- hour ride from Las Vegas into the Arizona State in the desolated desert wading through rock formations of a peculiar type brings us to the land of one of the natural wonders of the … Continue reading Grand(est) Canyon →

Wondering about the capital letters in the caption? Does not sound very good??! Right!! That is LAS VEGAS  - THE SIN CITY  for you!! The moment we step our foot from the airplane, we are surrounded by tens of gambling machines even as we walk along the gangway in the airport to the road transport, … Continue reading S(c)IN(tillating) CITY →

Our first destination was a 3-hour early morning flight in Air Canada from the pretty airport of Michigan to one of the most beautiful cities in the world-Vancouver, British Columbia. We were greeted with a pleasant weather and we could not contain our excitement to have stepped on to a place whose name itself had … Continue reading In the “PACIFIC RIM” →

2016 August, the day after the marriage reception of my daughter Pavithra and Sathish at Michigan, we packed our luggage for yet another sojourn to a part of the world we always wanted to explore. This time we chose the western parts of Canada. I had completed most parts of the East, a couple of … Continue reading ROCKing in style →

Thought my scintillating experience in Scotland is over as yet??!!! We started before dawn break in a temperature of 3 degrees heading North to the Highlands-one of the UK’s most adventurous and scenic destinations- particularly the "Isle of Skye". The moist, chill breeze penetrated deep inside our bones. With the heater in the car switched … Continue reading Sky(e) is not the limit! →

DUBAI-the name has a magnetic effect … Be it the Terminal 3 of Emirates at the airport, the Metro stations glittering  golden domes ,the innumerable, immaculate, theme-based malls, the Ferraris and the Lamborghinis  crisscrossing the city, the 8 lane adroit roads so masterfully laid, the continuous stream of affluent International visitors, the greenery all around … Continue reading DUBAI →