I was held up with the never-ending Telangana-Andhra partition issue for sometime now and couldn’t make a post on time. Sorry about that!

Now more about my Kodachadri trek:

Gopa devised a five-year plan around Kodachadri trek and it took him as long as two months!! In due course he managed to rope in 15 gullible people including him to schlep along ( Read more... )

Before I get started with my excellently brilliant account, please to be reading the disclaimer.

Disclaimer:

I don’t have a great many images to show off and the excuses are as follows:

(1)  Since it was an action packed workshop, I couldn’t request the group-while tugging the crocs- or the crocs- while being tugged - to strike a pose for me.

(2)   ( Read more... )

After some nice Tamil Nadu style dinner Anjali and I resigned to our beds. . Shiv and Adarsh still upset about the mirror room set out with their cameras in the dark to shoot the Milky Way.

2nd day:

We woke up elated to the calls of laughing thrush and many other birds we couldn’t identity.  We were so looking forward to day two to see LTMs and Thars ( Read more... )

Seagulls

White breasted Kingfishers

White bellied blue flycatchers

Swallows

Brahmini Kites (like how we sight Black Kites in Bangalore)

Grey herons

Egrets

Rock pigeons

Bull bulls

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This is a chronicle of my (almost) 10 day trip to Nainital and Himachal Pradesh. Yay!!!  I went on a trekking expedition…..

The big preparation:

The arduous preparation for an extensive trek began 1 month in advance. Oh no not the “getting fit for the trek” preparation. This preparation was no different from a wedding preparation. Shopping for ( Read more... )