Showing posts with label Backpacker Lakshmi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Backpacker Lakshmi. Show all posts

Friday, 5 June 2009

A Detour to Melkote


We took one such impulsive decision yesterday which took us to Melkote, an ancient temple near Mysore...More

Friday, 15 May 2009

Cultures of India


Another performing art from Karnataka, captured at the government sponsored folk festival in Bangalore...More

Saturday, 2 May 2009

Of Kings and Empires


This map lies lost in a thatched hut which houses the museum as well. And the thatched hut is in a forgotten town called Gangaikondacholapuram,...More

Saturday, 18 April 2009

Where are the tourists?


Probably its the recession or maybe the season is getting over..but we hardly found any tourist in Kumbalgarh, but for a few Indian families on a summer vacation...More

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

Celebrating the Kumbalgarh-A celebration of passions


When you are in a room with ten achievers speaking about their lives and ideas that build their lives, you are stuck with one thought - that they think with their hearts and not their brains...More

Monday, 30 March 2009

Bridges and Rivers


The two rivers join to form Tungabhadra. We crossed the river at Mantralaya , but there was hardly any water there.We moved on and the River Krishna stopped us...More

Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Monday, 9 March 2009

Faces of Chennai



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Thursday, 5 March 2009

Chennai--Moments and Monuments




Our photo-walk continues as we walk past the Churches -Wesley and St Andrew's Kirk.It gets hotter, but we pause by capturing a few moments and monuments on the lens...More

Saturday, 28 February 2009

A Landmark of Chennai


Secondly, the hotel has several fond memories - of playing as a kid, enjoying the icecream in the parlour , meeting friends...More

Wednesday, 25 February 2009

At Home in Chennai

A friend seeing my status on Facebook asked me "What, you are on a jaunt again ? " I relied saying " Home ." The status said that I was heading to Chennai aka Madras...More

Sunday, 22 February 2009

Back from Bheemeshwari


The 40 kms stretch of the Cauvery in Karnataka is home to Mahseer, one of the most famous sport fish loved by anglers all over the worldThe 40 kms stretch of the Cauvery in Karnataka is home to Mahseer, one of the most famous sport fish...More

Friday, 13 February 2009

Fishing Tales-The Inside Story


The entire water scape is littered with these shore operated stationary nets. Long metallic and wooden rods jut out into the waters...More

Saturday, 17 January 2009

Ayurveda at Ashtamudi

I missed the buzz at Chennai Sangamam and the only way to feel good is to remember the wonderful massage I had at Svaastha -the branded ayurvedic spa at Club Mahindra...

Thursday, 8 January 2009

Mysored-My First Trip in 2009

Sunday, 4 January 2009

2008 just whizzed past me...

Thursday, 1 January 2009

Trails in Andra Pradesh

We covered a lot of places enroute to Warangal and then travelled onwards to Palampet. I missed Bhongir as it had become dark, but I hope to get there again. sometime.....

Monday, 29 December 2008

Hoysala Trail: The Roads taken in 2008

My earliest tryst with the Hoysalas was probably as a kid when my parents and I had visited Belur and Halebeedu. A couple of years ago, I went to Belur again with my cousins and then...

Friday, 26 December 2008

The Lights of Goa

Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Camera Critters


The second is a picture of young Sala who is shown killing a tiger on the " gopura" of the temple at Doddagaddavalli.....