My travel experiences

Why we choose cycling? To have a different experience   me and my friend decided to explore mahabaleshwar on foot. We stayed at the Maharashtra tourism development corporation guest house. On the first day we bought a map rom the local store and just discussed about the view points we can cover. From the map we inferred the nearest points are within a kilometre in range and started immiediately to the   Mumbai point-other name for sunset point .                                                   The road to Mumbai point. We reached in no time around 3:00 PM, spent some time there enjoying the sun waiting for it    to disappear when viewed from a hill. We lost patience at around 4:00 PM and realised our mistake. Because it is a sunset point , sun need not set whenever a tourist comes there and we are too early for that. So we sent on foot to our next view point – The lodwick point.                                                  On the way to lodwick point The road

Continuation rom my previous post This Coppersmith barbet  was staying opposite to my house, literally right in front of my house. I watched him from the beginning of building nest , hatching the young ones, to leaving the place. Here is the photo journey. Note there is only one entrance(hole) in the branch    Building the second entrance     doing the hard work   feeling tired   Successfully completed the nest   It took 2 months to take these photos. Having seen a bird build a nest , hatch young ones from close quarters is a special feeling for any bird watcher, that too this is my first stay away from home, and also first sighting of coppersmith barbet.  

  I recommend raichur for bird watching only if you are a serious bird watcher. For all other tourists there is very little in raichur and those interested in bird watching go ahead. I stayed there or two years during my stint at a public sector company and these winged visitors helped my stay with their morning and evening calls. You need not go farther than your bedroom, simply open your window and can watch them with delight. However for more serious birder, you need to venture out only 2-3 kms from your room(if you live nearby shaktinagar).I assure you on any given day you can spot more than 50 species of birds in less than 2 hours, and more han 100 in a day. These shots you can get any time of the day, any time in a year, anynumber of times. Some painted storks feed there young ones. These are permanent settlers here, unlike other bird sanctuaries where they are seasonal. This grey hornbill gave me pose right near my room. Earlier I visited dandeli wildlife sanctu

This is continuation to my previous post. Here is a link to video of belum caves in youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YagnxA0BLkA   After visiting belum caves we asked the local people , is there any other places to see nearby , we got the yaganti temple and shankara cave at a distance of 45 KMs from belum caves near the town banganapalle. Straight we headed there and found the caves are not being allowed for public much to our dissapointment. Here you see what we have seen there at yaganti temple. Temple pond – water appears muddy due to recent rains.   The temple main entrance   The shankara cave   The agasthya cave     The rain water from the hill top is collected and a passage is made within rocks and exits at the mouth of the statue. This has been attempted in so many temples so that water falls perpetually over the god’s statue- using river water flow in the hampi. Nandi – discharging water   The big nandi facing santum

After wandering for nearly five years , I thought i would post all i have seen in these years within india. Hope all travellers down there would like the experiences and so here is my post. I thought why not post first about places which most people haven’t heard of. Then the first place came to my mind is the belum caves in the Andhra Pradesh, barely a 9 hour train journey from Chennai. I have visited the caves twice and it will take ages for the places nearby to get into the fast track world. So u can see wilderness without a forest too! This is the entrance to the 3 Km long cave beneath the ground.   You have to take an auto from tadipatri or a local bus from banganapalle. The first time i visited, took an auto and paid 300 rupees to get dropped right near the Buddha statue.The only landmark that will be available for long time will be the tall Buddha statue, you can see from far away. The remnants of the caves found by archaeology department date the v