Madhura
I am an Engineer from Bengaluru, India, currently working in the US. Besides being an Engineer, I have a huge appetite for good reads and love traveling at leisure. I document my travel escapades to share my experience and record many beautiful memories in stunning locations.
The last leg of our week-long trip to Rajasthan was Bikaner. It took us 5 hours to reach Bikaner from Jodhpur. En route, we made a quick stop at Karni Mata temple at Deshnok. The temple is dedicated to a female Hindu sage called Karniji. It is also […]
As 2014 winds down, I was ticking some great number of items off my bucket list last night and thought why not share it with you all. Also, I’ve started blogging this year you see, so an appropriate post to end the year 2014 started out on a […]
Khamma Ghani sa… Padharo Jodhpur!. After exploring Udaipur in the Mewar region of Rajasthan, we travelled to Jodhpur, also known as Sun City or Blue City, in the Marwar region. Jodhpur is called ‘Sun City’ as it is bright and sunny throughout the year and ‘Blue City’ as most houses in […]
A five-hour drive from Pushkar took us to Udaipur, The City of Lakes also known as the White City. We were pleasantly surprised on arriving in the city, for it was very different from Jaipur and Pushkar. A completely different image that comes to mind when one thinks […]
“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life” – Michael Palin ‘Bitten by the travel bug’ is a clichéd saying but the above quote hits the nail right on the head […]
It was on a lazy afternoon; I was intermittently checking news feed on Facebook, aimlessly scrolling up and down when a friend’s post caught my attention. She had shared a post by VFC (Volunteer For a Cause – http://www.vfcindia.org) calling for volunteering as scribe. A scribe is a […]
‘Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.’ – Ibn Battuta That’s an appropriate quote to start my first-ever blog with Leh has been on my bucket list since Sep-2011 when I was supposed to travel with my friends but never happened as I […]