When I visited Gulmarg in March, I was not expecting snow, though there was snow everywhere! Snow in March! Snow in India. And it was a fabulous experience. Actually snow in Gulmarg in March is quite common. This was the view from our gondola ride at Gulmarg. Isn’t it fabulous? I was lucky on the…
Category: Jammu and Kashmir
The Snow Fall at Gulmarg in March
I have seen snow fall before. I have in fact been inside a tent when snow fell and then you have to get up and beat the tent roof so that the snow falls of and your tent doesn’t collapse. But here is a snowfall at Gulmarg which I enjoyed from my hotel balcony. I…
The Landing at Srinagar
Greetings from Gulmarg. I arrived here yesterday and there is a lot of snow in the area. I am staying at The Khyber (at their invitation) and it is a lovely place. However the picture I am going to share today is from our landing at Srinagar Airport. It was such a beautiful approach to the…
And the Wait is Over!
Finally I get to travel! And that says it all! I am not traveling to a beach destination, it is in fact mountains again. I hope to log in from Gulmarg but let us see. I have been amazed at my own response to this lack of travel and the capacity to sulk that I demonstrated….
Going Nomad in Ladakh
A few days back when I posted a few pictures from my Ladakh trip, Arun asked me: “Would you be posting some kind of a travelogue on the places you visited?” Now it is a very embarrassing question on a blog named ‘Travel Tales from India.’ It is time to set the score right….