I think for quite sometime on this blog you are going to see the skies from Nepal Himalayas! And what mighty peaks Nepal has! We trekked up to Kala Pathar after Everest Base Camp. Kala Pathar is a point from where you can see Everest but today I am posting Ama Dablam, the highest peak…
Souvenirs for Sale in Kathmandu, Nepal
It was the blue in the middle off a sea of bronze that caught the eye! What do you like to buy as souvenirs? I remain content with T-shirts most of the time. And by clicking pictures of the souvenirs.
Of Breakfasts and of Future Travel Plans
If you have read my Everest Base Camp Trek accounts (I know I keep going back to them, looks like I have left a piece of my heart on the route) by the end I was longing for cakes and pan cakes. I had them all and at that point of time without any guilt…
Chilika Lake, Mangalajodi and Konark- Glimpses of Odisha, India
This was a trip that I took in January 2012. Somehow the detailed account remained as a draft for a long time. As the plane started its descent at Bhubaneswar I was busy taking pictures of the river and the city that unfolded before my eyes. This was my first visit to the state of…
Everest Base Camp Trek, Nepal
I decided to put all the links to my day by day account of the Everest Base Camp Trek in one post. It is easy to access them from here and easy to point it out to anyone who is interested in reading it all! Many thanks to all of you who read my accounts…
A Lunch with Chhavi at Underdoggs, Ambience Mall, Vasant Kunj, Delhi
When Chhavi and I came back from our lunch my younger nephew asked, “So where did you go?” I said, “It was a sports bar.” And he asked, “So did you go to the Underdoggs?” Looks like the place is really popular with youngsters! When I got the invitation for a lunch from them, I was…
Mesmerizing Dingboche, Everest Base Camp Trek, Nepal
This is a picture from my recently completed Everest Base Camp Trek! I went to sleep in a brown valley and I woke up in a white one. But it was a very light snowfall and it didn’t affect the trek in any way. The place is called Dingboche (4360 meters, 14304 feet) and it…
The Lukla Kathmandu Flight, Nepal
What do you do when you have trekked to Everest Base Camp and have finished writing about it? You get Low altitude sickness! And you want to throw tantrums. But on the brighter side I can still write about my Lukla-Kathmandu Flight. The Tenzing-Hillary Airport is probably one of the scariest in the world. This…
Everest Base Camp Trek- Day 11 Namche Bazaar to Lukla
I had told Deepak the last night that I would not get up early as it hardly made any difference to when we would reach Lukla. Namche Bazaar to Luka was also two days worth of going up which we were descending in one day. But as I went to sleep at 8.00 pm in…
Everest Base Camp trek- Day 10, Pheriche to Namche Bazaar
How difficult could be getting down on a trek? That depends on how your knees behave and mine behave very badly. So even though getting down is not as tiring as going up, it actually becomes painful for me. On my last year’s trek in Uttarakhand, I was almost unable to walk for the last…