Category: Travel
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Australia Part 4
You can read Part 3 here. Day 11 After breakfast, we drove towards Mt. Gambier in South Australia. The landscape changed from flatlands to dense vegetation. We visited the Blue Lake. As the name suggested, the lake was really blue and beautiful. We had a picnic right by the lake. From there, we drove to […]
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Binsar , Uttarakhand
After Jim Corbett National Park and Nainital, our next stop was Binsar, about 150 km away. The journey was uphill and winding. Since almost everyone, except me and a couple of others, suffered from motion sickness, it was a quiet journey, punctuated with frequent breaks for vomiting! On our way, we stretched our cramped legs […]
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Nainital, Uttarakhand
We booked a day trip to Nainital from our resort- Club Mahindra Corbett National Park. I remember walking along Mall road with the Naini lake (lake shaped like an eye) on one side and the Kumaon hills on the other. It was vibrant; The streets were buzzing with people. Hawkers were selling colorful knitted shoes, […]
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JimCorbett National Park
The Tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage and when he is exterminated – as exterminated he will be unless public opinion rallies to his support- India will be the poorer by having lost the finest of her fauna. -Words by Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, naturalist and an author of several books. […]
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Australia Part 3
You can read part 2 here. Day 5 We drove to the mouth of Snowy river, a major river in South-eastern Australia. At a cool picnic spot by the river, we cooked Tandoori masala. Neel enjoyed running around the place. On our drive to Lakes Entrance, we saw a lot of wallabies. After checking in at […]
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Australia Part 2
You can read part 1 here. It was almost a 23 hour long flight from Switzerland to Sydney, but we made it without any glitches. Though Neel had his moments on the flight, we tried to keep him occupied with books, toys, coloring and walking down the aisle and talking to other people. Once we […]