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Category: <span>Travel</span>

A short trip to Srinagar

For those of you who know, HackerRank does a mid year break where all the HackerRankers switch off for a week with weekends involved becomes 9 whole days, rejuvenate and come back more energised! Almost like a summer vacation :D. Amazing right? I know, it is such a dream!! Last year I solo travelled to Pondicherry and spent an entire week just chilling by the beaches and cafes, reading books, talking to strangers and walking around every nook and corner …

Hampta Pass Continued

Here is the Part 1 of this blog! Part 2 : Summit to the all the way down! The descend was a steep 90 degree mountain and we were going to go zig zag path. While descending we paused to have the packed lunch because the path post that was going to get worser. While having lunch started a crazy hurricain. For most of us it was the first time we were seeing snow fall and it got worse by …

Hampta Pass

Part 1: A journey from my worst day of my life to the Summit! How it ALL started? I had signed up for the Valley of Flowers trek that had to start just before COVID hit so that trek was called off. Fast forward a few years and then Raj, I and a few friends were starting to talk about signing up for a trek and didn’t want to do Valley of Flowers as it had become too popular and …

Guna Caves

The recently trending song, Kanmani Anbodu Kadalan which came up in the the trailer of Manjummel Boys, my music apps has the same song on repeat but the repeat is on the cover version by Shahid Khan! The original song is from the Tamil movie “Guna” which was shot in a very popular hill station and a tourist spot Guna Caves, in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India. Situated at an altitude of 2,200 metres, the Guna Caves are a thing of …

My 11 day Rajasthan Trip!

“Padharo Mhare Des”, they said. “ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY” is what we said! Prep for the trip The prep for the trip began with Momo benign dropped at the boarding and packing amidst my super busy schedule at work! This time I bet my own record by packing for a 11 days trip from scratch in less than 10 hours. Even at that point, I was certain that the trip was not happening. 11 days away from work and home is not something …