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Category: <span>Travel</span>

Category: Travel

experience, Travel

Sandakphu Phalut : Mountains, Magic & Everything In Between

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How it all began? The idea of trekking Sandakphu had been sitting quietly in the background of my life for almost a year. It wasn’t loud or pressing, just something that made my heart flutter every time I thought about it. I first heard about it at the end of my last trek, from Ankit. And ever since, it lingered. The prep had started months ago with strength training, early morning runs, and the usual gym hustle. Tickets were booked, …

experience, Thoughts, Travel

My Makalidurga Comeback Adventure

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In short, it has been a journey from gasping to grinning! Two years ago, when I first restarted my hiking journey after a few years was to hike Makalidurga, every step felt like a monumental challenge. I was struggling to catch my breath, stopping frequently to regroup and muster the energy to move on. It was tough, and reaching the peak felt like a distant, almost impossible dream. Fast forward to last Saturday, and I decided to revisit that same …

experience, Travel

A short trip to Srinagar

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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 …

experience, Travel

Hampta Pass Continued

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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 …

experience, Travel

Hampta Pass

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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 …

experience, Travel

Guna Caves

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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 …

Travel

My 11 day Rajasthan Trip!

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“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 …