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Life is a struggle and no matter where we are, whatever we become, no matter the amount of money we accumulate, we still have to go through the ups and downs that life mockingly throws at us. The journey of life is always filled with adventures, sorrows and happiness – it’s a complete package, you can’t escape it. Some emerge victoriously, some drown in the abyss of depression and death, the choice is completely ours to make.
I have been writing so much about India travel for the past couple of years that I often find challenging to introduce new ways to keep the audience engaged with something fresh and new. This post is a part of the challenge by Mary J. Melange one of my blogging buddies and while last month when I was writing on Indian Railways, she came up with a concept on writing on two-wheelers, anything from Harley bikes to bicycles. While I certainly admit that boys and men in India do love Harley Davidson bikes, but not everyone can afford it and therefore you don’t see much of those on the streets. Mary is also known as the Biker Chick and her love for the bike runs as deep as mine for the Indian Railways.
India – the land of diversity. A land of a billion people who belong to different religions and castes, follow different cultures and traditions, speak different languages and dialects, eat different types of cuisines and delicacies, but yet bonded together as one strong democratic nation that continues to march forward in the 21st century. My earlier posts were about how to travel conveniently by train in India, followed by top 5 heritage and luxury trains in India and last week I wrote on the mountain trains in India. This time, I am bringing forward some the assets of the railways that make the entire rail journey experience easy and convenient for local and international travelers.
Mountain Railway India
Indian Railways play a critical role in transporting Indian passengers across the country. While the majority of the train network is covered on the plains of Indian soil, there are certain rail networks that climb up the steep mountains of India. These train networks are designed to carry up and bring down passengers and goods with safety and comfort, so speed is not really a major factor here. This post is a part of the series on Indian Railways. In my previous post I talked about how to travel conveniently by train in India followed by top 5 heritage and luxury trains in India, but this time, we go up the hills and mountains and discover how these trains evolved in the first place.
Palace on Wheel Landscape
Whenever I think of travel, I think of railways. Although I travel by buses at times, I think of railways as my first mode of transport when I am commuting for work or just taking off for the day. Trains are an integral part of Indian travel and majority of the population prefer to travel by trains. This month I along with my blog friends are focusing on trains because on May 14 the United States celebrates National Train Day. While the idea was to write something about the trains on this particular day, I have decided to celebrate it throughout the month, every Saturday.
Ever since we started our travel blog, we have been getting questions from readers about different aspects of travel in India. In this blog, we have decided to answer some of the questions and provide India travel tips that can help you travel in India safely and conveniently.
The main aspect of this post will be on safety because I believe people are generally a bit scared of travelling to places where they haven’t been and the fear of unknown grips their attention at the back of their mind. After all, there are so many horror stories both true and fake ones that are on the internet.
Over the past few years, Sarah and I have been trying things and going places that we’ve never been before. This is both exciting and tense for us because we don’t know what to expect of it. For the past couple of years, we’ve been visiting the OTM travel show in Mumbai regularly.
Unlike other travel bloggers, we are not much into marketing and connecting people across the industry. Hence, it takes a lot of time for our blog to reach its target audience. OTM travel show is our first step towards connecting with people from the travel industry.
Bajirao Peshwa Statue
History was my least favorite subject in school. Why? because I was tired of the same content that was in the syllabus year after year. I was tired of reading about the same old Indian national movement and independence of India from the British.
However, later on when I was in college, I realized that history is not that bad and that there’s so much that we can learn from the events of the past and most importantly there are more stories waiting for you in the history books.
Recently, when I was watching Bajirao Mastani, a Hindi movie that focuses on the life of Peshwa Bajirao a.k.a Bajirao One, this concept struck my mind because although the movie does cover his life and his journey, it highlights more about his emotional turmoil and less about his achievements.
I’m not sure how interesting I can make this post, but I’m going to present you history in an interesting way, so that you never get bored half-way through.
Also, this series is a bit different from my regular travel post, but I will highlight places and destinations that are relevant to the warriors, after all what are warriors without kingdoms.
Mumbai, the city of dreams. Although, it might not be the capital of India, it certainly holds a strategic importance and continues to be the financial hub of the country and provides employments to countless people across the country who come here with dreams to make it big. It is the city of money, power, greed, crime and love. However, Bombay as it was known then was quite different from what it has become now. This time I am taking you back in time to explore a different shade of the city which is now known as the Maximum City. I am fascinated by the heritage structure of South Mumbai (maybe because I grew up watching these buildings,fountains, structures all my life) and so I want to take my readers on a South Bombay (now Mumbai) tour, especially my friends and readers abroad who know very little about my city.
Do you love to travel abroad, but don’t have the right budget to do so? To be honest, I’ve seen many of my friends and colleagues talk about how desperate they are to travel abroad to spend great holiday time with their friends, family and life partner, but their limited income and household expenses do not really provide them the room to turn their dreams into reality. Well, I understand that completely because many of my friends have travel abroad and I’ve seen how much money it really takes to make that 10-15 days trip. On the other hand, when you return you may be short of cash and its back to hard work and hectic life. So, I decided to come up with a post that not just attracts Indian travelers, but also help international visitors to come visit India and explore locations that look like any other foreign locations, but at an affordable Indian price tag. Of course, those who have travel abroad would know that foreign locations are cleaner than the Indian counterparts, but my friend, you also got to keep in mind that you’re paying incredibly low for your trip, so you got to compromise somewhere.
So, here are 5 places in India that give you that feel of a foreign location at an Indian price.