Archive for the 'Travel' Category

BCMTouring Travelogue of the Year 2011

Hunt is on to find BCMTouring’s Travelogue of the Year 2011 and with several hundred new travelogues added last year by fellow BCMTians, it is no easy task! It is also the time when best of the best come to the fore and members as well as the moderation team gets to see some of [...]

Surajkund Handicraft Mela/Fair 2012

From the 1st of February 2012, Surajkund Handicraft Mela would commence at the Surajkund Fair Ground in Faridabad, Haryana. Held every year from 1st of February to 15th of February, Surajkund Handicraft Fair is not only a platform to showcase and sell handicrafts, traditional Indian cloths, decorative items and also some delicious food, but it [...]

In love with web check in facility

During my recent winter trip to Ladakh, I decided to avail the web check in facility of Jet Airways, mainly because I wanted to make sure that I got a window seat and that too at the front of the plane, in order to get an unobstructed view of the Zanskar Range, as we flew [...]

Ladakh Winter Trip Travelogue

I have finally managed to complete the travelogue of my Winter Trip to Ladakh, from which I returned on the 1st of January. In the travelogue, I have not only tried to share my travel story, but also the experience I gained while traveling in Ladakh in the peak of winter and also tried to [...]

Crossed Chang La in Winter

Crossed Chang La today, and although there wasn’t as much snow as I had hoped to see, but it was damn cold and only got colder as we came down. At a small frozen lake after Chang La my fingers got almost frozen, as I had to shoot without gloves, in order to adjust the [...]