It was almost five in the evening by the time we reached our home-stay near Kalasa. After driving for more than 250 KMs on the twisty roads of western ghats along with visits to Kukke Subrahmanya and Dharmasthala, all...
Meenmutty Falls in Wayanad, Kerala
The big sign board on the side of the road announced that we were at Meenmutty falls. Except for a narrow country road there were no other roads from the main road to take us to the falls. Looking...
Kabbaldurga: Second visit & more photos
Friday evening and I had no plans for the weekend. Just when I was running out of options on what to do, I got a message “I’m planning to hike Kabbaldurga again. Do you want to join?”. This was...
Kabbaldurga: An adventure on a rocky hill
“Are you sure this is the hill we are supposed to climb?”, those were the first words uttered by a friend when we approached Kabbalu Durga. “Let’s climb a smaller one instead. This one is huge.”, quipped another one....
A hill station called Lonavla
What are some nice places to visit around Pune? “Lonavla”, that’s the answer you get from nine out of ten people you ask in Pune. Having heard about the place from many of my friends and how it had...
Cycling: Waltz in Wayanad
What can you expect on a Saturday in April? Summer, Sun high up in the sky, scorching heat, steep uphills. To negate all these we had Wayanad, Tea estates, waterfalls, buttermilk and our beloved cycles to ride down crazy...