The mist welcomes me

Ive just landed and all I can see around me is the mist. A welcome break from the dry heat of Bangalore. So, for the next three days , I am going to have the Blue Mountains for company .For a change, I have no itinerary or agenda , except to give you some clues to guess where I am and the contest related to the E 7. Here is the first clue 

So, I am staying in a beautiful property in the second highest hill station in the Nilgiri hills, filled with tea plantations- now thats the easiest clue ever and here is your chance to win the Nokia E 7 . While your comments are welcome here, do visit the Facebook page here to submit your answers. Go ahead - tell me where I am .

Where would you like to be this Monday ?

I am getting ready for my mystery location, which may look a bit like this - what about you ?

Planning a Cheap Road Trip

Planning to go road trip for the weekend vacations is not easy especially if it is a long road trip type. The first thing to do is to know where your destination is and where to stop for the overnight session. You should have to make sure that you have the place to stop for gas, for foods or hotels to stay. Make sure that you also have enough money for the long road trip so that you can exactly stay motels if night  arrives. If you don’t have car then find someone or ask your friends who have car that are going to your destinations for you to go with them. They will surely permit you especially if the car has plenty of vacant
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If your family is with you prepare something fun for them such as their favorite game boy or pillow. When your travel is a day time trip make sure that you have with you snacks not particularly buying from terminals for you to be able to save your money since most of them offer expensive stuff. It would be better for you to buy those important materials before your trip or buy it to the nearest store you have in your place. To be able to have cheap road trip just always grab the low cost prices so that you can get the maximum saving on your trip.

A mystery tour again !

When I was wondering where March would take me, I got a call from Nokia India. They asked me if I was willing to go to a secret destination, all by myself . The first time, I went  on a mystery tour with them, they let me choose the destination. This time, however they said they will choose the secret location . I agreed , all excited and I am all set to leave in a couple of days.


However you can virtually travel with me and follow me through this exciting mysterious tour . I will be dropping hints on the go  and you can start guessing my destination . The Nokia E7 is my co traveller and the contest includes some clues about the phone as well. So keep guessing and you can win the E 7 as well. 


Have fun and virtually travel with me 

Skywatch - Im just a bird in the sky

I have a nest to build and work to do this summer , says the painted stork in a small village in Kaggaladu , near Tumkur , Karnataka . These birds have chosen the tamarind trees of the hamlet to nest and the villagers protect the winged creatures from poachers and hunters. My article on Kaggaladu in Deccan Herald 

For more beautiful skies around the world , visit Skywatch 

The journey so far - a quick update

I promised myself in the beginning of the year that I would blog more regularly and also do some trip reports as well , but unfortunately I have had little time to do the same. The blog has unfortunately taken a beating with facebook growing a little more prominent and the rest of my time is taken between travelling, articles and my media - content work. So, I told myself that i would at least post  a quick update on what has been happenning in the last couple of months

A lot of travelling happenned in January - I was in Thattekadu and Munnar on New Years' Eve and had a great birding experience. A couple of my stories were published in my column , Inside Story in Metro Plus  and I am writing one on Thattekadu as I write this post. The birding experience in Gods own country was followed by a wonderful wild experience in South Goa and I had my column published in The Hindu , Metro Plus and articles in Rediff and now the March issue of Terrascape, which has my picture on the cover as well 

February saw a couple of day trips - one off Bangalore towards Sibi - a temple dedicated to Narasimha , Sira , a town which was once a province of the Mughals, a village called Kaggaladu where painted storks nest in hordes and are protected by the villagers. Articles again have been published in my column in The Hindu, Metro Plus and in Spectrum , Deccan herald. Unfortunately editors do not like blog posts appearing earlier than the stories, so I am forced to keep my readers waiting. 

My last trip was to Madras last week and i had another wonderful day trip to Pulicat lake to do some birding and experience a bit of colonial era , as it was an erstwhile Dutch colony. Sadly the fort built by the dutch is no more and in its place are a dense undergrowth of thorny shrubs and marshes. The surprise element  however was the spotting of flamingoes which we were told had not yet arrived, but we were overwhelmed to see the sky painted in orange and black. 

I am not sure where March will take me, but there might be a few day trips or short holidays coming up. ..In the meanwhile, you can follow my travel page on Facebook or follow me on twitter. 

Las Vegas Top Restaurants

Las Vegas is one of the most popular and rich places all over the world. It is also known as one of the luxurious in terms of hotels, restaurants, clothes, everything that you can see here are mostly all  expensive. So it means that if you are going to visit here you should have to make sure that you have your enough budgets for your foods, shopping activities, hotels and so on. One of the expensive places here are the restaurants. When you spend vacation here you actually want to find restaurants offering low cost prices since most things here are costly. The good thing is that there are plenty of fast foods to choose from if your money is budgeted. Various restaurants, food courts and cafes offer as low as 15 dollar above. With that price you can eat your favorite foods or the delicacies here.

The cheap top five restaurants here are the following below.

• NASCAR café. The café is located at Sahara hotel particularly offering cheap burger. Their burger is famed because many want and love to eat their man made burger.
• Canters Deli. This is found at Treasure Island hotel. Their main menu is the noodle soup and chunky sandwiches. The restaurant is open 24/7 in order for you to order anytime you want.
• Chin Chin Café. The basic foods here are Chinese. If you are fond of eating Chinese foods then this café is the perfect restaurants for you with low prices.
• Tower’s Deli. It offers a lot of foods such as soups, salad, sandwiches and desserts with affordable prices.
• Earl of Sandwiches. It is located at Planet Hollywood hotel. The sandwich was invented by the owner itself. The sandwich comes into different flavors such as cheese, olives, red peppers and much more.