Enchanting Journeys

This time it was only me and my mother, to visit temples in Kanchipuram and our plan was to pick my daughter the next day from her hostel on the way back to Bangalore. On my onward journey I had plans to visit some temples before checking in to the hotel in Kanchipuram. Being born and brough up in Chennai and with close proximity to Kanchipuram, it was ironic that in more than 4 decades I never had any opportunity to visit Kanchipuram temples which has significant heritage  and popularity. Even though we had travelled innumerable times by car between Bangalore and Chennai, time had not been  ripe to visit these temples until this day. It is a guilty feeling that I had taken a COONS AGE to see these temples, but it is better late than never. We started early at 5.11 AM from Bangalore with heavy rain forecast for the next few days. highway traffic was relatively less, I could reach Sai Sangeeth our first pit stop for breakfast in Vaniyamabadi by 7 am a distance of 150 Kms cove...

  Sikkim from December 23 rd , 2023, to 30th December 2023 Prologue Yet another vacation right before the end of the year 2023, a family vacation indeed more of a relaxing and rejuvenating trip and our entire family thoroughly enjoyed every atom of it. Sikkim a lonely paradise embedded in the eastern Himalayan region of India is a naturally chiseled place with its own radiant and brightness. Apart from Gangtok, north, south, east and west Sikkim remains nature’s gift to mankind and offers unparalleled unique tapestry of scenic beauty with its snow-clad mountains. Sikkim offers no dearth of places that are must to be seen by everyone in this world. Cleanliness, discipline, warmth and hospitality of the people of the region are worth more than a thousand words and is very hard to summarize. The Planning After contemplating over a few a choice of places, we darted at Sikkim, the northeastern state of India where we had never been in the past. Visiting in December was an inform...