Author: Rahul Gon

For most parts, I travel like a Tourist would. Staying at hotels, moving around in rented cabs, eating mostly tasty food.
Like many, Travel for me is not a full time activity, but a laid back time off from the busy work life.

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Spiti Road Trip (Day 4) – Overnight Camping at Chandrataal

The cold doesn’t just touch you at Chandrataal, it hunts you down.

The exact moment you step inside your canvas tent at 14,000 feet, a heavy, paralyzing sense of dread drops squarely onto your chest. The air inside is brittle and dead, smelling of damp canvas and frozen earth. As the sun sets beyond those huge mountains, the tent transforms from a shelter to a deep freezer, ready to blow dry your soul.

The struggle is real, for those who can brave it, the sky itself puts up a show like none other.

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Spiti Road Trip (Day 3) – 14,100 Feet Closer to the Moon

Chandrataal isn’t a destination, it’s an experience.

Lungs burn with an intensity you’ve never felt before, and your heart thumps so violently against your ribs that it echoes in your ears. Every ten steps on the narrow dirt trail is a test of human endurance. Passing this test meant, you could witness a natural wonder like no other, failing it would be appreciated by your body.. what would you choose?

To understand how we ended up frozen to the bone at the edge of a mystical lake, we have to rewind twelve hours to the morning, when the sun was bright, our lungs were full, and the road ahead promised nothing but grand horizons.

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Spiti Road Trip (Day 2) – Kaza and Beyond

The Golden Buddha of Langza

Waking up in Kaza is an exercise in slow motion. You don’t just jump out of bed, you sit up, wait for your racing pulse to settle, take a deep breath of ice-cold air, and remind yourself to move with intention.

Today’s itinerary was a punishing loop through the highest inhabited pockets of the world. We were leaving the valley floor to push our bodies to the literal ceiling of the earth.

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Spiti Road Trip (Day 1)- The long road to Kaza

Road to Kaza

They don’t tell you about the silence.

Everyone talks about the views, the postcard-perfect monasteries clinging to crumbling cliffs, the sapphire waters of Chandrataal, and the violent pink hue of a Himalayan sunset. But no one warns about the heavy, echoing quiet that hits us the moment the cell phone signal drops to zero.

Spiti doesn’t invite, it tolerates.

If you want to know what it actually feels like when your comfort zone completely evaporates at 14,000 feet, strap in. This is the unfiltered, slow burn of a story of how we climbed to the roof of the world, and how we learned to breathe all over again.

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Chausath Yogini Temple of Haripur, Bhubaneswar

Chousath Yogini Temple
Chousath Yogini Temple

In the flickering amber glow of the setting sun, we stood shoulder-to-shoulder, forming an almost perfect circle. The air is thick with the scent of crushed hibiscus, burning camphor, and parched earth. Our voices, a resonant blend of deep baritones and soaring sopranos, weave together to chant the “Chausath Yogini Devi Strotam”. Each Sanskrit syllable […]

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Jagdalpur: Journey into the Heart of Bastar

Stepping into Jagdalpur felt like unveiling a secret. Nestled in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, this vibrant town is a treasure trove of culture, history, and raw natural beauty.

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Discover Nirmalajhara Temple: A Serene Spiritual Haven in Khallikote, Odisha

A journey through history unfolds at this remarkable centuries-old temple complex. Enclosed within its historic walls, a sense of deep tranquility prevails, amplified by the presence of a small but beautiful water reservoir.
The gentle ripple of the water and the quiet atmosphere transport visitors to a time when this temple served as a center of culture, worship, and community, a legacy beautifully preserved in every stone and every drop of water.

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Top Experiences in Haridwar You Can’t Miss

Haridwar, one of the holiest city in Hinduism, offers a spiritual experience that cannot be described in mere words. Nestled on the banks of the holy river Ganga, this ancient city offers a plethora of experiences for visitors. So, here, I present the top 10 things to do in Haridwar that should not be missed when visiting this sacred city.

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Vattakotai Fort – Views and the story of De Lannoy

Vattakottai Fort is a historic fort located in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India; that offers stunning views of the Arabian Sea and surrounding landscape.

Built by the Travancore Kingdom in the 18th century, this fort blends Dutch and local architectural styles, to bring forth a structure that’s both beautiful as well as formidable.

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Discover the Best of Kanniyakumari in Two Days | Travel Tips

I had read in my class 6 geography book that India is a peninsula covered with water on three sides. No where is it more evident that Kanniyakumari, the southern most tip of the Indian mainland. Bay of Bengal to the east, Arabian Sea to the west and the vast Indian Ocean in the south, […]