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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

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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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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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Koraput – How we experienced a piece of heaven

Koraput, a land blessed with incredible nature and innocence had always been a dream destination for me. It sports an endless vista filled with greenery, wildflowers, waterfalls and dense forests, everything that a nature lover would drool over.
The air is so clean that it almost tastes sweet and the views are completely free of any kinds of distractions. Most of Koraput is clear, pure, and exactly as nature had created it without any human adornment.

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Bhitarkanika – The crocodile sanctuary

A boat safari through one of the largest mangroove system in the country with giant Salt Water Crocodiles lining the shore is what summarizes a typical tour of Bhitarkanika. A sanctuary for the crocodiles, this National park, is both beautiful and wild, making the whole trip an unforgettable experience.

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Road to Gurudongmar Lake – Top 4 places to visit on route to Gurudongmar.

Gurudongmar Lake in North Sikkim is part of any travel bugs bucket list. The 6 hours long journey from Lachen to the Lake is an experience in itself, moving through snow capped mountains, high passes and beautiful valleys. It also involves some really taste food.

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12 best places to visit in North Sikkim, India in 2023

North Sikkim is known for its raw beauty and breathtaking tundra landscape. It offers mesmerizing views of snow capped mountains, high mountain passes, numerous waterfalls and high altitude lakes. Every year thousands of tourists come to the North to experience the best Sikkim has to offer, despite the chilling cold that persists all round the […]

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World’s highest Dosa Point

Perched at 14000 ft above sea level, “Dosa By The Way”, in Thangu, Sikkim; is the highest dosa point in the world. Operated by the Indian Army’s Madrass regiment, this place serves delicious Mysore Masala Dosa and few other lip smacking delicacies round the year, sometimes in sub zero temperatures.

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Daringbadi – Experiences, Best Resort and Tourist Places

Darigbadi is undoubtedly the coldest place of Odisha, so much so that whether there was Snowfall in Daringbadi or not has lately become the parameter of deciding if the winter was strong enough. In my eyes however, the raw natural beauty of the place is what makes it a must visit for everyone.

Perched atop 3000 ft, this quite hill station of the eastern ghats, is blessed with thick rain forest, coffee garden and green valleys all around. Even the roads are as scenic as they can get. Meandering through a think cover of green, with hills and valeys playing hide and seek with every passing kilometre, one can only praise the person who coined the term Kashmir of Odisha, to describe this gem.