During my recent trip to Uttarakhand , I was faced with a problem I had never encountered before. We were passing through Delhi, but we had hardly any time in the city. On earlier visits when I have had to change trains/flights at Delhi, I have always arrived in the morning and left again at night, visiting relatives in between. This time, I was arriving in the city at night, and leaving again early in the morning. There was hardly any time to visit people. I would only have a couple of hours with them before I’d have to leave again. For the first time, we considered booking a hotel, but there again, we were hesitant about the actual hotels, the costs involved, and the logistics of getting from the airport to the railway station and then back again from the station to the airport. That’s when we remembered reading something about a corporate-managed lounge at Delhi station. We soon figured out that we could book online and pay by the hour. Besides, we also learnt that there wasn’t ju
I have been writing pages and pages about my trip to Thanjavur and surrounding places, mostly temples. Here is something different. To finish off my series of blogs about my Diwali trip, let me invite you to join me in a different kind of tour – a tour through the eyes, or rather the lens of my camera. These are photographs taken over a period of 15 days, at various places. Let me assure you that there is not a single temple among them. These are purely of the sights I saw during my trip, something I will remember all my life, and would like to share with all of you.
the sun set during our return trip from Rameswaram
A lotus in a pond near Thirukkarugavur
The road covered with husks near Nagapattinam
A hermit crab leaving its shell at Kodikkarai
scenes near Vedaranyam
A canal covered with flowers
Butterflies perch on flowers at the Hotel Sadabhishekam nea Vaitheeswaran Kovil
A sparrow
A Kngfisher at Chaayavanam
With this, I come to an end to my blogs about the temples around Thanjavur. Hope to start another such series soon......
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From Diwali 08 - Thanjvur Trip |
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From Diwali 08 - Thanjvur Trip |
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From Diwali 08 - Thanjvur Trip |
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From Diwali 08 - Thanjvur Trip |
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From Diwali 08 - Thanjvur Trip |
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From Diwali 08 - Thanjvur Trip |
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From Diwali 08 - Thanjvur Trip |
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From Diwali 08 - Thanjvur Trip |
Butterflies perch on flowers at the Hotel Sadabhishekam nea Vaitheeswaran Kovil
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From Diwali 08 - Thanjvur Trip |
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From Diwali 08 - Thanjvur Trip |
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From Diwali 08 - Thanjvur Trip |
With this, I come to an end to my blogs about the temples around Thanjavur. Hope to start another such series soon......
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