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
April also saw us make a visit to Sewri to see the flamingoes....
It is amazing to see the variety of birds that come to this concrete jungle, year after year. The numbers have declined over the years, but at least we still get to see them. It remains to us, however, to decide if we want the birds to keep coming back, for our children to watch with as much enjoyment as we do.
On another note, a lone fisherman with his bag of crabs was even more interesting to Samhith than the flamingoes. After all, the birds were far away, and the crabs were really huge!
You can read the following posts to know more about the birds we saw at Sewri:
It is amazing to see the variety of birds that come to this concrete jungle, year after year. The numbers have declined over the years, but at least we still get to see them. It remains to us, however, to decide if we want the birds to keep coming back, for our children to watch with as much enjoyment as we do.
On another note, a lone fisherman with his bag of crabs was even more interesting to Samhith than the flamingoes. After all, the birds were far away, and the crabs were really huge!
You can read the following posts to know more about the birds we saw at Sewri:
Nice shots!
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I so want to go bird watching... very soon! :)
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