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The Awakened Soul_ Miniature Piece #4

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OK I know I should continue with what happened in Dehra Dun but you see I have had my hands full with Ginger chai, Fried Eye and triple M .not to mention the domestic job and the govt one. Its a wonder that my ma in law hasn't kicked me out, when I see the neglected and pending house jobs. ( you see generosity pays. Dehra Dun is still paying me. hee hee hee) Ok so I will continue but not today

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27012009106,originally uploaded by mani tours.Dehra Dun -The LandingMy hard disk drive is showing its true colours so had to import a photo from my Flickr Album. So after a loong flight of 30 mins we landed in Dehra Dun. I was red faced with shame. Some experience I was gifting my MIL , wasn't I ? There was no proper Airport In Dehra Dun , rather it was an Air field. We disembarked and started

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Here I am back again with my story of that memorable trip to Dehra Dun - a much planned gift for my ma in law- but you see , mani and plans don't go together. OK lets begin by introducing the above snaps to you- the first one - of yours truly in Sahashtra dhara in dehra dun...what? you are expecting some info from me. Come on guys you know the Internet inside out, you dissect blogs and do all

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So discussed about music, finished narrating about Auli and Goa. So what next or rather which one next. Did I mention about the Dehra Dun trip which was supposed to be a birthday gift to my ma in law? Did I mention how I made it into a disaster inspite of good intentions? Well the next post is going to be about the day trip to Dehra Dun.

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Salaam Namaste! .Well that's the most my brain can register at the moment after a hectic 12 hrs duty!. But the blog needs uploading seriously. So am here groggy eyed! Sleepy! God! I just hope people don't think I do drugs!Coming back to our topic- that is the importance of music during long drives. At least for the Bhatnagar family its quite important. In fact in the pre journey preparation it

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DSC00490, originally uploaded by mani tours.

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So why do we travel so much. I mean around 25 trips in 36 months is way too much ,Don't you think so?Well you see, we both are doctors( me and shaleen ,I mean). He is in the ICU - criticare, where he hardly gets to treat conscious patients. They usually are in a pretty bad shape fighting for survival.Me- well I can't feed much details except that I work in a government run institute, and shoulder

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See the second snap? That's my baby being lulled off to sleep by the swaying motion of the car. Why do I feel sleepy whenever I have to make a new post in my blog? OK OK I know I know the reason why my blog is so boring is because I sleep write.So where was I ? Ok, about the Goa moral science story. Now, See the first snap? Oh my God! How could you ever think that , it is of Goa ? No no , the

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So coming back after another trip from Ranikhet and Binsar rejuvenated...But no no no! This post isn't about it , rather its about What I Learned From My Auli And Goa Trip.Its rather my twisted views regarding the moral of the story...I guess.AULI-- First of all- Never visit Auli or for that matter Uttarakhand in Holi unless you are as rich as the Ambanis or have a morbid desire to distribute

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14022009368, originally uploaded by mani tours.One of my friend commented that he was disappointed after reading my blog as it was just a routine commentary of what happened and that it would have been better if there would have been suggestions or travel tips. Well! First of all I am not sure if I qualify to tip or not as I have a unique travel history.I mean , my travel patterns can hardly be

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DSC02979, originally uploaded by mani tours.Goa the last day.Will it by my last day in Goa, or will it be my last day on planet Earth? that was how the state of my mind was in . Finally shaleen returned after shelling out a couple of thousand of Rupees on the bike. He was already morose , how morose could one become. I sheepishly informed him about the loss of tickets. Thank God! we live in a

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So here I am back after lots of motivation to myself..OK , about the above snap . It has a Goa connection. Actually I was trying to find those snaps but couldn't, so uploaded this, which has closest connection to it. Let me elaborate. See the beads I am wearing? well I got it from Goa Calangute beach. ha ha ha! Ok jokes apart.when we fell through the air I was sure I was going to die. For a

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Twilight by Stephanie Meyers

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The photo above, is of my husband shot in the secluded beach of candoliem behind our hotel in Goa.so. shall we proceed onto the second day?Day 2- Woke up early in the morning to get ready for the sight seeing trip arranged by the hotel people.We were excited. We were expecting lots of fun, picnic, party in the river cruise and what not! But a dampener in the real sense. it was raining heavily. if

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no no this is not one of my snaps from Goa. in fact I was not able to find them as most of them have been damaged, Enough of my ramblings. let me proceed on to the next level. So what happened in the four nights that we had kept aside for our trip...Day 1 - went almost as planned. After reaching Bangalore. we had a sumptuous lunch and then made the tickets for the Bus journey. on an impulse we

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I don't know what I did just now. i tried to upload some of the Goa snaps, but I have serious doubts on what exactly happenefd. But let me proced onto The Goa capers. It all started when we were offered by citibank two free return tickets for using the credit card so generously and of course not to mention ( foolishly). At the same time we also came across a holiday voucher by Travelport- a

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So I am back. But I feel The hotel bit have stretched a bit far and at a very slow pace. Actually I am searching for the photos to back my post.And hence it is taking such a long time and dragging on. Hence I have decided to move on to one of my special trips.Which one ? which one? which? The Goa or the dehradun trip or the first trip or the sariska? or the spiti trip ? I think I will go for the

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DSC02607, originally uploaded by mani tours.ay last I have understood how to up load photos from flickr. well guys . here is the hotel krishna orchard wich I missed in previous post

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hi folks! was browsing through snaps to find some of the hotels or resorts. But they have been so haphazardly saved ,didn't have the patience to go through all those stuff.will have to take hubby's help. i have uploaded one photo, the pic of the stately hotel is of krishna orchard in mukteswar in uttaranchal, just up Nainitaal. u have to pass Bhimtaal on the way. the drive is comfortable, the

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I was a bit upset over the turn of events in the great driving challenge. Need not say that we were kicked out. After following the activities there it dawned upon me that they want VOICES. Voices that are heard or are capable of being heard. As I don't have one here I am going tippety tap tap. But now I can concentrate properly on my blogs for what they are. My adventure travelogues. ..... So

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/manishaleen/ Hi all ! Please visit the link if you would like to see the pics of our trips. No fabulous photography mind you. But the places are so beautiful. some of the essence is captured by even hopeless photographers like me.

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Continuation of oooops! Actually there was a power cut so we had to go for an emergency shutdown. So the snap in the previous post, isn't it? Well its one of my favourite room in one of my favourite hotel. Hotel Manu maharani in Nainital, A duplex suite! and I went crazy when I first set my foot into it. The Bi level thing was just so oooh!( It was my first time dearies!). And it was affordable.

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Well so we have reached the end of the mitsubishi driving challenge first phase. Life will become regular hereafter . so shall I stop blogging.? no, not at all. I have so many trips to narrate about. i really wanted to be among the chosen 25 or 9 if not the three, but we wont be even in the 100 either. how miniscule it makes us feel isnt it. some friends and family members let us done. As it is

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This is the list of the 23 trips that I have mentioned.1/Delhi-Pinjore-Shimla-Kasauli-Delhi-Corbett- Nainital- Delhi2/Delhi- Manali3/ Delhi-Bangalore-Goa-Bangalore-Delhi4/Delhi-Dehradun5/Delhi-Dalhousie6/ Delhi-Mussourie7/Delhi-Sariska8/Delhi-Binsar-Joshimath-Auli-Delhi9/ Delhi-Guwahati-Shillong-Guwahati-Delhi10/Delhi-Narkonda-Jalori pass-kullu-delhi11/Delhi-Dharamshala12/Delhi- lansdowne13/

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That's me and hubby. My hubby-The man behind the trips, the Man-iac behind the wheel.Well I just want to mention the reason behind the blog's title. We usually try to take the lesser known routes for a particular place after we have gone once there by the conventional route.For example- Manali - one of our favourite places. After the conventional route, we have gone there by 1/ jalori pass 2/ By

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So we were off on day 3 after breakfast to Auli. Villages were stirring and waking up gradually. We left the beautiful in fact the very beautiful scenery of bageswar and baijnath to the comparatively starker terrains of gwaldum.It had rained the previous weeks and the road was a lesser trod one so in patches the road was muddy and slushy. my husband warned that if the car got stuck then i along

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27012009119, originally uploaded by mani tours.i hope tis gets uploaded this time

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hi. today I am not going to continue about the auli trip. i am just testing whether I can upload any images or not. By the way things are not going great in the mitsubishi challenge. i mean for us. have made some changes today. lets see. Oh God ! where are you? really need your divine intervention

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Hi. I am back ! not that I think anybody was waiting exactly. Well, so where was I ? Ya ! Day 2. Those drums and the holi celebrating crowd!. Ok! so after our tyre puncture was repaired we moved on to Kasauni. It was already evening when we reached,.It is a sleepy little town with the tourists comprising mostly from the so called spillover of Nainital tourists. The townsfolk enlightened us that

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I should have known that this was going to be a special tour when i searched for the proposed route . Let me start from the beginning. we had planned a trip of four nights stay maximum which was supposed to go like this Delhi- to Binsar near Almora ( 2 nights- free holiday by club mahindra hee hee!) then proceed on to Auli. Until Binsar it was fine. but when I looked up the route from Binsar to

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This blog idea is not premeditated i swear. i had been meaning to blog long back only i could not shake the inertia. So I was genuinely surprised when I saw one of the requisites of the GREAT DRIVING CHALLENGE that i have taken part by mitsubishi, was to write blogs. it was as if someone up there wanted me to write the travel blogs. now I am pushed into it and I will be posting frequently.Though

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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At last i have relented - no! decided , to start my blog on our travelling travails. lazy as I am, i used to avoid this suggestion by my husband but after around 23 trips i have agreed to start this blog. More as a record to remember and relive those experiences. Yes ! 23 trips in 48 months. thats a trip after every 2 months in average. Well no, they were not work related but rather to escape

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