MY VISIT TO FERNHILL PALACE OOTY (WITH PICTURES)

Fernhill palace

Fernhill palace was once the summer residence of the Maharajah of Mysore and still remains the property of the royal family of Mysore,a city in Karnataka,south India. The first building was built on 50 acres of land in 1844 AD by captain F cotton who was with the engineers regiment in Madras(Renamed chennai now) ,later it was bought by the Maharajah(ruler) of Mysore and improved

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SUMMER FUN IN AND AROUND LUCKNOW-CHINHAT,KUKRAIL,ANANDI PARK

It's summer time , the kids are on vacation ,the heat punishing and you just can't zip across the country for a holiday.Maybe you can't take a break from work or perhaps you just can't afford a holiday right now.Don't despair! What to do around Lucknow?There are fun things you can do in & around Lucknow,True you can't escape the heat,but that doesn't mean you've got to stay indoors and watch TV.

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16 SUMMER DESTINATIONS IN INDIA TO VACATION IN

My list of places to go this summer.Places you can head to and escape the heat...almost. Places  filled with natural beauty.Wouldn't it be nice to stroll through orchards,walk through  pine forests,go rock climbing,boating,roll in the snow or just relax under a tree far-away from the crowds and so close to nature?
In this post are vacation spots across India.Check out these summer destinations

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SKYWATCH IN KERALA

I recently went on a houseboat cruise in Kerala ,south India and these pictures were taken from within the houseboat.These are photos of the changing sky ,taken as we travelled along lake Vembanad-If you like you can see more of my cruise in my previous posts.Thanks to the skywatch team for this fun meme,for more pictures of skies from around the world go to  http://skyley.blogspot.com/
Thank you

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KUMARAKOM TO ALLEPPEY KERALA BY HOUSEBOAT part 2

As the sun sets on lake Vembanad I capture these images from  within the houseboat.We've been cruising since afternoon and now the boat is docked at Alleppey for the night-there's only a few...maybe four or five boats docked at this strip and everyone stays on board,so it's pretty lonely out here, the beautiful sunset soon fades and darkness covers the lake,only the dim lights  from the

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A HOUSEBOAT CRUISE - KUMARAKOM KERALA

FROM KUMARAKOM-ALLEPPEY (Part-1) with photos.


We started our cruise down  lake vembanad from Kumarakom,a fishing village near Kottayam in the state of Kerala, south India.The resort we stayed in made the arrangements and at 12 noon  we boarded our cruise at the back of the resort.....the backwaters of lake vembanad.Houseboat or kettuvallom in malayalam, the language spoken in Kerala-was a way

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I'M BACK!

Hello everyone,
I'm back! I went for a long tour of the south of India and just came back a week ago.Boy, was I exhausted!Sorry for not informing y'all before I set out,you see it was to be only for a week-but I was having such a good time travelling that I kept going.Internet access was real hard to come by and as a rule I never use public wi-fi to open my blogs,all I had was internet via my

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