Garden of five senses-Delhi

   First- I wish everyone of you a happy new year and hope you get to see more new places this year.
Every year the garden of five senses hosts the garden festival.These pictures are from the festival in 2011...I'm late in blogging on this. It is a feast for the senses and one I recommend you visit if your in the area around the time they host this festival.This one was held in February 2011.
 

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Weekend market-Phuket,Thailand

If your in Phuket don't miss a chance to experience the weekend market.We went on a Saturday evening.It's crowded,  visited by both local and foreign tourists and packed with stalls selling foods,lovely handbags handicrafts,hand-made soaps,candles,garments,shoes(even second hand shoes are sold) all kinds of things.In the picture above is fried quail eggs.And the image below is of a handicapped

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It's world tourism day today

Did you know today is world tourism day? The theme this year is linking cultures and  it's being hosted in Aswan- Egypt(27TH Sept). Travel is indeed fun and with modern life becoming more hectic,it's no wonder that people look for opportunities to travel and get away from it all...even if only for a few days.

There's all kinds of tourism today-cultural tourism,village tourism,off the beaten path

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Visit to a Thai temple-Wat Chalong,Phuket.

                                                       Wat Chalong

On a recent visit to Phuket-Thailand, hubby and I set out to visit Wat Chalong-wat is the Thai word for   temple and Chalong means festival-it's also the name of the place where this temple is.I was impressed with the architecture at wat Chalong.Everywhere we looked there was color and lovely designs,the doors,ceiling ceramic

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Hello Everyone!

Around Phi Phi Island-Phuket
I'm back after a long break-in fact,I've been taking long breaks from blogging,sorry about that.I think I get too occupied with researching new places to travel to,making travel plans...that I forget to BLOG.Anyway,I'm back from my most recent trip-Thailand.Hubby and I recently celebrated our wedding anniversary (7TH Sept) and took a short trip to Phuket and

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Monuments India-UNESCO world heritage site Humayun's tomb

 This monument in the capital city Delhi, is one of many UNESCO heritage sites in India. Humayun's tomb complex precedes the Taj Mahal and is the first garden tomb and grand mughal edifice  in India.The monument is situated in east Nizamuddin -Delhi.Recently I took my dad on a tour of this heritage site and we were pleasantly surprised to find no long queues compared to the other monuments in

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Our visit to Oktoberfest in Munich-Germany

Our journey to the fest.
We leave Allershausen and head to Munich,a 1 hour ride by taxi-then,take the tram to Theresienwiese  which is two stops away from Munich train station.Right across the road, a 5 minute walk and we are at  Oktoberfest,the famous beer fest,held yearly.
In 2010 it was held from Sept 18 - Oct 4.Actually,2010 marked 200 years of oktoberfest fest and a 'historical Oktoberfest'

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