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Dayang Island Diving

Its all about PADI certification! At times – things look bigger are easier to finish. I scribbled in my diary to enquire PADI certificate in the month of Sep 11. When the page came alive – as usual my little “reading” started. I knew PADI was quite recognized. After a good amount of web-surfing time, [...]
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Auckland | NZ 16/16

Auckland That evening, we landed in Auckland and for the local driving we got a Corolla (again) which was bit stiff and less interesting. I convinced myself and drove it to the Ventura Inn hotel (in the airport boulevard). This is for budget travellers and one can expect really disappointing levels of service. I parked [...]
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Queenstown Part II | NZ 15/16

Queenstown – Day II Our temptations for the skydiving grow much here, however, we were sceptical about the weather as the previous day shown the symptoms of a possible storm. To surprise us, weather was clean and sunny. That quickly gave me a thought to postpones the flight to Auckland for the next day and [...]
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Queenstown Part I | NZ 14/16

Queenstown At times, the least expected takes you off guarded. Queenstown is one of them. Queenstown is beautiful, vibrant and lively. I may even call that’s a best place to settle down after retirement. Its that beautiful. Queenstown is dramatic by looks and dreamy to feel. Queenstown sits at the shores of Lake Wakitapu and [...]
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Milford Sounds 2 | NZ 13/16

Milford Sounds (Continued) Next day morning we were awaken by the announcement systems . This time, seals were resting on those rocks near to those cliffs. Too lazy in the morning. (It seems that they prepare that way for the busy day. They got to find 10% of their total weight of fishes to call [...]
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Milford Sounds 1 | NZ 12/16

Milford Sounds – Piopiotahi We reached that departure terminal (for boats/ships) just 30 mins prior to our scheduled time. We redeemed our confirmation with standard boarding tickets and joined those people who were waiting for the same. A bit about this place before we head to our vessel. A little excess to 6 meter (yes [...]
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Milford Sounds Drive | NZ 11/16

Drive to Milford Sounds Oh my..my..my. Where am I going to start. I would need time to collate the things I should write here. I don’t want to miss anything at all. Not even the smallest detail. Miford “sounds”? Na, it doesn’t sound at all. In fact, they should have named as Milford fjord or [...]
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Te Anau | NZ 10/16

Te Anau After those adventurous moments at Shotover river jet, we were on the road for another long journey which clocked 200 Kms. It was supposed to be less than 2 hours and thirty minutes. But the rain and other drivers made it longer to me. Drive towards Te Anau is quite peaceful drive. Lake [...]
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Shotover Jet | NZ 9/16

Lake Wanaka to Shotover Jet @ Queenstown Wanaka means “Renewal of Soul” as in Maori culture. Had I been consulted, I would have named as Rejuvenation of the Soul. Wanaka sits at the Southern end of Lake Wanaka in the otago region. Lake Wanaka is the 4th biggest lake which measures 300 meters of depth [...]
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Wanaka – Road treasures | NZ 8/16

Wanaka – Road Treasure After Ice walking adventure, we quickly returned to our mobile home of that lovely Coralla. On our to Wanaka, we had plenty of lookouts and the very first one that easily can be missed and should be missed is Fox Glacier lookout. We had to drive in single lane mud road [...]
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Our Search for a good coffee..;-)


Parents Trip 2011

I couldn’t wait to pen down this write-up. ‘Coz – am too excited about this or the lessons lea

Chikmagalur | New year 2011

Travel Date – 31 Dec to 2 Jan 2011 This time I got excited as my vacation was rush-free as it

Belur Halebidu | New year 2011

BELUR & HALEBIDU NEW YEAR 2011 Just the pics here. read the article previous article. Belur 

Parents trip 2010

This wonderful article comes from Kavitha Arunkumar and my heartfelt thanks to her. Below is in her

New Year ’2010 Gokarna

Gokarna – New Year 2010 ““““““““““

Valparai, Two Marriages

I was feeling guilty everytime someone gets married in my gang. Why wont I be.. They took leave for

Parents Trip 2009

Parents Trip IV- 27th Sep – 31st Sep 2009 ******************************** I know its tooooooo

NewYear 2009 | Shakleshpur

N E W Y E A R 2 0 0 9 – S H A K L E S H P U R As the years pass, we find newer and newer chall

Birthday Cards

BIRTHDAY CARDS Its always pleasure wishing our loved ones.. The first one when I started in 2007.. M

Vintage : New Year 2006

N E W Y E A R – 2006 COORG Life is lovely with friends.. Just one of the fine chapter is being

 


Treks..


Gunung Datuk Trek

When do people curse themselves? Not often, but once in a while.. A rare one goes here.. Its been nice 4 long years since I trekked. Why hasnt this flashed atleast once? I was really in need of a break. Note, a good break. One of the trekking group announced this trek, just in time. [...]
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Kodachadri Trek

My previous company (HCL) was kind enough to pick me for another memorable trek. This time we conquered (?!) ‘Kodachadri Peak’ which is in western ghats of coastal Karnataka.. With a wind speed of 30KMPH and a straight expose to the fierce rain at the height of around 1200 meters tried to tore us in [...]
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