Just about travels

Welcome into a ride through Konkan! This is a travelogue of my Diwali ’09 trip to Ratnagiri and Ganpatipule. These two places lie on the Konkan coast of India. They are one of the most scenic places in Maharashtra. It was a chilly October morning. The wind from the open train window was slapping against my face. The train picked up speed and departed from Thane station even as we arranged our luggage and settled ourselves down into our seats. I was just admiring the beauty of nature when the train sped into the Parsik tunnel at top speed. The engine suddenly blared and the loud voice boomed and echoed in the tunnel. The train came out into the open sent the nearby grass almost flying away. But this display of majesty lasted barely for a few minutes. The train slowed down changed its track curved a bit and then zoomed into the Konkan railway. The fun began there itself. Soon, the usual thud-thud of the train, the loud horn, the screams of the tea-coffee vendors and the gossippi...

AGRA - FATEHPUR SIKHRI TRIP Welcome on the tour to the city of love! This is a travelogue of my Std.9 school picnic of five days to Agra and Fatehpur-Sikhri. Visit to Agra We were informed of this trip just before our final Std.9 exams. There was great excitement among all the students. We began planning all the things which we could think of for the trip. After the initial eagerness, we were counting down the days. Being a week-day on which we were to leave, I had packed my bags on the earlier weekend itself. Instructions kept pouring into us from all sides. The eagerness of being with friends for five complete days, away from studies, away from any thinking, only fun was reflecting from every student’s face. Finally the D-day arrived. We had our school in the morning. Hardly a couple of students were actually paying attention to which sum the Maths teacher was solving or which sub-section had the teacher asked to read. No one seemed to have the patience to wait ti...