Hello.. Hello.. Hello…. First of all, wishing you and your family a very happy, healthy, and prosperous 2023! Sorry for being MIA for the past couple of years… No surprises there.. I guess.. Especially for a travel blog! 🙂 Well, I take my December vacations pretty seriously as I see it as my core family…
Exploring Japan: The Great Buddha of Nara
Todaiji (東大寺, TĹŤdaiji, “Great Eastern Temple”) is one of Japan’s most famous and historically significant temples and a landmark of Nara. The temple was constructed in 752 as the head temple of all provincial Buddhist temples of Japan and grew so powerful that the capital was moved from Nara to Nagaoka in 784 in order…
Exploring Sweden: The Stockholm Globe
Ericsson Globe, originally known as Stockholm Globe Arena and is commonly referred to in Swedish simply as Globen. The Ericsson Globe is, since it’s inauguration in 1989, one of Stockholm’s most iconic buildings. The Globen is the largest hemispherical building on Earth and took two and a half years to build. Shaped like a large…
Exploring USA: The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze
One of the best things to do in the fall in New York is check out The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in Hudson Valley, New York. The festival has more than 7,000 glowing, intricately carved pumpkins shining along the riverside near Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson. It is one of the most beautiful places to…
Exploring Japan: Tempozan Ferris Wheel
The Tempozan Ferris Wheel at the Tempozan Harbor Village in Osaka, Japan soars 112.5 meters into the air and has a diameter of 100 meters, making it one of the world’s largest Ferris wheels. One full circuit on Japan’s biggest Ferris wheel takes about 17 minutes. It was opened in 1997 and the designs on…
Exploring Japan: Vegan Ramen
This is the first time I am tasting a traditional ramen and I was mind blown!!! And what’s even better is this big bowl of goodness is VEGAN! Me, being a vegetarian, have been hunting for good spots vegetarian around that served traditional Japanese food, which was hard to find. This hearty bowl made me…
Exploring India: Nagarhole National Park
Nagarhole National Park, also known as Rajiv Gandhi National Park, is a wildlife reserve in the South Indian state of Karnataka, India. Part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, the park is backed by the Brahamagiri Mountains and filled with sandalwood and teak trees. The Kabini River winds through jungle landscapes, home to tigers, Asian elephants…
Exploring Japan: Namba Yasaka Shrine
Namba Yasaka Shrine is known as the “Lion Shrine” as it houses the enormous lion head statue called Ema-Den (絵馬殿). The 12 m high x 11 m wide eye-popping lion is the symbol of the shrine as well as the popular photo spot in Osaka City. It is believed that the wide-opened mouth of the…
Exploring Japan: World’s first Tatami Starbucks!
Yes, you read that right! We are aware of Starbucks and all the sugary drinks we get there! It was the go-to place for my chai fix for the 2.5 years I was in the USA! But, in Kyoto, the world’s first Tatami Starbucks was opened as recently as 2017. This is the Kyoto Ninenzaka…
Exploring Japan : Fushimi Inari-Taisha
Fushimi Inari Shrine (伏見稲荷大社, Fushimi Inari Taisha) is an important Shinto shrine in southern Kyoto. It is famous for its thousands of vermilion torii gates, which straddle a network of trails behind its main buildings. The trails lead into the wooded forest of the sacred Mount Inari, which stands at 233 meters and belongs to…
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! I am creating this blog to document my travels and to share it with avid wanderers like me! Let’s explore the world together! Chennai to Bangalore to Sweden to Denmark to USA to Singapore to Dubai to Japan and counting…. All pictures in this Blogspot are my own..!! They are either…