Month: April 2016
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Into The Jungle: Tada Falls
Ubbalamadugu in Andhra Pradesh is a popular trekking and road trip destination from Chennai. Located in Tada, deep in the jungle of Satyavedu just north of the Sri City SEZ, these waterfalls are more commonly known as Tada Falls. A short walk through the trail gets you to the Jungle Pools and this is a lush…
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Ameenpur Lake: The Flamingo Story
Flamingoes, vibrantly hued and long-legged have always been popular in pop art and now with so many designers borrowing from art to add quirkiness to everything from accessories to home decor, you see these pink birds everywhere! For all the beautiful colours of its plumage, these birds are not as popular in India as say a…
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Poetry in Pink
Spread over a 1300 acre sprawling campus and peopled with elegant old buildings is the Osmania University in Hyderabad. The seventh oldest university in the country was brought into existence by the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918. This beautifully green campus is so vast that its roads have long come to become regular thoroughfares…
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Abseiling in The Blue Mountains
Abseiling in The Blue Mountains was one of my most memorable adventures in Australia – besides surfing at Bondi beach, of course – and also more my kind. The Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area is the ideal scenic weekend getaway from Sydney. With the town of Katoomba as the base, you can spend all day…