Friday, January 18, 2008

Andaman Trip

It was a long trip after a long time. I was in Andaman for 8 complete days. Been to many places there. It was a over all a great trip.

Places I covered are:

* Corban's Cove: Port Blair's Only Beach
* Cellular Jail (attended Light and Sound show too)
* North Bay or Coral Reef (Did snorkeling there for more than 2 hrs)
* Ross Island
* Chidiyatapu Beach
* Wandur Beach (Went to a nearby Island, and did snorkeling).
* Went through Jarawa Reserve Forest. Got a chance to watch them. (Jarawas are one of the tribe present in only Andaman Islands)
* Active Mud Volcano @ kadamtala
* Kalipur Beach and Guest House (in Digalipur forest range)
* Kalpong Dam
* Ross & Smith Island
* Maya bunder Beach (its a small town too)
* Rangath (a small town)
* Lime Stone cave (near Baratang), went in fast boat inside mangrove forest.
* Anthropology museum.

I was went there with Guru, Harsha, Pramod and Prasad. Both ways traveled in flight.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

travel dairy of 2007

2 oh oh 7! yet another year passed with few +ve and few -ve points when i consider my traveling.

+ve:
* First foreign trip.
* Bike trips

-ve:
* Quite a less activity regarding trek.
* Most of the weekends spent in Bengaluru.
* More work, hence less traveling.

List of Places visited in the year:
* Paris, France (CDG Airport only, for transit)
* Venezuela
o Caracas
- Bellas Artes (art museum)
- Park de central
- Trek to Mount Avila
- USB (Universidad Simon Bolivar)
- Went most of the malls in Caracas (El Recreo, Igaunca Mall, Sambil)
o Merida
- La culata
- Treks in the hills of La culata, also in hills near El Valle.
- Trek to Pan de Azucar. Reached to its peak. Visited Lagoonas. A great experiance.
- Visit to Pico Espejo on Cable car (12kms in length, goes to hight of 4800mts).
- Some Dance parties.

* Maasina GuDi/OOty (with mensa friends)
* Delhi (AB's marriage)
* Kanyakumari (bike trip)
o Kanyakumari rocks.
o Ottakottayam fort.
o Tirparappu water falls.
o Satyamangalam.
* Maravante (bike)
* Kollur (bike)
* Pondicherry (bike)
* Mamallapuram (Mahabali Puram) (on bike)
* Chennai (1 time on car, 1 time on bus)
* Mysore + Karanji Lake + Kaveri NisargaDama

Details of all these trips are given in details in respective posts.