Category: Travel Stories

Bolpur

Bolpur.. A place to relax and unleash… Our group – Me, Tepu, Maa,Baba, Shankar Da, Sandeep, Bidyut Da Almost all Bengalis love to speak about Shantiniketan. They practically love to visit the place again and again too. This Tagore’s den is in Bolpur, a town in the district of Birbhum in the Indian state of …

Swatilekha Bhattacherjee

Hampi

22nd to 24th December, 2012 Hampi is only 12 km by road after reaching Hospet by train. Buses are available from Hospet. Otherwise auto runs directly from railway station. Hospet is a small town. Once crossed there starts the rural Deccan. Fields, open lands and sometimes some even smaller towns or villages. There is a …

Swatilekha Bhattacherjee

Ladakh

The Flight!! Himalayas always used to be amazing whenever I have been in them. On 10th July, when we flew from Delhi to Leh early in morning, within no time we started crossing the great Himalayas. At the beginning, it was the familiar greenery of the heights – the lower Himalayas. Then started the snow …

Agra

Everybody goes for the Taj – Taj Mahal. It’s fine. It gives India the pride to hold one of the wonders of the world. But let’s talk something else here. Something that is not so glamorous but intricately serene and thought provoking. Sikandara Sikandara is a locality in Agra, bit away from city’s heart. But …

Qutub Minar

New Delhi

Come on, as we decided to name our personal travel experience sharing website “induscarte” meaning the map of India, let’s start the talk with Delhi – being New Delhi the national capital. Like any other place that we’ll eventually talk on in this site, this piece on Delhi also has very personal ground. Hence we’re …