SUBHAJIT BHAKTA blogs

One more vacation;time to pack our luggages once again. This Puja (october,2017) we were to travel the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand,India. We could manage a week though and within a week course its impossible to cover everything that Kumaon had to offer. After the hangover of Ladakh in July,its really hard to push ourselves for one more tour within a span of 3 months. But that infectious 'itch' of a traveller will always refuse to subside. This time we kept it small and healthy. Shubhankar, his wife Manali and of course me and Smritikana..Only 4 of us would tour together in a very tight schedule. Its best to reach Kumaon from Kolkata on a train from Howrah to Kathgodam. But we dint manage a confirmed ticket and I hate or you may say I feel vulnerable to plan a tour with a RAC/WL ticket. So we decided to go to New Delhi instead and from there we will hire a cab till Nainital -The decision would prove a costly one later. 9th October,2017 we boarded Hwh-NDLS Duranto express....

LADAKH- TO LIVE WITH THE DREAMS. If anyone asks me what is special about this tour, I will place it like this....I see two phases of my life,one before Ladakh and one after it. You Ask me why? I would say.. after touring this wonderland called Ladakh valley, the human perception about life,nature,soul will be changed for ever when one gets to see the interlacing bondage between life and nature,so elegant,so profound,so enigmatic that thy will just surrender to this surreal feeling and wonder why all this while we were so obsessed with our existential struggle,fight for selfish gains and tiresome rat race. Ladakh will embrace you with all its kindness and remind you with a minor tap on your back...'Hey, you are nobody in this world,Tomorrow if you are lost and lost for ever,nobody will bother,but these mountains will still adorn the golden yellow hue,water will still be flowing along the Indus and peace will still prevail with the Shanti Stupas across  the valley. Tour of Ladak...