Roads I Travelled

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”  French Colony at Pondicherry Puducherry(formerly called Pondicherry) and referred as Pondy most of the times was ruled by the French until 1954.The French colony just on the other side of the 1.5 km long pondy coastline,is lined with colonial houses with the streets clean and quiet,people moving around on bicycles both young and old and the presence of the famous Sri Aurobindo Ashram adds to the beauty of this colony.

Dead Olive ridley turtle on the shores of Pondicherry The Olive ridley turtles are the smallest and most abundant of all sea turtles found in the world. Because of their olive colored carapace they get the name.They are best known for their unique mass nesting called Arribada(Meaning arrival in Spanish).This unique behaviour where thousands of females come together on the same beach to lay eggs increases their offspring's chances of survival.They are carnivores and feed on shrimp, snails, crabs,fishes and their eggs. Reason for increase in the number of deaths: Though turtles spend their entire live in the ocean they would come up every 40-45 minutes as they are air breathing reptiles and when they are entangled in trawl nets, they are dragged for over 1 to 3 hours without air which may result in their death or they are beaten to death with heavy objects or the flippers are chopped off to remove them from the nets.Government has issued various guidelines to the fishers...

Sakleshpur Railway Trek , Karnataka The Green Route "Trek on the Railway Track", is a stretch of track from Sakleshpur to the Subramanya railroad station.This track, that traverses some distance of the Western Ghats, had been abandoned, but now the track has been converted to broad-gauge. It forms a part of 56.80 km stretch from Sakleshpur to Kukke Subrahmanya, dotted by 58 tunnels, 109 bridges and about 25 waterfalls. Dubare Elephant Camp, Coorg Situated on the banks of River Cauvery and around 30kms from Coorg,Dubare Elephant camp gives an opportunity to the visitors to give elephant a bath. Hoysala Architecture at Somanthapura Somanathapura is famous for the Chennakesava Temple and has one of the best Hoysala architecture.It is around 130kms from Bangalore and is one of the best day trips. Read more :  Somanathapura Blog Sunrise at Nanjungud There’s a sunrise and a sunset every ...