Complete Guide to Taj-ul-Masajid, the Largest Mosque
Tajul Masajid, the biggest mosque in India, that took over 100 years to build The 5th Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan,…
Tajul Masajid, the biggest mosque in India, that took over 100 years to build The 5th Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan,…
Anyone with even a little knowledge of patriotic stories surrounding Indian Independence would have surely heard of Sardar Patel. Sardar…
Last month we had an exclusive opportunity of visiting an offbeat city called Chita, in Siberia. Chita has several nicknames but one that struck us as odd was “City of Exiles”.
On the very first day we visited the Decembrists’ Church Museum (originally called the Church of Archangel Michael), where we learned how it had earned that unique sobriquet. In Russian it is called Музей декабристов.
It was the cusp of Autumn. A couple of leaves of some trees here and there had starting changing colour. …
More specifically Family Vacation in Bangkok in Part 1 of this series and Pattaya later. You might say, “I understand Family vacation in Bangkok but Pattaya?” Well, hold your horses a little while longer, while we let the cats out of the bag. Here we talk of Family holidays in Bangkok where we look at things kids can do in Bangkok.
A post midnight view of across the River Chao Phraya, Bangkok
Thailand has always been
It began with my visit to Vevey, a pretty little town on Lake Geneva where Charlie Chaplin spent last 25…
It is quite often that we touchdown at Frankfurt only to take-off to another destinations because we don’t know what to see in Frankfurt. Frankfurt is perhaps in the middle of the world and offers connectivity to many other parts of the world. It is so much a hub of air travel that I often say jokingly that if you lose your luggage anywhere in the world on an international flight, it will somehow find its way to Frankfurt!
Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, the main railway station
We had heard many a people say
Let me admit., I have seen colorful Meenakari jewelry of Rajasthan, my mother possesses some of them. But my knowledge of this art is limited, mostly, to colors … golden, green and red. Similarly, I had seen Usta Art of Bikaner in the past but knew nothing about it! Not even its proper name.