Day 143 of international places giving smiles – Remembering Canberra –capital of Australia
Day 143 of international places giving smiles – Remembering Canberra –capital of Australia 21st Dec.09 Finally get to see the room where my first born architect son has been staying at Canberra ever since he left our cozy India nest to study abroad. It was a spacious 4 bedroom bungalow, used by two architects and […]
Day 142 of international places giving smiles – Remembering the long drive from Bathurst to Wogga Wogga in Australia
Day 142 of international places giving smiles – Remembering the long drive from Bathurst to Wogga Wogga in Australia 20th Dec.09 We are ready to go on a long drive along the Great Diving Range of Australia. Our first stop for a coffee break is at this place is called Bathurst. We can see […]
Day 141 of international places giving smiles – Remembering the nest in the hills – Mudgee in Australia
Day 141 of international places giving smiles – Remembering the nest in the hills – Mudgee in Australia Looking out of the window on our train ride from Sydney through the picturesque Blue mountains. Excited about our first steps on the continent of Australia. And we get down at a small station called […]
Day 140 of international places giving smiles – Remembering Uros island of reeds and Lake Titicaca Peru
Day 140 of international places giving smiles – Remembering Uros island of reeds and Lake Titicaca Peru July’13…We look outside our window from our at a resort in Puno at the highest navigable lake in the world- Lake Titicaca. Soon we sit in a regular speedboat and look at the number of reeds that […]
Day 139 of international places giving smiles – Remembering remote villages of Peru
Day 139 of international places giving smiles – Remembering remote villages of Peru 20th July 2013…Our adventurous Rao family decide to go where probably no Indian tourists would have gone before…on a day long bus tour from Cusco to Puno to explore the remote villages of Peru. Our first stop was at […]
Day 138 of international places giving smiles – Remembering Inca ruins at Machu Pichu and its serene base hill station of Aguas Calentis.
Day 138 of international places giving smiles – Remembering Inca ruins at Machu Pichu and its serene base hill station of Aguas Calentis. For the first time in our lives, we are sitting in a train that has a glass topped roof and very big windows. The natural scenery of the mountains of Peru […]
Day 137 of international places giving smiles – Remembering the ancient capital of Inca Empire – Cusco in South America
Day 137 of international places giving smiles – Remembering the ancient capital of Inca Empire – Cusco in South America We are watching the brown mountains unfold outside the window from our small aircraft. We had never heard of this TACA airline before. As our plane descended over Cusco we are excited to actually enter […]
Day 136 of international places giving smiles – Remembering our first steps in South America at Lima in Peru
Day 136 of international places giving smiles – Remembering our first steps in South America at Lima in Peru After months of planning this day has finally arrived… Our plane descends quickly at a continent that is visited by very few Indian tourists – South America! We are welcomed by boards mostly in Spanish, lucky […]
Day 135 of international places giving smiles – Remembering Nile Cruise in Egypt
Day 135 of international places giving smiles – Remembering Nile Cruise in Egypt August 2012… After years of resisting the idea of a cruise on a holiday I finally found myself actually looking forward to the relaxing luxury of staying for 3 nights and 3 days literally on the river Nile. The reality of spending […]
Day 134 of international places giving smiles – Remembering Cairo in Egypt
Day 134 of international places giving smiles – Remembering Cairo in Egypt August 2012… As our airplane prepared for our descent into Egypt, I could see the rapidly changing scenes below us. Black roads emerged from the middle of the brown sandy desert. Rows of green trees were grown in lines next to each other. […]