A beautiful evening - Ruinsara Lake Trek Sep 2008

Waiting for the clouds to go away. Its been raining for more than 24 hrs now ! Brinda chatting up with the local boys.


Down in the valley the clouds start to break apart and light filters through. Beautiful !


Suddenly its beautiful everywhere !


Then there ia a rainbow !


A perfect one ! Infact there were two - the inverted one also which was lighter.


Followed by a beautiful sunset !


And a lovely warm fire to top it all - Brinda with the locals yet again. What an evening ! will stay in my memory for long.

Adventure Travel India

Adventure Travel India
India is one of the popular tourist destinations in Asia. Surrounded by the Himalayan ranges in the north, and surrounded on three sides by water like, the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean, with a long history and diverse culture, India offers a wide array of places to see and things to do. In 2004, foreign tourists visiting India and spent US$ 15.4 billion - the ninth highest in the world. India is also ranked among the top 3 adventure tourism destinations.
Tourism states in India are:
Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh is very good place for tourism. The weather is mostly tropical. June to September are the monsoon months and travel is not advised during this time. November to January are the best time to visit. Andhra Pradesh has a rich cultural heritage & variety of attractions including beaches, hills, wildlife, forests and temples.

Assam: Assam is the central state in the North-East Region of India and gateway of rest of the Seven Sister States. For the purposes of tourism there are wildlife preserves like the Kaziranga National Park (pictured). The weather is mostly sub-tropical. Assam experiences the Indian monsoon and has one of the highest forest densities in India. The winter months are the best time to visit.

It has a rich cultural heritage going back to the Ahom Dynasty which governed the region for many centuries before the British occupation. Other notable features include Majuli, the world's largest river water island on the Brahmaputra River, the mystery of the bird suicides in Jatinga, the numerous temples, ruins of palaces, etc.

Trekking in Himalayas

Trekking location in India can broadly be divided into two major areas: the Western Himalayas, covering the states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal, and the Eastern Himalayas covering Darjeeling region of West Bengal, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh. You can easily point out the locations of these trekking areas on the map on India trekking. Find out on the map the major trekking areas of the Western Himalayas - Garhwal and Kumaon regions in Uttaranchal. The areas around Gangotri and Yamunotri have quite a good number of popular treks.

Kalindi Pass

Kalindi Pass is one of the most difficult treks in the Himalayas.

Chopta Tungnath Trek

Chopta Tungnath Trek
Offering a lot for walking a little, the location of this trek is special. Standing right infront of the mighty Himalayas, these mountains are home to some great forests and some rare wildlife. The walk from the lake of Devariyatal to Chopta is really a "walk in the woods" and then the summit of Chandrashilla is just too inviting. The 360 degree view from the summit would stay in anyone's memories for a long time.

Trekking in Indian himalayas

The Himalayas are a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The Himalayas comes from Sanskrit Himalaya,it meaning in tatpurusa compound "the abode of snow" (from hima "snow", and ālaya "abode").

The Himalayas stretch across six nations: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The home of several highest peaks (fourteen) in the world, the Himalaya range covers an area of 2400 km from Nanga Parbat in the west to Namche Barwa in the east. The main rivers of mountain chain are the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. Besides these three there are Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej, the five sisters of the valley. They are the source of three of the world's major river systems, the Indus basin, the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin and the Yangtze basin. Approximately 2.4 billion people live in the drainage basin of the Himalayan rivers. From west to east,the Himalayas run from the Indus valley to the Brahmaputra valley, thereby forming an arc 2,400 km long, which varies in width from 400 km in the western Kashmir-Xinjiang region to 150 km in the eastern Tibet-Arunachal Pradesh region. The Himalaya chain consists of three parallel ranges, with the northern-most range known as the Great or Inner Himalayas.

Trekking in Himalayas must be a desire of every person who loves outdoors. There are difficult as well as easy treks, long as well as short.