Having done with Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib, it was time to do the final leg of our trip – the much anticipated trek to Valley of Flowers. I first heard about this beautiful valley in the far corner of Uttarakhand in India when I watched a documentary about it on National Geography channel. I was busy doing an assignment for my Masters when my attention strayed off my laptop and over to the TV screen. With my eyes fixated on…
So, I have just returned from Indonesia to tick something off the bucketlist – this time to the West of Sumatra, an island just on the other side of the Strait of Malacca from the Malaysian Peninsular. With over 130 active volcanoes scattered all over the country, Indonesia has the most number of volcanoes than any other country in the world. Of course, nothing can be more satisfying than conquering the highest and mightiest of them all – the one…
I am not quite done with Sri Lanka yet. There was one place that we went to before we wrapped up our trip in the beautiful island country. It’s called Galle (feel free to pronounce it however you like. LOL) – a place that I never heard of before until my travel buddy Audrey told me about it. Quite surprisingly, it’s a UNESCO World Heritage site so I knew it was gonna be great! And it was. We disembarked from…