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Scotland

towards shivanasamudram

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Place : Hibbani Village Distance from Bangalore :  120 Km Resort we stayed : Georgia Sunshine Village.  http://www.georgiasunshine.com/index.html                                           Very beautiful resort. well maintain and beautifully arranged. a very sweet couple runs it. Highly recommendable from my side. Weather is exactly like bangalore, so if it is hot in bangalore it will be hot in resort also. Food : Food is awesome there. I never had so delicious food in any resort. Activity :   You will be offered morning walk and evening fun-fishing. There are so many games available like carom, TT, foos-ball, badminton, Volleyball etc. There is swimming pool also, if you want to enjoy. All activities are free of cost. Just 7 days back I came back from mysore-ooty-coonoor trip with my parents. I never thought that Amber will ask me to go out for this long weekend. My sweetu is always more sweeter than I think. we planned to go somewhere close by area. within 3 hour drive. then

Yelagiri

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Place : Yelagiri, Tamil nadu Distance from Bangalore : 165 Km Resort we stayed : Zeenat Taj Garden resorts                               They do not have any website for their resort but you can easily search them on net. Rooms are good and met all my expectation. Very big garden, with mango, tamarind, rose apple, guava etc etc trees. Very well maintained, spacious resorts. Activity : Various indoor and outdoor activities. and enough space to pay around. Food : Andra style food. Good and tasty especially non-veg. They do not have any menu system. Additional note : There is nothing much outside to visit in terms of site seen. so 1 night trip is enough. Day 1 : Due to late night sleep, amber was sleeping till 10.30 AM. We were suppose to start by 9 AM. I was confused weather we will make it or not. He woke up and said we are leaving in 30 min, is everything ready. How on the earth he can think that I will get everything ready when I am not even sure we will go or not.   

Coonoor

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Place - Coonoor Distance from bangalore - 300 Km Resort we stayed : http://www.bisoncountry.in/Home.html     Very nice place to stay, beautiful view from the rooms. Tariff is also very reasonable. Very nice food, but they only provide only breakfast and dinner. will recommend everyone for stay. Activities : Multiple indoor and outdoor games. Animals  - Jungle foul(teetar), duck, rabbits, hens. (Kids and enjoy) We were just back from our Europe trip and we had a long weekend. And we decided to go to coonoor this time. I said to amber that we have already been to ooty 3 times then why we are planning to go to coonoor because this is almost the same place and only 15 km far from Ooty. But who listen to their wife. :)                           Second challenge I had was to adjust the oncall. But after my long europe trip i dont want to ask for any oncall changes. I decided to work from there if there is any task. So even after having 1 oncall, we were good to go. DAY 1 :

Hogenakkal-munnar

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Hogenakkal water fall Distance from bangalore : 120 Km activity : coracle boat ride. view amazing waterfall. Cost per boat : you can negotiate a lot. but we paid 800 both the time for whole boat. Otherwise you can buy ticket that will cost you 120 each person but that will carry 6 person in a boat. Salem City  Hotel <> 1500 per night Decent one, clean rooms, clean bathroom, free breakfast and all besic facility. Worth whatever they are costing Munnar  Resort : Igloo munnar resort link : http://www.igloomunnar.com/ Cottage : we booked 2 bedroom cottage. Can be maintained better. But location and view was good. Cost : 4500-5500 depends on off/on season. "A trip with my brother,sister and husband on Raksha-bandhan. Unforgettable and  Awesome." My sister completed her BE and currently at my home in bangalore since 22nd July. She is enjoying her life, sitting at home and reading newspaper and books. 13th August : "Rakshabandha" is one of the unique festiv

Savandurga trek

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Place : Savandurga. Distance from bangalore :  around 70 Km from bangalore.  Location : There are two hilles one is called belligudda(white rock) another one is called karigudda(black hill). You can find the local guide also if you want to go by yourself.   Booking agency :   http://bmcindia.org/ I find it really good and worth for money. Food is south indian and not much variety but I liked it. When I am on trek i do not care for food. :)  Facility Provided : Transport, lunch, evening snacks/tea, local guide. Activities :  Trekking, Rock climbing, cave exploring, repelling,  nature walk, Nature photography, Fun, relax. June 2011 : after the cancellation of Sikkim trip, I desperately wanted to go somewhere.  I was not sure where I wanted to go, but I was frustrated from inside and that could have been relieved only by another trip. Since I was not in mood to search and book everything, so I decided to outsource it. I kept hearing about bmcindia.org, I decided to take a chanc

Marriage in Bihar

I attended Munna bhaiya's marriage at Piro(4 hour drive from patna) on 5th May. I wrote some the blog during the marriage. I will take you directly there.  6th May :  It is 3 am of 6th may in morning, marriage is yet not started which is suppose to be on 5th May; and I am not sleepy at all. Because whatever is happening here is beyond my imagination, I could not believe this can happen in real life. The marriage is not started because the groom left the place because he was not treated properly, and we are sitting here without groom. I should not say this but I am really very very excited to see what will happen next. Its all filmy for me and I am felling that I am a side actor of it. around 3.30 AM we also came out of the house as we are also leaving to annoy bride side. But the most important thing i can observe is, the bride side is concern but they do not look sad. May be I am wrong.                           Bride's brother and some relative went to convince Munna Bhaiy