The Andaman Trip

Disclaimer: Unlike other blogposts of mine, I am going to keep this one really short without getting too much in to the background stories. Unfortunately, I don't have a number on the budget this time as this trip was arranged via tours and travel agency, and sponsored by parents :)

Total Duration: 7 days (12th - 18th January 2020)

Places Covered: Port Blair, Ross Island, North Bay Island, Neil Island, Havelock Island

I took a 12:10 am flight to Bangalore and a flight to Port Blair from there at around 4 am (yeah, tell me about it :P). I was travelling with the Patil family and my parents reached after 2-3 hours of us reaching our hotel in Port Blair - The North Reef. The hotel had no wifi (which is pretty normal in Andaman) and even data wasn't working (also normal in Andaman). Connectivity was reduced to almost zero!!

Amritsari Dhaba Trail

Total Distance Covered: 1193 kms

Total Duration: 4 days

Mode of Transport: Toyota Innova Crysta from Avis

Total Expenses (for 1 person): Rs. 30000 (approx.)

Places Covered: Murthal, Ambala, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Karnal

Snapshot of the Trip:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wowjbk6G5gmJmQ5E51n6fL3o4mFeZQYydGrfr2nKXQg/edit?usp=sharing

Route Map

March 2018 (Whatsapp):

Me: Confirm karo yar Vietnam kab chalna hai?

Tejas: We need a mini trip before that. How does the Delhi-Nepal roadtrip sound?

Me: How about Delhi-Lucknow-Varanasi roadtrip?

Gourab: I have been wanting to do a dhaba hopping roadtrip from Delhi to Amritsar. What say you guys?

Me: Punjab? Although I am a Punjabi who has never been there, I have no interest in visiting that place. It's not my thing. We can eat the same food in Delhi anyway.

Gourab: Chal le na yar please. I really really want to do this.

Tejas: I am in. 

Me: Ughhhh. Ok.

Tejas: I need a photo in a field full of sunflowers. Eshan, you must be knowing where we can find such fields, right?

Eshan: Of course yes. I will even let you drive the damn tractor which we have in our fields.

Holi in Sri Lanka :D

Areas covered: Colombo, Kandy, Ella, Galle

Duration: 28th Feb - 4th Mar, 2018

Snapshot of the trip:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aVos28KW1lnNS2yMeBZ5602s-gD8pPcCzlafPjOFPpQ/edit#gid=0

Total cost incurred: Rs. 50000 (approx.)

Currency of Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan Rupee LKR (1 INR = 1.88 LKR; 1 USD = 145 LKR -> Please don't refer google for the exchange rate as the actual value used there is much lesser)
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Me: What scenes for Holi?

Disha: Yar, planning to go to Sri Lanka.

Me: Wow, that's cool. I have been wanting to go there for quiet some time.

8 Hours in Jaipur. Summed Up.

Areas Covered: Jaipur (6/10/2017)

Rajasthan isn't new to me nor am I to it. Jaipur is one of those cities that I would gladly take a trip to in North India any given day primarily for two reasons; A. I could drive down from Delhi and B. they have some of the best food to offer 

FYI: Good food and driving are the two basis of my existence.

So unlike the 5 times in the past when I visited Rajasthan which were planned to cover a number of locations, this wasn't one of those. This was actually a trip for business that left me time to explore the beautiful city again...........