Jan. 2019: Some places tip-toe around you while others ambush you and Goa is both. This is my first Goa trip (unbelievable!!!) and I refuse to limit my sightseeing to ‘ten things to do in Goa on a short trip’. The 96 hours I am here I cram in beaches, pubs, food shacks, markets, vintage…
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A travel writer/blogger, reporter, researcher, feature and content writer looking for the unusual and quirky. TRAVTRAILS is a presentation of places visited and spiced with photographs taken by me.
In my travel writings I have learnt to be a presenter and not a preacher. The role reverses when I see blatant misuse of natural resources, unrestricted access to tourist spots and national monuments and indifference to surroundings....
Travel is enjoyment and as long as I can I will.
Thursday Door
somewhere in North Goa on way to Candolim. The neon green brightens up the surroundings….
GOA – is more than beach
A Portuguese mansion The Portuguese in their discovery phase, looking for spices and trade, sailed into Goa in western India in 1510 and stayed put for more than 450 years till they relinquished the territory to India in 1961. The occupancy left its mark in 17th-century churches and palatial Portuguese homes straddling the rural and urban…
Door to Divinity…..
Doorway to Divinity…ending 2018 on a devotional note. The Golden Temple or Sri Harmandir Sahib (abode of God) is the holiest gurdwara of Sikhism in Amritsar. In spite of its opulence it is an abode of peace and tranquility reverberating to the soulful hymns of the devout. One can spend an entire day in the premises but…
