Tagged: RoadTripWithAppa

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RTWA 1: RoadTripWithAppa begins and we are in Delhi

RTWA – #RoadTripWithAppa was supposed to be his group travel with bunch of his people, but it got cancelled. But he is just like me (or may be I am like him?)he wanted to do it at any cost once planned. So he asked me if I can join him. I said yes...

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RTWA 2: Mathura And Agra

We left early around 530AM this morning. Except navigating the area around new Delhi railway station. The drive was actually good. In 2005 I didn’t get to drive on Yamuna Expressway. This time I did. My around 8 am we were at Mathura. We got to see the jail in which Krishna was...

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RTWA 3: A short visit to Fatehpur Sikri

Today was supposed to be a just long drive day. I wanted to cover maximum distance today and reach Allahabad. Since App wanted to do something before and as ready to get up early enough, we planned to do Fatehpur Sikri before we start to Allahabad. So we wokeup early and reached Fatehpur...

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RTWA 4: Allahabad and Visit to Sangam

Drive to Allahabad was not easy, specially the last 60 KMS. It was a double lane road without divider and almost every one was driving in high beams. City is even worse, I couldn’t see anyone stopping at traffic signal, care about walkers or side no which they drive. Our hotel which I...

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RTWA 5: Varanasi

We left Allahabad after breakfast at Coffee House today. We covered the distance of around 130 KMs in about three hours. The road is two lane but without divider. There was quite a bit of traffic and people dive quite rash here. We took a single break to have great tea. We reached...

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RTWA 6: Sarnath

Sarnath is one of the four holy places for Buddhists. This is where Gautama Buddha gave his first public lecture including Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. Otherwise Sarnath also has one of pillars of Ashoka. Its broken and the Lion Capital of Ashoka is for display inside museum. Lion Capital is also the state emblem of...