Reason to Smile :)

Reason to Smile: Looks like one weekend at home got me so restless that I had to make some plan (atleast in my head) for this one :P I just checked up with my off late travel buddy - Madhurima if there was something we could just explore. I just wanted some excuse to step out of the house or else either I would go mad or make my mother one :P She, as dedicated as she would be, suggested we just try and experiment something nearby. So we headed straight to Badlapur. I only knew about the Kondeshwar Temple and some pond nearby. But she insisted that there was some very secluded waterfall which hardly even the locals know about ! I was very curious and excited if we could spot that. So we reached Badlapur station early morning and about 8 kms away is Kondeshwar temple. The bloody Auto Rickshaw fellows rip you off on the excuse of the extremely bumpy roads that they have to drive on ! :P A short curvy, bumpy and a slightly hilly road led us to the temple with a Dam en-route where it w...

Reason to Smile: The lush green views, the rice and wheat plantations, the foggy mountains, the wet silver curvy roads and we 3 girls on a road trip. It all begins with this thought and check where we land up :) Honnavar - One small city in Karnataka, very close to Kumta, Gokarna, Murudeshwara Temple and many more such popular places. We headed straight to Madhu's native where her uncle lived. Her Mamaji, as we all affectionately called him, greeted us and was very strict about maintaining the schedule of our trip, for he was our official guide to take us to umpteen places around for sight seeing. Honnavar is a place not many people know about. We succumbed to a feeling that it was a good monsoon time to explore something unusual, less popular, and less commercial :) Day 1: So our first stop was a drive to Mirjan Fort. A huge fort located towards the South of Gokarna, about 30 kms from Honnavar is a fort that attracts visitors with its majestic looks.  As one enters the fo...

Reason to Smile: One of the reasons I think why people really love the monsoons could be the minutest idea of just soaking yourself from head to toe beneath the waterfall :) And so Travel Trikon brings to you the very giant, the very beautiful and as magnificently magnanimous as the Dudhsagar Waterfalls, the all new and untouched Tambdi Surla Waterfalls !! :) I say that purposely because of two strong reasons - one that TS is located right next to DS and two being huge enough that it is easily comparable to DS. So while its a clear TS:DS fight, we give full marks to both for being so huge and splendid that one can only get awestruck by its jaw dropping impact on the mere sight of the falls from a distance. While DS has taken its charge on being quite popular, TS remains virgin as there are very few locals who would be aware of this beauty. This is also because while DS is a place only to be ideally spotted and seen through the railway line; TS is quite a 2 hour trek from Kulem Vill...