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Baiguney, Sikkim Part 1

13 Monday Aug 2012

Posted by monikamanchanda in travel

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baiguney, club mahindra, conclay, north east, sikkim, travel

Last month I was invited to Club Mahindra’s CONCLAY at Baiguney, Sikkim to meet other bloggers, travelers and talk about travel, food, pictures and more. Now what’s not to be excited about an opportunity like this, North East has been in my must visit to places since a long time and this combined with an opportunity to interact with other people who are ace in their respective fields, the outstanding photographers in Arun and Vishal, the travelers and much respected travel blogger Mridula, Priya who recently went to Antarctica with Sir Robert Swan and Rakhee who has backpacked in India alone.

The Conclay Team

With people so accomplished, topic as travel and destination as beautiful as Club Mahindra’s new resort I knew the next three days were going to be bliss.

Club Mahindra’s property in Baiguney

After half a day of travel when we saw the north eastern lush green hills and the resort tucked in the middle of them, I just knew why everyone who goes there comes back smitten

Only time work can be pleasure 🙂 Saurabh and Akshat from Club Mahindra making sure we have a good time

These were the views from room. When one has views like this even people like me can get up early 🙂

Waking up to views like this with Darjeeling tea.. Isnt this what is bliss

The pathway to heaven errr the resort

My favorite part of the room, I can sit here for hours and read

So here is a preview of what I will show u of sikkim in the next few days to come, stay tuned 🙂
PS: thanks to all of you who extended a warm welcome to me in the last post… trying to be back u see

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A perfect Sunday and Some votes

22 Monday Mar 2010

Posted by monikamanchanda in blogging, fun, This and that, travel

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avant garde bloggies award, best travel post, family, gokarting, karthik calling kathik, most beautiful header, most disciplined blogger, most intersting sidebar, movie, voting

What a Sunday I had yesterday… A day which starts with a yummilicous breakfast of palak-methi poori’s with aalo sabzi, pindi chole, raita and kheer can hardly go wrong… can it 😉 and anyone who dare reminds me of my dieting and weightloss plan here can be shot dead… so beware

Are u guys jealous enough or should I tell u what I did post that too 😀 😀 😀 I am all too excited because we took for his first ever go karting and man he enjoyed it a lot if not more than us, he surely enjoyed as much… thats N and him on a double cart… he sat through grinning for 4 laps all by himself and looked so damn adorable in that small helmet

and then we did what should be done on a hot sunday afternoon… swimming followed by beer and which was followed by Karthik Calling Karthik… I enjoyed the movie but it left me a disturbed, a little resltess but I think they have handled the subject well and Farhan as usual is rocking in the movie.

I wish I had more of such Sunday’s…. it was total bliss…

And now to spread the word and ask for the favor 😉 Avante Blog Awards voting has started and I am thrilled that I have been nominated in certain categories… though I am sad that none of the posts actually made it but heck as of now I will celebrate the nominations 😉 needless to say I need your love, support and votes 😀

So go click on the following categories and vote………

The Most Beautiful Header - Ojas's Blog

Most Intersting Sidebar

Most Disciplined Blogger

And the one that makes me the most proud… with a handful of posts written by N… the best travel post 😀 😀

The Best Travel Post - Munnar by N

What are u waiting for now go vote 😀

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The Perfect Date

14 Sunday Feb 2010

Posted by monikamanchanda in fun, travel

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celebration, drive, love, perfect date, the serai, valentine

I have been having a very quite valentine today, the first after we have met… We both are always looking for something or the other to celebrate a day… I know most people say that its a cliche everyday is a day for love but I strongly believe that little celebrations just revive the love, the romance factor in a relation… So valentines is a perfect reason for celebration for us and we make it a special day everytime… A holiday around that time… the 12 o’ clock celebrations, a romantic candle light dinner, a evening in the city club… something for just of the two of us…

But this valentines due to my neck (which is much better BTW 🙂 ) we are at home… doing nothing and just resting and so when I read this post by Goofy..  I felt a little sad and happy at the same time…

So here is what my ideal valentine date would have been (and that is what we had planned before the neck pain hit me 😦 well almost minus the thin sexy avtar and the Ferrari)

A sexy red Ferrari convertible with a sexier me 😉 , N driving on the lovely highway… we zipping past sunflower fields and hair flying away stopping only for a cutting chai on the road side and finally reaching the destination a lovely resort tucked away in a lovely coffee estate… just the two of us in quaint and a very romantic suite with orchids on the side and a private pool, endless conversations flowing, reading books side by side, long long walks followed by wine in the pool,chocolate and  and ofcourse lots of nocturnal activities happening at all times of the day 😉

So whats your perfect date? What did you plan for valentines and did it happen that way?

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@185kmph to Dharmapuri

16 Sunday Aug 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in drive, Highway Travels - the mad couples travel tales, travel

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0-100, 0-60, bangalore, cedia, dharampuri, high speeds, hosur, krishangiri

Q: How does one create a magical saturday which is usually dedicated to domestic chores?

A: Speed test the Cedia.

The plan was to set out at 7am from Bangalore to Dharmapuri to experience speed in Mitsubishi Cedia. The 2+2 dual carriageway from Hosur tenders an irresistible temptation to floor the pedal. The clock chimed 8 as the morning obulations were completed. The Cedia rumbled  to life and ushered us to drive on.

We set off at a brisk pace on the outer ring road from Marathahalli and meandered our way through the curvy Harlur road to hit Hosur road near the Audi showroom. We sauntered along to reach Hotel renaissance at Hosur for a Sumptuous breakfast. As we waited for a table, we indulged in flower photography at the hotel lawns.

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Also managed to amble into a 12×10 sqft enclosed basketball court and did a few slam dunks (ok…I sometimes exaggerate)….was impressed that I could convert atleast 80% of shots at the hoop (no that is not an exaggeration…err, well I was standing about 6-8 feet from the hoop).

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The highway from Hosur to Krishnagiri tingled Cedia’s taste buds and the speedo mostly read 160Kmph. Amazement over powered us when we felt so much in control at these speed. 30-40degree curves in the highway were maneuvered effortlessly without a dip in the speed. There was a trucker who suddenly decided to veer into the right most lane with the Cedia  seconds away from overtaking on a curve…..boom! I slammed the brakes and the cedia did not waver a single degree from the curvy line it had choosen to take and of course the ABS kicked in to reassure and encourage flooring the pedal yet again. Many a time the Cedia was revving in excess of 6000rpm…..we experienced adrenaline rush when the  Tachometer revved from 4200rpm to about 5500rpm in 3rd gear…..we imagined being in an Evo X and the resulting ecstasy ….It goes without saying that we were in no mood to plonk the gear to overdrive….

clouds playing hide and seek on the way

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The highway from Krishnagiri to Dharmapuri got even better….relatively straighter and a little lesser traffic….175Kmph on the speedo became a reality and M’s record of 170 kmph in the Coimbatore bye-pass set in Aug 2008 was laid to rest. Well we had set our sights higher  today….180kmph on the speedo was our target….we were oozing with confidence in 170’s when the suspension was effortlessly negating the minor ups and downs….we decided to validate the official 0 to 60 and 0 to 100 of the Cedia which were 4.6 sec and 9.5 sec respectively….the best we could do was 6.1 secs and 11.2 secs… conclusion – need to learn competitive driving…average speed on reaching Krishnagiri yielded 140kmph, we went wild!!!!

The divider in most of the places revels in an abundance of yellow and other colorful flowers.

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In 1 hr we reached Dharmapuri a distance of 100km from Hosur….

The drive from Krishangiri to Dharampuri is also a very picturesque drive, its a brilliant view in the sides… the paddy fields, small rocky hills, coconut trees and lakes here and there. The day being cloudy only beauty to the pictures

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We did a U-turn at Dharmapuri to be greeted by a 1 km stretch in front of us devoid of traffic. Magically we were able to touch 185kmph traffic slowed us down. The Cedia behaved rock solid even at this speed and was asking for….in 2nd gear when the pedal is floored a rev cut happens when the speedo reaches at 100kmph….

The Turquoise lake at Krishnagiri brought back memories of Tsomoriri lake in Ladak about which we have read in inflight magazines and on the net….it served to increase our determination to undertake the Delhi-Leh driving trip.

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We were back in Hosur from Dharmapuri in 1hr 10minutes and the took the Attibelle route and were pleasantly surprised to see a number of International schools mushrooming enroute to Sarjapur.

Conclusion: Speed thrills, but kills! But what is the point in dying if u hv not experienced some thrills in life! So once in a while go for it! And yes remember to go for it in a Cedia to increase ur chances of coming back in one piece 🙂

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Munnar in Pictures

18 Thursday Jun 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in travel, vacation

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heaven, munnar, pics, tea, vacation

So I am back…had a fantastic vacation, Munnar is truly the tea heaven…

so what have all of u been upto… still have to catch up on the blogs… 6 days and reader says 800 unread posts… will slowly catch up 🙂

Till then I leave you with some snaps, the stories and travelogue will follow soon

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