Vikram Chadaga’s | Blog

Place: Chandigarh, Punjab

Date: July 20th 2008

Team: Varun, Swaroop and Vikram

I was in Chandigarh visiting my friend Varun’s Hometown. I asked him what are the nice things to see around and he said there was a rock garden. The first thing that comes to my mind with rock garden is a small park with some huge rocks in it. If that’s what you have thought about you will be surprised.

Rock Garden at Chandigarh is a wonderful creation of Mr. Nek Chand. He was a road inspector in the early fifties supervising the construction of roads in Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab.

He created beauty out of industrial waste. Things like plugs, sockets, broken tiles etc.

As we walk by we see a nice waterfall.

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Date: 12th May 2007

Group: Manohar, Aravind, Sandeep, Manjunath, Rahul and his wife Rhujuta

We had been to Karwar for Milind’s wedding (Click here for the wedding photos).

Few snaps from the bus…

Snap from the moving bus…

We reached the beach in the late afternoon…

Saw a few kingfisher birds, clicked them. I saw this one sitting on a boat. I loved the colour combination.

Beautiful evening at Karwar beach

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August 11th, 12th & 13th 2006:
The Fantastic 4 hit the road!

We (Ajay, One of our friends, Swaroop and I) travel from Bangalore to Tiruchchirappalli pick up Razik and head towards Kanyakumari.

Distance Traveled: 1500Kms (Approx)

Number of days: 3

Road trip Map (Click here)

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June 24th 2006:

Ajay, Swaroop, Vandy, Sam & I crashed out at Sidhu’s house. Had been to chamundi hills & Planet X. Lots of fun and lots of PJs.

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February 25th and 26th 2006:

Trekware:

Kumara Parvatha… toughest trek in Karnataka. It is truly challenging. We left on Friday evening and were back on Monday morning.

The Team:

Amit, Akshata, Abhilash, Ashish, Ajay, Ajay Rao, Belmeera, Mahesh, Swaroop, Sindhu & Me.

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