Through My Lens

It was in the month of Sep 2011,we were on a holiday to our home town Payyanur. On holidays if i am in Kerala, i will be the most lazy person to start with an idea of an offbeat destination tour.The idea came from none other than my wife for the tour of the Payyambalam beach.In Kerala touring is always fine but the sweating is something which i hate a lot while touring in Kerala.Even though it was the month of Sep, still the sun god has given a lot of sweating with a cool breeze in the country side.I just asked about what other places other than the beach we can see around.She just mentioned about St.Angelo Fort.I told her lets go to the fort first and then by evening we will have our tour towards the Payyambalam beach. We set out for our destination.The Fort was some 55 km from my place,which is Payyanur. We set out for the journey at 2.00 pm in a hired white ambassador,which was still the pride of taxis in Kerala at that point of time.We reached the destination at around 3.10 pm. ...

It was the beginning of the month of Dec 2014 and for me it has never been a travel time since I never used to go for a leisure travel during this time of an year. My time of travel usually is December end of the year during Christmas. But this time around I had the opportunity and this came from none other than my wife. She has to go for an official training to Pune for some two days and I found this to be an opportunity to see Pune for the first time. I started seeing trip advisor for the places that can be seen in this place and I got the glimpse of Aga Khan Palace. I started searching for what is there that needs to be seen in this palace and a bunch of history with the freedom struggle was there in store to see and understand in this palace. Aga Khan Palace,Pune I was in Pune in the first week and on 5 th Dec 2014, I started my journey in the morning towards this historic palace. As I reached and entered the palace I was welcomed by the sprawling garden in front of the p...