My Past Experiences

I have recently started to share my experiences through this blog, but I would like to share my past experiences. Here I will just mention the place in short and a few photos will follow. Hope you like them.

I will start with the older ones and then come towards the more recent ones as I remember them.

Ooty

I visited ooty in Feb, 2008 for a conference. The conference was at the famous ooty radio telescope. The places visited in ooty were ooty lake, botanical garden,rose garden,dodabetta peak (highest peak in south india), and the magnificent journey in the toy train from ooty to Mettupalayam.

Dodabetta Peak & Ooty Radio Telescope (with Prof Govind Swaroop)


Ooty Toy Train & Ooty Lake

Matheran

A mega trip to Matheran was arranged by members of the Astroclub after successful organization of the lecture series ' Frontiers in Physics '. We started our journey with the ride in Neral-Matheran toy train and later on explored Matheran on foot. It was fun with a group of 18 friends. We did lots of masti and dhamaal.

Neral-Matheran Toy Train


Friends

Mangalore-Surathkal
 

I happen to go to Surathkal for an exam with my cousin Kartik. Along with Surathkal we visited Mangalore (major city in Karnataka, Udpi (Temple town famous for udpi restaurants), Dharmasthala (Gamateshwar statue: Jain Pilgrimage) . We had taken the konkan railway route from mumbai to mangalore and that was one of most thrilling journeys of my life.

View from the Heavens !! ( Atop a Light house at Surathkal)



Statue of Gomteshwar & Surathkal Beach

White Water Rafting in the Kundalika River

This was the most adventurous outing in my life. It happened by chance. My cousin Dhaval along with his friends were going for rafting, one of the friends backed out and I got the chance. The experience is beyond words and cannot be told or written.

The above photo is taken by one of the organizers






Sinhagad

The Sinhagad fort is just 25kms from pune city and is a popular weekend gateaway. I have been to sinhagad for quite no. of times. Mostly for trekking and skywatching. Memories of my first meteor shower observed from this place are still fresh. This place is ideal for first time trekkers. The lake of Khadakwasla is enroute to this place.

Parvati Temple

It is a old temple of Shiva atop a hill near sarasbaug. It was build at the time of the peshwas. The terrace of this place offers a magnificient view of the Pune city.

This photo is taken with a exposure of 30 sec at around 20:00.


Goa

GOA!! WOW WHAT A PLACE !! This place needs no further introduction.

Date of Visit: 25th December

Duration of Visit: 2Days

Purpose of Visit: !!!!!!

Sky Party - Khagol Vishva

I recently bought a new DSLR and my hands were itching to take some 'night sky' shots. The oppurtunity came to my way through the sky party organized by khagol vishva. Thanks to Sandesh and Pritesh for inviting.

Kolkata

I got a chance to visit kolkata when Priyanka and me had gone for the Young Astronomers Meet at IIT-KGP. Though we had only a day to go around kolkata, we enjoyed every bit of it. Starting from ride in the ferry over the mighty hoogly river and visit to the eden gardens to the momorable journey in the underground metro. We also visited Kalighat and the Victoria palace.

Flower Exhibition

Every year I make it a point to visit the flower exhibitions held at the Empress Garden and the Sambhaji garden. In this exhibitions one is able to see wide and exotic variety of flowers which is very pleasing to the eyes. The following photos are from such exhibitions.

Vasantutsav

Vasantutsav is a cultural event held in the memorial of great classical singer Vasantrao Deshpande. Last year i got a chance to cover the event (special thanks to P@P). I witnessed a spectular concert. Rahul Deshpande (singing) and Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra, Germany Conducted by Dr. L. Subramaniam.