Reviewed Lake Forest Resort - Yercaud
Mar 31, 2010 03:11 PM
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Day 1
The Journey
Left home at 7am as the check in time is 12noon and the distance of 229 kms should take only about 4 hours or so + breakfast stop break of say 30min. A 20min traffic snarl near the vegetable mandi close to St.John’s was the only aggravation in a near perfect road, beautif...Read more
Reviewed Club Mahindra Udaipur
Feb 01, 2010 06:29 PM
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Nestled amidst hills, Fort Kumbhalgarh is a sprawling resort built in levels which has kept its lines simple yet has the facade which is representative of the local architecture featuring jharokas, balconies with decorative balustrades, urns, fountains and the sight of which will make anyone hap...Read more
Reviewed Fort Chanwa Luni - Jodhpur
Feb 01, 2010 06:20 PM
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We drove 35 kms on the Jodhpur - Pali road to Luni, a small hamlet in the middle of nowhere and when the cab stopped in front of an ancient iron studded gate - I went, what the heck. Had I goofed? But yes, there is a but! the door opened and a man emerged in traditional Rajasthani attire and col...Read more
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Lepakshi - The Temple that Time Forgot
Jan 20, 2010 03:42 PM
cont... Half a kilometer from the temple, just by the road stands the statue of Nandi carved from red granite. It is 15 feet tall and 27 feet long. Yet for all its imposing size, the carving is intricate, especially the bells around the neck bearing the royal insignia of the Vijayanagara dynasty. Th...e temple here is built on a tortoise shaped hillock – kurmashaila; between all the straight lines and sharp angles of the walls and pillars, there is a smooth rounded rock (the back of the tortoise) in the outer prahara. I believe there were 7 praharas but the temple land has now shrunk from 60 acres to about 2 acres thanks to human habitation and general care a damn attitude of all concerned. To the villagers it is just another temple, heritage - what's that? As I leave the temple, after collecting the hot Pongal prasadam subsequent to a long and well conducted Puja to the Lord and Devi Durga, I say a small prayer for this slow tortoise to finally win the race. For, what will make the authorities sit up and take notice of the decay facing this glorious temple town?Read More
Reviewed Sterling Yelagiri
Jan 05, 2010 10:21 AM
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The party scene in Bangalore had palled and we wanted a quiet getaway. We ruined what was to have been a quiet New Year's Eve together in a half horse town and looked forward to just a quiet, comfortable stay, which unfortunately was not to be. What we encountered was a pig sty. Even making allo...Read more
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Nov 18, 2009 09:44 AM
Hi Cecil, we are Club Mahindra members, so its my time share booking, so stay at no cost (Smile) which makes the trip all the more fun..!
Reviewed Club Mahindra Mount Serene Munnar
Nov 17, 2009 06:53 PM
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Crossing Hosur, we took a tangential right road to Denkanikotai as through this is some of the most scenic drives to Munnar, about 50 kms of this stretch which is mostly District Roads is bad, otherwise the roads across Tamil Nadu which is the bulk of the jouney are fairly good.
The route is ...Read more
Reviewed Pondicherry
Oct 22, 2009 09:33 AM
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(Updated Oct 22, 2009 09:37 AM)
Off to Pondicherry - Sep 26th. I had booked at the Zest Big Beach Resort Pondicherry a couple of months back, and even then just about managed to get a room, thanks to a surfeit of long weekends in September, practically everyone was headed out of Bangalore!
Though Sep 25th was a busy day wit...Read more