Special Holidays in India (Outlook Traveller) (Getaways)

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Item Code: IHG069
Publisher: Manju Rastogi
Author: Manohar Singh Gill
Edition: 2009
ISBN: 8189449141
Pages: 496, (Illustrated Throughout In Full Color)
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.9 inch X 5.2 inch
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This travel guide is truly special. We’ve simply put in all kinds of things about India that interest us! You’ll come across features of our country that you didn’t know about and would love to explore. Like taking the kids to learn how to bathe elephants. Setting off on a toy train. Going to Kerala and watching the monsoon as it comes across the Arabian Sea and Bursts on the land. Equally we hope this book will be enjoyable read for the armchair traveller as he/she saviors descriptions of the valley of flowers or how it feels on the virgin island of fantasy.

Natural Phenomena: The stunning beauty of India as it rains and blossoms across the country with a special features on the monsoon.

Offbeat Holidays: Go mo’biking to spiti, try a houseboat in Srinagar, discover the Lakshadweep sea… with a special features on toy trains.

Festivals: Carnivals in Goa? Boat race in alleppey? Woman beating men during Holi in Braj? And a special feature on Navratri/Dussehra and the varied ways in which India celebrates them.

Unique Indian Landscape: the thar the sunderbans mangroves the cold desert of Ladakh and a special features on India’s borders at Wagh Nathu La and Pangong Tso.

Other Titles Form outlook Traveller Getaways

• 52 weekend Breaks from Delhi
• 52 weekend Breaks from Mumbai
• 52 weekend Breaks from Bangalore
• 52 weekend Breaks from Chennai
• 52 weekend Breaks from Hyderabad
• 52 weekend Breaks from Kolkata
• 100 Holidays Vol. I
• Heritage Holidays Vol. II
• Goa State Guide
• Trekking holidays in India
• Kerala (with Lakshadweep) State Guide
• Wildlife Holidays in India
• 101 Pilgrimages
• Rajasthan State Guide
• Uttarakhand State Guide
• Himachal State Guide
• Beach holidays in India
• Romantic Holidays in India
• Driving Holidays Across India
• 100 best Resorts and Retreats in India

Contents

Natural Phenomena 14-15
The Valley of Flowers
Forget- You – Not! By Amit Mahajan
16
Apple Blossoms in Thanedar
The Fruit of Salvation by Lipika Sen
28
Tea Plantation in East India
Love at first Flush by Abhijit Gupta
36
Chitra Pournami in Kanyakumari
her eyes: the sun and the moon by jaya Madhavan
44
Corals in the Andamans
What color do you Want? By Amit Mahajan
52
Special Features Monsoon 64
Kovalam
Soaking by the Sea by Sonia Nazareth
65
Mandu
Rain on the ruins by Juhi Saklani
78
Cherrapunjee
Where Clouds come Home by Ahtushi deshpande
88
Offbeat Holidays 100-101
Srinagar Houseboat
New Soul Kiss! By Amit Mahajan
102
Motorbiking to Spiti
High altitude healthiness by Taiyaba Khaton
115
Guwahati to Tawang
The Long and Winding Road by Amit Mahajan
129
Dubare Elephant Camp
Big is Beautiful by Amit Mahajan
141
Bangaram Island resort
Back to nature by Juhi Saklani
150
Special Features: Toy Train Journeys 164
Kalka Shimla Railway
Chhuk Chhuk Hota Hai by Amit Mahajan
165
Kangra Valley Railway
No Frills just Paradise by Lipika Sen
176
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
Sapnon ki Rani by Sudha Mahalingam and Abhijit Gupta
189
Nilgiri Mountain Railway
The Darling Buffalo by Anjum Hasan
201
Festivals 216-217
Holi in Braj
Ladleeji, the Beloved Darling by Amit Mahajan and Juhi Saklani
218
Sonepur Mela
Scent of an Elephant by Juhi Saklani
232
Jaganath Rath Yatra in Puri
Deities and Devotees by Sarjoini Nayak
240
Ajmer URS
The spirit of Love by Amit Mahajan
248
Cultural Festivals of Mumbai
Celebrate Bandra Mount Mary Kala Ghoda by Sonia Nazareth
256
Goa Carnival
Viva carnival by Sonia Nazareth
266
Snake Boat Race in Alappuzha
Grounded in water by Lipika Sen
278
Special features Many Faces of Dussehra 216-217
Kullu Dussehra
Divine Assembly by Abhilash Gaur
289
Ramnagar Ki Ramlila
Being Present with Ram by Nandita Raman
300
Durga Puja in Kolkata
days and Nights with a Goddess by Dola Mitra
300
Mysore Dasara
Celebrating Chamunda by Amit Mahajan
300
Unique Landscapes334-335
Ladakh
Painted Mountains Lush Deserts By Juhi Saklani
336
Sunderbans
A Distance Rumour of Land by Abhijit Gupta
350
The Jaisalmer Desert
Just Desert by Amit Mahajan and Juhi Saklani
363
Little Rann of Kutch
On the Rann by Rahul Bhatia
372
Special Feature: Indian Borders 382
Wagah Border
Making a Song and Dance of it by Urvashi Butalia
383
Pangong Tso
In the Exquisite Company of Water by Anokhi Parikh
393
Nathu La
Outposts and Civilizations by Juhi Saklani
404
Route/ Tourist/ City/ Train Route Guides
Jammu and Kashmir 413
Punjab and Western Himachal 414
Eastern Himachal 416
Uttarakhand 417
Uttar Pradesh 418
North Bengal and Sikkim 419
North East 420
South Bengal 421
Rajasthan 422
Gujarat 423
Bihar424
Madhya Pradesh 424
Maharashtra- Goa 425
Mumbai426
Goa427
South India 428
Lakshadweep430
Andaman Islands431
Orissa 432
Kangra Valley Railway432
Kalka- Shimla Railway 433
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway 434
Nilgri Mountain Railway 435
Information
Tourist Officers Listings 436
Travel Agents Listings 443
Accommodation Listings 446
Index484
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