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Trails of Nature - 4 14 Apr 2011 | 03:32 am
Everlasting flowers For a South Indian, Everlasting flowers invariably means nostalgic memories of visit to Ooty or Kodaikanal. No one returns without buying a bunch of them. Ladies selling white an...
Pillar Rocks and Devil's Kitchen 12 Apr 2011 | 06:06 am
Little did we know about these places when we visited Kodaikanal. It was a bright sunny day and the sun too strong for mist or fog to appear in the background. Our first visit was to the Pillar rocks...
Trails of Nature - 3 7 Apr 2011 | 03:57 am
So 2010 Tiger statistics in India were in news last week. Some people are pointing to figures and beaming that the Indian Tiger population has come up(from 1411 to 1706). Skeptics believe that the ris...
Kodai Lake 3 Apr 2011 | 07:58 pm
Where do you plan to go during this summer vacation? Of course The answer is "somewhere cool"! In the scorching summer heat, Kodaikanal turns out to be one of the most sought out tourist location in S...
Trails of Nature - 2 31 Mar 2011 | 02:55 am
Dear friends, Today you are welcome for birding in my own courtyard. There is a window in my study overlooking a combined bush of Hibiscus and Ixora. I never found both these plants interesting, but ...
Trails of Nature - 1 24 Mar 2011 | 02:15 am
Dear friends, Do you know me? I am a Malayan Tapir, right now living in Singapore Zoo. Mine is an endangered species mostly owing to the loss of habitat, rainforests . We are extremely sensitive to...
Trails of Nature 23 Mar 2011 | 02:09 am
I love nature, don't you? I am starting of series where I introduce to you a little bit of nature. It might be a flower, a bird, an animal or anything that is intricately related to nature. My photog...
My Rain Drenched Singapore Trip 22 Mar 2011 | 05:01 am
We are back after our first Singapore visit. Yes, it is the first one and hopefully there will be more. Though the purpose of the visit was to write an exam it was much awaited and much planned for mo...
Living on an island 7 Mar 2011 | 01:54 am
I had told you in the previous blog that my car has been sold. It turns out that I am not the only person who is carless now; our second car is waiting in a workshop over the last 10 days for spare pa...
What is the best birthday gift you ever received? 4 Mar 2011 | 03:52 am
Today is my birthday and I sit in my room reminiscing the Kodai trip of last year. Kodai is a hill station located in the Palani hills, Dindigal district, Tamil Nadu. To my pleasant surprise the trip ...
