Tomorrow, 10 April 2012, Titanic will complete 100 years of sail. Yes, exactly 100 years ago Titanic started its maiden journey from Southampton on 10 April 1912. And unfortunately just 5 days later of 15 April the journey was abruptly ended to one of the world’s major accidents. In 5 days time, one of the [...]
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Titanic is now a century old Saga!
Posted: April 9, 2012 by Shishir Gupta in AdventureTags: 100 Years, Titanic
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A Trip to Torangarh (Torna Fort)!
Posted: September 20, 2011 by Shishir Gupta in Adventure, India, Just For FunTags: Adventure, Koraigad Fort, Shishir Gupta, Torangad, Torna Fort, Trekking
I publish my trip diaries over my blog here, so that years later when I read it, I would be able to remember and cherish the moments of the trip. But this trip has been somewhat different, as even if I do not write about it here, I will surely remember it for a long [...]
A Trip to Lonavala, Korigad and Amby Valley!
Posted: September 6, 2011 by Shishir Gupta in Adventure, India, Just For FunTags: Adventure, Amby Valley, Koraigad Fort, Lonavala, National Defence Academy, Shishir Gupta, Trekking
Well this post should have been posted almost one and a half month back, but due to some mysterious circumstances this could not be posted in time. In fact I had written down this post immediately after the trip and even had tried to post it (created a post and tried to publish it), but [...]
A Trip to Panchagani, Mahabaleshwar, PratapGarh Fort, and Tapola!!!
Posted: June 21, 2011 by Shishir Gupta in Adventure, India, Just For FunTags: Adventure, Mahabaleshwar, Panchgani, Pratapgarh Fort, Shishir Gupta, Tapola, Trekking
This Sunday, I visited Mahabaleshwar, a hill station close to Pune, with a group of my office friends and colleagues. Well, this is a very memorable trip for me for quite a few reasons. Firstly, it was the first trip for me with friends this monsoon season. Secondly, the participation in this trip was the [...]
A Trip to Mulshi Dam and Lavasa City..
Posted: February 13, 2011 by Shishir Gupta in Adventure, India, Just For FunTags: Adventure, Lavasa City, Mulshi Dam, Shishir Gupta, Trekking
Yesterday (Saturday), I visited Mulshi Dam and Lavasa city with three of my friends. The original plan was to go to Mulshi Dam, Tamhini Ghat, and then Lavasa city, but due to the time constraint we had to drop the idea of Tamhini Ghat. Maybe I will plan out for that sometime during the monsoons [...]
A Trip to the National Defence Academy (NDA)!!!
Posted: July 11, 2010 by Shishir Gupta in Adventure, India, Just For FunTags: Adventure, India, National Defence Academy, NDA, Shishir Gupta
I visited the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune today, commonly called as NDA. I and a few of my friends were planning a trip this weekend to some place preferably Mahabaleshwar, but nothing materialized as such. In fact I even made a plan of going to NDA, all of my friends wanted to none of [...]
A Trip to North-East India!
Posted: July 11, 2010 by Shishir Gupta in Adventure, India, Just For FunTags: Adventure, India, Kohima, Kohima Second World War Cemetery, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, North-East India, Second World War, Shishir Gupta, Tripura
A traditional Nagaland Village Gate My dad is posted in Dimapur, Nagaland and has Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura, Manipur, a part of Assam, and a part of Arunachal Pradesh under his command. This gave me a very good opportunity to visit these remote states. So I planned to go on a leave to my dad’s place [...]
A Trip to Sinhgad Fort!!
Posted: June 19, 2010 by Shishir Gupta in Adventure, India, Just For FunTags: Adventure, Khadakwasla Dam, Panshet Dam, Shishir Gupta, Sinhgad Fort, Trekking
Well today I went for a trip to Sinhgad fort, along with a group of friends and I must say it was the most enjoyable trip for quite some time. For the start this plan was made in a few seconds but also was much planned, and of course had a lot of confusion attached [...]
