My Travelling Experiences

I drove in UAE when I was traveling on my silk route tour in 2017. I reached Sharjah (Near Dubai) by ship from Bandar Abbas, Iran and it took me a full day to get clearance from the Customs for my bike.  In that process, overall I understood that basically I am importing the Bike into the UAE and it costs total 175 Dirham as a custom fee, out of which some value ( About 25 Dirham) is refundable if I take out my bike from country within a certain period of time (and I was sure that I am not going to come to this office again for such a small amount of Refund). I was happy that this port was operated (Workers) mostly by South Indians and I was so relaxed, happy to see 'My people' after landing from the ship and I was not in a hurry to finish the formalities for bike clearance and get out from this port. I told the guy 'Ramanathan' " Sir, I am not in hurry. I need to eat first. Please tell me where to get 'Food' and later we will start again with procedures fo...

Everyone says Neemuch but Railway station signboard says "Nimuch". I don't know which one is correct but coming to a Grade C city is such a peace. It's like I went to my childhood, 30 years back in time. I am staying, I guess, most costly hotel and it's Rs. 1000 per day. Agoda says Rs. 1400 per day for me as their VIP customer but I got lucky. Booking did not reach to the hotel and when I reached the hotel, we started on Hotel tag price of Rs. 1299 per day.  Railway station nearby is people-less, but markets are full as expected from a grade C city, which is on my comfortable level of crowd, just like any other A-grade city was 30 years ago. Food is so cheap and in good quality. You just need to identify the correct one (A little farther from bust stand or railway station, should have decent crowd compare to other shop and as per the time of the day, and no fancy decoration is my identification marks for a tasty food shop, " Food shops cant fool locals , so f...

I travelled to Bundi when I was around 11 years  old. My Tauji (Father's elder brother) was posted here in a school as a teacher. As he had to do his duties at school, he freed me to walk around on my own (he tried to fix it up with some knowns there but I refused). I roamed in the city and reached the palace called "Garh". I was disappointed when I saw a big lock there.   ( see , this is open now )  It was closed . I tried to find some "chor raste" (hidden entry) as I was highly motivated due to  my recent exploration of Jaipur's Amber fort with my another uncle (we got lost there and tried hard and came out in 2 hours so it was like a victory).  I found a dark entrance. I stepped in a few meters, I guess. But it was too dark. I didn't have courage and turned back. I went down, purchased a match box and came back with with it. And I succeeded to reach in a room at the end of the passage and then suddenly I saw so many Bats hangin...