Archive for the ‘Travel Experience’

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    Day 8 – Washington DC, Historic Museums & Monuments
    The weather forecasts predicted heavy showers of rain but the climate was quite pleasant outside. A quick breakfast and we were off on our historic visit of Washington DC. Its quite an exciting experience to visit the historic places at DC being a US capital. The place has some of the best memorable places; any visitor here would be pleased with its museums. The common landmark known as National Mall has everything to offer, whether you are looking to see Capitol or Smithsonian Museums. The design of the district is simply fabulous; your trip here would surely be an amazing classy experience of lifetime. The district has not allowed any tall buildings here to maintain the historic layout of the place and also to maintain Washington Monument as the tallest building here. The Washington Monument is a structural design made without  [...]
    Posted at March 16th, 2010 at 12:03 am
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    Day 6-7 Historical Washington DC
    A fantabulous lovely morning with clear skies and small jitters of rain made us feel extra fresh and I could just see the cars zipping by, from the window. Today, we are moving from NY to capital city of United States of America, Washington DC. The roads were free of traffic and so we had a smooth drive there running on the roads like a flying bird. Reaching at the airport, having security checks nearly took us half an hour of time. In no time, we were sitting at the Starbucks Coffee lounge and gazing at the clear skies outside. We had almost 3 flights that were supposed to leave before us, we could see people rushing in the airplane at the last moment. As it was a domestic flight, we could see most of them being business officials. Well, after nearly waiting in the lounge for 45 minutes, waiting in the airplane for 30 minutes our  [...]
    Posted at March 15th, 2010 at 12:03 am
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    Day 5 – Niagara Falls – American fall sight, Goat Island & horseshoe falls
    As much as, is the beauty of Niagara falls, there are other small surrounding places which takes an equal pie in being one of the favorite spots of the people and visitors here. Staying overnight at Buffalo hotel, Comfort Inn – 306. I could not sleep more than 5 hours for the excitement of seeing the morning Niagara falls, and in no time I got a 6:00 am wake up call. A hot shower bath, and I was trailing my way to the hotel lounge where variety of breads, cookies, donuts, juices were served to us. A quick breakfast and we were back in our bus heading towards Niagara falls which was around 20 minutes drive from the hotel. Niagara falls is one of the top tourists destinations around the world, attracting millions people each year. The spectacular sight of Niagara Falls gets you lost in its scenic beauty and a smooth water singing.  [...]
    Posted at March 14th, 2010 at 12:03 am
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    Day 4 – New York Corning Museum of Glass
    As soon as we entered the Corning Museum of Glass at Corning City I was blown away by the glass art and was really amazed at the beauty of glass. There were thousands of beautiful pieces of glass with different shapes, sizes, colors, etc. there were numerous things people can make using glass. Until, I saw the glass making demonstration here, I never knew that the shaped glasses are made with so many efforts here. Making glass is such an innovative works of art, the more you explore the more your creativity works. The Corning Museum of Glass was a beauty far beyond my expectations, there were numerous pieces of ancient glass which were used centuries ago. Not everybody may appraise the art, but it takes experience to know its beauty and splendor. Corning has been voted as number one for the past 25 years in a row for the top city  [...]
    Posted at March 13th, 2010 at 01:03 am
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    Day 4 – Niagara night and Corning Museum of Glass
    All ready to drive through bus to Niagara falls, we reached right on time at China Town sharp at 7’0 clock in the morning. Getting up at morning 5’0 clock was quite a difficult task, but I nearly enjoyed the fresh breeze outside the house. I was amazed looking at the cars zipping by, on the roads early morning 6’0 clock that just goes on to show the dedication people have for work here. Although the climate seemed nearly cold, we were feeling cozy inside the bus. The local police helped us stay on the road, awaiting for our next bus arrival. We were nearly a group of 30 people, so we enjoyed the space inside the bus leisurely. Most of them were from Chinese so our tour guide spoke both the English and Chinese languages simultaneously. The name of the tour guide was Michael, he spoke at length about New York City and the important  [...]
    Posted at March 12th, 2010 at 02:03 am
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    Day 3 – Fascinating New York City Tour
    A lovely morning, with a dash of wintry winds, blowing by the sides of the roads, we walked down the lanes of floral park taking our bus to 179 st, Broadway and from there taking a E train to Times Square, Manhattan downtown. People here reach office early in the morning right at 8’0 clock, morning hours are lively with people rushing down from uptown to downtown. To work at Times Square is one of the greatest dreams of youngsters around the world to be associated to offices here, people love to work here in the financial districts of Manhattan. The open city tour bus took around the streets of Manhattan covering statue of liberty, WTC, china town, Macy’s, NY post office, Empire State building, Wall Street, Rockefeller Centre, FBI headquarters, and many other known important places. As we moved around the financial districts,  [...]
    Posted at March 10th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
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    Day 2, The Detroit – Manhattan Episode
    So finally we entered the US boundaries, all set to go through immigration checks. I was seriously impressed by the security here. The separate immigration security queue for non-US residents was at the other side. After interviewing us, we collected our luggage and headed towards taking our local flight from Detroit to New York. Visiting NY has always fascinated me because of the town planning and being financial street here. It was almost 2 hours from Detroit to New York but we reached a little late as it was a local flight and there were hardly any people in the flight. After reaching NY, we were in for a surprise as we had lost our luggage. We lodged a missing luggage complaint with the officials here and they assured us that they would try their level best to deliver the luggage. Ramesh uncle had come to pick us up at the airport,  [...]
    Posted at March 9th, 2010 at 09:03 pm
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    24 hours to USA – Mumbai – Amsterdam – Detroit – New York
    Finally, it just stuck me the other day that I have to leave for my next tour to USA. I hardly got any time to even prepare; the days seemed to just fly by! Well, this time around I am even more excited to take my wife along for my next Business Tour to US and even more destinations to explore. Going to USA might not sound a very interesting topic for some of you as most of you guys belong to that country but for me it’s my final business destination. I am going to take you down my personal trip to USA not just counting on the destinations I will cover, but you will get to read about my experiences. The last time I came here in the year August 2008, I had some beautiful memories meeting beautiful and friendly people here. I will cover my whole trip in 35 days. Right now I have boarded Amsterdam – Detroit flight. It would be  [...]
    Posted at March 9th, 2010 at 12:03 am
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    Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 6
    Today being my last day here at Brahmakumaris I was a little excited and a bit too nervous too, as I would be back home tomorrow boarding my night train Ranakpur express from Abu road station. We were supposed to visit all major famous destinations of Mount Abu including the oldest Jain temples that were built up centuries ago. The first we started in the morning was meditation class and then spend some time in solidarity at Baba’s room. All of us were ready by 7:00 am in the morning, all refreshed and raring to go, our Scorpio driver came right on time and we arranged our luggage inside the vehicle. As we drew outside the main gate of BK I looked back upon the memories, the first time I entered these gates of peace and happiness. It was seriously a blessing to be here, as we were godly children, baba loved us and he got us the  [...]
    Posted at October 6th, 2009 at 03:10 am
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    Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 5
    Just last 2 days left here and I was a little nervous and excited too, as we were all set to explore the heavenly natural environment of this holy hill station. I used the word holy especially, because the place has huge historic importance, the kings of ancient times have set up so many temples and places of religious fervor and along with that it has hold atmosphere all over the place because of the serene nature around. As a group we decided to roam and explore the place on our own although the trip was taken out from Brahmakumaris too for sight seeing for the people who had come for the camp. As I wanted to visit more places then they could have, after taking permission from BK pratibha sister, we rented a Scorpio (jeep) for individual exploring. The first we went was Dilwara temple, I mentioned about this place earlier too  [...]
    Posted at October 5th, 2009 at 03:10 am
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