Namaste India Trip Blog

Life moves in its never-ending cycles of reasons and seasons for most of us. Caught in its stride to move ahead, we forget the simple pleasures of pausing in to wonder at the flowers inviting us on the side lanes. It must be against this backdrop that somebody wise enough introduced the concept of vacations. Imagine how monotonous life would […]

A visit to a National Park takes one backwards in time, to eons when humans treaded in harmony with the rhythms of Mother Nature. The difference an intimate life with the nature makes to the quality of one’s life has to be experienced to be known. Poets romanticize the sagas of their beautiful trysts with nature’s mysteries; painters immortalize the […]

Country: India State: Uttar Pradesh District: Lucknow Area: 2,528 square kilometres (metro) Elevation: 128 m Population: 3 million Pin code: 226 Telephone Code: 0522 Time Zone: GMT plus 5:30 Lucknow (also known by the names of City of the Nawabs or the Golden City of the East, Shiraz-i-Hind, Constantinople of India), is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous […]

Short Info Country: India State: Madhya Pradesh District: Bhopal Area: 298 square kilometers Elevation: 427 metres Population:4 lakhs Pin Code: 462— Telephone Code: 0755 Time Zone: GMT plus 5:30 Bhopal Bhopal is the capital of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Bhopal is also known as the Lake City for it consists of a number of natural lakes. Bhopal […]

Kodaikanal is a cool town in the hills of the Dindigul district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In the Tamil language, the name of the city means The Gift of the Forest; while in Malayalam, it means The Princess of Hill stations. Above the upper Palani hills, the town is atop the plateau at 2133 m between the […]

Ooty, also known as Udhagamandalam, Ootacamund, and Udhagai, is a popular hill station and the district capital of the Nilgiris district in the Tamil Nadu state of India. Located in the Nilgiri hills, it is at the height of 7,500 feet above the sea level. Officially, it is named as Udhagamandalam. It is not clear as to how the name […]

The Elephanta Caves, one of the most visited tourist destination of India Tour is located in Mumbai, the industrial capital of Indian subcontinent. The island of Elephanta is approximately 10 kms away from the Gateway of India in Mumbai. The Elephanta caves are one of the best creations of Indian art and architecture. The meticulously worked upon rock cut wonderful […]

Kolkata, known as Calcutta prior to 2001, is the capital of the West Bengal state in the eastern region of India. Stretching in north-south direction on the eastern bank of the River Hooghly, it usually includes its suburbs along with its 15 million population approximately. This ranks it as the third largest metropolitan city in India and world’s eighth largest […]

Country: India State: Kerala District: Ernakulam Area: 9 square kilometres Elevation: sea level Population: 5 million (metropolitan) Literacy Rate: 94 per cent Female to male ratio: 1,024 per 1,000 Pin code: 682 Telephone Code: 484 Time Zone: GMT plus 5:30 Kochi (earlier known as Cochin) is a sea port city on the south-western coast of the southern state of Kerala. […]

These well-known monumental caves are a cluster of rock cut monuments. It is located deep in the lush green pristine forests of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park. This nature reserve is situated towards the north of Borivali, in the western outskirts of Mumbai, India. Distance wise it is 7 km away from Borivali railway station and 6 km from the […]