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Thailand Diaries: Exploring the Land of Smiles

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Thailand, popularly known as Land of Smiles is famous for it's natural beauty, beaches, cultural heritage, skyscrapers, megamalls, night markets and street food.  With this blog, I will share my travel experiences from a week long trip to Thailand. So, sit back, relax, and complete reading the blog till the end to know more about the things to do, things to avoid, travel itinerary and so on. Let's start with travel itinerary first. For us, a week was well enough to cover most of the places in Bangkok and Phuket. Travel Itinerary Day 1 : Arrive in Bangkok and explore night life and street food. Day 2 : Arrive in Phuket, enjoy time in Patong beach, explore Bangla market Day 3 : Phi Phi Island Day 4 : James Bond Island, Hong Island, fisherman Island, Naka island,  canoeing Day 5 : Arrive in Bangkok, Wax museum , shopping malls Day 6 : The grand palace, The Pratunam night market Day 7 : Wat Arun, Jim Thompson house, Khao San Road Day 8 : Return Where to stay at Bangkok and Phuket?...

Hampi - The Ancient Village of Karnataka

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  Hampi, one of the World Heritage Site is the historical place located in east-central part of KARNATAKA, India. This place is believed to exist from 14th century and has been mentioned in the Ramayana. It is near to the city named HOSPET. The only thing that comes in my mind about Hampi is the beautiful and historical monuments and the bicycle ride. I travelled to Hampi during month of December 2017 and it proved to be one of the memorable trip of my life.  Destination Hospet The journey begins at Bangalore which is around 376 km from Hospet in a train. It took us around 12 hrs to reach Hospet where we stayed and it was the closest city from Hampi. The trip was of 3 days and we enjoyed each moment at Hampi. So guys be ready to explore the ancient place, Hampi with me.   Day 1 Hampi is around 13 km from Hospet and we took an auto to reach there. There was an option for buses as well but we preferred auto. On reaching Hampi, the first place which we covered was Virup...