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February 22, 2019 Travel, Within India

Highlights of itineraries of Deccan Odyssey

What are the Itineraries Highlights of Deccan Odyssey?

Deccan Odyssey is tagged as the blue limo on wheels. It stands up to its name with the long list of amenities, superlative services and royal hospitality. The train does not just moves around through iconic attractions of the land. It focuses on giving you a taste of every slice of India, as much as possible. For this, the train has six unique itineraries.

Are you confused about choosing one among those?

Here are the highlights of each itinerary of Deccan Odyssey.

1. Maharashtra Splendor

Cost Of Ticket – From USD 6,100 per cabin

Destinations – Nashik, Ajanta and Ellora caves, Kolhaur, Goa and Sindhudurg

Starting and Ending Point – Mumbai

Duration – 8 days and seven nights

Ajanta Ellora, Maharashtra Splendor, Deccan Odyssey — Ajanta Ellora, Maharashtra Splendor

This itinerary will take you through the colourful side of the country, covering pilgrimage sites, party destinations, heritage locations and most importantly the wine capital of the land. You get to explore the heritage sites of Ajanta and Ellora caves, history of Kolhapur and seek blessings at many ancient temples. To understand the culture of the land, you will witness several rituals. This trip provides equal importance to the natural beauty by adding a vineyard trip in Nashik and the Konkan Coast stroll.

Choose winter Deccan Odyssey departure dates to enjoy nature is the most beautiful level.

2. Indian Odyssey

Cost Of Ticket – From USD 6,100 per cabin

Destinations – Sawai Madhopur, Agra, Jaipur, Udaipur, Vadodara, Aurangabad and Ellora Caves

Starting and Ending Point – New Delhi and Mumbai

Duration – 8 days and seven nights

This trip covers the two main cities of Golden Triangle, Agra and Jaipur. Along with these heritage sites, it takes you through the natural beauty of Sawai Madhopur and an architectural paradise of Ellora. You get to enjoy the culture of the land at Jaipur, Udaipur and Agra. The historic lands of Aurangabad and Vadodara are the best to experience raw India.

Difference between Dhow Cruise Dubai Marina and Creek

If you want to choose between Dhow Cruise Dubai Marina and Creek, you must go through this detailed post. Dubai Creek and Marina are one of the favourite tourist spots and people love spending their time there.

Dhow cruise is a popular activity and is available in Dubai Creek and Marina both. A dhow cruise is a traditional Arabic boat with an upper deck and lower deck and serves as a floating restaurant in the Creek and Marina. However, before you choose a Dhow cruise Island you’ll have to choose between Creek and Marina as both are different locations.

What is Dubai Creek?

Dubai Creek is a prominent area of Dubai and it is the place where the Arabs settled in the earlier days when they relocated from the villages. The Dubai Creek actually divides the city into two portions; the new Dubai (Deira) and the old Dubai (Bur Dubai).

Dubai Creek is a natural saltwater that runs through the heart of the city and is one of the most important landmarks there. You can visit the Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary, Bastakiya, Al Fahidi Fort with a museum, and Sheikh Saeed’s House in Dubai Creek. Here you can relax and know about the culture and hospitability of the Arabs. So, if you want to experience the Arabic tradition and know about the mode of living of the people there, you must visit this place.

What is Dubai Marina?

Dubai Marina is an artificially created canal and is located in the neighbourhood of the beach at JBR. The Dubai Marina is surrounded by skyscrapers, mind-blowing architecture, and luxurious hotels. This is actually the newer version of Dubai and has a series of high rises and a chain of fashion brands around it. There are unique cafes, 5-star hotels, quaint boutiques, and beautiful buildings which you get to see while you’re on the Dhow Cruise Dubai Marina. Many tourists opt for Dubai Marina just because it is an excellent choice for sightseeing. Dubai Marina also offers views of Palm Island, Burj al Arab, Sheraton, Palm Jumeirah and more. Overall, you’ll witness the architecture bedazzled with the glitters of modern and luxurious life.

How do you choose between Dubai Marina and Dubai Creek?

Whatever Dhow Cruise you choose, be it, Creek or Marina, you’ll get to have an experience of a lifetime. Both the spots are worth visiting and have their own charm. However, if you have specific interests, you must choose one of them. Have a look at the following factors and then decide:

Ambience:

Dhow Cruise Dubai Marina will offer you a modern version of Dubai. Here you’ll get to experience that image of Dubai which you always had in your mind. There are prominent buildings and worth-seeing architecture that all the visitors must see. There are buildings and architecture on the banks of the creek too, but they are not as attractive as those that are present around Dubai Marina.

Dubai Creek also has heavy commercial traffic because of the daily routine there. However, in Marina, you’ll experience more serenity and peace.

Sight-seeing:

Dubai Creek is the older version of Dubai Island and it has limited sights. Dubai Creek has its own charm as it has some traditional souks and it pictures the heritage too, however, some tourists might not find it very interesting.

Dubai Marina has all the modern construction and luxurious buildings and high rises surrounding it. Another good thing which Dubai Marina features is the promenade and footpaths on both sides of the banks. These promenades serve as spots for people who want to walk through or sit in the restaurants and outdoor cafes there. There are bridges that carry the cars and trams across the Marina and that give a beautiful experience too.

Quality:

The Dhow Cruise Dubai Marina is a wooden traditional boat which has a fine dining space, 360-degree glass walls, and units for recreation and entertainment. Dhow cruises are almost the same in Dubai Creek and Marina but the main difference is of ambience and sightseeing. There are high-quality dhow operators in Creek and Marina and they maintain the standard of Vessels, entertainment and dinner there.

Dubai Marina has a limited number of Dhow operators because of the restriction there, and that is why the quality of services in Dhows is better. Dubai Creek, on the other hand, has a large number of dhow operators and because of the large number of dhows there, the quality is a little bit low as compared to the Dhow Cruise Dubai Marina.

Time:

Dubai Dhow cruises at Dubai Creek and Marina offer different sightseeing experiences at different times of the day. So, it is imperative that you take care of the time too. If you are more into sightseeing at Dubai Creek or Marina, you must go in the morning or afternoon. If you want a peaceful or romantic dinner, you must choose dinner at Dhow Cruise Dubai Marina.

February 14, 2019 Literature/ Art/Music/Education

Love is eternal

Love is eternal, it does not ever die.

To get true love, there’s a hue and cry.

For it, people fret, fume, cry and sigh.

All the money on this Earth,

Love cannot buy.

For the sake of love, true lovers can even die.

Lucky are those, who get their girl/guy;

One then says, ‘You are truly lucky, sweetie pie’.

When one falls in love, he/she gets wings to fly.

He/she is in seventh Heaven;

N there is no reason why,

Lucky are those lovers,

Who a knot, can tie.

Wishing you all a Happy Valentine Day

February 12, 2019 Lifestyle

Love’s Labour!

Candies wrapped in heart-shaped boxes, local flower shops overbrimming with long-stemmed red roses, chocolates and marzipans, engraved, painted, etched and inked paraphernalia, baubles and bites all romancing the young and the old. Hallmark and Archie’s, Hanley’s and Tiffany’s all serenading and seducing sales, working their charm on lovers everywhere.

You know then Valentine’s Day is around the corner, where every turn you make your nose is rubbed in pink heart-shaped decorations, leaving hopes and hearts both ablaze.

What is it about February 14, year in and year out, that has such an effect on people the world over? Whether it is Facebook, WhatsApp or Messenger, the pipelines are chock full with romantic lines and fabulous gestures, from celebrities to the common masses, the celebration of this day is all about the flavours of the love. This is indeed tricky day! Whether you are celebrating or simply choosing to ignore this love-struck madness and furore, the underlying truth is that you cannot escape its presence, especially on that day. Whether you’re a mushy cheerleader or a downright Valentine’s hater, the day sure pressures you into having fun, celebrating and being just darn romantic all the way.

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So while couples or people in relationships seek to reaffirm their underlying love for one another, fully rejoicing in their relationship and publicly displaying their ‘forever’ affection, without shame or inhibition, without balloons floating on ceilings and red roses lining every surface. It’s almost as though lovers everywhere are suddenly surrounded in this hazy pink fog that clouds their senses and sensibilities, where that piercing honest sunlight of reason cannot penetrate.

This is the time when lovers find themselves thick in the moment of ardour, laden with heavy deep feelings and an ever-flowing pot of ink and sentiments.

They write about love and passion, regret and hope, flapping those regret and hope, flapping those white sheets in reckless abandon and pursuit. They call them poems, stories, essays, articles… all overbrimming with outpourings of pain, pleasure and stuff.

Flooding their Instagram accounts with open declaration, protests and posts, you will notice and read everything from the inane to the intense, love to despair, music to food, alcohol to spirits, they write about sunlight dancing on pretty faces and beautiful hair or the shadows cast on memories.

Suddenly, the whole world is infinitely fecund with ideas, drama, plots and narratives. It’s almost as if the world wakes up to this wave of love. Come February 14, every aspect, every shape, seems filled with heart and you wonder at this epidemic that seizes vulnerable souls while logic and reason cease to exist. And then, of course, for those who are single there is always an option of feeling mortified at your status and bellowing out loud to sympathetic ears, the fates, and the heavens or simply focusing on all the wonderful propositions of being independent and footloose, striding into spas and shops for a wonderful self-indulgent spree of pampering and retail therapy.

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Being single is pretty good as well for it’s often accompanied by its great sense of irresponsibility. Surely one can’t complaint there!

Nonetheless, whether you’re savouring the joys of love or gradually dropping the whole idea of it, performing the chores of daily life like a mill-horse tramping around blindfold or seeking those vast lands of passion and felicity all basked in glided sensuality of the heart’s delight… whether its sighs in the moonlight, long embraces and hands parting bathed with tears, the truth is Valentine’s Day fuels the excesses, or lack thereof of this while idiotic notion of romantic love.

So whether this conspiracy of society revolts your or simply leaves you unmoved, what one tends to forget is that even cupid does not have perfect aim. He’s known to have had misses and failures. Life, more often, is full of commonplace heroes and moderate feelings; it is rarely an Italian opera reaching a climax of uninhabited passion and overture.

While for a few of us who really have been through the whole human experience, wanting nothing more than to be serenely sitting down with both elbows planted firmly upon this table of life, it’s however not without a devious sense of mirth and smugness that we view new found love, painted on innocent child like faces, wearing an expression of exhaustion and somnolence when Valentine’s Day glares bright with all its exaggerated angles.

~ Veera Sanjana