Story behind the shot Archives | Travellenz https://travellenz.in Fri, 21 May 2021 15:27:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 https://travellenz.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-TravelLenzFavicon-512x512-32x32.png Story behind the shot Archives | Travellenz https://travellenz.in 32 32 Love and friendship at the Lotus Pond https://travellenz.in/love-and-friendship-at-the-lotus-pond/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=love-and-friendship-at-the-lotus-pond https://travellenz.in/love-and-friendship-at-the-lotus-pond/#respond Thu, 28 Jan 2021 06:43:22 +0000 https://travellenz.in/?p=7909 This edition of Story Behind The Shot is more about the story than the shot. It’s a simple selfie, shorn of any photographic merit. But what led to this being clicked is more than special to us. It was our second day in Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s second-largest city at the south west of the island. A [...]

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]]> https://travellenz.in/love-and-friendship-at-the-lotus-pond/feed/ 0 Meditation by the banks of Souparnika river https://travellenz.in/meditation-by-the-banks-of-souparnika-river/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meditation-by-the-banks-of-souparnika-river https://travellenz.in/meditation-by-the-banks-of-souparnika-river/#respond Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:42:12 +0000 https://travellenz.in/?p=3320 We just had a morning visit to the Mookambika temple and had wandered off the main road down to the banks of the Souparnika river. After spending a few quiet minutes watching the eddying waters swirl around the bend, we took in the sight of devotees take a dip and the local children splashing about [...]

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]]> https://travellenz.in/meditation-by-the-banks-of-souparnika-river/feed/ 0 Face to face with the Panchachuli vista at Munsiyari https://travellenz.in/face-to-face-with-the-panchachuli-vista-at-munsiyari/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=face-to-face-with-the-panchachuli-vista-at-munsiyari https://travellenz.in/face-to-face-with-the-panchachuli-vista-at-munsiyari/#respond Sat, 20 Jan 2018 03:58:07 +0000 https://travellenz.in/?p=3272 It was like watching a whole Himalayan range wallpapered on the horizon – the Panchachuli vista at Munsiyari – and what a close one at that! In the November of 2008, the mountains (as it does most months of the year!) beckoned us. And we packed our bags for an impromptu trip to the Kumaon [...]

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]]> https://travellenz.in/face-to-face-with-the-panchachuli-vista-at-munsiyari/feed/ 0 The morning after the midnight fireworks – Sights from the Thrissur Pooram https://travellenz.in/the-morning-after-the-midnight-fireworks-sights-from-the-thrissur-pooram/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-morning-after-the-midnight-fireworks-sights-from-the-thrissur-pooram https://travellenz.in/the-morning-after-the-midnight-fireworks-sights-from-the-thrissur-pooram/#respond Sat, 20 Jan 2018 02:45:23 +0000 https://travellenz.in/?p=3264 It’s probably the most celebrated fireworks display among all Indian festivals. Yes, the feisty, colourful pyrotechnics is also the most anticipated sights from the Thrissur Pooram, held every April in the eponymous town in Kerala, down in South India. The overnight mega show of high decibal, brilliant fireworks on the penultimate day of the marathon [...]

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]]> https://travellenz.in/the-morning-after-the-midnight-fireworks-sights-from-the-thrissur-pooram/feed/ 0 Sunset by the Brahmaputra https://travellenz.in/sunset-by-the-brahmaputra/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sunset-by-the-brahmaputra https://travellenz.in/sunset-by-the-brahmaputra/#respond Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:17:00 +0000 https://travellenz.in/?p=3254 It was an October evening and the sun had just slipped under the horizon beyond the Brahmaputra at the Kachari ghat. We stood waiting in the golden hour, taking in the impossibly colourful vista of the Uma Nanda temple on the island a ferry ride away. There was a solitary approaching boat in the placid [...]

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