Treks and Travels

Here are some interesting local (TIFR) sites which have some information about treks in general.

Here are pages of some Himalayan treks which we have done.

• Annapurna Circuit Trek -Nepal (Summer 1999)

• Nanda Devi East base camp Trek (Summer 2001)

• Khatling-Kinkhola-Kedarnath Trek (Summer 2003)

• Kinnaur-Kailash Trek (Autumn 2003)

• Markha valley Trek (Summer 2004)

• Gangotri-Kedartal-Tapovan Trek (Summer 2005, from Ramesh's page)

• Chandratal-Baralacha Trek (Monsoon 2006, Ashok's pictures added)

• A short climb to Nag-Tibba near Mussoorie (Winter 2006)

• Trek to Bagini glacier and Nandi Kund (Summer 2007)

• A short climb of Churdhar peak in Himachal Pradesh (winter 2007)

• Spiti to Kinnaur via Tarik/Bhava pass in Himachal Pradesh (Summer 2009)

• Pin-Parbati pass from Kullu to Spiti valley (Summer-2010)

• Kareri lake and Minkiani pass from Dharmshala in the Khangra valley(Summer-2011)

• Jeep drive in Ladakh (August-2011)

• Birding in Lava and a short trek in Neora Valley to Jodpokhari(Winter-2011)

• Chandrakini pass trek in Spring (April-2012)

• Wildlife Safari at Corbett national park and birding at Pangot and Sattal
  
  

Here are some links to my photography pages.

• A collection of my bird photographs(taken from Panasonic-FZ-50 and now Canon 60D with canon 100-400L lens)

• Here is a collection of pictures by which were part of the Bird photography exhibition in TIFR shown in the plant and flower show 2013 and 2015

• Here are some flowers of Sahyadris ( The complete collection )

• Flowers from TIFR

• some bird paintings in water colour by my better half Shobha.

Here are some links to the trek/travel pages from TIFR .

• Trekking in the Sahyadris( the T.I.F.R Trekking home page).

Here are some pictures of some peaks in Sahyadris which should have appeared in our home page (hopefully someday it will !).

Ajoba (Thanks Tomas)

Bhimashankar

Matheran-range

Hadsar-Hathkeshwar

Kamandurg

Mahuli-Chanderi

Manekgad

Peb-fort

Peth (New)

Ranangad-kathra

Tavli (Tomas and Frank)

Harishchandragad (Peter)

Naneghat

Sadhle-ghat

Padar-Killa

Kutte-cha-ghat

Dhak-Bahiri

Kalsubai

Rajmachi

Raigad

Tikona

Shivneri

Gorakhgad (Arvind)

Koregad (Arvind)

• Ramesh's web page on Dodital trek and Gangotri-Tapovan.

• Pachmarhi webpage (also see Eknath's page below)

• Eknath Ghate's Home page

• Eknath Ghate's page on Deo Tibba base camp trek

• Manoj and co. : Trek to Tapovan/Nandanvan (Gangotri glacier).

• Jayanthan and an IITB group : Trek to Har ki doon/Ruinsara tal.

• A short trip to Ooty.

• Some interesting beaches of Maharashtra: Kashid, Ganapatiphule, Harihareshwar

• Some interesting places in Maharashtra: Ajanta, Ellora, Aurangabad

• Sight seeing in Hyderabad

• Some pictures of Italy and Germany.

• Marine Life forms from Narara beach near Jamnagar

• Tiger safari in Bandharvgarh National park in Madhya Pradesh