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An Unplanned Trip to Mumbai

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Quick!!! What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Mumbai?Is it the Bollywood? or The Gateway of India? or ever crowded local trains? or Elephanta Caves? or IIT Bombay? (as I belong to teaching field)or the Slum? (you can reply in comments) Mumbai - one of the most busiest and populous metropolitan city in India. Never expected that I will be visiting this place in such a short notice. Its all happened in just a week. It was an official trip though I made it fun for my mom and myself. Started to Mumbai on 25th August, by Mumbai Mail train at 2 30 pm and I was scheduled to attend a workshop on the very next day. The journey was bit boring as I didn't got seat beside window. So I slept for sometime. Took a break at Wadi junction. Climate was awesome as it was Sun Set time. A pleasant evening at Wadi Junction Searching for Magazines!!!! Unfortunately didn't found any :( A selfie with mom Tried all sorts of variety food items in ...

Trip to Pulicat lake

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Wanna see both lake and beach at one place, then visit Pulicat lake. It was in mid May of 2014. We had no clue about Pulicat lake but planned to visit as it is the only place near by Chennai.Tried to recollect about Pulicat lake which we studied in social but no use. Started googling it and found that it is the second largest lake and it is the place where we can see the meeting point of Pulicat lake and Bay of Bengal and we can see a lot of migratory birds during October and November. Many suggested its waste going there in May and the boating is also banned like that. We started to Pulicat like come what may. But our unplanned journey wasn't disappointing. We started our trip by exploring the beautiful lotuses on the way to Pulicat from Chennai. I even had an adventure at this spot. I was roaming everywhere to collect as many lotuses as I can but didn't notice that I was followed by an ox. I  screamed in the beginning but found none can help as all are very far. ...