Tours

  • Shiny Reno and its old-world glamour

    For a while we had been thinking of making a trip to Las Vegas. But something inside me kept saying it is not quite right to go see Vegas before we saw mini-Vegas — Reno, another casino city that lies way north of it. Something kept telling me that...
  • Garden of the Gods

    Sculpted by nature: A Red-Rock Garden for the Gods

    While I was charting out my trip to Colorado — a few years ago— I completely missed ‘The Garden of the Gods.’ To this day, I don’t know how that happened. Now that it’s in my ‘been-there-done-that-list,’ I’m glad I didn’t go all the way there only to have...
  • Boeing 727 cockpit

    Our World: Future of Flight Aviation Center

    If you have a kid who has a fascination for machines that fly, Future of Flight Aviation Center in Mukilteo (a few miles north of Seattle – Washington ) will be an interesting and informative place to visit. Aircraft enthusiasts will find a lot of displays, some of them...
  • Tillamook - Baby loaf

    The Cheesiest Place I have ever been to!

    Did you know you could tour the Tillamook Cheese Factory? This factory in Oregon also offers cheese tastings. There's an on-site store, too. ...
  • Winchester House: Mystery in every nook and corner

    Picture this: A beautiful Victorian garden replete with flowers, shrubs, trees and everything else a garden ought to have, plus a palatial Victorian construction right in the middle of it. This magnificent mansion houses 40 bedrooms, 6 kitchens, 13 bathrooms, 47 fire places and several hundreds of doors and...
  • Thekkady: A trip into into the wild

    If you thought wildlife tourism was all about safaris on four wheels or trekking through thickets alone, Thekkady in Kerala’s Idukki district will tell you there is much more to it. The Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary here promises you one of a kind of treat – a boat cruise through...
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