TOP 5 PLACES TO VISIT IN MUMBAI

Top 5 Places In Mumbai for tourists 

Mumbai also known as the 'city of dreams'. Here people from around India as well as the world come in the hope to get a better life. Many people come to Mumbai to be actors and actresses in Bollywood . But also Mumbai is very popular among tourists. Places to visit in Mumbai city are in a vast number because of the beautiful British architecture of Mumbai city blends and also for tourist coming to India from outside the country are most likely to come through Mumbai. So places in Mumbai to visit should be known by all of us mostly solo travellers. Now without any further delay lets start the places in Mumbai to visit.

Gateway of India

This place is one of the most iconic landmark of Mumbai city. This is one of the most important landmark. This is the first places  in Mumbai to visit by most of the tourists. Gateway of India is always flooded with people. The  Gateway was built in 20th century to welcome King-Emperor George V and Queen-Empress Mary on their 1911 visit to India.

Marine drive

Marine drive in Mumbai also called as the Queen's Necklace because at night time the street lights in Marine drive appears like a necklace form areal view. As the street light appears like pearl in a necklace. This place was designed like Miami for that reason it is often referred to as the Miami of India.

Elephanta Caves

Elephanta caves are listed in the UNESCO World Heritage sites. It is said by scholars that it was completed at around 6th century C.E .  The caves are predominantly dedicated to the Hindu God Lord Shiva. This caves are present in Elephanta Island close to the coast of Mumbai . You can reach this place via a ferry that you will get from Gateway of Mumbai.

Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay is a museum . It is one of the biggest museum in India. It has valuable items from around the world. If you are a person who likes ancient stuffs this is the place in Mumbai to visit for you. This place was previously known as Prince of Wales Museum of Western India. It was inaugurated in 10th January 1922.

Juhu Beach

It is the longest beach in Mumbai city. It is often called Juhu Chowpati. This is a popular tourist attraction of Mumbai. This was an island of Mumbai in olden days. It was only accessible during low tides then later the land was filled between the island and its neighbouring land of Mumbai city and we have the Juhu Beach or Juhu Chowpati now. There are many Bollywood superstars living near this beach. This place is also referred to as the Beverley Hills of India. 

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BEST PLACES TO VISIT IN KOLKATA WITHIN A DAY

Best Places to visit Kolkata in a Day

Kolkata is one of the largest cities in India and has an enormous number of population. It is also called the cultural capital of India. Kolkata city is filled with colour and glitters. Since this is heart of economic activity in East India . Kolkata city whether is never too extreme but sometimes it gets fierce. My personal experience with this city is quite good regarding Kolkata whether. But unfortunately this time I had to feel the heat of Kolkata the temperature reached around 40°C. OK now back to the topic for which you are here right the top place in Kolkata city to visit while you are in hurry . People often come here to get there connecting flights. Flights and also people of East India who are going to far international destinations too come to the city. So people who are not for tourist purpose have very less time to visit the places. So I have sum out few places that will be best suited for you to visit as much as important place in shortest time possible. So lets get started. 

Victoria Memorial

This is the palace of her Majesty Queen Victoria , in the heart of Kolkata city . Now it is converted into a museum for the visitors. This place is quite a spectacular view. It has the palace itself and beautiful gardens to chill in the scorching heat.

• Time:

 10:00AM-6:00PM Tuesday to Friday, 

10:00AM-8:00PM Weekends

Moday and National Holidays closed

• Entry: 

Rs30 Indian, 

Rs100 for people of SAARC, 

Rs500 for other foreigners 

• For more info

Victoria memorial official website

 Indian Museum 

This is the biggest museum in probably Entire East India and also in entire India. This place have many things that will fetch your interest. From prehistoric fossils of mammoths to historic ruins of Mauria empire. It has a very large coin collection. It too has exhibitions of Mummy, old paintings to ancient sculptures and many more.

• Address: 

27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Park Street, Kolkata - 700016. W.B

• Time: 

10:00AM-6:30PM Tuesday-Friday
10:00AM-8:00PM Saturday-Sunday
Monday remains closed

• Entry:                  50RS per adult. 
• For info:           Indian Museum

St Paul's Cathedral 

It is one of the biggest cathedral in East India or we can say say one of the biggest in entire India. This Cathedral shows the faith of the Royal Family towards their religion. The architecture is truly magnificent. And the gardens outside are very calming. Anyone can visit this magnificent place showing the enormity of The British Empire on its colony India also called 'The Golden Bird'. 

• Address:

 Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700071

 Alipore Zoological Garden

This is one of the biggest largest Zoological garden in India. Here there are alot of varieties of fauna from around the world in Kolakata city . Alipore Zoological  is one of the most famous Zoological Gardens in India. Put this into your bucket list while you visit Kolkata city next time and you won't regret your visit in your tight schedule. 

• Address: 

2, Alipore Rd, Alipur Zoological Garden, Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700027

• Time:

9:00AM-4:30PM

Thursday remains closed

• Entry:

Rs 10 children under 5years

Rs30 to all above 5years 

• For more info: Alipore zoo, Kolkata city

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TOP PLACES TO VISIT IN DEOGHAR, JHARKHAND, INDIA

The Trip: Top Places to Visit Deogarh 

Hey! Readers. This is you travel buddy The Solo Xplorer Today I'm very excited and nervous too. This is my first blog outside of Guwahati . Hope you like it and keep supporting me like always. Thanks everyone for your love and support. Please comment your suggestion to me how to improve my blog. 
As promised my reader friend. I was going to give you a surprise. So now the time has come to reveal. So without any further a due lets get started. 

The journey

So I started my journey from my hometown of Dudhnoi. I started at around 11:45A:M from my home and went to Bongaigaon(a district city in Assam). Then from there I had my train till Rampurhat, West Bengal. So by 3:20 I boarded on the train and the train journey was as usual. And by 1:25 A:M. And got to an e-rickshaw and went to get the bus to

Dumka(A district city in Jharkhand) from where I was supposed to take the bus to Deoghar( District city in Jharkhand). So by 3:00A:M I got onto the bus for Dumka and reached Dumka by approximately  5:15 A:M . But due to high number of weddings the buses were reserved and waited for the bus then finally a bus came by but the number of people was so high that I sat on the top of the bus

. I was excited as in Assam i never faced the circumstances to sit on top of the bus. The experience was very nice. Looking at the landscape of rural Jharkhand it i was breathing. The roads from Dumka to Deoghar were straight as a needle. Next time i would try to go on a bike on that road as it will be paradise for one looking to check out their top speed on their vehicles. Then finally I got off when I reached Deoghar. By around 8:25A:M. So finally my destination was reached for the tymbing. And then went on to see the places. 

The Places to visit in Deoghar

• Baidyanath Dham

This place is one of the most important places in Hindu pilgrimage. This place is said to house Lord Shiva himself as the Jotirlingam.

As per stories my priest (pnda). Ravana the great perhaps the greatest devotee of Lord Shiva prayed to Lord Shiva for many years to take him to Lanka his kingdom. So that he can please Lord Shiva while looking after his Subjects. And he succeeded to take Lord Shiva in his Lingam form   with a condition that he should not be kept anywhere. Where ever he keeps the Lingam no one in this universe will be able to pick that up for him or for anyone. So he started from Mount Kailash. But due to his huge ambitiousness The god's fear that Ravana will be so powerful that no one will be able to beat him with Lord Shiva protecting him. So they pleaded to Lord Vishnu and Lord Vishnu then pleaded to Lord Shiva.

On which Lord Shiva ask them to Plead Lord Ganesha. So Lord Ganesha decended on that place as a cow herder. And mean while Ravana had great urge to urinate. So he began searching for person to hold the Lingam. Then he saw Lord Ganesha (The Cow hearted)  and pleaded him to hold the Lingam. On which he agreed. But when Ravana started to urinate he was not stopping at all. On to which Lord Ganesha said i cannot hold it anymore it is so heavy and I'm just a small boy. Then Lord Ganesha kept it. Then after some time Ravana stopped Urinating and went to pick the lingam but he failed. He was devastated. And went to another place to meditate and pray Lord Shiva to let him take to Lanka. But he failed and Lord Shiva never went to Lanka

• Tapovan

This is the place according to the legends where Ravana went to meditate after his disaster that i mentioned before. Lord Shiva refused to go. This made him sad and from there he returned to Lanka. 

This place is around 4-5km from Deoghar. You can easily take an auto to the place

• Nandan pahar park

This is a beautiful park.

Located on the bank of a pond. This is not like a big Amusement park

but a rather small park with great views and  silent back drop here you

can come and relax. This is in the sub urban area of Deoghar.

• Trikut Pahar: 

Ravana from abducting Mata Sita. The top peak has a great view. Even if you don't believe this tales you can come to visit this place just to experience the sheer beauty of the place.

The rope way made it easier for visitors to see the place. I would like to jump from the cliff with a wing suite. It would be so much fun. This place is around 16km from Deoghar town but the place is so common that you will get Auto to there alway .

• Satsang Ashram

This is the headquarters

of the dharma called 'Joyguru'. Which I'm too a follower of. This place is very beautiful. You will find peace in here. Everyone can visit this place irrespective of gender, religion, caste, creed and race.

I would like to suggest everyone to visit this place too. 

The Conclusion 

Sorry everyone since i was in hurry and was visiting the places. I was only able to visit Baidyanath Dham and Satsang Ashram but the other places are all my visited places. And all the reviews are 100% genuine. I apologize for that . And the pictures are of my old visits. I was not able to visit those places. I would like to suggest you that if you want to visit all the places you can it is not impossible but it will be too hectic and you wont be able to experience it much. So I would suggest you to spend at least 2days there. I couldn't spend time because I have more places to visit and now I have boarded to a train to my new destination. I wont tell you where but it will be good. Now I'm here in the train off to a new place to bring you new blog. 

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KAMAKHYA : DISCOVER THE SUPREME POWER

Nilachal hills : The home to divine.

First of all a very Happy Bihu to all my readers. I'm sorry guys I'm not able to write a separate blog on Bihu because of my exams. Please i beg your pardon for this. I'm really sorry readers. But today's blog is very close to my heart this is one of the most most significant religious place for Hindus in the entire North East India

. People from around the world visit here. I always wanted to write about Nilachal hills in a separate blog. Since today i visited the place so here I'm with a new blog. Writing about this place as it is close to my heart as me being Hindu by birth. 

• The journey. 

Today I came from my place as it is quite far from Nilachal hills and being a bit far I took a cab and went there. There were my parents, brother and relatives waiting for me. And I would like to tell that I was not there to go there to the temple of Maa Kamakhya but to the temple of Bagla Maa. This is a tradition made by my family that we go to that temple every year after Rongali Bihu. So as per that tradition we went there. We offered puja there and prayed. Because we had vote in Guwahati today the people there are very less. 

• Maa Bagla temple

This temple is few hundred meters from Kamakhya and is according to my observation it is the biggest after the main Maa Kamakhya temple. This temple has very nice views from it. Many people dont even know this temple exist because most of the people visit Kamakhya devalaya and exhausted by the visit most people return from there. I would like to tell that you should this visit this temple not as a very religious person but the ancient architecture there is quite intriguing. Visit this temple if you visit Kamakhya Devalaya next time.

• Kamakhya Devalaya.

This is the temple that makes Nilachal Hills so popular. People often call the hill as Kamakhya pahar(hill) . This is one of the ancient temples here in the state of Assam.

It was constructed at around 8-9th century AD. It has Maa Kamakhya as the primary deity in the and the temple wall is curved with several deities like Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu, Goddess Saraswati and various other Gods and Goddesses.

The craftsmanship of the place always make me feel mesmerized.

How our ansestors were so advanced in their craft. This place is said to have a part of Goddess Parvati have fallen here. It is believed that Goddess Parvati's genitalia fell there. That is the reason during the devine Amabachi Mela the temple door is kept close as it is believed that it the time of Goddess Parvati's mesnturation. This part fell here after it was dismembered by Lord Vishnu to save the world from Catstrophy of the universe by the anger of Lord Shiva. 

• View from Nilachal Hill. 

This hill is one of the most visited hills in entire Guwahati city. And the view from here is breath taking. One cannot stay without getting awed by the sheer beauty of the views from the hill.

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HOLI IN GUWAHATI

HOLI IN GUWAHATI

First of all happy holi to everyone hope you enjoyed this holi well. I'm very sorry everyone I have not put forward any blogs for you. I'm really sorry for that.  I have been preparing for my entrances which will come to an end only after that I would be able to bring blogs to you regularly. But now I'm mostly devoting my time to studies and not getting enough time to explore new places. But ones my exams get over I will be free to explore new places and bring you all more and more new places and exciting experience. So that you all can have an amazing time when visiting those places. 

Now without wasting much time lets get started. 

Today's holi was my first official holi in Guwahati although i have been living in Guwahati for last 3years but last two years either I was at home or at the time of holi of dint play holi as I was too lazy back then. But today since I'm living no more in a hostel and I'm free to go where ever I like.  I too dint have any plans this year for holi I was too lazy to go out but my brother applied colour to me and then I was forced to pick myself up and then go out.  I thought this as a great opportunity to bring you all the fun and excitement of holi. 

• FANCY BAZAAR 

This was the place I went first.

I was planning to walk the whole of Guwahati but then I met my brother and his group and joined them.  We went to Fancy bazaar and there was total festive atmosphere it was more like a rock concert.

Since in Fancy bazaar the rain dance

is the biggest in Guwahati this brings a huge crowd there. Had a great time there

dancing on the high bass beat. 

• Belle view 

After dancing like crazy it was time for us to sit and relax.

After Fancy Bazaar we decided to go to Belle view.  This place is one of my favorite in Guwahati as the view from here of the Brahmaputra is magnificent. The cool breeze of Mighty Brahmaputra

cooled us. There the people in our group started smashing eggs on the head of each other. Only couples were saved in that raw egg battle. Luckily i was among them who were saved. We chilled there for and hour along with the egg madness and playing holi. Then it was time for lunch. 

• Jorabat

 By the time we left Belli view we were starving .

Then we headed to 9mile to have lunch but on the way the group broke up and they cancelled the plan. After that me and my brother went where we intended but then we thought of going to somewhere new so we decided to go to Brahmaputra Jungle Resort.

Visiting the place was great it is quite in the outskirts of the town.  The views from there were mesmerizing. But it was smaller then I expected. But it was good the food was good and most importantly affordable . Not too expensive. 

• Back to Guwahati 

On the way back to Guwahati since the sun was setting.  We got to see a beautiful sunset. 

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GUWAHATI NIGHT LIFE | TOP 5 BAR/ PUB IN GUWAHATI.

 The fun Nightlife of Guwahati, India

For every city nightlife one of the most important places for the youth to enjoy their time. Many people sought this night life in the city and make them feel being in the city. 

Guwahati being the Gate way of North East India and also the biggest city of the North East . Nightlife here is great . People from different part of this region come to the city to enjoy the night life.  And make their youth live the life to the fullest.  

Here are top 5 picks of the best bar/ pub that everyone should visit if they want a great night life enjoyment and found some recreation in Guwahati's Night.

Underdoggs sports bar and grills

 This is a pretty upbeat place if you are looking for a good night out with your friend.  This place is a sports theme bar. You can come to this place have few drinks chill out with your friend place some pool or TT. The live music here is soothing for your ears.  The food here is magnificent. 

• Address:

Central Mall 1st floor, Christian Basti,  Guwahati.

•  Time:  12-11 P:M
• Phone No: 9854045678

 Dicey's  Garden 

This is  a very good place if you are looking for a party experience. They have weekend DJ night or sometimes live performances. The good thing is that They don't charge you for entry on this special days too. The food here is too good . You can even bring your date here as the live performances will be good for your mood.

• Address : 3rd floor, Adityam plaza, Lachit Nagar, Guwahati 
• Time : 11 am - 12 midnight 
• Phone no : 6001280567

Café Hendrix

This is one of the best bars in Guwahati. This place is named after the legendary Rock Guitarist Jimmy Hendrix. As the name suggest this place have live music which is performed by local music bands and artists. This is a great place to hangout with your friends and enjoy some good liquor, food and live music.  I would insist you to visit this place or put it into your bucket list if you are planning to chill out with your friends. 

• Address: 3rd floor, Adjacent to Downtown bus stand , Downtown ,Guwahati 
• Time: 1pm- 12midnight.
• Phone No: 9864021111

                           Dunkin oza

It is one of the best places to party in Guwahati. This is an uptown bar in the Downtown area. The DJ here is magnificent and plays nice tracks. You can come with your friends enjoy the dance floor make it yours and then eat good food have some good liquor. The interior here is very well made. They have good parking facility . If you like loud music and some fun with your friends this is the place you need to head to. 

• Address: On top of Nexa showroom,  Downtown, Guwahati. 
• Time: 11:30am- 12midnight
• Phone No: 9435010518

Bulls and  Beers, The Guwahati Bar Exchange

This place is by far according to me the best in the town.  The food ,atmosphere here , the price tag every thing is reasonable. The live music here is very great.  You can get a good crowd here from 7 to midnight . The music sometimes can be too loud but its something many people crave for to have loud music and to dance on it whole night. I would insist you all to this place too as it would be a great spend of your night with your friends or with your beloved. 

• Address : Dihang Arcade, Tarun Nagar , Guwahati

• Time : 11am- 11pm 

• Phone No: 9854097806

This was my pick for the best bar/ pub in Guwahati city. Hope you like it. Most importantly this is my pick so some of you might disagree so if you do so let me know in the comments . This places are for people 21 or above so enjoy everyone 

drink responsibly

Don't drink and drive

"I'm sorry guys for this late blog I being a non drinker never visited a bar but this time I had to do it for my readers hope you like it".  

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"In this list I included only the bars/pubs that are individual and are not a part of or in the premise of a big hotel". 

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