Category: Backpack Tales

  • Solo travels through Bihar

    Solo travels through Bihar

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    Heena

    I can’t believe I was questioning every bit of my solo travels through Bihar, the state that once had the world’s first-ever residential university. But I did for quite some time because of the stereotype I grew up with, probably like a lot of you about Bihar travel. That’s why when I told people around…

  • Solo trip to Nagaland for Hornbill Festival

    Solo trip to Nagaland for Hornbill Festival

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    Heena

    Even if I wanted, a solo trip to Nagaland pretty much couldn’t have been on my list going by the impression that northeast has in most parts of India, . For those wondering with me is Nagaland safe to visit? Last year, my friend and another traveller I met in Sikkim, India in a shared…

  • Japan in 2019.

    Japan in 2019.

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    Heena

    Pretty much every year since 2015, I have been in the land of the rising sun, one of those few countries I love the most and I also call it home. This year, I visited Japan during rainy season and I forgot how annoying yet nice it could get. I didn’t see a lot of…

  • Temples in Namchi

    Temples in Namchi

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    Heena

    I am getting to write after so long as I finally travelled to explore the temples in Namchi while I was studying mechanical engineering at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2012. I think more than to study, I honestly went to Sikkim to experience a normal life in the mountains and to…

  • BMC and Climbing Mount Rhenock

    BMC and Climbing Mount Rhenock

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    Heena

    Here’s the story of climbing Mount Rhenock at the end of my 28 days Basic Mountaineering Course at Himalayan Mountaineering, Institute, Darjeeling, India. I was luckily studying engineering in Sikkim from 2010 until 2012, or was I there so it could be so easy to do this course? Well, what were the odds that my…

  • Naneghat rappelling

    Naneghat rappelling

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    Heena

    It’s 10:30 pm on the clock and dad had just dropped me at the Kalanagar bus stop for the Naneghat rappelling trip. Just then I met Mr. Govind Pandit who was there for last years Malshej Camp too. I was all excited and set for my first adventure camp of the year and the fifth,…

  • Kamshet Paragliding experience

    Kamshet Paragliding experience

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    Heena

    “When I grow up, I want to be a pilot. I will fly you to Hong Kong”, I would always tell those words to everyone when I was a kid! And guess what I did this Christmas vacations in 2006? I went for a Paragliding camp to Nirvana adventures, Kamshet near Lonavala, two hours from…