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Iceland: Silfra Snorkeling and lava tube at Raufarhólshellir

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:September 24, 2022
Post category:Europe 🌍Iceland 🇮🇸travel

🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 I booked a day trip with a company for Raufarhólshellir lava tunnel and Silfra Snorkeling. First half of the day they picked me up and from the youth hostel and took me to Raufarhólshellir which is about 50 km from Reykjavik. Raufarhólshellir tube is one of the longest and most well known lava field in Iceland. This lava tube formed during the Leitahraun eruption and is one of Iceland´s longest cave. Lava tubes are a natural conduit formed when an active low-viscosity lava flow develops a continuous and hard crust, which thickens…

Iceland: Laugavegur Trek and Fimmvörðuháls pass

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:September 23, 2022
Post category:Hilly /Mountains Iceland 🇮🇸National Parks travel

🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 The Laugavegur and Fimmvörðuháls trek has been listed by National Geographic as one of the "World's Best Hikes" due to the unique and extremely diverse landscape encountered on the trail. One can see everything from sizzling hot springs and volcanoes to icy white glaciers. We walked through geothermally active lands of colored rhyolite mountains, obsidian fields, cross glacier rivers, and so much more on our journey. We stay in rustic, but charming highland huts located in remote areas. Each area is unique, revealing new features in the ever-changing landscapes of the trail. Day 1 Reykjavik to Landmannalaugar We departed early in the morning from…

Tenerife and Madrid in 10 days

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:August 12, 2022
Post category:Europe 🌍Family / Leisure Luxury / Comfort Spain 🇪🇸travel

Everyone loves cheap deals but this one was rediculasly cheap to be true. A fully equipped 1 bed apartment in a popular sea side resort for just $150 for 3 that too for a full week. I was not sure if I am getting into a scam and then we rescheduled two time times due to covid restrictions . So finally in Feb 2022 we were off for Tenerife and Madrid . Day 1 My flight from Luton took off early morning and we checked in Pearly Greay ocean resort by 12. …

Puri

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:July 7, 2022
Post category:India 🇮🇳travel

Puri was on cards for a long time. So this December when I was in India , I decided to finally go for it. I started in the evening by Howrah - Puri Supefast express. In spite of booking ticket in 2nd AC 1 month in advance, I only got RAC. Nevertheless , We reached Puri hotel in the morning. I booked the hotel through OYO platform but thr hotel did not honur the booking so ended up paying it again. It took months for me to get my money back. Day…

Luxembourg and Mullerthal Trail

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:May 9, 2022
Post category:Europe 🌍Luxembourg 🇱🇺travel

🇱🇺 🇱🇺 🇱🇺 Luxembourg is a small country surrounded by Belgium, France and Germany and one of the world's highest GDP (PPP) per capita as per IMF. It is a very expensive country but transport within the country is completely free. I booked a place in Luxembourg city and used that as my base to travel around. Day 1 & 2 Luxembourg City I arrived Luxembourg in the afternoon. I booked City Pillow rooms for 5 days . Spent my time walking around the City centre . I booked a walking tour…

Poland: Krakow

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:March 20, 2022
Post category:Poland 🇵🇱travel

🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 This is a very short visit to Krakow on my way to Slovakia. Arrived in Krakow late night on Wednesday 1st March. Public transport was not avaialble at that time , so I asked the hotel to arrange a pick up. I stayed in Globtroter guest house. The stuff was very nice and waited for me to arrive. Next morning I roamed around Krakow. Rynek Glowny, the largest medieval market square in Europe, dazzles with its medieval, Renaissance and baroque architecture. When warm weather heralds the arrival of café…

Aberdeen, Shetland and Inverness

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:March 19, 2022
Post category:Europe 🌍Forest Hilly /Mountains Landscape National Parks Sea / River / Waterbody travel UK 🇬🇧

Shetland is an island archipelago between UK and Faroe island in Norway. There is a cluster of 100 islands only 16 of which are populated. So it was a long journey from mainland UK. Day 1: London - Abardeen This was long day started at morning in Hemel Hempstead. We had to travel all the way Kings Cross and then take the train Abardeen. It`s one of the longest train journey in UK ( longest one is Aberdeen to Penzance) of more than 7 hour . We reached Abardeen in late afternoon…

Isle of Wight

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:March 9, 2022
Post category:Europe 🌍travel UK 🇬🇧

So finally its time for a relaxing family holiday. Getting to Isle of White is starightforward . There are mainly three Ferries from UK mainland, Southhampton - East Cowes, Portsmouth - Fishbourne and Lymington - Yarmouth. We took train to Southhampton and then the Ferry to East Cowes. From East Cowes we took bus to Sandown beach . The place we were staying is inside a holiday park and pretty close to beach . We were staying there for 3 nights. I went for an afternoon stroll in and around the…

Annapurna base camp

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:January 17, 2022
Post category:Asia 🌏Nepal 🇳🇵travel

🇳🇵 🇳🇵 🇳🇵 Trekking in Nepal was always a dream . Nepal is a tiny country, which has 8 out of 14 8000M peaks in the world. However I was not considering trekking in Nepal. My original plane was to travel in India and spend some days in Uttarakhand / Himachal , but my cheap return ticket from LOT air has been cancelled and tickets to India were very costly. So I bought a ticket to Kathmandu instead. Annapurna base camp trek is probably the only trek with all the glamour and…

Spain : Andalusia region – Granada

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:December 31, 2021
Post category:Europe 🌍Spain 🇪🇸travel

🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 Seville to Granada is 3 and half hours by train. I reached Granada late afternoon. Granada is in the foothills of Sierra Nevada mountains and famous for its Moorish influenced architecture. Weather was not great on first day , it was cloudy and misty in the morning . I wanted to trek Beas De Granada but finally abandoned it due to bad weather and lack of GPS waypoints. So I travelled up to Beas De Granada village but then returned back. Latter I visited Palacio de la Madraza, Royal…