bengalinomad, Author at Bengali Nomad

Iceland: Golden Circle

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:November 11, 2022
Post category:Europe 🌍Iceland 🇮🇸travel

🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 In the early morning, we left to explore the famous Golden Circle route. Our first stop was Thingvellir National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the founding location of the oldest parliament in the world. I walked through the gap between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates! Thingvellir National Park is a natural wonder of the world where the geology and ecosystem of Thingvallavatn form a unique whole. Thingvellir National Park area is part of the Atlantic Ocean ridge that runs through Iceland. The magical landscapes at…

Croatia : 3 days in Dubrovnik

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:October 1, 2022
Post category:City Croatia 🇭🇷Europe 🌍Family / Leisure travel Trek

🇭🇷 🇭🇷 🇭🇷 Day 1 This is the beging of a 2 week trip coinciding with UK bank holiday. I arrived Dubrovnik in afternoon. My apartment was between Lapad and Old Town. Uber is available in Dubrovnik so I took an uber to my accomodation. Later in the afternoon visited a local beach named Belevue. Day 2 Dubrovnik gets pretty hot even in the beginning of June. So next mornings I wanted to go for a walk along the city wall as first thing. For a walk, tickets are pretty expensive close…

Iceland: Hiking an active volcano

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:September 24, 2022
Post category:City Europe 🌍Hilly /Mountains Iceland 🇮🇸Landscape

🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 Iceland is known to be the land of ice and fire, and in the past few years it’s really shown the world what that really means. The country is situated on top of two tectonic plates, the North American and the Eurasian plate, and also right above a hotspot – a geological term for a volcanic area that has an unusually hot mantle underneath it. With over 32 active volcanic systems in the country, you’d expect there to be a volcanic eruption going on all the time. Hiking to…

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…

Paragliding in Pokhara

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:September 3, 2022
Post category:Adventure Family / Leisure Luxury / Comfort Nepal 🇳🇵Trek

🇳🇵 🇳🇵 🇳🇵 Paragliding in Pokhara is an amazing activity . Unlike some other adventure sports its more serene almost felt like spiritual. The Paragliding take-off height is 1592 meters in Sarangkot hills and the ending point is 593 m in Lakeside. It is fairly safe .There was an accident om 2020 Nov in which pilot died and the passenger suffered critical injuries . Though the cause was not reported in the media but local pepole told me this was due to some dare devil stunt (plucking a flower from cliff wall…

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. …

Walking Lake district

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:July 19, 2022
Post category:Europe 🌍travel UK 🇬🇧

🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 It's my 2nd hiking trip to Lake district after many years. I decided to sign up with AAA hiking group. I had done trips with them earlier in Slovania which was pretty good. We were staying at comfy hotel with dinner and were doing 3 hikes. The group was pretty big and there were 3 hikes to choose from easy , medium , tough. I paid some extra and took a van transport from London. We reached in the afternoon , walked around the hotel ,had dinner and went…

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…