Footprints on the Mountainside

This is a paid review. One of the few that I found these days that give me something really interesting to talk about on my blog.

NYC Attractions

CitySights NY is a double decker sightseeing tours company in NYC.
Other than double decker bus tours the copany offers attraction
tickets, daily trips to Boston, Washington DC, and Philadelphia as well
as shopping trips to Woodbury Common Premium Outlets.

What I enjoyed about this site is the sheer number of tours on offer. You have tours for the day or night or a few hours, tours to specific locations, tours along themes, tours on double decker buses, boats, helicopters…. and even a tour of premium outlets for shopping for a day or even 4 days!!!

Just reading around on the site made me feel like a busy tourist and I found myself planning things and picking up on stuff that sounded interesting.

The links to the descriptions of sights attractions and points of interest are interesting as well. I enjoyed the informal style of writing and the immediacy of the writers experience in the words. I could imagine myself being there and enjoying myself. Temptation at its most tempting or maybe I suffer from chronic wanderlust.

If you live in NYC or are planning to go there, do try and do some of these things and let me know how you find them and of course, if I go, you’ll read about it here.

I just love how the net connects people. I was spending some time reading around, and headed across to Mridula’s blog - Travel Tales from India. Most of her recent posts are about Nainital.

Honestly, I hadn’t given much of a thought to Nainital, as to many mountaineers, “hill stations” are like the plague, unless they are access points to outstanding trekking routes or peaks. I’d been to Nainital, pretty much like I go to a railway station. But when I looked at the blog, I felt so connected, that I felt a sharp pang of regret, that my snobbish attitude had blinded me to the beauty of the “regular haunts”. There is a reason Nainital is a well loved hill station, and in my thirst for adventure, I had missed it entirely. Speaking of not bothering to stand and stare!

Then of course, I was in a Nainital mood, and found another blog - this time by Lokesh Shah and had my fill of looking at Nainital pictures. He has some really nice pictures, and the whole feel of it is one of familiar fondness.

Now I’m off to see what else I can find. I have two hours before heading off for a climbing session at Kanheri, and I plan to put them to good use.