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Rupak Venugopal & Deblina Ghosh

Total Vote(s) : 397 | Total Testimonial(s) : 9

Deblina and I work for the same Consulting firm based out of Delhi. While it was the job that brought us close, it was our crazy passion for traveling that made us partners for life. In fact even before deciding to get married to each other ( happening end of year :-)) , we both knew our respective honeymoon locations and luckily for us it turned out be the same .. and as they say .. rest is history :-) or in our case "geography :-)"

We are the best candidates because...

WE LOVE DRIVING: While travel on work keeps us at different locations, we still try to plan and go on road trips on the shortest of notices on the longest of drives. Why just last week the two of us took 6 + hr flights and then drove for ~1,500 km over a 3 day weekend to take a peek at a waterfall ( albeit a famous one) WE LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY: I've been a photo-nut for over 5 years now and while I've managed to accumulate a sizeable amount of equipment for better photography, I guess my biggest learning has been to be patient enough to wait for the shot u need. Having someone like Deblina who stands by you and loves to be photographed ,just makes it all the more enjoyable :-) Infact, the photo fever is spreading onto her too !! AND above all : WE LOVE SPREADING THE WORD on all things beautiful that we come across on our trips....

Our Travel Plan

Start off in MUMBAI ; Drive through the western ghats and hit the beaches and party town of GOA; Head off into interior Karnataka to the mighty JOG FALLS during peak monsoons ; From there get back to the shores at the beach town of MANGALORE; Enter Kerala and drive along the Kerala coastline to the backwaters at KUMARAKAM. Then shift gears into the wildlife sanctuary at THEKKADY for some elephant spotting. Get in a dose of history at MYSORE and spend a while relaxing at the tea estates at OOTY before heading back via BANGALORE to MUMBAI zipping through the expressways from PUNE via LONAVLA

Our Travelogue

For me, the passion for travel probably started during my management education days. It was a 90 day trip across europe (Paris / UK / Spain / Belgium / Netherlands / Germany and Italy) on a student exchange program that got me hooked on to the travel bug! While for Deblina the passion for travel started in her childhood with bi-yearly family trips across India, which was later cemented in after an internship in south east Asia followed by a year long stint in HK with travel around Europe (Denmark / Belgium / UK / Netherlands / Germany) and Asia (China / Singapore / Brunei ). Between the two of us, we have traveled on miles and miles of road trips across almost the entire northern India with trips to Jaipur- Udaipur- Mt. Abu- Jodhpur- Pushkar- Agra- Bharatpur- Rishikesh- Landsdowne- shimla - dhanaulti- Mussorie- Mcleodganj- Kasauli- Amritsar and all the way to Leh,Ladakh. In the US , we have traveled extensively from coast to coast from Niagara falls to Connecticut , New York city , Washington DC and the Pennsylvania dutch areas on the east coast and from SFO to San Diego , Las Vegas ,Seattle & Grand Canyon along the west coast. Though, we have had the chance to travel around over the past few years, we believe this is just a fraction of all places we would really wish to see together !!!

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Testimonials

Soumya

Hey both,, wish u a hardrocking metalcracking dramchak hooneymoon with 1 million. keep rockin'

Joanne

good luck dear!

Tania Bhaumik

Go win Gurl ;)

Jaggan Singh

Good Luck ! !

Madan Jee Thakur

They have astonishing skill, impeccable smoothness and uncanny powers of observation behind the wheel. His breadth and depth of knowledge in all aspects of driving, vehicle dynamics and road safety is absolutely unparalleled. In anything and everything to do with driving and road safety, both are one of the world's most highly qualified experts on all aspects of road driving.

Venus

awsome pair. they travel a lot. they deserve to win this contest. good luck!

Sarmistha

All the best to the rocking couple :)

Shibani

The excitement these two have for life and the world and each other is joyful to see. Somehow, they WILL find the most exciting secret spots along their way, they WILL take gorgeous pictures, and if we're lucky, we'll get to hear it all from them! They should definitely win this thing.

Priya Madhumohan

All the very best for the cute couple....Good Luck...

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