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Subhashish Dutta & Sreenila Dutta

Total Vote(s) : 249 | Total Testimonial(s) : 10

We are Subhashish and Sreenila from Bangalore. We are both IT professionals who are avid readers and love to drive to and discover places in the interiors. We have been married for over a year and a half now and within this period have driven to Wayanad (twice already and plan to go again next month!), Coorg, Nagarhole, Chennai and Kumarakom. We like to travel to places which are faraway and close to nature and sometimes seriously think of buying our own small estate someday in such a place and settling there. This usually happens just after gettng back from a nature trip! On any long weekend, chances are more than even that we are out of Bangalore and driving down to some place to be close to nature. We believe that travel broadens one's horizons and exposes oneself to various facets of life. It teaches one to accomodate other beliefs. points of view and ways of life and makes one learn all the time.

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We love to travel and have travelled a lot in India and a little bit abroad. We have always found ourselves interested in the people and culture of the places that we have visited and have returned richer in experience after every trip. We are pretty good at taking pictures which capture the essence of the places we visit.

Our Travel Plan

August is a very good time to visit places in India which are blessed by the monsoon and there are quite a few of them. The heavy monsoon showers are over by this time and nature is at its greenest. We intend to cover a monsoon blessed route which would be an equal mix of forest and coastal roads. Our intended route is: Mumbai -> Mahabaleshwar -> Belgaum -> Chikmagalur -> Coorg -> Wayanad -> Kozhikode -> Kannur -> Mangalore -> Karwar -> Goa -> Lonavla -> Mumbai

Our Travelogue

Between the two of us, we have travelled to the sand dunes of the thar in Jaisalmer, forts and palaces in Udaipur and Jaipur, temples of Mt. Abu, hills of Patnitop and the shrine in Vaisho Devi, the snow covered reaches in Himachal, the hills of Uttaranchal, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Shillong, the beaches in Goa, Kovalam, Pondicherry and Mahabalipuram. We both love wildlife travel and have been to quite a few sanctuaries some of which are Corbett, Nagarhole, Tholpetty, Muthanga. Unfortunately, the Tiger has still been elusive. Hopefully we'll spot one this time! We have also travelled to quite a few places in the US, UK and Japan. Travelling to a ski resort called Gala from Tokyo and getting stuck on the ski slopes due to a blizzard was a memorable experience. So was a day trip to Kyoto from Tokyo (520 Kms each way!) in the Shinkansen (bullet train). A trip to Isle of Wight in the UK and a pleasure flying trip there on a 4 seater plane was another memorable experience. And yes, a trekking trip to Mt. Mitake near Tokyo after reaching there on a train which travelled on an incline of 45 degrees(!) was unforgettable too. Occasional drives in the US from Dayton to Cincinnati to have a couple of beers in the riverfront TGIF there were memorable too. Among our driving trips, we've been to Wayanad twice where we stayed in homestays. We've also driven to a sanctuary on the perimeter of the Nagarhole sanctuary where we also made a trip to a Tibetan settlement in a small hamlet called Gurupura. Coorg and Chennai have been other places where we have driven to. Our last trip was to Kumarakom in the backwaters of Kerala where we stayed in a houseboat for a night. The houseboat stay was our second in two years and we'll probably be there again this winter.

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Testimonials

Kalikinkar

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Varghese

Subhashish and Sreenila make a good couple for making this trip wonderful.

VJ

Subhashis is a great driver and enjoys driving.

Jessy

Subhashish Dutta & Sreenila Dutta made a great couple for this trip.. They r the most eligible guys..

Manish

Subhashish is a extraordinary driver...Since he was from my college which was Regional Engg College I know he gels easily with people from different cultures and background..Best of luck Dutta and Sreenila..You guys deserve to win this one...

Kitty

Very good in driving

Vikash

his drving skills are excellent and has a ntural flavour for adventures and mvoing around in nature. accha driver hai... :):):)

Saurabh Chandra

Subhashish and Sreenila love to drive, are adventurous and like to explore new places. As both of them are very creative and expressive writers also, I am sure in the next round we will not only get to see a great travelogue but get to know unexplored details of the places they visit. My best wishes to them! I am sure they will make it to the next round.

Vivek Krishnan

Subhashish & Sreenila have never been conventional travellers. I've known them with the passage of time & places far away. They'll do justice to Robert Louis Stevenson's words "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move"... Godspeed guys

mohan krishna nadimpalli

Good luck to subashish and sreenila, u guys gonna win it. Cheers, Mohan