Tag: Travel

• A Place of Worship…Do you really need to go?

  

  Come 2018 and as part of making that special beginning, going to the temple became one of the items on my “To do” list. Everything else on the list for the Christmas break had been accomplished. A visit to the Louvre – tick, visit to Ferrari world and the water park- tick, meet friends for…

  Smitha V

  January 12, 2018

  Experiences

  #Bur Dubai Temple, #Dubaitravel, #God, #Hinduism, #life, #livinginharmony, #lookingatthepositives, #placeofworship, #prayer, #religion, #temple, #truth, Experiences, Travel

• Stunning Sri Lanka- Not on your bucket list. Make it.

  

    The small island nation, Sri Lanka, wasn’t on my list of travel destinations. For one, it was so close to India (where I come from), that travelling to the country didn’t seem like I would be actually travelling. Secondly, I was sure it would be similar to the the South of India. All tropical…

  Smitha V

  September 22, 2017

  Experiences, Travel

  #Buddha, #Dambulla, #holiday, #Holidaywithkids, #Kandy, #Nuweraliya, #shortvacation, #Sigiriya, #srilanka, #Toothtemple, #travelogue, Experiences, Travel

• Carpe Diem #1253 : A Thousand Candles

  

  Seeing the picture provided today as part of Carpe-Diem challenge, brought back a vivid memory of a little girl I had seen on the street, in Hoi An, Vietnam. Have posted a picture of her (at the end), though not as clear as the one provided in the challenge. Seeing the picture will help you…

  Smitha V

  September 15, 2017

  Experiences, Poetry, Travel

  #carpe-diem #1253 Thousand candles, #carpe-diem-haiku-kai, #haibun, #haiku, #heavenlyrevelation, #Hoi An, #japanesepoetry, #memory, #vietnam, Experiences, Poetry, Travel

• Shimmer & Shine… A Tanka Poem

  

  via Daily Prompt: Shimmer  Wrote a Tanka  on today’s prompt based on a street in Dubai. The pretty white lights adorning the trees are mesmerizing. There’s something magical and romantic about walking at night on a street lined with trees decorated so prettily. A Tanka is a Japanese poem with 31 syllables written in 5 lines. Each…

  Smitha V

  August 7, 2017

  Poetry

  #daily prompt, #downtowndubai, #mydubai, #palmtreesdecked, #tanka, #visitdubai, Poetry, Travel

• Bangalore’s Trees – Keep Bangalore Alive

  

  Bangalore Days If you’ve lived or live in Bangalore, you most certainly love the gardens and trees around you and  the cool Bangalore clime. You detest the traffic, the cutting down of trees and the constructions happening around the city and you crib every single day about the rising temperature, increasing pollution, constructions, flyovers that…

  Smitha V

  July 23, 2017

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #bangalore, #bangaloremirror, #Bangaloretrees, #environment, #globalwarming, #gogreen, #IISCBangalore, #India, #jhatkaa, #karnataka, #makeadifference, #nature, #naturelover, #savetheearth, #savetrees, #saytrees, Creative Writing, Experiences, Travel