Life-ing it up...

I've said it once and I'm going to say it again, Siliserh Lake Palace is an amazing destination. It features as one of our most recurring weekend road trip too. Whenever, we want to escape the city's bustle and unwind in a place without shelling out much money and too much driving, we hit the road and aim for this lakeside jaunt. It's on the way to Sariska Wild Reserve ( 14 km from Sariska) and an oasis of peace and tranquility. You can just about make out the tiny huts on the banks. Words fail to describe the barren beauty of the surrounding hills and the soothing calm of the pristine expansive lake. This man-made lake was constructed under the orders of Maharaja Vinay of Alwar. The palace on its banks could have been a resting place for the queen while the Maharaja was hunting with his men, or it was a palace for the Queen who came from the nearby village to stay after losing her child. The source history isn't very clear o me. Anyway, this palace has ...

The motivation behind the whole trip was ‘Stripey’. And, I hope you recognise Stripey for he’s the cute, little tiger cub who reminds us how there are only 1,411 tigers left in the country (and just so you know that’s his name actually, don’t believe me! Check out Facebook, he’s quite a celebrity) and I decided let’s chance it out.  So, away I went along with hubby, on my Easter weekend (let’s say extended Easter weekend, April 2010) to Sariska National Park in Alwar, Rajasthan. It’s a breezy couple of hours'  drive from Delhi and the weather is much more tolerable than the city. And before you ask me, 'NO', I did not see any tigers at all. They simply didn’t think it was worthwhile enough to give me a glimpse of their majestic presence. So, you should all sympathise with my beautiful sentiments of extreme envy towards those who did. However, I’m not the one to go down without a fight! So, here I am with a 'Tiger Bird' instead, eating out of my hands—litera...