Go anywhere and stay for less, from Airbnb

I am actually one of the travel lovers and would like to roam all over the world. I had been too few foreign countries beside local trips in India. The International trip was to Singapore (tour visit), Brunei (tour visit), Bahrain (tour visit), UAE (tour visit), Saudi Arabia (for work), and Kuwait (for short-term work). These all happened few years back and would like to still roam in India and other foreign countries when time permits. However, I won't give up to travel anywhere in the future.

When I recall the past, some of the best trip in India was, Shimla, Jammu, Sri Nagar, Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Munnar, Goa, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysore and other small and less known tourist places, on.

Wherever we go, the important one other than travel is of unique accommodation and suitable food, or boarding and lodging or bed and bread beside a wonderful sightseeing, experience and remembrance for many years as I recalled this one. I used to see trip photos which was taken long back to recall the older excitement and happy days. Still you can enjoy it, and age doesn't matter to go around. 

There are few travel companies that assist online for such trip and to get unique accommodation with lesser price. One of them is Airbnb. All these fun together, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 34,000 cities and 190+ countries. Why don't you utilize this facility?

To avail the facilities at Airbnb and its booking through online or from a mobile phone, you can visit Airbnb booking. I too have selected few foreign location and two local locations as follows.

Spain, Ireland:

Ireland: This is one of the best places to visit due to various reason and one of them is naturally beautiful. It has various sightseeing and soft people around.

Ohaupo, New Zealand:

New Zealand: You can either visit Australia or New Zealand which is great to be there as long as you would like to realize natural rich atmosphere.

Luxemburg, city:

Luxemburg: International travelers never forget to enjoy the beauty of Luxemburg. This is one of the best hospitality and tourist places in the world which real traveler never misses the opportunity to enjoy.

Kodaikanal, India:

Kodaikanal: Although it is famous location in India for coolest place and try to stay over there during Summer, this is one of the best location in southern India to experience lush green and hill station with beautiful atmosphere.

Hyderabad, India:

Hyderabad is actually a different city to visit, it is unlike some peace and quiet tourist location but it is a city which contains some of the historical places, architecture, mixed with nature and most importantly growing IT sector which called Silicon Valley of India.

You may also register with Airbnb to enjoy the holidays with very low expenses. Ref https://www.airbnb.co.in/?af=3330229&c=IndiBlogger

This article is written for Airbnb contest in association with IndiBlogger.

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Don’t Circus on road

Whenever I talk with friends and relatives on the topic of Road safety, I will remember few bitter incident and accident that happened in front of me and would like not to disclose here except hint. A small rose was smashed by giant stone in front of me while travelling on the bus, no one could help it at that moment for that rose and other stone which crashed, I was able to see it since I was sitting on the front seat which is near the bus driver.

I was unable to forget for few long days, unable to have food on time and often discussed with near and dear about it, and still I used to recall it once such topic arises. It was a horrible experience though a small school rose was not my relatives but unknown rose which didn’t grown as it is supposed to be and big lose for their family members. There are so many incident as such for my native / city people and those were behind my seen but still painful whenever I recall it. Oh God.

Drive(r) with care

Whenever I drive the vehicle on road or while traffic, the first one is remembering God, the second one is utmost care about who is approaching me to hit my vehicle / car rather than whom I am going to hit anyone. However, overall vehicle care, driving care and vigilant is there for which I suppose to drive well without hitting anyone following the driving guideline and fasten seat belt etc. Doing silly mistake in a second can harm many like attending mobile calls can cause severe damage including life threat.

If you want to drive vehicle upside down, wheeling, jumping, racing, showing and stunning etc. then you may join at any nearest Circus or bike racing center or formula one group etc. There are some expert who could assist you on this and I am afraid you won’t show such talent over there since you can do it at Road show only which can kill you and some on goers.

Courtesy: Nissan

Ten Commandments for Road safety:

1.     Traffic Authority should be vigilant – round the clock

2.     Long Signal process must not irritate travelers

3.     Highways shall not have speed breaker or hump 

4.     Driver shall have all valid papers to drive the vehicle

5.     Driver must know the road and driving discipline 

6.     Driver shall observe the side and rear mirrors beside front area

7.     No health issues including poor vision, cardiac, drowsy and madness

8.     Speed thrills but kills adherence, follow fasten seat belt term

9.     Fitness certificate, Insurance, Emission, DL and so on.

10.   Driver shall not use Phone on driving or stop vehicle to use calls.

Wish you all a Happy Journey – Bon Voyage.

This article is written for NissanIndia NSDF (Nissan Saftey Driving Forum) contest in association with IndiBlogger. Thanks to all visitors.

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Beyond the dirt – where else we can reach

There are lots of buzz around on ‘Clean India’ campaign and it looks like we however need to get up at this moment to make clean our home, street, road and country. Anyhow, the main concern over here is, make it clean India understanding individual responsibility and contribution toward this campaign, at least. It is better late than never, as we know face is the index of the mind, thus cleanliness shows an individual status to country status.

What we learnt in these days is horrible due to unclean habit and atmosphere which affected overall nature cycle and destroyed many natural resources. Where are those birds and its quantity that we used to see couple of decades ago? Due to unclean, impure, contaminated, dirty, infected, grimy, polluted and unhygienic habit and its atmosphere, we bear many losses which are unaccountable. Disease spread in such a way that there won’t have any medicine except anti-biotic as temporary solution for it. What else?

This campaign would like to wake up those who are not ready to get up on time or not really interested toward clean atmosphere, this is especially for those who are not ready keep clean surrounding at home first. Other than individual contribution, team work plays very important role on everything, only discussion and performance matters. As said, team work means ‘less me and more we’ and team work means dream work. What we do in our team work is (there is saying) as below which failed in everything rather success.

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. 

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. 

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. 

Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. 

Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. 

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done it.

The real story goes like that. I think people (except few) don’t take personal responsibility for general success on social services because they want others to do the work for them. To get work done and success on my effort (no personal or self boast over here), I tried to start to clean Bathroom at home which is very small, this one also done due to family member ill at home. However, co-incidence would work sometime while such (Clean) campaign is going on altogether. The next one is, beginning of cleaning home and nearby atmosphere though there are many commercial items help to do for cleaning task but we need little effort to keep clean surrounding which could help to avoid various diseases and threats.

The next one is, I was going on nearby street where I observed that sometime garbage cleaning and sometime not from the authority. Here, one is authority shall do it and if they fail to do for any unknown reason then we shall request and remind them to do so in a right manner. You can see the below photos where once the trash / junk was huge, only one initiative and step from me (common people) to nearest Municipality helps to clean garbage regularly. We will go with Banega Swachh India and its campaign.

This article is written for Clean India campaign on Swachh India from IndiBlogger.

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Ab Mai Bolega - My Voice to Clean India campaign

I remember four things whenever I read or hear about ‘clean’ topic. One is, almost every religion says neat and clean is very important beside our routine practice, the second one is Singapore and my visit over there during Apr 2001, the third one is Saudi Arabian Airlines Catering unit in Riyadh and the fourth one is Tamil veteran actor Kamala Hasan.

What does religion says about Clean:

I can say no religion forget to says about clean, as clean is half Imaan (belief) and the rest half belief is individual soul’s choice toward almighty. I feel sad myself also that we are not following our own basic principle on this, fully or partially.

What does Singapore says about Clean:

I remember one incident while one evening walking on the Orchard road in Singapore in April 2001 (a decade ago that too), I once spitted aside on walking over there and immediately I afraid and remember the country’s different strict rule and disciplinary action compare with back home, though I was safe over there. As you may know that making bad atmosphere or creating pollution in Singapore is against their law and strict disciplinary action will be taken for the concern. So, each human being carry their responsibility set by the nation thus they are in a good atmosphere including neat and clean surrounding.

What does Saudia Airlines Catering Riyadh unit says for clean:

Though it is a five star hotel level unit, thus it is normal that one can find neat and clean nearby. That is not the surprise here, the astonishing thing is the one which this unit create and practice everyone to be neat and clean beside some disciplinary measure when required. One example is, if you have a long hair or good hair style and working in Admin than Food production area which is far located, still Hygiene Inspector will roam, monitor, catch and warn you first to cut the hair (if so) as per company policy, if fail to do so then disciplinary action would be taken. 

As usual, food production area will have so many rules for handling food that can be found herein India’s five star or three star hotels too and forget this one in local hotels. Beside this, the Managers and above posts (mostly Saudi citizens) of each department will monitor for neat and cleanliness in their respective area, they will handle alone some cleaning task in the office premises and make changes the office atmosphere often as simple look and nice decoration.

What Kamala Hasan says for Clean topic:

I don’t know whether you are aware or not about actor Kamala Hasan and his discipline, India’s PM is taking clean initiative now but this veteran actor is talking and taking ‘clean’ initiative since few decades. He always used to give some hint or message or a song or even a film for only ‘clean’ topic.

So, when an actor can take an initiative for a long term on ‘clean’ India with social motivation, why individual shall not take an initiative on this, which is every citizen’s responsible too. We have 24 hours a day; we spend almost 24 hours a day in every other task, why shall not we spend at least half an hour to one hour just to keep cleaning in domestic and nearby area or outside, as responsible. 

Note: Starting from now, I will try to clean my home first and nearby area next.

This article is written for IndiBlogger for Indi-Happy Hour contest associated with #AbMontuBolega from Strepsils on Clean India Campaign, so let us work with Swach Bharat. You may also visit their website at http://www.abmontubolega.com/ and  Strepsils on Facebook and Twitter.

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How to bring back the touch

My grandma used to massage my hair and body with pure Coconut oil during childhood, it given me relax, cool, refreshes and healthy. Those days are gone since we grown up and time changes everything, now once or twice in a week, I have to apply hair oil by self and rare self-massage too.

Whenever I apply hair oil (unlimited like waterfalls from my hair) two hours before sleeping at the night time then my closed one used to run away immediately and used to return as bring back the touch on the next day after shower and re-freshen.

My alternate usage for pure Coconut oil from village is Parachute oil which we can get it easily from nearest shop, this one helps me to remember my childhood and grandma beside same habit and healthy experience, to get back the touch again. Parachute oil massage on hair helps to relieve the stress, help for scalp, strengthen hair and cool for eyes etc. Parachute oil has fragrance in addition to same man made quality of pure coconut oil which helps me for closed one to bring back the touch at night time too.

Advanced one: other than Parachute coconut oil for good and healthy experience, Parachute Advanced Body lotion helps to get rid of rough skin and tiredness. I can assure you that such lotion apply / massage helps to relieve the roughness of the skin specially during winter and helps to get rid of body pain and tiredness etc. We can find additional help from Parachute Advanced Body Lotion is that our skin become smooth, glow and natural one - like #BringBackTheTouch.

This article is written for #BringBackTheTouch from IndiBlogger.

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