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Gulmarg’s Igloo café becomes bigger this year, claims to be largest

February 6, 2022716 Views

Syed Wasim Shah, creator of the igloo, claimed it was the world's largest cafe of its kind and can seat 40 guests An igloo café, which came up at the famous ski-resort of Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir for the first time last year has grown bigger this year. Café has become a centre of attraction for tourists coming to this snow paradise. Café serves hot food and drink on tables made of ice and snow. With a height of 37.5 feet and a diameter of 44.5 feet, Syed Wasim Shah, creator of the igloo, claimed it was the world’s largest cafe of its kind. Last year this igloo was 26 feet around and 15 feet high. Igloo cafe at Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir. Photo: PTI Shah's igloo café is the only of its kind in India and is inspired by similar attractions in the Northern parts of Europe such...

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Monteria Village opens its door to city travellers

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February 6, 20221555 Views

A unique experiential destination on the outskirts of Mumbai and Pune · Soak in its rich culture through art, folk performances and activities· Be a farmer for a day with a holistic hands-on experience· Connect to nature and go back to your roots An easy two-hour drive from Mumbai and Pune leads to the newly opened Monteria Village spread across 35 acres in Khalapur, Raigad district. The brand-new day-outing destination gives guests of all age groups a holistic experience of being in a quintessential village: a dip in a lake, a laze on the hammock, folk performances, hearty desi meals, immersive art experiences like bamboo and khaat weaving or even a shot at game of lagori. This short-weekend getaway on the outskirt of the city is a call back to your roots and embraces guests ...

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Few species sighted in Chilika for the first time

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February 5, 2022538 Views

Dolphins now colonizing new areas of the brackish water lagoon Chilika lake, Asia's largest brackish water lagoon, has re-established itself as the one of the hotspots of biodiversity and shelters a number of endangered species listed in the IUCN red list of threatened species. The lake is a unique assemblage of marine, brackish and freshwater eco-system with estuarine characters. The lagoon houses about 155-165 dolphins and 10.5 lakhs water birds, representing 105 different species. Eurasian otter captured in camera trap at Chilika For the first time, near-threatened ferruginous ducks and a group of Eurasian otters were spotted in the lagoon in the 2022 Flora and Fauna Survey in Chilika Lake carried out on February 1, an official in the Chilika Development Authority (CDA) sai...

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Jagannath temple to open from Feb 1

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January 28, 20221100 Views

Odisha government Friday announced the reopening of Shree Jagannath Temple here for devotees from February 1 keeping in view the livelihood of locals and "slight" improvement in the coronavirus situation in the state. The twelfth century shrine will, however, remain closed on Sundays for sanitisation, Puri district collector Samarth Verma told reporters after a meeting of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) and members of the Chhatisa Nijog (temple servitors body). The local economy is mostly dependent on the temple. This apart keeping in view the sentiments of the people and slight decline in COVID-19 cases, it has been decided to reopen the temple for public from February 1, he said. He said that the temple will be closed on festivals keeping in view the local situ...

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Kerala Tourism has weathered challenges, would focus on touching lives

P A Mohamed Riyas

January 25, 20221066 Views

In the words of Ibn Battuta, travelling leaves you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller. His wisdom teaches us that it is travelling that keeps our innate desires alive, waking up a world of words and images within us. It's when we traverse the boundaries of our hometowns, our states and our country, that we touch the lives of people we have never met. We then realise how small the world was for us before. Mankind's wanderlust that began many centuries ago was perhaps triggered by this realisation. Today, as we celebrate the National Tourism Day in the midst of the pandemic's third wave, it's time to reflect on how our ways of travel has changed. Tourists now travel not for leisure alone and are keen to explore the history, culture and the food diversity of places they ...

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Bhitarkanika National Park reopens for visitors

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January 12, 2022595 Views

The Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha reopened for visitors on Wednesday after being closed for ten days to carry out the annual census of estuarine crocodiles. The basic objective behind the closure of the national park in Kendrapara district was to avoid human interference during the exercise, Rajnagar Mangrove (Wildlife) Divisional Forest Officer J D Pati said. Noise pollution from human activity distracts wildlife and poses a hindrance for carrying out the census, Pati said. "Our emphasis is on ensuring safe and comfortable sojourn of visitors who throng here in large numbers to savour the warmth of the ecosystem and unique environs of its wetlands," he said. The national park is home to 70 per cent of the country's estuarine crocodiles, conservation of which starte...

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COVID-19 leaves Agra tourism high and dry

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January 7, 2022879 Views

Scores of hoteliers, restaurant owners, and tourism and hospitality players in Agra lamented the trail of destruction COVID-19 left on their businesses. Rajeev Saxena, vice president, Tourism Guild of Agra said the industry took a massive hit due to the pandemic, resulting in cancellation of tours booked for this year. Almost 75 percent of the tour packages have been cancelled due to fear of Omicron. People fear a possible lockdown and quarantine," he said. Hari Sukumar, vice president (operations) at a luxury hotel in the city, told PTI that hotels used to bustle with foreigners, free independent travellers (FIT) and destination wedding parties from October to March, the peak tourism season in Agra. Following the outbreak of Omicron, 75 per cent of FIT bookings and 50 per...

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Rare albino crocodile sighted in Odisha’s Bhitarkanika

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January 7, 2022916 Views

A rare albino salt-water crocodile has been recently sighted at Odisha's Bhitarkanika National Park, a forest officer said on Friday. Rajnagar Mangrove (Wildlife) Divisional Forest Officer J D Pati said that the albino crocodile was sighted in the hatchery and rearing complex of crocodiles at Dangmal in the national park. Forest personnel have named it 'Sweta'. The national park is now home to three captive albino crocodiles. The three-year-old female crocodile was born in the hatchery from the eggs collected from the wild, he said. "During my visit to the hatchery on Wednesday, I discovered this albino crocodile and advised the forest personnel to take proper care of this whitish-coloured crocodile," researcher Sudhakar Kar said. It takes some years for the whitish comple...

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Tigress spotted with 2 cubs in Sariska

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January 6, 2022639 Views

Tigress 'ST 19' was seen with its two cubs on Wednesday in the buffer zone of Sariska National Tiger Reserve in Alwar district, forest officials said. Now, the number of tigers in Sariska National Park has increased to 25, with 11 females, eight males, and six cubs. Tagging the photo of the tigress and the cubs in a tweet, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said it was good to know that tigress ST 19 has been seen with cubs in Sariska. Nice to see wildlife flourishing in Rajasthan, he said. RN Meena, Field Director, Alwar Sariska Tiger Project, broke the good news in a statement. He said tigress ST 19 with two cubs was captured in a camera trap in the Baraliwari buffer zone of the forest on Wednesday morning, and conjectured the age of the cubs at about two months. Special ...

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Tourism seeing boom in the domestic sector

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January 1, 20221266 Views

As 2021 plagued by COVID-19 comes to a close, the domestic tourism sector in the West Bengal is seeing a boom after hitting the nadir during the last nearly two years owing to the pandemic but the increase in the incidence of Omicron has forced tour operators to keep their fingers crossed on international travel, leading tour operators here said. In the state capital Kolkata, tourism has got a filip after its famed Durga Puja was included in UNESCO's list of 'Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity' and is expected to attract more foreign and domestic tourists, they said. The village tourism sector operating in the eastern Himalayas and destinations in the north east was hit during the pandemic and many of those involved in it went back to their family agricultural activities, ...