Something paranormal spotted in Kuldhara, a haunted and deserted village in Rajasthan, India

Indian Roadie follower Neeraj Pandey from Gurgaon, loves driving around India, a huge and fascinating country in his small Maruti car.
During his solo road trip to Rajasthan in August 2016, he clicked a photo at Kuldhara, infamously known as a deserted and haunted village.
He claims that there was no one around for miles when the photo was clicked. However, when he looked at the photo later, he spotted the paranormal, wherein he saw a group of people in a huddle!

(Photo & content credit: Neeraj Pandey)

Subho Nobo Borsho 1425 (Happy Bengali New Year)

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A drive to Cadillac Ranch, Texas by Sojourner Tam, a lover of road trips

Off in the distance sits one of America's iconic roadside attractions ... Cadillac Ranch.

When I was a kid someone told me that old story about a Texas millionaire so rich and eccentric that when he tired of one Cadillac he'd "retire" it in one of his cow pastures and buy a new one. That "someone" was probably my father - it's the type of story he would have loved. Anything was possible in those wide open Texas plains. I must have inherited his romanticism because I prefer the old yarn to the real story.

When you drive across the country it's a bit of a roller-coaster, anything from weather to landscape to mood can change quickly. These photos are from a drive in October 2017.
When I left Southern California the temperature was 40 degrees Celsius - a full blown scorcher of a heat wave. A couple of days later I was freezing, just west of Amarillo, Texas. The temperature wasn't much and it came with a side order of icy wind - I didn't linger here long!

Although it's not true that an eccentric Texan millionaire retired his old Cadillacs by planting them nose first in one of his fields, there was a wealthy Texan - Stanley Marsh 3 - who backed this unconventional project. In 1974 the art collective Ant Farm, with Marsh's funding, installed ten vintage Cadillacs nose down, tail fins up - in a field near Amarillo, Texas. The cars' model years ranged from 1949 to 1963.

Almost from the start the "art public" made it their own. Cadillac Ranch quickly became a popular - one could say interactive - roadside attraction. Souvenir hunters and scavengers made off with the tail fins and other parts of the cars, and then came the spray cans of paint. At first I was dismayed when I saw the old Caddys covered with graffiti, because I love old cars and had seen early photos of the exhibit where each car still retained its original color and distinct shape. But I've since had a change of heart. Both Marsh and the Ant Farm seemed to welcome and embrace the deconstruction and evolution of Cadillac Ranch. The cars were periodically repainted along different themes (my favorite is the pink era) and eventually the whole shebang was even relocated to a new site adjacent to Interstate 40 as Amarillo city limits expanded.

Vive la change ... maybe next time I'll even bring along some paint.

Photo & content credit: Sojourner Tam (Lover of road trips, open roads, aspirational trucker).

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Homes across Kerala, India

Homes across Kerala, India have a very different look and feel than the rest of India.
This home seen in the attached photo was clicked from a moving bus by @foxonfeet (on IG) while traveling from Kochi to Munnar.

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Alyssa DeMarco practicing open leg rocker in Australia

Alyssa DeMarco practicing open leg rocker on a holiday at Chapel Street, Australia.
It's genuinely not easy. It's far more difficult than what one can visualize.

Fuel for motorized fishing boats being ferried in bullock carts in Rameshwaram in Tamilnadu, India

Bullock carts with plastic jerry cans filling up fuel from an Indianoil filling station at Rameshwaram in Tamilnadu, India for onward transportation to far flung remote fishing villages to fuel motorized fishing boats in mid 2017.

Photo: Navtej Singh (@nattysingh on IG)

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Gateway to Lake Michigan

This is what remains of the gate to Lake Michigan as in early 2018.
Photo: JonKArtography.

Drive to National Library of Belarus

Note the beautiful architecture of National Library of Belarus.
Photo: @reflectionsenroute on IG.
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Travelling becomes more rewarding if only you cherish roadtrips.

Drive to Varkala Beach, Kerala

Kallambalam is a town on NH66 from where one has to exit the National Highway and drive a little more than 12 kms to reach Varkala Beach.
Varkala Beach to Padmanabha Swamy Temple Trivandrum = 52 kms.
Varkala Beach to Alappuzha Beach = 119 kms.

Varkala Beach (in photos) and route to Trivandrum, Alappuzha

Varkala Beach in Kerala is famous for Vipasyana (meditation) and North cliff side is best for that.




Kallambalam is a town on NH66 from where one has to exit the National Highway and drive a little more than 12 kms to reach Varkala Beach.
Varkala Beach to Padmanabha Swamy Temple Trivandrun = 52 kms.
Varkala Beach to Alappuzha Beach = 119 kms.