Apart from featuring some of the best bloggers as guests in My Yatra Diary..., the past few months have also given me the honor of being featured as one as well. Yes, I had an opportunity of two guest posting instances which I would like to share here, with all of you.
Guest Post Excerpts
1. MAHINDRA HOMESTAYS BLOG
The first one was a photo essay for Mahindra Homestays India Travel Blog (in return of which they did one guest post for us as well - First time travel tips for India) on my trip to Badrinath to celebrate the festival of Diwali.
Here is an excerpt:
Lanes leading to the Badrinath temple
Silent tones greeted me as I took my first steps in the town. The lanes were quiet. Shopkeepers lazily put up their wares on display. A scant number of people populated the streets. Such quietness… I had wondered to myself? But then, it was reasonably justified as well...
To read the entire article, please follow this link - A Call to the Heavenly Abode, Badrinath.
2. ART OF LEO
The second guest post was for my blogger friend, Leo (Vinay) of Art of Leo. This was more of a personal essay on my experience in the Himalayan pilgrim town of Gangotri.
Here is an excerpt:
River Ganga @Gangotri
As I removed my shoes and tip toed on the smooth icy rocks, a melodious music of silence filled my ears. Mixed in it were gurgling rhythmic beats of Her waters and before I could gather anything, I found myself drifting away in a trance...
To read the entire article, please follow this link - Tranquility in the Waters: My Trip to Gangotri.
Do check them out and please let me know how they were, am anxiously waiting to hear your feedback on them.
A Word of Thanks!
Also, thank you to all my loving readers for giving them such a warm welcome and showering them with as much love as you do to me. Thank you!
Here are the links to their Guest Posts in case you missed them or wish to go over them again -
1. Syntheri Rocks at Dandeli, Western Ghats - Santosh BS
2. The Chennakeshava Temple, C R Patna - Team G Square
3. Valley of Flowers: Paradise Found - Jitaditya Narzary
27 Comments
All your photos and posts, are wonderful an very interestings!!!!
ReplyDeletemany greetings and kisses
Congrats Arti - you do such great work here! Your blog's a constant source of inspiration - even for travellers in the mind ;)
ReplyDeletetoo good a show master :) keep it going...
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your guest posting opportunities, Arti! Well deserved and I have enjoyed the blogs you have featured here. I've been a follower of Team G Square for some time now! Hope you have a wonderful week!
ReplyDeleteSylvia
That was a very nice gesture and more insight to some lovely destinations, Arti
ReplyDeleteGreat Arti... I am going to read it...
ReplyDeleteYou know Arti, I wanted to ask you about your profession.. Are you, and I am guessing, from the tourism industry? Coz, if you are not, you can be a fantastic marketing / PR expert in the industry.. :)
ReplyDeleteI've read these two posts of yours now.I found both written in elegant style of writing. Wordings are so expressive that I was able to understand how your felt and what places they were like.
ReplyDeleteIf I had an opportunity, I'd like to visit Gangotri.
cosmos
Wonderful shots... can't wait to read these two articles in full.
ReplyDeleteWOW! Congrats for the guest post opportunities <3
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Great blogs. Thank you for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteArti, they were lovey. Your lucid language made them adorable. Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your guest posts, my dear Arti. Brilliant entries. You're really inspiring. I thank God for people like you. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the links. Will go there and read them. :)
ReplyDeleteIts so exciting to do a guest post, away to visit both of those blogs now.
ReplyDeleteWonderful posts! Same lucid style of writing coupled with great pictures:)
ReplyDeleteHi,Arti.
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful post.
I watched a documentary film about a traveling in India, a couple weeks ago.It was an hour wonderful program.
Your today’s post reminds me of the small village on the foot of Himalayan Mountains on the film.
Have a nice days!
Tomoko
wonderful to read...thanks
ReplyDeleteMany many thanks Arti for
ReplyDeletesharing the links of beautiful
posts.
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Congrats Arti, I am not surprised at the guest blogs at all. You deserve all the accolades that come your way. Wish you all the best dear.
ReplyDeletethis post was kind of a retreat for me as i vaguely remember the days when i was very young and went with my family to badrinath !
ReplyDeletethanks Arti!!!
I also feel like mahindra homestays wrote about the chants,the mantras. It energize and restore my mind and soul. Maybe Indian's and Japanese's are different. I want to hear Indian's.
ReplyDeleteOff to those blogs to read your posts!
ReplyDeleteCongratulationa Arti !Well deserved !Your post are well detailed ,informative with beautiful pictures and great narration .Hope to see more of your work here at My Yatra.Love and much love.
ReplyDeleteGreat post on India tourism places. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI love travelling, so I found your post so helpful to me.. Thanks!
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For the guest blogging u can mail me
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Hi,
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I have a team of skilled writers and we are ready to make a research and provide a quality article that will go down well with your readers and give them some useful information.
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Please let me know if you are interested.
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