In October 2022, after a 3.5-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I returned to India, eager to reunite with family and friends and to immerse myself in the festive spirit of Diwali. One of the most anticipated activities was shopping for the festival, and there was no better place to experience this than Paltan Bazaar in Dehradun.
07th Nov 2018 / I visited Delhi, Dehradun & Saharanpur during Diwali Festival and spent 15 days in my hometown.
29th Nov 2017 / Visited Dehradun in Nov’17 on Sister Marriage. Enjoying with friends & family in Dehradun.
12th Nov 2015 / Celebrating Diwali festival with family & friends in Dehradun, India
I always visit India once a year. So my this Dehradun Trip was on 13th Nov 2007 To Celebrate Diwali Festival with family.
Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights with its variations also celebrated in other Indian religions. It symbolises the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance”
My Dehradun trip was on 15th Dec 2006. Also traveled to Mussoorie, Dhanaulti, Delhi, and Agra in the winter season.
Six months have passed by working in Bangkok and the major difficulties I was facing were of Thai language and food, still, I do not get used to food over there. All I use to do that after my breakfast I skip my lunch but for a long time I could not handle this so I thought of trying chicken and went to KFC restaurant for that, for the first time I tried chicken over there.
Then slowly I get used to it along with MC Donald and pizza as well. Frequently I started having these food items in my dinner as well, I still have less food during my lunchtime as still I don’t understand the Thai language nor even, I have any idea about their food items. The third issue with me was when I went out for lunch with my colleagues and they always order on my behalf so I never felt the need of learning the Thai language as with them I talk in English nor there was any need of exploring Thai food or anything related to it, so it became my comfort zone and just wanted to be in my world.
Time was passing like that only, but whenever I think of going back to India, it makes me panic such as I might not lose all this fun and the way I am living in Bangkok. So, I always use to ignore whenever my boss asks me to visit India and reply to him that I will visit after a year.
trip to home
Finally, Leaving India? OR Just for Travel? Actually, It was for Solo Trip.
Moving further ahead with my story, as I said in my previous chapter I had fixed my mind to go to Thailand only, and before the end of 2002 I finally started planning to go to Thailand. So the person whom I trust I started talking to them. There was an uncle of mine who was close to me and currently lives in Dehradun, he already had a trip to Thailand, so I went away to ask him about the atmosphere, work availability, etc., just to gain some confidence, as I was getting nervous to travel alone to Thailand.
At that time yahoo chatting was in trend, and use to have rooms, so until and unless the opponent doesn’t accept your request, one cannot do the chatting. I also started chatting in the Thailand room and at that time people use to be friendly and become genuine buddies with whom one can daily chat. Every day in the evening I use to go to the cafe to do chatting for a couple of hours in Dehradun.
International Solo Trip
