<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Ravi Valluri"><item><title>History of Verdant Godavari</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/travel/history-of-verdant-godavari/</link><pubDate>November 11, 2024, 3:19 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Story-1.1.jpeg</image><category>Travel</category><excerpt>Never the Twain Shall Meet is the title of two prominent Hollywood blockbusters, including a 1925s silent movie. Dhowleswaram is a prominent place in the Godavari delta. It is here that the majestic River Godavari assumes the shape of the geometri...</excerpt></item><item><title>The Majestic Nilgiri Mountain Railway</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/travel/history-of-verdant-godavari/</link><pubDate>November 11, 2024, 3:19 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Story-1.1-300x170.jpeg</image><category>Travel</category><excerpt>A tourist can discover the thrill of riding a wondrous toy train, which provides an aperture to panoramic vistas during the five-hour journey from Mettupalayam to Ooty. Ooty, a fabled travel getaway can be reached by road or rail. However, boardin...</excerpt></item><item><title>Beyond the Vindhyas by Train</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/travel/history-of-verdant-godavari/</link><pubDate>November 11, 2024, 3:19 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Story-1.1-300x170.jpeg</image><category>Travel</category><excerpt>It was an icy-cold January in Delhi that year, the year 1983. The citadels of power of the Congress crumbled in the undivided Andhra Pradesh and in Karnataka. NTR assumed office in Andhra Pradesh and cerebral Rama Krishna Hegde demolished the Gran...</excerpt></item><item><title>Shirshasana: Sovereign among Asanas</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/travel/history-of-verdant-godavari/</link><pubDate>November 11, 2024, 3:19 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Story-1.1-300x170.jpeg</image><category>Travel</category><excerpt>Yoga is a kind of exercise in which a practitioner locomotes the human body into several distinct and diverse positions in order to attain physical fitness and flexibility. While performing yogic exercises the sadhak has to invariably pay attentio...</excerpt></item><item><title>The majesty of the fairy queen</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/travel/history-of-verdant-godavari/</link><pubDate>November 11, 2024, 3:19 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Story-1.1-300x170.jpeg</image><category>Travel</category><excerpt>The Fairy Queen, also known as the East Indian Railway Nr. 22, is an 1855-built steam locomotive, which was refurbished by the Loco Works Perambur, Chennai in 1997 and housed at the Rewari Railway Heritage Museum. The locomotive is steeped in hist...</excerpt></item><item><title>Kalka &amp;#8211; Shimla, an Exotic Rail Journey</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/travel/history-of-verdant-godavari/</link><pubDate>November 11, 2024, 3:19 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Story-1.1-300x170.jpeg</image><category>Travel</category><excerpt>I listened, motionless and still, and as I mounted up the hill, the music in my heart I heard, long after it was heard no more,” are iconic lines by William Wordsworth which capture the wondrous train journey from Kalka to Shimla. Queen of Hills, ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Valley of flowers: A mesmerizing spectacle of natural beauty</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/travel/history-of-verdant-godavari/</link><pubDate>November 11, 2024, 3:19 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Story-1.1-300x170.jpeg</image><category>Travel</category><excerpt>Did the Advaita saint Adi Shankara visit the exotic Valley of Flowers while visiting Badrinath and Kedarnath? That could be a matter of conjecture. But we bag packers (for six days) had an exhilarating experience in the valley. Indisputably, the o...</excerpt></item><item><title>Matheran Hill Railway &amp;#8211; History and Grandeur</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/travel/history-of-verdant-godavari/</link><pubDate>November 11, 2024, 3:19 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Story-1.1-300x170.jpeg</image><category>Travel</category><excerpt>Neral is the starting point of travelling on the Matheran Hill Railway (MHR). This enthralling journey in the viridescent Western Ghats is a journey of around two hours. Our railway batch planned a reunion at Matheran, travelling by this train. Th...</excerpt></item></author></feed>