Travelicious: Lip-smacking adventures

06/04/2024

Drifting above Istanbul’s majestic skyline with 🎈✨

07/03/2024

We invite all youngsters to the adventure land of *Beautiful Bali.* 🇮🇩
25th May - 1st June, 2024
10 years - 25 years

*Top experiences in Bali!*

🏝️ Stay at three beautiful properties in Kuta, Ubud and Canggu

🏝️ Learn the fine art of batik and admire Balinese arts and crafts

🏝️ Experience the mesmerising Uluwatu Kecak fire dance against the backdrop of a glorious sunset

🏝️ Marvel at the natural cliff formations, lagoons and underwater sea life while snorkeling around the exotic island of Nusa Penida

🏝️ Pray at the UNESCO world heritage Taman Ayun water temple

🏝️ Embark on a thrilling rafting adventure on the River Ayung

🏝️ Play with over a 1000 cheeky Bali monkeys at the sacred sanctuary

🏝️ Rise at 3 am to catch the sunrise over the highest point in Bali - the still active Mt. Batur volcano

🏝️ Hand-feed animals from inside a caged tram at the Bali Safari

🏝️ Taste the very expensive Luwak Coffee made from beans that have passed the digestive tract of an Asian Palm Civet

🏝️ Soar and swing over UNESCO accredited terrace rice fields in a flowing dress

🏝️ Take a beginner's certified class in Surfing

🏝️ Sign up for a hands-on cooking class with a passionate Balinese chef

🏝️ Immerse in the magnificent Tegenungan waterfall amidst lush tropical landscapes

And much...much more! 📈

Coz' it's a Travelicious adventure! 🥾

Please message for a detailed itinerary. 🤳

Let's go someplace new.🧐
Let's do something new.😇

🚣‍♂️Alka: 9339461983
🧗‍♀️Vishu: 9831915635

28/02/2024

Come spelunking with Travelicious !!! 🇻🇳

29/01/2024

28/01/2024

Lovely portraits at Thanjavur! ❤️🧿

26/01/2024

Happiness is just a swing away ! 😍

Our lovely guests at Mantrakoodam CGH-Earth Hotel after a delicious South Indian thali 🍛🥥🍴🍽️

26/01/2024

🇮🇳 from and our patrons at the UNESCO World Heritage Site! 🌍✨

25/01/2024

Triumphantly completed the Navagraha temple journey – each temple a chapter of celestial energy and spiritual victory! 🌟

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18/01/2024

Thank you for your love..We are full.🌝

07/01/2024

Discover your next adventure! Market, Bengal Rowing Club

13/12/2023

Come and meet us :)

21/11/2023

Greetings from Travelicious!
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We invite all solo lady travellers to join our experiential adventure to *Vibrant Vietnam* . 🇻🇳20th - 28th February, 2024 🙋‍♀️

*Top experiences in Vietnam!*

💃 Visit five major cities - Hanoi, Halong, Hoi An, Danang and Ho Chi Minh

💃 Marvel at krast mountains from aboard an overnight luxury cruise

💃 Swim and Kayak in the Halong bay

💃 Learn how to cook Vietnamese rice wraps and savour the world famous Vietnamese cold coffee

💃 Explore deep, dark and mesmerising caves

💃 Relax and enjoy a traditional Vietnamese foot massage

💃 Steer a coracle on the Mekong delta

💃 Fire an AK47, crawl through Chu Chi tunnels and relive the Vietnam war

💃 Pay your respects at Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum

💃 Shop at the Jewish Old Quarter and strike great bargains

💃 Party at the famous nightlife street in Ho Chi Minh - Bui Vien Walking Street

💃 Click Instagram worthy pictures at the Golden Giant Hand Bridge

💃 Unleash the child within at the Danang theme park

💃Tour the old town parts and gawk at imperial architecture

💃 Dress up in pretty themes and make friends for life

Please call or message for a detailed itinerary. ☎️

Let's go someplace new.🧐
Let's do something new.😇

🚣‍♂️Alka: 9339461983
🧗‍♀️Vishu: 9831915635

07/11/2023

Let's begin 2024 with the very auspicious 🕉️ *Navgraha Yatra* . 🕉️
*22nd - 27th January, 2024*

We invite all spiritual travellers to join this unique pilgrimage. 🛐

*Top experiences in the Navgraha yatra!*

🕉️ Visit 12 beautiful temples that are marvels of Chola architecture and listen to the folk lore connected to them

🕉️ Stay at heritage hotels in Trichy and Kumbakonam

🕉️ Travel by a luxury AC coach

🕉️ All pujan samagri will be arranged for you

🕉️ Savour the satvik albeit delicious South Indian and Chettinadu cuisines

🕉️ Shop for traditional artefacts and silk saris

🕉️ Get an insight into your horoscope

🕉️ Enjoy a day trip to Chettinadu, learn the art of making Athangudi tiles and admire ancient Chettiyar mansions

🕉️ Make new like-minded friends for life

Please call or message for a detailed itinerary. ☎️

Let's go someplace new.🧐
Let's do something new.😇

🚣‍♂️Alka: 9339461983
🧗‍♀️Vishu: 9831915635

19/10/2023

*Travelicious* is delighted to announce it's specially curated tours exclusively for *seniors and ladies* in *2024* . ✈️🛬

*Seniors*
🇮🇳Navgraha (Jan '24)
🇹🇷Turkey (April '24)
🇭🇺 Hungary & 🇦🇹Austria (Sept '24)

*Ladies*
🇻🇳Vietnam (Feb '24)

✴️Novel experiences
✴️Awesome adventures
✴️ Superb hotels
✴️Vegetarian lunch, snacks, tea and dinner
✴️Luxury and pampering galore
✴️Early bird discount

Please call or message for more details. ☎️

Let's go someplace new.🧐
Let's do something new.😇

🚣‍♂️Alka: 9339461983
🧗‍♀️Vishu: 9831915635

22/06/2023

The best people are the good old people! So...*Travelicious assures special and personal care for all seniors!* 🌳🍀

🌴 *BLISSFUL BALI* 💦
20th - 28th August, 2023
Rs 1,86,000 plus airfare, visa & insurance
Age: 40+


🌴Discover the enchanting beauty of Bali with our lovingly curated group travel experiences. 🌴

Join today! Few seats remain! 💧💦🌊

💦Alka: 9339461983
🌴Vishu: 9831915635

03/06/2023

Travelicious is *Bali* bound! 📯

🌴 *BLISSFUL BALI* 💦
20th - 28th August, 2023
Rs 1,86,000 plus airfare, visa & insurance
All are welcome.

🌴Discover the enchanting beauty of Bali with our curated group travel experience.

🌴Indulge your senses and immerse in Bali's pristine beaches, lush rice terraces, and rejuvenating spas on our exclusive group trip.

It's a Travelicious adventure! 🌴🌳🍀

Join today! 💧💦🌊

💦Alka: 9339461983
🌴Vishu: 9831915635

30/04/2023

📢 Last chance to join
*Vibrant Vietnam* 🇻🇳
20th - 28th May, 2023

*A superb adventure for children!*

*Last 3 seats left*

Some reasons why youngsters should sign up right away!

✴️Learn about the diverse and rich Vietnamese culture👬

✴️Pay your respects to the largest Buddha in Asia 🙌🏻🙏

✴️Savour the UNESCO natural heritage wonder - Ha Long Bay🗾

✴️Live in a house on stilts in a Vietnamese farm 🏚️

✴️Fly dragon kites and catch ducks 🪁🦆

✴️Steer a Bamboo sampan boat on the Red river delta ⛵

✴️Go kayaking on the Ha Long bay 🛶

✴️Meditate among stalactites and stalagmites in Mua caves🧘‍♀️

✴️Learn how to cook the traditional pho🍜

✴️Ride Vietnam's largest Ferris wheel🎡

✴️Do Tai Chi aboard a luxury liner at sunrise 🥋

✴️Sea-bathe and swim until a walnut brown 🏊‍♀️

✴️Be a ceramic potter and craft your own memento⚱️

✴️Walk on the world's longest glass bridge🎢

✴️Shop for local souvenirs 🛍️

You'll have so many exciting stories to tell! Join NOW. 🦉

🚣‍♂️Alka: 9339461983
🧗‍♀️Vishu: 9831915635

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30/03/2023

Do you want your youngster to do something out of his/her comfort zone this summer!!??

Like...

Walking on the world's longest glass bottomed bridge

Or....

Kayaking...
Spelunking...
Pottering...
Trekking...
Kite flying...
Cruising...
Duck catching...
Sea bathing...
Cooking the pho...
Practicing Tai Chi...
Meditating in a cave

Join NOW!

*Vibrant Vietnam* 🇻🇳
20th - 28th May 2023

*It's a Travelicious adventure! 🦉*

🚣‍♂️Alka: 9339461983
🧗‍♀️Vishu: 9831915635

22/03/2023

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16/03/2023

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13/03/2023

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11/03/2023

Travelicious presents📢
*Vibrant Vietnam* 🇻🇳
20th - 28th May, 2023

*A superb adventure for children!*

Some reasons why youngsters should sign up right away!

✴️Learn about the diverse and rich Vietnamese culture👬

✴️Pay your respects to the largest Buddha in Asia 🙌🏻🙏

✴️Savour the UNESCO natural heritage wonder - Ha Long Bay🗾

✴️Live in a house on stilts in a Vietnamese farm 🏚️

✴️Fly dragon kites and catch ducks 🪁🦆

✴️Steer a Bamboo sampan boat on the Red river delta ⛵

✴️Go kayaking on the Ha Long bay 🛶

✴️Meditate among stalactites and stalagmites in Mua caves🧘‍♀️

✴️Learn how to cook the traditional pho🍜

✴️Ride Vietnam's largest Ferris wheel🎡

✴️Do Tai Chi aboard a luxury liner at sunrise 🥋

✴️Sea-bathe and swim until a walnut brown 🏊‍♀️

✴️Be a ceramic potter and craft your own memento⚱️

✴️Walk on the world's longest glass bridge🎢

✴️Shop for local souvenirs 🛍️

You'll have so many exciting stories to tell! Join NOW. 🦉

🚣‍♂️Alka: 9339461983
🧗‍♀️Vishu: 9831915635

https://www.facebook.com/travelicious.us
http://Instagram.com/traveliciouskol

05/03/2023

*Travelicious memoirs*
Day 8

Cairo is eye-opening, maddening, exciting and frustrating all at once. It assaults the senses, but it has Giza and that one positive far outweighs any negatives.

So we went back to the far end of Giza to feel something heart tugging again. This time it was to applaud the Step pyramid at Saqqara and admire the fabulous relief work inside the tomb of the Mastaba of Kagemni.

The 4,700 year old Step pyramid was built in the 27th century B.C. for the third dynasty pharaoh Djoser. It is deemed as the oldest stone structure of its size in the world!!!

After a while dates and years blur and deep down one knows that whatever meets the eye is archaic, precious and has contributed exceptionally to humankind. But I digress....

We checked into the Holiday Inn City Stars, Heliopolis which has a giant shopping mall adjacent to it. Everyone was delighted. It was the icing on the cake and everyone shopped to their heart's content almost until midnight. They excitedly showed off their purchases to each other and exchanged stories of the hard bargains they had driven. Kalyan is carrying home Annubis himself! From one doctor to another!

Tomorrow we will visit the Egyptian civilization museum, venture into the Mummy's room and then head back home.

Team Kalyan has emerged overall champions and have been awarded vials of the famous Cleopatra perfume by Travelicious.

Few countries are as evocative as Egypt. Few travel groups are as lively as what we have this time.

May Amun Ra always shine upon them.

Signing off...

04/03/2023

*Travelicious memoirs*
Day 7

We explored four spectacular tombs in the Valley of the Kings. The interior of each tomb was embellished with colourful hieroglyphs that told many a story. We tried to picture read and came up with our own versions.

My version is simple. Upon death, the Pharaohs would be asked two questions and the answers would determine if they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was "Did you bring joy?" And the second was "Did you find joy?"

We have our own Joy. He's the ever smiling, benign spectator who likes masala chai. Although lyrics elude his memory, he enjoys humming and adds a melodious note to our symphony.

We all ate ice creams but that didn't abate the blistering desert heat.

The temple of Queen Hatshepsut is in ruins thanks to her crazy stepson who desecrated the temple beyond repair. As we trooped up the three flights of stairs, the scorching sun beat down upon us.

Sunita took refuge in the shadow of a column. Renu and Rashmi found their sanctuary too. By the last leg, everyone was feeling the heat but Gouri had it worse. It was time to hydrate and chill. We splashed water on each other and played Holi!

The trek was arduous so many folks chose to stay back and shop in the souvenir stores. The shopaholics - Rashmi, Manoj, Gouri, Uma, Mangala, Nirmala, Sunita and Alka were escorted to the Luxor souk. One man and seven women!

The rest chose to stay back at the resort and chitchat or swim. Incidentally, our resort was situated on an island in the Nile and was simply fantastic.

As we savoured dinner under the stars by the riverside, a song kept resonating within...

Bade achhe lagte hain
ye dharti, ye nadiya,
ye raina....
Aur....?
Aur tum.

03/03/2023

*Travelicious memoirs from Egypt*
Day 6

Tomorrow we depart from our ship
Our cruise will be over soon
So let's spend this morning
Sailing in a hot air balloon.

It was miraculous to soar over the Tombs of the Nobles, the Temple of Hatshepsut and other sprawling relics at the call of the rising sun. The entire dawn sky was dotted with colourful balloons and the scene was right out of a Disney fairy tale!

I stood inside the basket mesmerized, watching the verdant fields on the one side and the stark desert on the other.

The experience was so heart warming, sure enough I got a big bear hug from Gouri again. I confess, we now want to do things that merit more of them.

We gave some time out for people to catch up on their sleep. But the cards scarab has bitten Satyabhama, Pawan, Sam and Manoj. They sit on the sundeck and deal out hand after hand while the stunning Nile, palm trees and falcons watch their game.

Manoj has a 'kom ombo' heart. He's always helping us with the luggage. He's always assisting folks as they traverse the narrow gangplank. But ask him for a piece of his pizza, and he transforms into a stingy, mean miser. So Manoj is Joey and Sam is Archie!

Many of us ordered customised silver kartoush wherein the locket is engraved with the name of a loved one in hieroglyphs.
We watched the golden beans of Amun Ra dance on the Nile from aboard a felucca. We nibbled on dal ki khasta kachoris and sang songs to the beat of an Arabic drum.

Opposite the winter palace, on the kerb by the river front we had masala chai. The shutterbugs Manoj and Pawan got some priceless pictures of birds flying in perfect formation in a sky splashed with sunset colours.

Luxor temple by night and the beautifully illuminated Avenue of the Sphinxs are exhibits beyond compare. In no other temple can one so clearly see a combination of Pharoic, Islamic, Coptic, Greek and Roman influences.

Travelicious topped up the ship's international cuisine with piping hot badam ka halwa, gulab jamun, a variety of subzis, dal, bhujia, papad and puris on board. Happy tummies make happy hearts!
May we be the sunshine and lift everyone up like the hot air balloon.

Mia Mia 😊

02/03/2023

Some videos from day 5

02/03/2023

*Travelicious memoirs*
Day 5:

The morning saw us gaping at the magnificent columns and paintings of the Esna temple. Gouri was thrilled to see workers excavating at the site. Most sites from ancient tumultuous Egypt have not yet been unearthed.

When the sun was setting, we were sipping masala chai and chomping on ajwain sohalis in the outer courtyard of the Karnak temple!

The entire city of Luxor is a fascinating open air museum!

What's also fascinating is that Pawan has an ice cream every evening and then skips dinner! He's grandfather to a brood back home but still a boy at heart!

What's fascinating is that Renu wears elegant western outfits but sports a big bindi too! It's makes her look so distinguished and lovely.

What's fascinating is that Rashmi barged into the ship's kitchen and cooked scrumptious pohe for all! She has the head chef, sou chef and all stewards eating out of her hand. She requested them for vegetarian pizza and burgers and lo and behold, the staff scurried to carry out her wishes. The woman is a linguist and though she knows not a word in Arabic, she communicates with the manager smoothly!

What's fascinating is that everyone dressed up for the belly dance and tanoura dance show! But the best dressed were Rashmi and Kalyan. Rashmi wore the traditional galabya with a shimmering headgear and Kalyan was by far the most flamboyant!

Renu, Gouri, Uma, Sunita and Sam gave the belly dancer a run for her money. They shook their bellies and all other parts and danced the dance of love, joy and dreams.

Tanoura is an Arabic word, which translates to skirt in English. It is a traditional folk dance of Egypt, where the dancer spins to the tunes of Arabic songs.

When in Egypt, we do as the Egyptians do...