Deadwood is a city in South Dakota. It is designated as a National Historic Landmark. It has become an icon of wild west. It lies in a canyon formed by Whitewood creek in the Black Hills and its area is…
Last year I visited four National Parks (Great Smoky Mountains, Mount Rainier, Olympic and Acadia) one by one and it took more than three months. This year I tried five parks (Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Bryce Canyon, Zion and Grand Canyon)…
Mount Rushmore Memorial during its construction (1927-1941) attracted the attention of many people including the Lakota Indian Chief Henry Standing Bear. In the year 1939, the chief wrote to Korczak Ziolkowski, a sculptor who briefly worked on Mt. Rushmore to…
Thillai Nataraja Temple has many names- Koil, The Temple, Puliyur, Chitrambalam, Thiruchitrambalam, Tiruchitrakoodam and Chidambaram. It is also called Bhooloka Kailasam (heaven on earth) by Saivites. The temple is known as the site where Ananda Thandava (Siva’s dance of bliss)…
Vethathiri Maharishi Ashram is in Aliyar, 40 miles south of Coimbatore. It is located under the foothills of Western Ghats. I went there with my friend Dr. P. Sundaram to attend a five day course in Relaxation Exercise, Kaya Kalpam…
Acadia National Park is located in the New England state of Maine. It is about 500 miles north east of New York City (Manhattan). On July 8, 2016 the park celebrated its 100th Anniversary.The park area is 50,000 acres….
Olympic National Park is 100 miles north west of Seattle. The area of the park is one million acre. It is four times larger than New York City and ten times bigger than Seattle. Three million people visited the park…
Mt. Rainier is “the mountain” for the residents of Seattle. It is 100 miles south east of Seattle Airport. It has an area of 240,000 acres (370 sq.miles). About 1-2 million people visit this park each year. It is a…
Lookout Mountain spreads across Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. When we visited Smoky Mountains, our bus tour took us to two attractions in the Tennessee side of Lookout Mountain and one in Georgia. Ruby Falls is an underground water fall in…
Great Smoky Mountains is a national park, an international bio reserve and a world heritage site. All in one! The park runs 54 miles east to west and 15 miles north to south with an area of half a million…