Usha's Odyssey

Chile is a country located on the Pacific coast of South America. From Peru downwards it goes to the tip of S.America on West coast. We had already been to SA earlier . On our first visit we went to Brazil and Argentina as those are the two countries where conference was organised. We jumped at the opportunity to go to SA. Thinking we may never go again we included Equador as we wanted to visit Galapagos. And we also went to Peru to visit Machupichu, another big attracti

Nagano Prefecture is located in north central part of Honshu island. It became famous when winter olympics were held in 1998. The games took place in surrounding mountains of Hakuba and Karuizawa. And in mountains of neighbouring prefecture Yamanouuchi. As I heard from people a special track of rapid train Shinkansen was laid down from Tokyo to Nagano city to make it convenient for international sports people to reach there. A chance invitation by a Doctor who had attended m

This was our second visit to China. The conference was being held in Shanghai. Our first visit was in 1990 when conference was held in Beijing. This time we decided to start with some sightseeing. We reached Guilin from Hong Kong via Guangzhou. Guangzhou airport at that time was located right in the center of city. While the plane was landing I was afraid how the pilot will manage. But everything went alright. From International flight we had to change to local airlines. A

When we went to South America for a conference in Brazil and Argentina – Iguazu water fall, Galapagos and Machu Picchu – were high on our...

We were planning to go to Iceland on our way to USA. One of our friend had done this trip recently with a group. So we followed the...