Who am I?
The single biggest complaint that I get from the visitors is that I haven't written a word about me in any of my travel write-ups! Here are a couple of lines about me: I was born in 1976 in South India and my name is Manoj Radhakrishnan. I am more popularly known as R'Man to my friends in IIT Madras, India (where I did my BTech in Mech. Engg., '93-'97) and Univ. of Maryland, College Park, USA (where I did my MS, '97-'99). I currently work for a software firm in Southern California. The person whom I keep referring to as my wife is Aparna Krishnamurthy. She was born in 1977 in Bhopal, India. She is an alumnus of JNTU, Hyderabad and Penn State University, USA. She is currently doing her PhD in Univ. of California, Irvine, USA. Please e-mail me if you are dying to know more about me or my family.
What sort of photographic equipment I use?
Camera : Canon EOS Rebel
Film : Kodak ISO 100 (both
colour film and colour slides)
Lens : 28 mm - 80 mm (zoom)
and a 75 mm to 300 mm (zoom)
Filters : Tiffin UV filter and a circular polariser
Tripod : Slik (the standard one)
Can I use the photographs/information available on the site for my personal use?
I give you full right to use any information/photograph on my site for any non-commercial purpose. I would be glad if you could provide some sort of acknowledgement where you use the data. The photographs available on the site does not have enough resolution for any practical use. If you e-mail me with a list of photographs that you are interested in, I would gladly mail you a high resolution version of them back to you. Oh yeah, before you ask, there is absolutely no charge for any of this.
Would you help me book/plan a tour to one of the places you have visited?
I am not an authorised travel agent nor do I work for one. Hence the best I can do is to provide the information and pointers that I managed to collect on my trip and also when I did my research for/before my trip. Of course, please remember that I have visited most of these places only once and hence the information I provide could very well be out-of-date and incorrect. Use it only as a starting point of your own research.
Can you suggest me some tour agents for these travels?
The following are some tour agents whom I have used/interacted with to varying degree during/for my travels. I haven't had any bad experiences with any of them. Please visit their web sites to get more information :
Adventure
Centre
Explore
World Wide
Geckos
Adventures
Peregrine
Adventures
Exodus
Imaginative
Traveller
Guerba
How much does your trip cost?
Well, you can almost guess the answer: it depends on the trip. To give you a rough idea, it costs me about $50 to $150 a day (excluding airfare) depending upon how well I know the place/people/language etc.
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