Scotland - An Heaven on Earth

Scotland has so much to explore and enjoy the Natural Beauty, I think its just like a Heaven which is placed on Earth. Scotland is an combination of Cities like Glasgow & Edinburgh , Scenic Highlands and Isle's.

City's:

 

1. Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland, and the 4th largest in the United Kingdom.

George Square

Attractions:

• George Square
• Clyde Arc
• Glasgow Science Centre
• Glasgow University
• Botanic Garden
• Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum



Clyde Arc

• River Clyde Walk

All this above Attraction can be covered by Walking in a Day,.

 A map which show above mentioned place can be collected from Tourist Information Centre, ask them map which is used by 'Hop in Hop off' Tour Bus.

2. Edinburgh

 

Edinburgh is the capital and most famous city of Scotland, Before visiting Glasgow I was under impression Edinburgh is the biggest city of Scotland ;)

Camera Obscura

Attractions :

• Edinburgh Castle
• Camera Obscura : World of Illusion
• Arthur's Seat : Mountain's in Edingurbh
• Scottish Parliament : Free entry to Parliament
• St Mary's Cathedral
• Forth Bridge : Bridge used in many Film's and GTA, San Andreas Game

Forth Bridge

In Edinburgh most of Attraction are on same street, Street named as "The Royal Mile" or "High Street", There are couple of Walking Tour which you can join if you are not comfortable on exploring place alone.

HighLands :

Enough of City tour, time to move to Natural Beauty (an Heaven on Earth).

Attractions of HighLands:

Urquhart Castle

• Dunkeld Cathedral : It stands on the north bank of the River Tay in Dunkeld, Cathedral in Dunkeld is around 1400 old year. It has a very Scenic view of the River.

• Bell whisky distillery, Pitlochry :  A Tour of Whisky Preparation Process, History of Whisky Angel's ;)

• Cairngorm National Park : is a national park in north east Scotland, established in 2003. It was the second of two national parks established by the Scottish Parliament, after Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.

National park

• Inverness : Inver (River) Ness is a city in the Scottish Highlands and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands of Scotland. It's an nice place to spend your Night. 

• Loch Ness : Loch (Lake) Ness s a large, deep, freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately 23 miles southwest of Inverness. Loch Ness is considered as the Lake where water Monster was seen. People still believe there is a Monster in the Lake, but I didn't see it :(

• Urquhart Castle : It's sit beside Loch Ness which give a Great View of  Lake.

Loch Ness

• Fort Augustus : It's a very beautiful village, Very well constructed and organized. You can have a walk across the River to explore the Village.

• Fort William :  is a major tourist Centre with Glen Coe just to the south, Aonach Mòr to the north and Glenfinnan to the west, on the Road to the Isles. It is a Centre for hillwalking and climbing due to its proximity to Ben Nevis.

• Aonach Mor: Gondola ride (Cable Car) to the Snowgoose Restaurant at the top of the mountain

Dunkled

• Ben Nevis : Largest Mountain in British Isles, Standing at 1,344 metres (4,409 ft) above sea level.

• Glen coe : is a Volcanic Glen in the Highlands, It is often considered one of the most spectacular and beautiful places in Scotland.

LochNess

Glen Coe

Fort Augustus

Aonach Mor

HighLands Map

This Post won't be covering each and every part of Country but It will give you fair enough idea of it.

London in 2 Day's

I was thinking about next Post on UK then I realized most of people come to London for few day's, so why not a post which highlight covering London Attraction  in 2 Day's.

Few people may say it's impossible to cover London in just 2 Day's but I believe if you are Optimistic then nothing is Impossible. ;)

It's very Important to know what places you are attracted too, So that you can plan and cover them in limited period of time.

Day1 :

1. Greenwich

The Greenwich Meridian Line: Longitude 0°, is the center of world time.Defined by transit instrument and line across the Royal Observatory.

It's worth visiting Greenwich for following reason's

• Prime Meridian Line, which divides earth into east and west.
• Royal Observatory is best known as the location of the prime meridian
• Maritime Museum

You can spend almost 4 hours in Greenwich to cover all this places.

Prime Meridian

Maritime Museum

2. Royal Victoria

Emirates Cable Car

Take a train/bus from Greewich to Royal Victoria, At Royal Victoria spend some time near Port side before you get into Emirates Cable Car, This Cable Car will take you to North Greenwich.

I will suggest you to take return ticket instead of One Way.

At North Greenwich you can't miss out O2 Arena, An Arena were you can have  Delicious Food. 

If you want to enjoy different Cuisines under a single roof, Jimmy's World Grill is a place.

Now after having Delicious Food, it's time to take a Best Walk in London!!!

3. Walk across the Bridge's and River Thames

Take a train to Tower Gateway from Royal Victoria.

You are approaching toward a most Famous attraction in London "Tower Bridge of London", Your Walk across the River will start from Tower bridge once you done with Photo shoot :)

Tower Bridge

You can cover below while walking :

Tower Bridge

London Bridge

Southwark bridge

Millennium Bridge

4. St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul Cathedral

Once you reach Millennium Bridge take Right exit and you are in front of St Paul Cathedral.

• St Paul's Cathedral is open for sightseeing from Monday to Saturday between 8.30am - 4pm.
• If you just want to enter Cathedral then it's Open till 6Pm

5. Shopping at Oxford Circus

Enough of Sight Seeing, Now it's time for Shopping.

Oxford Circus is known as Shopping Street of London, It attracts most of Tourist in London.

From St Paul you will get a direct bus to Oxford St (Bus no 23)

6. Disc/Pub

It's time to wind up your Day with a little enjoyment at Club.

Piccadilly  Circus and Oxford Circus are well know for it's Night Life, Depending on your choices enjoy and Party Hard :)

I will Recommend Tiger Tiger,Piccadilly Circus to have a good time at Bar/Club

Day2 :

London Eye

1. Madame Tussauds, Sea Life and London Eye

After a hectic Day1 now it's time to start your Day with some amazing attractions.

• Madame Tussauds is the ultimate celebrity fun day out. Get up close to your favorite stars.
• Sea Life Aquarium  is home to an exciting collection of sharks, stingrays, turtles, nimo and may more.
• London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. Also known as the Millennium Wheel. It is one of most Popular Attraction of London.

Madame Tussauds

Sea Life

It is cheap if you buy Ticket Online from Madame Tussauds site, You can get a Combo Ticket for above 3 Attraction. It will almost take 5-6 hours to cover this place's.

2. Parliament and Near by

Horse Parade

Once you done with London Eye cross WestMinster Bridge to head toward Parliament.

Things to See:

• Big Ben, is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower.
• London Parliament
• Horse Guards Parade, is a large parade ground off Whitehall in central London
• Buckingham Palace, is the official London residence and principal workplace of the monarchy of the United Kingdom

Churchill

Buckingham Palace

Park

It will be almost evening after you have covered above places, If you want to take rest head toward one of this park's

• Regent park
• Hyde park

We have now almost covered Major Attraction of London, I hope you will enjoy this 2 Day's in London.

Thanks for Visiting this Page.

Longleat Safari Park, UK

There are few things which should be part of your Itinerary when you Visit a Country.

One of the most important things is Wild Life Park, So my 2nd trip in UK was to Longleat Safari Park.

I was so excited to go for a Safari as it was suppose to be my 1st Safari trip :)

It fulfilled most of our expectations, You can't compare it with the Safari in Africa, but LongLeat has it own Standard.
After all it's UK's No.1 Safari Park

High Light's:

1. Penguin Island

I think Penguin's are one of the Cutest and Smartest Mammal's, It Feel as if your are in Heaven when you get to touch and feed Penguin.

Get up-close with Humboldt penguins as they swim underwater and right beneath your feet in the amazing subterranean cave on penguin island!

There is an zone where you can Walk and Sit Penguin :)

2. Longleat Hedge Maze

Maze, where your sole mission is to find your way to exit Tower, There are few bridge's to get a glimpse of exit way path.

We were split in 3 Groups of 4 People each, at one moment all groups where lost and standing on bridge to find our way.

I was part of the group who weren't the Winners, because we were busy taking Pictures and Posing on Bridge's :)

3. Hunter's of The Sky

This is a Show where World best Predator's take to the Skies, Its an 45 min show and you won't come to know when this show is over.

This show how predator's have an accuracy and eye on the Target.

No Matter how high they are flying, Target is crystal clear for them.

4. Feeding Animal's

Once out from Hunting Bird show, you can find your way toward Deer Park.

I thought this Deer's were so lonely and they wanted to talk with someone and here I come :)

5. Gorilla Island

You will need to be on a Ferry to take a tour of Gorilla Island, This Ferry has a Speaker who will guide you about Gorilla Island and some Interesting fact about Gorilla's.

I was shock to know they have kept a TV for our Oldest Gorilla on the Island .... hahahaha... No wonder why we are so much attracted to TV :P

During your ferry trip you will be followed by number of Seal (Sea Lion's), I just felt they are so hungry whatever you feed them they will eat.

6. Longleat House (Bollywood Movie Shoot at this House)

If you are Bollywood Movie fan then this House will attract you, I hope every Bollywood fan remember Mohabbatein Movie.

Yes Mohabbatein Movie's Gurukul College was nothing but this Longleat House.

7. Safari to the Jungle

Last but one of Most IMP attraction of LongLeat for which I was waiting , Drive in to the Jungle :)

This Safari park have acre's of Jungle which is divided into number of section, each section is dominated by different kind of Animals.

Jungle Section:

Tiger Territory                                          Lion Country

Cheetah Kingdom                                     Wolf Wood

Giraffes Village                                         Monkey Drive Thru

Pelican Pond                                            Anne the Elephant

Flamingo Valley

How to Reach

Safari park is Located in West of England, Few miles away from StoneHenge (UK's Historic Place).
From Central London it's almost 2 hrs drive.

To enjoy Safari in Jungle I will suggest go by hire/own car instead of Public Transport.

Public Transport :

Paddington

Walk to London Paddington

About 4 mins (0.1 mi)

London Paddington Stop ID: PAD

London Paddington to Exeter St Davids Train towards Exeter St Davids

07:06 - 08:25 (1 hour 19 mins, 4 stops)

Westbury Stop ID: WSB

Worcester Shrub Hill to Weymouth Traintowards Weymouth

09:32 - 09:41 (9 mins, 1 stop)

Frome Stop ID: FRO

Drive/Taxi to Longleat Safari & Adventure Park

About 15 mins (4.8 mi)

Longleat Safari & Adventure Park Longleat Warminster, Wiltshire BA12 7NW, United Kingdom

Isle Of Wight....My 1st Trip within UK

I came to UK on Work Permit but Traveling is like an hobby. I believe it's better to Travel on weekend's rather than sitting at home and getting bored.

Isle Of Wight, A place from where my UK travel Journey started.

Its an Natural beauty where mountain and beach are close to each other, here the Mountains are white and it's not because of snow :P

Attraction in Isle Of Wight:

1. Alum Bay Beach

Needles Park Chairlift

which take you on the Alum Bay Beach and back, you can get an awesome view of Sea and surrounding's.
There is no walk way to reach this beach
Alum Beach is an Pebble beach and it at West end of Isle of Wight

Needles Park
This park is an good outing place for an Family, with few children rides.

Needles Jet Boat Ride

From Alum Bay Beach Jet Boat rides are available, which takes you near the needle's

2. FreshWater Bay

Once you enjoyed on Alum Bay Beach, Now its time to go Fresh Water Bay.

Its just 3 Miles from Alum Beach.

You will get an Awesome view of Needle's from this Place

3. Isle of Wight Pearl

Its a Pearl Museum, Diana Pearl dress is major attraction.

Apart from this if you are interested in buying Pearl Watch/Necklace/Bracelet for your GF/Wife/Someone than you should visit this place.

Its 5 Mile away from Fresh Water Bay

4. More beaches

There are lot of beaches in Isle Of Wight, We preferred going to Sandown Beach, Its a Quite beach where you can relax and enjoy if you are going with group of people.

Other beaches:

Ventor Beach

Shanklin Beach

Ryde beach

How to reach Isle Of Wight

If you are planning for a Day Trip than I will suggest hire a Car,

By Car you need to go till PortsMouth (South of UK), Take your car/bus on ferry (FishBourne Ferry).
This Ferry will take you till Isle of Wight.

Approx time from Central London to Isle Of Wight : 2.5 to 3 hrs

We went in group of 12 people, so we went by Mini Bus (14 Seater)