Hotels are considered good for tourists while the home stays are perfect option for the traveler. If you are thinking of heading for travelling and you are stuck which hotel to choose according to your budget. This article is for you, below I will write down why you should consider home stays over hotels if you are a frequent traveler.
What is a Home stay?
When a home is converted into a Hotel it is than considered as Home stay. The people who are travelling for the first time should definitely consider home stay as a good option because they are more comfortable, less crowded than hotels. But also they have some rules too. Home stays room service are also more personalized than hotels because of a few number of people staying there, while in hotels a few number of staff have to look on a large number of tourists.
The Proper authentic local food.
Home stay food menu is also 100% local authentic food. You can order the local food within the home stay. The food is like home and also is healthier than you might eat somewhere outside. The local ‘zaika’ (taste) can be found in the food.
In some home stays travelers can go in kitchen to see how their food is being cooked and also can help in cooking their own food. In most Home stays you can get a cook for the whole day and make him cook according to your wish.
Peace of mind.
Travelling is often done to explore and get out of the buzzing and stressed life of the city. For this Home stays have always been the best option. They are Medium sized and that’s why maximum of 10 people can stay at a time. You can also spend quality time with your family here.
Security.
If you are traveling solo and are looking for a secure place to stay than choose home stays, there you not only meet the families that might give you a handy advice but sometimes they also provide you with a car for your local travelling.
Easy on Budget.
Home stays are always a pocket friendly option. Home stays provide you with a lot more than only personal services. You can get into pool anytime or cook for yourself even at midnight, just like your own house. Sometimes Home stay even outshine hotels because services provided here are sometimes also not available in the hotels also. In addition to it, if you want a different experience choose home stay over hotels.
Special activities.
If you are staying in home stay all focus is kept on your comforts. They keep a close eye on you likes and dislikes while you stay there. Normally Hosts are very friendly and they keep arranging the activities according to your interest. The activities may vary from place to place for ex. – Coffee plantation in Coorg, Polo match in Rajasthan, exploring local villages and farms, picnic etc.
Your Home stay, Your Rules.
Staying in home stays doesn’t mean you will be bounded by the rules. With all the facilities available they also provide you the full freedom to enjoy the vacation the way you want.
Helping others while travelling.
What if you could help others while travelling, Doesn’t it sounds great? Homestays are run by the local families of the area so that they can earn their bread. These people construct their homes according the needs of the traveler and look after their every need while they stay. We help them in a way when we stay at their home stays.
WISHING YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR FULL OF HAPPINESS, GOOD HEALTH AND TRAVEL. 2020
Last few days of the month, holidays and Christmas week and New Year on the Verge. So much happiness, enthusiasm and smiles all around us. Pretty good scenes. Everyone will be enjoying every bit of the moment but after a few days life will come back to its normal pace. I don’t want to lower your enthusiasm or hinder your enjoyable time but just wanted to write about a topic that will surely be on the mind of students who just entered into high schools or passed out from the colleges/Universities. The word ‘Career’ will start trending for the youngsters. It’s just a simple word but defines your whole life. The word does not mean to simply land in a job and start earning money to pay your bills, clear debts or buy new clothes etc. this can’t be done throughout your life but it simply means doing something you love and converting your passion into income. So for the ones who are going to high school will be choosing various streams. Remember that this can prove to be a turning point to shape your career ahead. If you are not clear what to be always take advice and then opt which you find yourself suitable in. It is the period of time when most of us are not clear about our careers, what we really want to be. So it is common that most of us can make a mistake here by choosing the stream by coming in the influence of others. Be decisive in choosing the right one. And the ones who passed out from the colleges have already chosen a particular subject in which they want to advance. Sometimes it can also be misleading in terms that a person might have studied something but wants to do something else now. It is quite common these days. Happened with myself too. With the everyday changing world the concept of studying has not been limited anymore. Earlier the concept of going to college was to obtain a degree, land in a successful job and live a simple and happy life. While today this has totally changed Normal is boring today. There are hundreds and hundreds of options to choose from. No Career is small or big today but most important is your vision regarding what you want to become. From an Artist to a billion dollar company’s CEO you could be anything you want to. Specific courses has been designed to achieve specific positions. So most important part is what you really want to become? Take your time, don’t come under pressure to take one of the most important steps of your life.
Whom to Listen?
When choosing the career which mostly other people try to decide for you, there is a lot of advice that you get. So you might wonder whom to listen? A Professional from the field you want to opt for, your parents, relatives, friends etc. It totally depends in which position you are- If you are you totally clear regarding one particular field than you have crossed half the path, any advice from a professional of the similar industry will be perk on it. But if you don’t have a single idea of what to do next in life like me and most of us, than get beneficial advice from as much people as you can. Get it from parents, friends, relatives or anyone, but at the same time listen to your heart too. Every one of us a secret artist, listen to that it will be much-much beneficial for you in future. After sometime you will sitting on the sack of advice offered to you, see if you can get something of it but the fact is as you will listen to more and more advice, the artist inside you will get more and more clear what really is made for you or what you are made for. Don’t just do something because everyone said that it is good for you. Follow your Beat.
Be patient-
Whether you are about to join high school or graduated from university or college. During this time you are most likely to be burdened with parents pressure, your personal ambitions or getting a placement for what you joined the college. The students who are just going to high school will be stuck in choosing the stream which others (Family, society and friends) think is correct for you. Be patient in choosing the right stream for you. When you pass out from college there will be a chaos created around you with new decisions/advice/ opportunities forced upon you but don’t let this things dominate you. Relax your mind, be patient and decisive in choosing the right decision for you because this decision will entitle your whole life. Get advice from where you can, search for your related topics its pros and cons, find and accept your likes and dislikes, flaws and then whatever decision you make will be right for you. Give yourself time, don’t hurry up too much.
Family/ Friends/ Society Pressure-
The pressure of the above mentioned things can rise to a certain level when choosing a career for ourselves. Although the final thought should be of the person who has to choose it but these things don’t come so easily. Your parents and your thoughts can be going two separate ways but still you don’t want to hurt them by going against their will. You also thinks of the relatives who will firing questions at you as soon as you choose a career for yourself, and also you have to live in the society for obvious. You get afraid to choose a career which is not considered highly payable or so in the eyes of society. But just sit back and relax for a moment, just think that all these factors or people who are questioning your decision or criticizing it- Are they going to live your life? The answer is simply No. They will talk about you for a day, a week or a month but eventually will not care once you start reaching new height in your respective field. ‘They say our fate is written, but God gives us some opportunities to choose the things while we live’ and career is one of that things. Choose wisely, Live happily.
If you overcome all these factors I bet you will eventually have the right decision in front of you. Feel free to choose what you think is going to make the best of you in the coming years. You just need to give some time to yourself and even your parents to make sure that this will be best for you. Our parents always pray best of ourselves but in everyday changing concepts they might need some time to fit in themselves and have a mutual understanding with you. Always remember this was only for choosing the right career, wherever you join whatever you did you will have to start from scratch. The tools you learned will just help you get a position but reaching new height will take a lot of efforts. What they taught us at schools or colleges- Life will not be that easy and also not that boring at the same time.
After you have entered a company or started what you always wanted to do, Keep these few points in mind-
Be a Better version of Yourself
Stick to a task until you become a pro in it. (Keep practicing it, fail- Do again- Success)
Every day will be a new opportunity.
You will have to Grind, Struggle and work hard to reach the position where you really belong- TOP.
Do it with your full heart.
Accept your fears and flaws and try to overcome them.
There will be days when you want to quit, stop working and just stay in your bed. Don’t worry these things are normal, If it happens just keep your work aside, Relax your mind and start again.
Amritsar is truly the golden city of the Punjab state. The City is most famous for the ‘Golden Temple’ and secondly also for its food. It is safe to say that it is a food paradise. You can find every single food item that you wish for, from its very small street corners to the big bazaars the city is full with the lazeez zaikas. No one in Amritsar can starve because of food. The Golden Temple serves the meal for around 75,000 to 1,00,000 people everyday. Yes, you read that numbers right. So how can anyone deny to go to a place like this. So this Friday me and my 2 friends decided to go to Amritsar. It was the Saturday morning when we decided to leave. I packed my things prior to the day of leaving so I can get out on time, but like every time there is always tit and bit of things that I forget to pack. It was 11 in the morning by the time we started our journey, as we had to stay that day in Amritsar only so there was no hurry. We get the car fueled up and shifted to the main highway. It was a clear bright sunny day with a cool breeze flowing. We were going around 80km/hr and suddenly one of the tires of the car got a cut I don’t know from where, but we had to change it. We pulled up the car a side on the highway and changed the tire. After 15 minutes we were again ready to go now. (Tip- Always carry a spare wheel with you when going out of the city). Another 30 minutes of drive and we stopped at a roadside dhaba to have some Tea and biscuits.
After filling our stomachs a little we were back on the road and at exactly 2:40pm we reached Amritsar. We first went To Baba Deep Singh ji Gurudwara. I have only come to Amritsar once before when I was around 4 or 5 years old, so everything I was going to see today had to be first time. We entered the gurudwara and it was such a nice place. We sat there for 15 minutes and went to eat langar in the gurudwara. The food there was really tasty. We came out and started looking for a room for our stay at night. What I had seen in pictures, Amritsar was more beautiful than that. We searched a few hotels on the google map and decided to book one which was near the golden temple. The market near the golden temple was absolutely amazing, more of a downtown of the city. We booked our room and relaxed ourselves for the next 20 minutes. We got freshen up and then decided to to go to the Golden Temple. It was now 4:30. We started walking towards the golden temple, as we were getting closer to it, it was getting big and looking more beautiful. I had its glimpse around the corners of the road and I couldn’t wait to go inside. We reached the golden temple and I was simply impressed by looking at it. Every other person you saw there was in a great enthusiasm, happy and cheerful. We stood in the queue and after 2 hours we were outside the golden temple.
It was simply a great and wonderful experience and getting to know the Lord’s Teachings. While in the queue they have a hanged a few led screen on which they display the shaloks of the Gurbani, It was so inspiring and felt so wonderful reading those proverbs. We came out and headed straight to the local market. I love exploring the local area whenever I go out somewhere and moreover I know that the market was full with the amazing street food so how could I miss it. We explored around for 15 minutes when we came to one of the corner stalls named Amritsari special champ. Every eatery shop had this written on them- Amritsari Special, just maybe to attract the tourists. So we ordered Haryali and Achaari champ. We came to this shop after asking a few people where to get the best champ, so most of them suggested us this shop. Nearby was a stall of the Chinese food and we also ordered the spring roll. We punjabi’s love eating food and this place is a heaven to a foodie, doesn’t matter which part of the world you belong too. Our order came after 5 minutes and it was really amazing, champ was roasted well served with the onions and medium spicy chutney(Ketchup) sprinkled with a pinch of chaat masala. It tasted delicious and spring roll also came by the time I had the first bite of the champ. Spring rolls were also good, the golden brown color of the spring roll served with the ketchup and singaporian salad. It is fried noodles mixed with chopped vegetables. The food was delicious as we have heard from everyone who eats here.
Haryali and achari champ (above), Spring rolls (Bottom)
After the food we felt like we might not be able to have any other thing until tomorrow, but we had to have something more as we discussed before coming here. How can we only stop here, so we had a walk down the street and after 20 minutes we went to another local market, it was know as stall market or the locals pronounce it as ‘Rehdi market’. There were around 20 stalls selling different types of food, from Indian dishes to the Chinese and much more. Everywhere you see was food around. The market was filled with the locals and the tourists buying their favorite dishes. We sat on a table and looked at the menu of 5-6 stalls at the same time and bought a few items including pav bhaji , momos etc. I know it sounds a lot of food but trust me it’s almost impossible for one to stop after looking at this delicious food. We than came out after eating and again the food was outstanding.
Delcious Pav bhaji in the stall market.
We had spicy food so now we were looking for some sweet desserts. We than started moving towards the Market near Golden temple, we have asked some locals so they guided us to the shop. It was in a small street near the Golden temple and it served various sweets, kadhai milk and jaledbis. As it was getting dark and temperature was also falling down, so we ordered kadhai milk and jalebis. Hot milk and sweet jalebis, what else work better as a sweet dish on a cold winter night?
Kadhayi milk along with Sweet and Crunchy jalebi’s
So we came out of the street and had another walk round the street looking at some local shops and buying a little stuff for the home back before we head back to our hotel. We reached our room by 11’o clock at night and slept as soon as we laid on the bed. It was a good day. I set up the alarm for 7’o clock to wake up next morning as we had to reach home on time. The alarm went off at 7 next morning and I woke up on time and got freshen up and changed my clothes till 7:50. We planned last night that we’ll go to nearby place for a short round trip, but they wanted to sleep so I had to go on my own. I went out of my room at 8 and firstly I went to jallianwala bagh as it was just few steps away from our hotel. I went in there had a round of it, but I couldn’t see much because the whole place was covered as it was going under construction. So I came out and started moving towards the local bazaars (market), I was mainly looking for the food that we will have for our breakfast. I come across with lots of good options.
A classical designed building in between the market.
Clicked a few pictures on my way back and at 10 we checked out from our hotel and started moving towards where we will have our breakfast. We went there but the seats were full, but luckily as soon we went there a table just got empty and we grabbed that table. We ordered ourselves Gobhi naan. I have heard that this place serves one of the best naan in Amritsar. Our ordered came, a one piece of Gobhi naan with a thick slice of butter on it along with Cholay (Chickpeas) and salad accompanied by pickle. The naan was crispy and was roasted perfectly in the tandoor. It was amazingly delicious and I couldn’t stop myself from ordering more. We Ended our breakfast by ordering a glass of lassi.
Gobhi naan
After 20 minutes we were ready to move out of the city, put our luggage in the car and we were now on the move. We planned to stop at Jalandhar haveli for a cup of tea or so, It was around 80 kilometers from here. We reached there after a 2 hour drive and drink a cup of tea- absolutely amazing and we were again on the highway driving back home. So this was our day and half in Amritsar and it was really amazing. Hope you also liked it and please can you guys write me down where should I Travel next?
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