Airline Ticket Deals & Offers Galore

If you are a frequent traveler and often have to book tickets with your ticketing agent I guess you are wasting a few hundred rupees on service that offers you nothing but a printed eticket. Instead you could get some great deals and offers given by few of these online ticketing websites. Yes indeed they charge you a few hundreds more but then definitely it worth spending. Some of the offers you get on these website’s are

1. Free ticket on every domestic ticket booking
2. Buy one get one free
3. Special discounted return fares
4. Cash back on Air Tickets
5. Offer on credit and debit cards

Instead of logging into the official site and register for their frequent flyer programme’s, keeping track of miles, these sites apart from offers do give you an opportunity to compare fares and make your choice of a carrier. They have tied up major credit card and debit card companies. Many of these sites have tied up with leading banks and provide online banking options to book tickets. Their process is seamless and saves time and money. They have a simple registration procedures and anyone can become a member. Members get mails informing offers, they can manage bookings, cancel, reschedule and print tickets at their convenience. If you are looking to earn a few bucks more or want to work from home theses sites also allows you to become their sub agent at very low initial cost. You could be ticketing agent if you have good contacts or you might as well save money on your travel. Listed below are a few sites that you can venture into to make sense of this blog…  Happy Ticketing….. 

http://www.makemytrip.com/,http://www.cleartrip.com/, http://www.ezeego1.co.in/, http://www.ixigo.com/, http://www.yatra.com/, http://www.travelocity.co.in/, http://www.travelchacha.com/, http://www.expedia.co.in/

Rameshwaram a place less travelled....

I recently visited Rameshwaram also popularly referred as the 'Benaras of the south'. In order to attain Moksha it is believed that the visit to Rameshwaram is mandatory. I was there to offer prayers for my father’s soul to attain moksha. Rameshwaram is significant for the Hindus as a pilgrimage. Rameshwaram is the place from where Lord Rama, built a bridge across the sea to rescue his consort Sita, from her abductor, Ravana. This is also the place where Rama worshipped Lord Shiva to cleanse away the sin of killing Ravana.
We started by train from Chennai to reach Rameshwaram it must have been close to 12 hrs journey before we reach Rameshwaram in the wee hours of the morning. I had already booked for my stay at the Tamilnadu hotel at Rameshwaram from Chennai. So we got into an auto and landed straight into the hotel. I was shocked at seeing the hotel for it had pigs roaming around freely. Having come from Chennai and for its swine flue hype, I was in for a shock because no one actually cared about it. Having lodged into our rooms we got to meet the gurukal who was to do the pooja .He actually suggested us that the best way of doing the pooja was to go to Dhanushkodi . Danushkodi is named after Rama's bow, is at the eastern end of the island at a distance of 8 kms from Rameshwaram. Dhanushkodi was completely destroyed by the cyclones of 1964. One has to reach Dhanushkodi on foot along sea shore or in jeeps on sand dunes. I thought it was going to be a easy ride. Man I was totally in for a shock first with the jeep in which we travelled and then the place it was completely secluded and was devoid of neither human existence nor living beings. Haunting Yet appealing, deserted but still full of life,— Dhanushkodi is full of contradictions. But once we reached the spot I was completely take back by what I saw first. It is a sure delight if you have a penchant for impossibly blue seas, pristine white sands and ruins by the shore. the nearest telephone about 20 km away, out of reach of mobile signals and the feeling of being in a place which was once alive, now reduced to rubble, makes it a place truly less travelled. The road that leads to the land's end is lined with casuarina and the sea on either side. A ride down this 18 km-long, impeccably straight road leading to the ruins of a township is an exciting experience by itself. We travelled along with the grukual who told us that the Confluence of Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean happens here and that make the dip in the water very holy. This natural phenomenon has a lot of significance and most people revere the thought and hope to attain salvation as a culmination of their prayer, sacrifice and penance in this holy place. After performing the pooja and offering on our way back to the temple we stopped at Gandamadana Parvatham Situated atop a mound, the temple is known for Rama's footprints. This is also the place where Hanuman is said to made a great leap to Sri Lanka. The temple is two-story on which the sanctum is on the ground floor. From the balcony upstairs, Ramanathaswamy temple can be seen, as welll as northern tip of Sri Lanka. After visiting the temple and taking photographs we started back to Rameshwaram to visit the Ramnathswamy temple . This temple built in the 17th century and is famous for its 1200 gigantic granite columns. The 54 metre tall gopuram (gate-tower), 1220 metres of magnificent corridors and the flamboyant columns embellish and render fame to the temple. The water in each of the 22) sacred wells (the 22nd being the ocean itself) in the temple tastes different. We paid 300 Rupees to the bucketeer to dump water from each well to secure blessings. The water from each well is said to bless you in some way. After performing the pooja we moved backed to the hotel stayed there for a while and moved out of Rameshwaram on the same day. As children we had to do this to our father and it was the holiest of experience to be at Rameshwaram.

AIB Conference at Kula Lumpur

I was at Malaysia recently our paper had been accepted for presentation and publication. I flew by Malaysian airlines, the very moment that I got into the flight I was surprised by the interiors of the flight as it was very ordinary the least to say, my journey wasn’t the best either. On touching Malaysia at the wee hours I was in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport commonly known as KLIA is one of Asia's major aviation hubs, situated in Sepang district, in the south of the state of Selangor, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. Im given to understand that Kuala Lumpur International Airport is capable of handling 35 million passengers and 1.2 million tonnes of cargo a year in its current phase. It is currently ranked as the 13th busiest airport in the world by international passenger traffic in 2007, and is one of Asia's busiest airport where it has handled 26,938,970 passengers in the year of 2007.The cleanest that I have seen till date.Moving out of the airport I was gaping at the structural beauty , the planning that had gone into this massive construction. Got into a cab that took me to the Marriot Renaissance Kula Lumpur five star hotel in the heart of Golden Triangle, a short stroll from Petronas Twin Towers, shopping and nightlife, the 5-star hotel in Malaysia features two wings with a state-of-the-art convention centre. I was there for the Academy of International Business (AIB) South East Asia Regional Conference 4-6 December 2008 on the theme Globalisation, Innovation and Leadership. The whole three days was in the conference getting myself to widen my horizons of management. I was in complete awe of the ability of the academicians from various parts of the world as they presented their topics in their respective areas of choice. It was a wonderful learning experience and gained lot of inputs that would further my knowledge.