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May Newsletter

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Hello,

Here is the May edition of India Travel Blog newsletter, bringing you a quick summary of posts in last two month, a desktop calendar for May-2011 and listing our upcoming photography tours. Also, India Travel Blog has now moved to a new server to accommodate the increasing traffic. The migration had a few minor problems and some downtime in the blog, which some of you may have noticed. You may encounter some minor errors or problems in browsing paintedstork.com in the next few days, but these are temporary and will be rectified soon. Thank you for your patience.

Desktop Calendar. Desktop calendar wallpaper for this month is a photograph of misty hills of Munnar.

McLeodGanj. Read the three-part travelogue on the beautiful hills of McLeodGanj, its Buddhist Monks and on walking aimlessly in the slopes of this small town.

Photo Essay on Hampi. See images from Hampi posted in a two part series – one on the birds of Hampi and the other on its well-known monuments.

Images. Besides the photo-essays on Hampi, I also posted several recent images including rose ringed parakeets, backwaters of Kerala, Humayun’s Tomb and a bee eater. See them all here

Travel Photography Articles. Read travel photography articles on photographing monuments and on quality of light.

Upcoming Photography Tours

Our photography tours venture is going places, with wildlife in focus this summer. Join us on any of these upcoming tours.

Bandipur National Park. We are heading to Bandipur National Park in the third week of May, to see and photography a variety of animals and birds. With an increasing population of big cats and frequent sightings of tigers and leopards, we may be among the ones to come back with great images of these majestic animals. Go here to see more details and register for the tour.

Kanha National Park. On the first week of June, we are heading to Kanha National Park, where vast grasslands play home to a variety of wildlife including tigers, barasinghas, gaurs, wild dogs, hawk eagles, peafowls and a lot more. Go here to see more details and to register for the tour.

Happy Travels!


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May 2011 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

This month’s calendar is an image of misty mountains of Munnar. Download it in 1280×800 or 1024×768 for your desktop.

may 2011 desktop calendar wallpaper


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Site Updates

I was busy moving paintedstork.com to a new hosting service provider in the last few days. The migration is now complete. I have had some small difficulties during the migration, which caused paintedstork.com to be down for about two days in the last week. The problems are now resolved and things should work fine from now on. You may still find some minor problems or some error messages in parts of the site. If you encounter any such problems, I would be grateful if you can just leave a word here and let me know about it.

I had to move to a different hosting service, as my existing host was unable to handle the growing traffic on paintedstork.com. Host Discovery, where I was hosted earlier, had a great service and I was very happy to have stuck to them for more than five years. They had one of the best support team that was always available and went to extra lengths to resolve any problems I have had with the website during my years of using their service. But they had to ask me to move out as their servers were unable to handle the traffic generated by this site. Despite the fact that I was a customer who is moving out, they still extended their great service and assisted me in the best possible manner to make the migration smooth. If you are looking to host a personal site and in search of a reliable web hosting service, I would recommend them without second thoughts.

Also, some of you who are subscribed on RSS to India Travel Blog may see some recent posts getting re-posted. This is a temporary problem during the migration and should not repeat again. Thanks for your patience and a special thanks to a lot of you who wrote to me about paintedstork.com being down for some time.