The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Built in 1903, a 105-year old heritage building containing 565 rooms including 46 suites, and is considered one of the “Leading hotels in the world”. The hotel incorporates a taste of style and collection of priceless paintings and works of art in the era it covers. This was during our first tour in Mumbai in 2006.

I am a traveler at heart and have always wanted to travel to different new places hence I have this small travel blog as memoir of my experiences which I am so glad and proud. I have a list of places I want to see with my own eyes and step on my own two feet, and one of them is New Zealand. Why New Zealand? Because I have read several books featuring the country whose beauty is inviting me to visit, and I have seen so many wonderful photos and videos from Larry the Travel Guy’s website enough to me make me want to experience the exotic beauty New Zealand offers in its paradise myself. Just now I discover that it can become a reality, to travel to New Zealand, and most of all, for free! A free trip to New Zealand paradise made possible by Air New Zealand and Larry the travel guy. They are giving away to round trip flight tickets from Los Angeles to Auckland, so we can be a full time travel blogger spending priceless experience in New Zealand with our loved one. I wish I would win this. Aside from winning the two round trip flights the winner will also be featured on Larry the Travel Guy.com.

This is me in Mumbai, India with the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel on the background. This was during our second tour to the Gateway of India, with Paul the driver. It was safe and peaceful then which I am so thankful. It is just so sad that the seaborne terrorist attack not just damaged the building, but killed almost two hundred people, poor clueless and so defenseless people and tourists in a strange land. I know just how it feels, but the terror and fear on that day and the reason of the attack is beyond comprehension.

Frontier trivia of the day:

The best rooms in the superior old wing of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel cost more than £250 per night, India’s best-known and best-loved hotel in the heart of its commercial and financial capital.