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From one desert to another, That Frequent Visitor now brings you to the Rajastan, the desert state of India.  The  Bhangarh Fort  ( Hindi : भानगढ़ दुर्ग) is a 17th-century  fort  built by order of King  Sawai Madho Singh  in  Rajasthan ,  India .   A new village of  Bhangarh  with a population of 1,306 in 200 households has developed outside the limits of the fort as there is fear of ghosts haunting the old city. The fort and its precincts are well preserved. Excerpt from hellotravel.com Bhangarh Fort / Kila is located on the way to Alwar and Jaipur in Rajasthan in India. As per a legend there was a black magic sorcerer who cursed the residents of the palace that they all would die an unnatural death and their spirits will stay there for centuries to haunt the fort / kila forever. This fort would really freak any living mortal. One can seldom find a temporary household in the close periphery of this fort. Let us reveal you one more fact about this place. The village households foun

Cinco Saltos is a city in the province of Rio Negro, Argentina, located on the eastern side of the valley of the Neuquén River, near the Pellegrini Lake, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from northwest of Neuquén and 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Allen. It has 19,819 inhabitants as per the 2001 census. The name  Cinco Saltos  (literally “Five Jumps”) refers to the five level steps of the canal that starts upstream at the Ingeniero Ballester Dam and passes by the eastern limit of the city. The first settlers came to this land in 1914. At first the layout of the town was made in the area north of the railroad, but in 1918 floods covered such lots and prevented further building. On September 16, 1925 formed the Village Development Committee. During the early years, the city did not have health care, safe medical mobile, just on 3 January 1960, it opened the local rural hospital, with the presence of the then Governor Edgardo Castello. The city’s growth was boosted by the creation of the

The  Iulia Hasdeu Castle  is a folly house built in the form of small castle by historian and politician  Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu  in the city of Câmpina, Prahova County, Romania. The only descendant of Hasdeu family was Iulia, a prodigy child, born on 14th November 1869 and dead eighteen years later, on 17th September 1888 from an unmerciful tuberculosis. At the age of 11 she graduated at "St. Sava" Gymnasium and the Music Academy of Bucharest (piano and canto). As a pupil of the "Sévigné" College of Paris, where she continued her secondary school studies, Iulia aroused her teacher's admiration for her brilliant intelligence. She took private lessons in drawing, painting, piano playing and canto. She continuously wrote poems, prose and theater plays. At 16, she attended the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at "La Sorbonne" in Paris. Meanwhile, Iulia attended courses at the School of Higher Studies in Paris. Her literary creation was to appear po

As I count down to the release of my second novel, That Frequent Visitor , I will be posting some of the spookiest factoids I have come across on the internet. You don't have to believe all of them or none at all, however, given the amount of Tim Burton movies & Scooby Doo cartoons I have nourished myself with, I can't stop getting fascinated by these Legends . The first one from the series has been presented by ScoobyDoo Fan  on 4girlsandaghost.wordpress.com and they are taking you all the way to Ireland. Spring Hill 4girlsandaghost.wordpress.com SPRING HILL - The 17th-century Plantation House, home for nearly 300 years of the Lenox-Conyngham family, reputedly plays host to the most-sighted and best documented ghost in Ireland. Site of the tragic suicide of then-master George  Lenox-Conyngham  in 1816, the Blue Bedroom is the traditional setting for the many well-recorded appearances of the tall lady, dressed in black, always said to be George's widow, Olivi

So Finally the wait is over and thanks to the folks there at Amazon, my book is finally on Amazon's kindle bookshop. Congratulations, K.Hari's book "When Strangers meet.." is live in the Kindle Store and has been enrolled in KDP Select. It is available* for readers to purchase  here . Buy it on Kindle @ $2.49 only

WHEN STRANGERS MEET.. (Sample Chapter) As promised on my facebook page, I am sharing the opening chapter from my debut novel WHEN STRANGERS MEET.. I would everyone to share this post and if you like this chapter, do make it a point to buy the book at the earliest... Good luck... :)    Prologue May 21 2011 Somewhere in Southern India 03:15 AM Everyone in the coupe was fast asleep, some men were dreaming lustily about the bodily amusing middle-aged woman from the next coupe while others were simply asleep. All lights were down inside the compartment, the only source of illumination was the passing track lights outside. The bulky man sitting on the side berth rose from his throne and slowly walked towards the washbasin located at the rear end of the compartment. He pressed the lid of the tap upwards. A stream of water poured down onto his hands and rest of them hit the metallic sink. With his right hand, he gathered few ounces of water and splashed it on his drie