India Travel Blogs

Where the mozzies love Danny
Oct 9, 2005 (2 photos)

After leaving Jodhpur we landed at Ranakpur - a much greener lush place down in a valley. There were signs everywhere warning of leopards and I (Kate) admit to staring intently at the horizon just in case! The room we stayed in was pretty good apart from ...

Hyped up picnic, but relaxing
Nov 14, 2005 (8 photos)

... , legs, noses, and heads, flying, swimming, and saying no, monuments, temples, new friends, and rickshaw enemies, we will miss india, but i think 6 weeks in, and we're ready for a new challange, and hopefully more excitement, and less pain. goodbye india, ...

Thank you and Good Bye
Mar 10, 2007

... the blog.  I hope you have found it informative and learnt a little about the vital work of WaterAid in India and how they are changing and saving lives.  By continuing to support WaterAid we can give women like Champa hope ...

Bloody inconvienient tigers.
Oct 12, 2005 (3 photos)

So off we head, on a bit of an expensive detour to Ranthambore National Park, allday traveling there, just for some tiger spotting, kate is all excited. unfortunatly the day it self was not covered in glory. firstly we found out the tour, guide,entry,jeep ...

Holi Holi Holi Holi
Mar 4, 2007 (8 photos)

Today we were confined to the hotel because it is Holi, a Hindu religious festival of colour and paint.  For the last week we have been receiving colours as we left villages in the lead up to Holi, so we were very excited about going out and playing ...

Agra - You just have to visit the Taj Mahal....
Dec 4, 2008 (7 photos)

... ; There's kind of a wierd twist to our mentality here where back home you wouldn't trample on someone else's grave but here in India at the Taj we only seem to happy too whilst sharing this experience with a million other people..... Ok, a it's more of a ...

The last refuge of the hippies
Jun 11, 2005 (5 photos)

... are friendly, which truthfully, is probably because the locals are all Tibetan. It was here that we sheltered from the rest of India while we organised tickets out of the place. Our original 20 weeks had turned into 3! But we decided to cut our losses ...

Live dangerously: eat in India
Jun 11, 2005 (4 photos)

... flat space, i've flown over Oz and seen the African savannahs (ok, only on documentaries, but it still counts), but in India it's all cultivated. There are people everywhere. I think it's here that it actually hits you how crowded this country really is. ...

Luxury Camping plus a night in a Castle!!
Feb 14, 2007 (43 photos)

... it which does not appear to happen much in India.  Fingers crossed for this one as it really is a beautiful oasis in India. We travelled only for about 1/2 hour before stopping and getting out to walk through a farmer's wheat crop before coming to ...

Taj fantastic
Mar 8, 2007 (10 photos)

... return to Leeds and find the right words to explain what we have seen and paint pictures for people who will never see the real India.  Tonight we had a last meal in Delhi, and i finally got to wear my Sari (thank you Vinny) which was a gift ...

Chennai - Quick 4 hour stop.....
Nov 18, 2008

Loved this place as we flew into breath taking scenary and beautiful sunshine.... shame we weren't stopping!!  Off we go for our connecting flight to Columbo....

Leaving Delhi for Amritsar and our first Train
Oct 15, 2005 (4 photos)

... sit down without attracting a crowd and were a little too tired to see the funny side! That night we went to the India-Pakistan border to watch the ceremonial closing of the gates. There were thousands of people all cheering and clapping and chanting as ...

Tiger Safari - a very loooooong day
Feb 11, 2007 (4 photos)

... the National Park for a 3 hour safari in open roofed troop carriers.  We saw monkeys spotted deer and a few peacocks (India's national bird) but alas no Bengal tigers.  Really none of us held out for even the slightest chance of spotting one as ...

Delhi Delights
Feb 25, 2007

... . After catching up on bit of sleep we met the WaterAid India staff and learnt about the country programme.   WaterAid India have really grown and now have 3 local offices as well as head office in Delhi. They are working in rural ...

the weight of wood
Nov 26, 2007

... somewhere over the ghat, lost in the smoke and sparks, when i was pulled back to the realities of traveling in modern india. i got angry and frustrated...i got quiet and withdrawn. i made some of the volunteers uneasy and others angry. i just didn't want ...

Sanitation in the Slums
Mar 6, 2007 (14 photos)

Our last visit of the trip was to another slum in Gwalior.  The New Mehera Colony is part of the SESI project which we learnt about yesterday with Dr Singh.  The slum was very different to yesterday's and seemed to be much less crowded and a bit ...

sickness paradigms
Dec 4, 2007 (24 photos)

... isn't as hard as it used to be but my meals are still joyless tasks at the moment, a tragedy of epic proportions in india. i think that being sick while traveling, especially alone, is harder mentally than it is physically. or maybe that's true of all ...

The best curry so far belongs to........Mumbai!
Nov 17, 2008 (1 photos)

... but without a one Miss Bakshi.... Serves her right for a) not changing her name before we left and b) having a common surname in India (no offence Bakshi family, their words not mine). But like the true gentlemen Mike refused to go without his wife ( hee ...

DELHI
Oct 1, 2005 (2 photos)

AAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHH FIRSTLY FORGIVE THE CAPS, ON THIS KEYBOARD ONCE YOUR BIG, YOU STAY BIG. ANYWAY WE ARE HERE, SPENT SO LONG TALKING ABOUT IT, THAT I STILL DONT THINK THAT IT HAS SUNK IN. ARE ALIVE, AND WELL FOR THE MOMENT, IF NOT VERY WET BEHIND THE ...

Formal Presentation
Mar 6, 2007 (10 photos)

... gave a short presentation on behalf of the supporters visit.  Translated by Dr Singh, we discussed our impressions of WaterAid India and the fantastic work which we have been privileged to see.  We also talked the important role ...

Pushkar - It's legal here????
Nov 29, 2008 (7 photos)

Pushkar - the holy (and hippy) city We arrive in Pushkar and are pleased to know that the centre can only be explored by foot - hooray! We can use our legs and not worry about getting knocked over by a passing car or rickshaw. Unfortunately, cows and ...

We can make a difference !
Mar 4, 2007 (10 photos)

It is a great realisation that what we are doing really does make a difference.  Since the first day in Mudhkheda I have been struggling to see how anything and everything we've seen could even begin to help Champa and the others like her in the ...

Delhi - Bakshi family visit - Part 1
Dec 5, 2008 (5 photos)

Delhi - Bakshi family visit - Part 1 Too short but very sweet! One last and longer than expected journey to Delhi finds us at the end of our little adventure with Mintu our driver. After a hug and a generous tip for keeping us safe, he drops us ...

"Due South"
Feb 27, 2007 (4 photos)

... and learnt more about our programme for the next week.  I think everyone is nervous about tomorrow and going to see the non intervention village, but having seen unreal wealthy side of India this afternoon I am keen to see "real" India. 

Back we go
Nov 6, 2005

Jumped off the raft yesterday at 2.45, rickshaw to the bus stand, and then stright on a 7 hour bus to Delhi. i have a theroy that indian people must have callouses on the bottom to put up with this kind of tourture, it's much worse than those pesky ...

Relaxing, eating and some more relaxing
Oct 19, 2005 (5 photos)

... by a 4 hour bus journey, and made it with allot of luck. Mum just in case your glad we're on trains now, India railways have the most collisions in the world every year. The journey up through the Mountains to Dharamsala on a very crowded bus was a little ...

Om
Apr 28, 2005

... , is the Political Consultant for the Israeli embassy. There were about 45 people at the Seder--- Jews from all over the world.... India, Israel, Italy, the US, UK, and one man from Bogota, Columbia! The Seder was conducted in both Hebrew, and (accented) ...

big fort, awe inspiring.
Oct 6, 2005 (4 photos)

Moving on from Bikaner, sore, kate with a slightly raw nose from the sun, and the feeling that our budget for india, may have been greatly underestimated. next stop Jodhpur, or the blue city. we had a brief stop on the way at the rat temple, where there ...

Sanitation Celebration
Mar 1, 2007 (8 photos)

... in the work and their pride in the changes was abundant.  We were presented with a beautiful scroll, which thanked WaterAid India, from the left and right of their heart for their work in the village, and promises that they will spread the messages ...

Ripped Off, good karma?
Oct 10, 2005 (2 photos)

... take it's toll. i think we already mentioned the roads are like no other.i just read a satistic that 1500 people die in india on the raods every single day, sorry mum. we have been passed loads of turned over or pranged, crushed lorries. virtually every ...