Country Info
- New Delhi
- Capital
- Indian Rupee (INR)
- Currency
- 1,029,991,145
- Population
- IN
- Country Code
Abu Slideshow
Abu
Travel Blogs from Abu, India
Still No Tainted Samosas
This is a top pick! ... temples just outside of town. Built between the 11th and 13th centuries and considered to contain the most beautiful marble carvings in India, we were absolutely awestruck upon entering. This says a lot as we have become a bit temple-jaded in our seven ...
Rock climbing
This is a top pick! 
India
Welcome to India Sir, where are you from? Nice shirt! Can I take a picture with you? In Indien ist man nie lange alleine und alles braucht ein wenig mehr Zeit, da wir immer wieder von jemandem angesprochen werden. Oft wollen sie uns etwas zeigen und ...
Honeymooners / Flitterwoechler
... von Indern ueberflutet sind. Einen Tag nehm ich an einer Bus-Rundfahrt um 80Rs teil, die uns zu allen moeglichen Sehenswuerdigkeiten Mt. Abu's bringt. Mit mir ist noch ein span. Maedel aus dem selben Hotel dabei. Laia und ich werden naturgemaess von den ...
Brahma Kumari Dreaming
I woke up having been dreaming about the Brahma Kumari's. This was my dream: There was a wild storm in Mount Abu and strangely, the lady leader of the Brahma Kumari's was dancing naked in it. This dancing would last for two days, nakedness being exposed ...
Honeymoon in Rajastan
... probably original inhabitants seemed almost unaffected by the busy tourism business going on only meters away. Reminding us that this is India. The viewpoint was a short walk uphill from the main road. If you really want to spoil yourself, you can either ...
On my way out of town
So I am about to board a bus for a 12 hour bus ride to Mount Abu. I thought I would type up one more entry here, just in case it is my last. Indian roads over night make me a little nervous. Today my friend Abbie and I walked down the ...
Journey to Mount Abu
... . We went for a row on the lake. The lake was supposed to have been scratched out by the fingernails of the gods. Mount Abu was originally a Shiva centre, before it had become a Jain place. The Nandi bull had been rescued from a chasm here by the son of ...
Green but not clean!
... of my expectations, and unfortunately none of it was its fault. At an elevation of 1220 metres high above the Rajasthan desert, Mount Abu provides the perfect temperatures along with views unrivaled by anything else we've seen so far. It provides a lake, ...
Amazing sights and sleepless nights
... we arrive in Mumbai which is a shame but at least no new people are joining us. We still, I think, have mixed feelings about India. There are some amazing sights and some very friendly people but there seems to be a competiton to create the loudest and ...
State of Rajasthan
... at the 15 ticket counters of a major Indian train station while about 400 people are trying to buy tix!!?? So - because I'm female and India has the great 'ladies first' rule (which I think Waz is taking great advantage of) - I battled the throng of ...
Mount Abu
... did a cooking class to perfect our Indian cookery skills. We took the chance to watch some of the Olympics and India won it's first individual gold medal ever in shooting! Some trains to Mumbai have been affected by the heavy rains ...
Brahma Kumari University
... made contact with them in the past through my association with Sister Nina in Cardiff. I loved that unlike other ashrams in India, who didn't necessarily practice the love and spirituality that they preached, these Raja yogi's were truly in goodness and ...
Mount Abu
... the North of the state of Gujarat, and as it has a relatively low temperature coupled with the fact you can buy alcohol (Gujarat is India's only dry state), it packs up at the weekends, all the accommodation triples in price, you have to Queue to eat in a ...
Baloo Poo
... - Mount Abu to Mumbai. One of the busiest weeks of the year due to it being the most auspicious date for a wedding and therefore all of India on the move. Trains chockablock and the only option a 20 hour bus journey. Fun fun fun. ...
In den Bergen Mt. Abus
... (ne wirklich jetzt, ohne Scheiss :-) ), also war ich schliesslich dann doch froh, die anderen wieder gefunden zu haben. Gegen Mittag des naechsten Tages verliess ich dann mit einigen Kratzern und einem dicken Sonnenbrand Mt. Abu mit dem Bus nach ...
New Years Eve on the mountain outcrop
THAR DESERT Rajasthan Borderless desert; Forever fascinating; Endlessly varied. MT. ABU Rajasthan High above desert Plains, midst tree strewn rocky hills. Indian resort with lake. Interesting visit. Ballet performance, ...
Dilwara temple
As I was feeling quite exhausted I convinced Komilla to take a taxi to Mount Abu. This was a good decision as the engine roared up the windy hilly roads where a bus would have struggled. We were really looking forward to a little respite from the hot ...
Dizzy heights and Indian Honeymooners
... the cave. After this we head to a lake and walk across a dam with no health and safety hand rails in sight…this is India after all. Myself and Claire do well to get across without having to get on our hands and knees to get across as the ...
The Bowman Family Takes on India!
Hello, friends! For those of you who aren't aware, my family is in India for the month of May, which means- no blogs. :( Already I've had some interesting experiences- was taken through secret passage ways in a bat infested palace that is not open ...
The Ultimate Sacrifice
Aaron's Personal Blog From Udaipur I took a side trip 76 miles to Rajasthan's highly regarded fort, Chittorgarh. This ancient complex was built in the 7th century by the Mauryans and was further expanded by the Mewar empire through the coming ...
Honeymooning in Mount Abu
... season this must be an even more awful job! The terrain became more mountainous and we eventually reached the bottom of Mount Abu, Rajasthan's only hill resort. It is where many of the princely rulers had their summer houses built and then the British ...
Hanging with the Honeymooners .......
... on a bus for five hours. Christ. This was a government organised tour of all the sites around Mt Abu, including the third highest peak in India, a temple half way up a bleeding mountain and an incredibly impressive Jain temple at Delwara .......... and a ...
Unfortunate Foreigners
Andy had heard that only two weeks previously an Australian girl had been murdered in the hills of Mount Abu, and what is more, another westerner roaming the hills at five in the morning got part of his face ripped open by a bear. For breakfast I ate the ...
We've not located us yet
This next entry reflects a real privilege, our tour leader from the tour we did for the first few weeks invited us to his families home - somewhere well off the tourist trail (and out of the guide book) deep in Southern rural Rajasthan, in fact its only ...
Ranakpur- nice get-away from the city - madness
... one every day... Thankfully our group got away ok, as for anyone who's read 'Shantaram' knows that if an accident happens in India, people might just take justice into their own hands and beat up the driver and possibly anyone else unlucky enough to be a ...
Ranakpur and Udaipur
Hello Again!! India is a huge place of contrasts and driving from Jodphur to Ranakpur was testiment to that - we left the desert in the same day as arriving in what apeared to be an over-grown jungle-like place. Monkeys lined the roads and there was ...
Mount Abu, Rajastan, India
... small place with hardly any other white people. The majority of tourists here come from Gujarat, the only dry state in India and a predominant Jain population who are quite strict religiously (see entry on Udaipur). There was a big storm when ...
Man Eating Bears and Indian Tourists
... he was on something). The crowing moment was where we shared a "peaceful" sunset with about 300 Indian Families at Mt. Abu's "sunset point". I just couldn't understand how those dozens of kids couldn't sit still after their 6 hour tours in order to ...
Mount Abu and Ambaji Temple
3/9/05 Mount Abu is the only hill station in Rajasthan, and home to the fabulous Dilwara Jain Temples. As the van climbed up the Mount, we saw the sunset and arrived at our Heritage Palace hotel called the Jaipur Palace Hotel. It is still the property of ...