Bhopal
Travel Blogs from Bhopal, India
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Racing across the subcontinent
So off I set on an epic journey to see my Budapest-ian friend Csaba, who's been working his arse off in India for the past several months, most recently here in Raipur, interestingly the capital city of a new state called Chhattisghar (say or spell that ...
Corporate Guerilla Warfare
... Vietnam vets. A few other places that Dow has screwed over include Midland, Michigan; Plaquemine, LA; Chloorkop, South Africa; Bhopal, India; Vietnam; Homebush Bay, Australia; Guaruja, Brazil; and Seadrift, Texas just to name a few. In ...
Heading back
... , not so busy and all lit up. There was a very attractive spice market but I don't think that Bhopal will be on my itinerary for future trips to India. Our train to Delhi was late and we were standing on the platform for quite some time which inevitably ...
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
After a 4 hour train delay waiting around in the middle of the night at the station. Overnight sleeper train was 8 hours ...
Trains, Rickshaws, and Bhang
... " has been playing bananagrams (Nick is slowly reaching my level), reading, and doing easy crosswords. So Nick and I decided to go to Bhopal and visit our friends, Alizarin and Dede. Making train plans the day of did not seem like a problem to us at ...
Abandoned again
... could, so we asked them to send a taxi for us to meet our flight. We then got our driver to take us directly to Bhopal airport, where we got some snacks and boarded our flight just a few hours later. We arrived in Delhi and got transported to our little ...
The Union Carbide Disaster
... exhausted from the relentlessness of it. We found somewhere to stay and got out exploring. We took a rickshaw to a nice place in Bhopal called Newmarket where we got something to eat.We then had a leisurely walk to Upper Lake, which I thought look pretty ...
Goa, Mumbai und Buddha in der Höhle
Allein die Tatsache, dass ich überhaupt noch physisch in der Lage bin, diesen Blogeintrag zu verfassen, ja, dass ich überhaupt noch am Leben bin, grenzt an ein Wunder. Liehen wir uns doch unmittelbar nach Jahresbeginn nicht nur für einen, sondern ...
What did we expect from an Indian museum
... to put your backpack, tiny bunk and lots of snoring all made for very little and uncomfortable sleep! about 3hrs I think. Rolled into Bhopal just after twelve today, another most definitely Indian city, found a room, grabbed some food and went off the the ...
Philip. I'm fine. England
... you won't snore". He said sorry, rolled over, continued to snore and we still got hardly any sleep. Anyway, we arrived in Bhopal - "the site of the world's worst industrial disaster". Some people will know about this, some won't. Jimmy was pretty clued ...
Closed on Mondays
... , no one was prosecuted for the accident at the time with the US based company and local government blaming each other. Bhopal court is now seeking the extradition of the Union Carbide CEO from the US on charges of corporate manslaughter. We were here ...
It wasn't a disaster!
... surprised by the sheer size of the exhibits and the well displayed art work on offer. I could have happily spent a bit longer in Bhopal and almost did when I got lost shopping in the Chowk. It’s a laid back city with little hassle. I did however, ...
Escaping to Zen and tribal tranquility
... announcements were made, everyone just lolled around sitting in family groups on the platform for hours! Finally making it back to Bhopal, I went to the computerised reservation centre to try and get a ticket for later in the week. Everything was ...
Anyone seen the mosque?
... and everything written in Hindi, which bus to take down to the main mosque, the Taj-ul-Masjid and a Muslim family - Bhopal has a large muslim population - squeezed around me giggling under their black veils, pushing their baby girl at me and prodding me ...
sundervan -on the way to manali
after lot of headaches of last minute booking thru mahindra holidays we were on our way to manali, after we landed at chandigarh ,we hired a private bolero jeep ..after sunset, we had to stay overnite at sundervan as it was not safe to drive all nite ...
Bhopal
... , but we did manage to end up with seats on the Sanchi bus (that's probably where every tourist goes from Bhopal). The roads in this part of India are not that great, so traveling the 50km took a very long time. But the stupas, their amazingly ...
Catching the Vision!
Greetings one last time from Bhopal, the city where you may remember, in 1983 there was a gas leak that affected 25,000 people of which 3000 died. It came from a battery making plant which was subsequently cleared away completely. Some of those who were ...
Bhopal and the Beast
... over half a million. I was staying at Vaneet's place in Bangalore during the 25th anniversary (several weeks subsequent to visiting Bhopal with Sundeep -- I'm writing this over 2 months late) so I was seeing a lot of coverage in the news, most of ...
Family time with the Saxenas in Bhopal
... villages, including the conical hut of local buffalo-herding people. We didn't have much time, since I had just arrived in Bhopal on a night train from Jabalpur that morning, and I was a bit tired. But since we arrived at Manav Sangharalaya ...
Put de Offering in de Coconut and Drink em both Up
... that I'm not the only tech geek out there. Eminence between the Big 3 varied across different regions of India, so I was glad to find out that Bhopal and its vicinity tended to focus on Shiva. Aside from having the coolest role, he had a really ...
48 Hours of Madness
... minutes a small cry from Maud awakened our slumber and we found to a little amusment (which then faded with the smell) that the India woman below us had just vomited all over the floor. thankfuly we gave her a newspapaer we had bought and she ...
Bhopal
To pegando muita chuva. antes de sair de hyderabad ja cancelei a minha passagem pq tava chovendo muito. mas tudo ...
Art starts...
... for highschool) and may be the smartest historian for his age. WOW. Now, I should tell you I’m kind of famous in Bhopal. Well, the idea of a foreigner is very popular to most Bhopali’s. We learned that if people show other people that they ...
When I reeived negative responce...
When i was doing every thing good, i was happy with my own, I was doing good, leaving into a kind of heaven. Professionally i had started making my own dream. Suddenly on 15.01.2010, a lady whom i do hate the most around the world did hell my hell. She ...
A Historic Conference
We had an organizational and sightseeing day in Bhopal on Monday, the Hindu day off. Jim spent the morning in a committee meeting with the new Emmaus Ministries India Board setting the agenda for the conference. In the afternoon 5 of us squeezed into a ...
Leaving Bhopal
... to some folks. WONERFUL night. I kept asking myself...Where is Kaloom? He bought a lovely sweater. I will miss everyone in Bhopal very much. My clinic staff family. My neighbourhood families. All of the children and families that we worked with. My ...
Bhopal... zucht
okay intussen al dag 4 in Bhopal... en Bhopal is niet zo leuk... ze kunnen hier amper engels, er is ook niet zo veel te zien (wat er te zien is hebben we al gezien...) en ALLE TREINEN ZITTEN VOL. Normaal zaten we nu al in Hyderabad, niet gelukt dus... Nu ...
Greetings!!
... ; I think very Indian has that perfected. Halyna and I went out to the market and bought a Kutra and Salwar, as Bhopal is a conservative community and our Canadian clothing was just not cutting it. Our market experience was… great. The stereotype ...
Sleepless in Bhopal
... 4 hours sitting on someone else's bag in between 2 wagons, one being the cooking wagon. Was really happy when I finally reached Bhopal at 7H40pm instead of 3H30pm like I had hoped for. Bhopal is the capital of Madhya Pradesh. Had to go ...
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