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Bhuj Slideshow
Top Hotels in Bhuj
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Hotel Embassy Bhuj
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Gangaram Hotel and Guest House Bhuj
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Hotel Anam Bhuj
2 reviews
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Hotel Prince Bhuj
25 reviews
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Hotel KBN Bhuj
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Hotel Ilark Bhuj
19 reviews
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Abha International Hotel Bhuj
5 reviews
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Hotel Prince Residency Bhuj
14 reviews
Bhuj
Travel Blogs from Bhuj, India
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Taken for a ride
This is a top pick! ... tour of the surrounding area made us feel as though we had wasted a couple of days we could have happily spent anywhere else! Bhuj as a city is uninspiring and its only real pull is the surrounding villages and salt plains, the very reason for us ...
Annotated Bird Species List
This is a top pick! ... reservoir of Mardak Bet, Little Rann of Kutch. 157. White-browed Wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis) One individual seen at Bhuj tank. 158. Citrine Wagtail (Motacilla citreola) Seen in wetlands of Little Rann of Kutch. 159. Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla ...
India Nature: Kutch Backroads, An Essay, part III
This is a top pick! ... A large flock of sheep grazed in the grassland, confirming the difficulty of nature conservation and environmental education in populated India. And the shepherd had a face, a name, a family. Combined with nearby Nalia Dhond, the two grasslands totaled ...
Welcome to Kutch
This is a top pick! ... curving streets, was recently rejuvenated following a 2001 earthquake that leveled the town and partially destroyed the Aina Mahal, Bhuj's palace. Despite the recent destruction, I was amazed at how quickly the city had rebuilt and recovered, ...
Hira the Elder, Rogan Art, and a Harijan Wedding
This is a top pick! Along with Alison and Nico, a Finn working an IT job in India, I drove north from Bhuj and visited many of of Kutch's small craft villages with our guide Parbat Rabari, a member of the Rabari tribe of herdsmen. Alison, doing her tattoo research, asked ...
from jagged heights to baked flats
This is a top pick! ... to be close enough to the bus outside. I breathed in deeply and tried to ride out the pain knowing that driving in India involves blowing your horn to signal passing, coming around bends, saying hello, thanking a driver for allowing one to pass, scaring ...
India Nature: Kutch Backroads, An Essay, part II
This is a top pick! ... of Marine National Park. To get a permit, I spent a day in the bustling city of Jamnagar, a small taste of upwardly-mobile India Inc. "Permission granted," said the forest officer, several hours of paperwork later. I awoke at 5:00 am to catch the 6:00 ...
to the edges of imagination and back
This is a top pick! ... on the best method of taking in this area of Gujarat. As the motorcycle seems the ubiquitous type of transport in India, I decided to invesitgate the possibility of rental. Despite never having ridden a motorcycle before, I truly believed that learning ...
Bhuj Lake and Swam Narayan Temple
... on their hair. Jai came over to put toothpaste bindi on our forheads. Melissa and Swan went swimming every day in the Bhuj lake and this we accompanied them in. First though we visited a little temple dedicated to Rama, Sita, Lakshman and Hanuman. Old ...
Bhuj - Textile heaven
... planned for. Luckily we met an older couple Camille and Denis who were talking about this textile capital in Northern Gujurat called Bhuj. Soon Mike and I were tagging along too. We rented a car with a driver the day after we arrived in Bhuj ...
It's just around the corner...
... . So I am back in Bhuj sitting here in a dimly lit corner of Sreejhaan, a local NGO, staring into the constitution of India like one of those "seeing-eye" images, wondering if I stare long enough, something miraculous will appear. I continue to stare, ...
The Helpfulness of Major Bhati
... in our room like a shot. He had been up since 7.30 that morning, eager to play with Jai. Melissa said she didn't sleep well in Bhuj, and that normally she slept in a hammock out in the open, not within four walls. Melissa had to go out to attend to some ...
The Chillum Diet - 2 weeks with Babaji
... one. It is very interesting seeing the herb being used for religious purposes rather than of leisure & western social disapproval. In India marijuana is illegal apart from on certain festivals or to Holy men like the Sadhu's, but people see it in a ...
First Day in Bhuj
... reflexology flip flops as me. Thus guy had been working for a charity in Bangalore, looking after handicapped children. He reckoned Bhuj was great and said he had been travellikng around, visiting neighbouring villages on a hired moped. In the bank ...
Textile festival
... we'd been done like kippers. You can't give a tuc-tuc driver 1500 rupees and expect to see him again! Especially in India! To my absolute astonishment he returned almost an hour later with the tipple, his head still wobbling. This experience was a great ...
Just Say No (to Borders)
... a 25-seater bus and two Mahindra trucks with huge placards on all sides plastered with children's illustrations depicting unity between India and Pakistan and read Friends Without Borders. "Friends Without Borders" is the brain child of John, the man ...
Kutch, Embroidery Capital of the World
... we have been visiting desert villages of Muslim's and low caste Hindu's. They are among some of the most unique societies in India and the world - Harijans, Jats, Rabari's. These people too, must be some of the most photogenic in the world, with ...
Nakhtarana, Winter 2010
Apart from the usual I saw the following birds for the 1st time - Long legged buzzard Syke's Nightjar Eurasian Eagle Owl Rufous-tailed Wheatear Desert Wheatear Blue Rock Thrush Grey Hypocolius (rare) ...
kulturni zazitek
Opet jsem zmenila plan cesty, v noci jsem premyslela a prekopala jsem nasledujici den. Cilove mesto jsem prejela a vyrazila na uplny zapad Indie. Vsichni mi to doporucovali, pry to stoji za to. Tak jsem tu. cesta sem trvala 14hod, ale usla. Jeli ...
mirrorored fabric and birthday cake in Bhuj
... our own, looking out at the most pristine, deserted stretch of sand we'd encountered on our trip. Which is very surprising for India - where we'd seen an article in the paper in Mumbai arguing that rubbish bins were unsightly and should be banned. We were ...
Quelques jours de balade avant la ferme....
... motos, jeans et portables qu'ils pourraient s'acheter en gagnant de telles sommes. Société de consommation, quand tu nous tiens..... Bhuj Une nuit de train me mène à Bhuj, 450km plus à l'ouest, tout près du Pakistan, 150000 habitants ...
A Whole New World
... at the office to discover my banana was squished! So, I have recently been exposed to an entirely new world here in my Bhuj bubble! Up early the other morning, my roommate and I discovered a number of people out on the road walking....and even ...
Namaste
... take in all that much. Seemed chaotic enough though, and a healthy mix of old world meets bustling metropolis. Of course my flight to Bhuj (my smaller town in the country) was delayed- but only by an hour. Most of the passengers were amazed at my choice ...
Hinein ins Tal
... Tagesausflug nach Thunda Bhuj geplant. Da sich Yves hier gut auskennt vertrauten wir ihm und seiner Einschätzung, dass wir Thunda Bhuj, die „große offene Grasfläche“ in einer nur zwei-stündigen Wanderung erreichen können. Nach gut zwei ...
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