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How much weight can a pushbike take?, Haridwar, India travel blog

How much weight can a pushbike take?

A travel blog entry by andrewanderica

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... is time to pack our bags from Delhi and head to pastures new. A chance to relax and unwind and find a more relaxed India. Today we depart for Haridwar, and the Kumbh Mela. A Hindu festival that happens in this form once every twelve years. The day after ...

The Kumbh Mela, Haridwar, India travel blog

The Kumbh Mela

A travel blog entry by andrewanderica

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... and tee total. Yes just to recap we are non drinking vegetarians, no seriously we are! Or we have been for 4 days now. Haridwar is a permanently dry city due to its holy nature and the lack of 'restaurants' and bars / off licenses ...

First Class Travel - A luxurious lifestyle?, Haridwar, India travel blog

First Class Travel - A luxurious lifestyle?

A travel blog entry by andrewanderica

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... we packed and prepared to begrudgingly give up our luxury (by current standards), we even had a shower with a head! (The showers in India in our budget range have comprised a cold tap, a big bucket and a measuring jug for pouring over yourself). Had lunch ...

Oh, ah Haridwar, Haridwar, India travel blog

Oh, ah Haridwar

A travel blog entry by benabroad

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Head to the mountains, Haridwar, India travel blog

Head to the mountains

A travel blog entry by jameshopkinson

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... headed straight across the train line...which we thought was crazy when we first arrived. The norm now. Walking into Haridwar, which is pretty far north within India and getting close to Nepal, we picked up the smell of Hashish(!) a few times. We'd heard ...

Isn't it romantic?, Haridwar, India travel blog

Isn't it romantic?

A travel blog entry by krisraym

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This evening we decided to venture over to the ghats to try to unobtrusively observe the candle ceremony that takes place each evening as the sun goes down. Hordes of families had gathered at the river's edge to pray and send their offerings down the ...

Day 19 - Haridwar, Haridwar, India travel blog

Day 19 - Haridwar

A travel blog entry by bhavish

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Had Raj take me to Swami Ramdevji's Patanjali Yogpeeth centre which is just outside Haridwar. It's an impressive site with ell maintained garden areas and a modern suite of buildings. On entering the main building it feels very much like a hospital and in ...

Serendipity, Haridwar, India travel blog

Serendipity

A travel blog entry by krisraym

... famous by The Beatles, or to McLeod Ganj to see with my own eyes the site of the Tibetan government in exile.  But first to Haridwar... After four hours on the train (not such a big deal since for some reason I seem to love Indian trains--???), and a ...

How many temples??!, Haridwar, India travel blog

How many temples??!

A travel blog entry by mosesthewench

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Kumbh Mela, Haridwar, India travel blog

Kumbh Mela

A travel blog entry by simonkal

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When we first arrived at Haridwar it was sweltering heat after a really long train Journey on the Shatabadi Express and because of the Kumbh Mela it was mega busy and mega expensive to get a rickshaw. We started walking as you can usually get a much ...

Haridwar-- First Glimpse of the Ganges, Hardwar, India travel blog

Haridwar-- First Glimpse of the Ganges

A travel blog entry by mattarah

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Hello everyone! We just got done spending two days in Hardwar, a city which has been central to Hinduism for thousands of years. This fact really set the tone of our experience here-- most of the people that come here are on a pilgrammage and the city ...

First glimpse of the Ganges, Haridwar, India travel blog

First glimpse of the Ganges

A travel blog entry by onelongsummer

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... person disguise!) we discovered that once in the infamous foreigner's office it was pretty straight forward. We arrived in Haridwar on Friday morning after a pleasant trip on the train, Haridwar is a very important city ...

Uttaranchal, India, Haridwar, India travel blog

Uttaranchal, India

A travel blog entry by mishandlauren

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... that we are plied with along with every cup of chai. Brendan, you'll be proud, we are officially vegetarian for India--for necessity and for health. 20 minutes and much frustration later.... So still no pictures. There is barely enough bandwidth to ...

Jun 02, 2011, Haridwar, India travel blog

Jun 02, 2011

A travel blog entry by ktx

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Purify the Colors, Purify My Mind, Haridwar, India travel blog

Purify the Colors, Purify My Mind

A travel blog entry by gleckelgirls

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... of year. (M: Actually, word on the street is that it's 8 degrees Celcius warmer than usual - gotta love global warming!) Haridwar is a small city with a big rep, especially at this time of year, when folks from all over are making their pilgrimages ...

A few pics from my trip!, Delhi, Amritsar, and Haridwar, India travel blog

A few pics from my trip!

A travel blog entry by quirk

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Since I've had a difficult time finding a computer that isn't super slow I've had to wait till now to post some pics and vids, sorry for the delay!  I have a lot more pictures but have had a difficult time trying to upload them, hopefuly in a few ...

Holy Ganges, Haridwar, India travel blog

Holy Ganges

A travel blog entry by eddieandlynn

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 Hardiwar is our next destination, chosen because it's located on the sacred river Ganges.   We are really going to use it for the night a jumping off spot to Rishiskesh, but are excited to catch our first glimpse of this mighty and holy ...

Look, here's a footprint!- Haridwar, Haridwar, India travel blog

Look, here's a footprint!- Haridwar

A travel blog entry by mishandlauren

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... Sikh religion and one of the places we've had on our itinerary from the very beginning of our plan to come to India. But first we will catch our train in Haridwar. It is a night train so we had time to witness the evening bathing in the Ganges, at Hark-i- ...

Spiritual Stay, Haridwar and Chandigarh, India travel blog

Spiritual Stay

A travel blog entry by joandpaul

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... was so civilised, they even brought many cups of chai and quite a tasty snack. And it didn't smell. Our stay in Haridwar commenced with some trepidation as we'd booked into the Mohyal Ashram. An ashram is essentially a commune with a guru who advises ...

Tiger hunting, Jim Corbett National Park, India travel blog

Tiger hunting

A travel blog entry by queenietord

saw a tiger for the first ...

Pindari Glacier Trek, Himalayas, Bageswar, India travel blog

Pindari Glacier Trek, Himalayas

A travel blog entry by mishandlauren

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... to India in the first place. Some people come to India on a spiritual quest, some because they are intrepid travelers and India is the final frontier for traveling with intrepid-ness.  We came because of the mountains. Hiking, or trekking, which is ...

Guests...not tourists, Haridwar, India travel blog

Guests...not tourists

A travel blog entry by mishandlauren

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We are actually in Khotdwar, in the state of Uttaranchal, but the map pin above is close enough. We are beginning to feel like family here. We've been guided around by a friend of the Rawat family for the last two days. We are staying with Dr's H.S. ...

Delhi to Haridwar, Haridwar, India travel blog

Delhi to Haridwar

A travel blog entry by arinbasu

... in the bustle of the small town life of Haridwar. We had a large, whitewashed room with Spartan facilities, I mean really spartan. Haridwar was a small busy rugged town by the river. Nature was bountiful and kind. That was more than we could have ...

Yush's mundan, Haridwar, India travel blog

Yush's mundan

A travel blog entry by raj_and_komilla

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... taxi ride (feeling a bit spoilt) but it's the easiest way to get to our next accomodation. Arrived in Haridwar with enough time to catch most of the India vs. Australia World cup quarter-final. We stopped off at the Ramdev (a very famous Yoga teacher) ...

first view of the Ganges (empty), Haridwar, India travel blog

first view of the Ganges (empty)

A travel blog entry by globalfly

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Rishikesh, Haridwar, India travel blog

Rishikesh

A travel blog entry by joe_cox

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... view we had a wander down into the town through the small streets and over the narrow pedestrians' only bridge – which in India means only people/carts/motorbikes (oh the cows of course!). Over the other side of the bridge we found that Rishikesh ...

Day 18 - Happy Diwali!, Haridwar, India travel blog

Day 18 - Happy Diwali!

A travel blog entry by bhavish

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... had it's picture taken by me. I think it was a Monitor Lizard...around 2-3 feet long. How cool. Got to my Hotel n Haridwar called Laxmi Sadan. nice big room and looked clean. Lets hope it doesn't get infested with ants/mice/gecko's... Dropped my stuff of ...

The Magical Mystery Tour: part 1, Haridwar, India travel blog

The Magical Mystery Tour: part 1

A travel blog entry by hammitt

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... religious country.  In Haridwar that religion surfaces, and among the crowds, the merchants, the beggars, the rickshaws and the monkeys there is something unquestionably holy about Haridwar.  Something I will have to come back to see ...

Day 7 - Haridwar briefly, Haridwar, India travel blog

Day 7 - Haridwar briefly

A travel blog entry by bhavish

... god for a/c. After a brief chat with Mukesh at Delhi tours I say goodbye to him and Bharat and start the journey to Haridwar. 6 hours of bumpy roads, incessant horning, pollution, a bad headache and a brief dinner stop we arrive at the Radiant hotel, my ...

Haridwar, Haridwar, India travel blog

Haridwar

A travel blog entry by jonathanfoster

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... down the comfort level for the next train ride at that experience was obviously more comfortable and expensive than necessary. Haridwar is considered a holy city; the location where the Ganges River emerges from the Himalayas and where the god Vishnu ...

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