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Travel Blogs from India, India
The "sh*ttiest" hotel ever.....
This is a top pick! We've been sat here for a while working out what to say and have worked out that we are not the most inspirational of people so instead we will write what we can and you can tell us what you think! Here goes..... Delhi is dirty. Getting the the taxi in ...
Emma's Guide to Bollywood
This is a top pick! ... receive an autograph from some faceless Bollywood Superstar. For others it might mean nothing at all. But to the vast percentage of India's population, this name might as well be a prayer. Amitabh – or 'Big B’ as he’s affectionately ...
Endless Song
This is a top pick! As I sit in the cosy recesses of my home I wonder at times how I made such a long and tough journey, that too mostly on foot. I remember how every cell of my body screamed in protest on steep slopes and yet I moved on, sometimes alone in terrible ...
. Kalapani - The Blue Waters
This is a top pick! The entire route of Kailash yatra, it seems is humming with activity. The sleepy population of Bhot region has awakened to the new reality - the influx of tourists and pilgrims. They have come out from their valleys in full strength with their mules to ...
Cruising The Backwaters
This is a top pick! ... that sent him to the hospital two weeks earlier. He emailed the doctor while Sylvia, using Lonely Planet India's Health section, helped establish an alternative diagnosis. We decided it was most likely giardiasis and started treatment accordingly. ...
A pleasant trek to Gala ... The Third Stop
This is a top pick! Today is ekadasi, the eleventh day of dark nights and third day of our journey. Fortified by a good night's sleep we are eager to start our onward journey. Some of us have arranged for ponies to negotiate difficult ascents and a personal porter to carry ...
Things are looking up
This is a top pick! ... shut up compared to the mentalness during the day but of course the station was still jam packed! I must say the train service in India is pretty good. 2 hour train costs 5 pounds each and you get tea with biscuits and then a hot breakfast served to you! ...
The eyes have it
This is a top pick! ... and Jains, it is the centre of the world in Hindu cosmology, and considered the oldest continually populated city in India, 4,000 years and counting. The residing panoramic image is the skewed, staggered skyline of its warren-like quarters and temples ...
The Pink City And Amber Fort
This is a top pick! ... Fort, with its walls rolling all along the hills in a manner resembling the Great Wall Of China. For the first time, India appeared to possess a landscape. On the way back into town we stopped at the Jal Mahal. Seemingly floating on the ...
The Pink Gate of Jaipur
This is a top pick! I'm sitting on a bench at the pink gate of Jaipur, an hour after sunrise. I'd describe the walls as more of a coral or orange, but since this is the Pink City of Rajasthan I'll go with it. Even at this hour a steady stream of traffic honks past in both ...
Happy In The Hills
This is a top pick! We walked over to the bus station and ran into the Dutchman, with his returned backpack. Jason checked our bus with the ticket agent and he pointed to a white one so we boarded it. Sylvia asked a passenger and he made that uncertain head wobble, ...
Almora - The First Stop
This is a top pick! It is the ninth day of the waning moon. We reach our first day's camp in KMVN, tourist's bungalow in Almora, late in the evening. It is pitch dark out side and cold and damp inside. There is a calm and quietness about this place. During the rainy season ...
Trapped inside
This is a top pick! I'm stuck in a hotel again. Despite the noise from the temples and mosques, the staff are still asleep. Indian hotels keep fairly conservative hours or have habits slightly restrictive to someone used to to-ing and fro-ing as I please. In ...
Gunji - A Day of Rest and Medical Test
This is a top pick! It was still dark when I awake. The clouds have receded and the sky is a limpid turquoise blue, luminous with stars. There is a hint of silver lining of predawn light. A beam of light emanating from behind the hills is absorbed in the depths of the sky ...
The Golden City
This is a top pick! ... who got rich off the camel caravan trade routes. Just getting to the toilet (which one tends to do fairly often in India) is a journey: out of our richly decorated but undeniably crypt-like bedchamber, past the writing desk and wall paintings in our ...
Avalanche, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu
This is a top pick! The Nilgiris: Avalanche Revisited Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 Tiger Sighting on New Years Day Some hasty last minute plans saw us on the road to Avalanche (pronounced Avalanchi) just after Christmas. Jagdeesan, our ...
A Nicer Dicer in Bhutan
This is a top pick! Emma almost knocks me over with the strength of her embrace. "I can't believe you're here!" I extract myself to explain that I need some smaller bills to avoid paying some airport surcharge the taxi driver now says he's due, and her "I'm sure he does" ...
The Yatra - An endless Song
This is a top pick! We, the 14th batch of prospective yatris to Kailash-Mansarovar from various states of the country, have gathered in the reception hall of the Heart and Lungs Institute, New Delhi. Here, investigation to ascertain the fitness of each yatri to withstand ...
We like it!
This is a top pick! ... here. It's shame we didn't arrive here first instead of Delhi because i think it would have been a far softer introduction to India. Having said that maybe we are just getting used to the feel of India because we met an English guy here for ...
Luxury Camping plus a night in a Castle!!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Republic Day
This is a top pick! ... , but I'm deeply appreciative of the wool and acrylic items on display. The sweaters eventually lead us to the India Gate monument itself, which commemorates the contributions of the country to the defence of European allies during the first world war. ...
Conclusive Connections
This is a top pick! ... . Afterward, we wandered down to the major waterfront sites, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and the Gateway Of India. Having undergone major renovations since the terrorist attacks, the interior of the luxury hotel was spectacular. The ...
Tiger Safari - a very loooooong day
This is a top pick! ... into 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 ...
Endless Song continues
This is a top pick! Today, the morning of nineteenth day of August 2006, is a momentous occasion for us all, for on this day we are to begin our nearly a month long pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailash and lake Mansarovar. The doctors, after a thorough examination, have ...
Deraphuk: A Trek in lively La-chu Valley
This is a top pick! After an excellent stay here at Darchen we are now fully prepared for our 52 km parikrama of Mount Kailash . We start for Deraphuk early in the morning. Deraphuk is situated at a height of 4900 meter (16200ft) and is 20km away from Dharchen ...
On train, heading west
This is a top pick! ... month it is. Emma's sense of time has slipped into the manaņa. The train lulls me into the beginnings of a similar temporal trance. India rolls by persuasive and varied: a boy goatherd leads his flock on a dusty hill; humble huts of brick or mud or ...
Night train to Jaisalmer
This is a top pick! Moon broad but imperfect rides beside the train, beside we passengers that are part of this dark movement across the desert. Small stations pass, a single lamp shining for the silent players upon their stage. We are our own herald. All the ...
A peaceful interlude....
This is a top pick! ... , La Mystica, I loved Jaisalmer. It seemed calm, cleaner and more friendly than the other places we have been to in India. This feeling was confirmed the first time that we walked into town and through the markets...there was no hassle and if ...
Camel Safari
This is a top pick! Amazing, brilliant, fantastic! Despite the sore muscles and bums these are definitely the words to describe our camel safari. The Thar desert close to Jaisalmer is mostly scrub land but because of this the changing scenery made it more interesting ...
Jaipur - Agra Day 6
After Andrew fell asleep ridiculously early last night, he awoke at 11pm and couldn't get back to sleep. He resorted to watching Men In Black 3, a film I have watched many times. Being the horrible, cheeky person that he is, he also took his malaria ...