Junagadh, Gujarat, India Travel Blogs

Maha Shivaratri, Night of Shiva, at Girnar
Feb 16, 2007 (29 photos)

Maha Shivaratri, the Grand Night of Shiva, the night after Shiva created the world, marking his dance, his marriage with Parvati, brings devotees from the countryside to major pilgrimage sites. One of those major sites is Girnar, a holy mountain holding ...

The Ultimate Stepmaster
Dec 19, 2004 (10 photos)

Amitabh and I rolled into Junagadh in the afternoon, just in time to have a quick lunch and see a bit of the amazing 'Indo-Islamic' architecture of the region in the gorgeous light of the setting sun. The most striking was the Mahabat Maqbara mausoleum ...

10,000 steps to Junagadh
Sep 7, 2009

... box, no legroom and no storage for our bags, which we had to lay across our legs for the entire journey.  Junagadh has no tourists, just us, which I find strange because its quite a nice little city, with some worthy attractions.  As per ...

Shivarathri, Junagadh; Beatings,marijuana & sadhus
Feb 24, 2009 (53 photos)

... attacking me are Holy men but very stoned ones. It was a festival that I only just heard about whilst riding through Junagadh on my way north. I had arrived in Junagadh earlier on in the day and with the festival and reported 800,000 people visiting ...

10 000 steps!
Dec 4, 2007

Next stop was Junagadh where we walked up Girnar hill to the temples. It was meant to be 10 000 steps but for once I was glad that the Lonely planet is an inaccurate pile of sh*t! It was only 7 000 which was such a relief, especially since we din't find ...

Junagadh, Gujarat
Apr 1, 2007 (6 photos)

Junagadh was a stopping off point for us on the way to Diu.  This busy Indian city has an old fort called Uperkot fort believed to have been built in 319BC. Inside the walls of the fort there are a couple of "baolis" which are steep ...

GUJJI SARIS AND RED BEARDS ...
Apr 5, 2007 (4 photos)

I need a shave ...

TI-GIR-LESS RESERVE ...
Apr 4, 2007 (14 photos)

... a sun soaked week in Diu, we hit the road once more, making a bee-line for a Hill Station at Mt Abu on the Gujarat-Rajasthan Border. We were counting the months, then the weeks, but its now only a matter of days before we exit India, for an ...

Junagadh
Jan 5, 2008

Junagadh

Junagadh - 10, 000 steps!
Jan 27, 2008

Junagadh is a very interesting place.  Not a small city for India but very quiet on Sunday.  There are a lot of old buildings here, and the city looks different and has a certain character.  There is also a fort and a very nice ...

Gir Sanctuary
Apr 4, 2007 (7 photos)

We finally left Diu at 6:30am on wed 4th april and rode a very uneventful and pleasant 100km to Sasan Gir. Gir sanctuary is the last home of the Asiatic lion and is over1400sq km of dry forest and we had planned to do a safari and hopefully glimpse a lion ...