Mussoorie

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Indian tourist zone, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Indian tourist zone

A travel blog entry by benabroad

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Into India, Rajpur (near Dehra Dun), India travel blog

Into India

A travel blog entry by anjmahen

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... (no, i did not ride on the back of an oversized Japanese man) Until you've take a sumo, you haven't really experienced India-- let me explain... take a normal looking jeep, and then cram at least four people into the front plus the driver and unlimited ...

Back in the U.K. Auli, Auli, India travel blog

Back in the U.K. Auli

A travel blog entry by kiteboarder

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If i was to ever do some back country snowboarding this would be the bees knees. Completely open mountain in the back do some hiking and ...

Extreme Bus Rider, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Extreme Bus Rider

A travel blog entry by blissmiss

In the Himalayas and cold. After the most terrifying bus ride yet up the Himalayan foothills, I am safely in a town called Mussoorie. Mussoorie is perched on top of a mountain at an elevation of 6,000 feet with the Himalayas towering above. From my ...

Mussoorie, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Mussoorie

A travel blog entry by bradandsandi

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We are in Mussorie, which is a hill station in the foothills of the Himalayas. It was a British tourist town from the 1940s. In a weird way it reminds Sandi of Clear Lake. The resorts must have been nice at some point, but they do not look to have ...

Christmas in India (empty), Dhera Dun, India travel blog

Christmas in India (empty)

A travel blog entry by globalfly

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Two Months In, Back in the Big City, Mussoorie - Delhi, India travel blog

Two Months In, Back in the Big City

A travel blog entry by willisinindia

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... was cooped up inside for a while due to the rains and my Hindi final, but in our last weekend I did explore some parts of Mussoorie that I think are worthy of note. For one, there is the ferris wheel. I know what your thinking--'You Crazy? Wha yall ...

Safe in Mussoorie, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Safe in Mussoorie

A travel blog entry by lucy87

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... temperature is cool and the area heavily wooded with heavy rain for a good part of the day. We are actually not even in Mussoorie, but are housed about 15 minutes above it in a small village with a store that sells "provisions" as advertised by its sign. ...

How to Learn Hindi in 2.5 Weeks, Mussoorie, India travel blog

How to Learn Hindi in 2.5 Weeks

A travel blog entry by explr9

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Language training began on Monday, and so far it's going much more smoothly than I expected!  Our group of 12 broke up into small classes of 4 people each for our Hindi lessons, so we all get lots of practice.  We have four 45-minute ...

Himalayas, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Himalayas

A travel blog entry by davidandclare

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From Delhi we headed to the Himalayas, to a hill station called Mussoorie. As it is low season at the moment we were able to get a lovely hotel for half price...hooray! We have spent a relaxing 5 days wandering around, looking at the mountains, going on ...

Getting High, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Getting High

A travel blog entry by hedrandkev

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... explore the town on our own, as Abhas & Shubu decided to stay for a bit and watch the end of the match. Mussoorie is built along a mountain ridge, resulting in stunning views on both sides.  Unfortunately it was quite hazy, so we couldn’t ...

Rocky road, but at last away from the noise, Mussorie, India travel blog

Rocky road, but at last away from the noise

A travel blog entry by gypsyfeet

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The windy journey up here took only 3 hours but was tough, on Clare as we had to stop twice to err - decorate the side of the road. Poor girl has had a funny tummy since we arrived. She is being very brave though and soldiering on. I have been buying her ...

An Indian Hill Station, Mussoorie, India travel blog

An Indian Hill Station

A travel blog entry by fero_vrskovy

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... closing the road at right. (It's not like we are trying to find trouble… google tuskers in Rishikeh) We arrived in Mussoorie around 12:30 about 2 ½ hours after leaving Rishikesh. As the taxi was not allowed to bring us right to the hotel (many of ...

Freezing, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Freezing

A travel blog entry by krisraym

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... the foot of the Himalya - a perfect spot for a pot of chai and some deep philosophical as well as spiritual conversations... Overall, Mussoorie seems like it will be one of those places that calls to me long after I leave it, gently asking and reminding ...

Tiger Camp, Corbett Tiger Reserve!, Utteranchal, India travel blog

Tiger Camp, Corbett Tiger Reserve!

A travel blog entry by gemmakonrad

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Spent an amazing 3 days in Tiger Camp - a nice resort in Corbetts Tiger Reserve with the hope of seeing Tigers! We did 5 jeep safaris over 3 days, either late afternoon or very early morning, when the animals were most active! Very exciting because we ...

from delhi to mussoorie, Mussoorie, India travel blog

from delhi to mussoorie

A travel blog entry by imnotsadimemu

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... 30 seconds of silence just to take in the beauty and in that 30 secs we could hear the call to prayer from a mosque in mussoorie. As I right this I realize how cheesy it sounds but this was just too much... the craziest part is that we're gonna see it ...

Riding the rails, Part I, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Riding the rails, Part I

A travel blog entry by explr9

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... bit nervous about the train ride, since I've been in some pretty chaotic train stations and had heard that the trains in India have rows of seats literally on top of eachother.  However, my train riding experience was as smooth as they ...

Day 23, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Day 23

A travel blog entry by heatherandrew

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... too, so no loss. Friday was spent with Goldie and Summer (the two girls we went to Rishikesh and Haridwar with) down in Mussoorie. We spent it shopping and looking around. I like Mussoorie a lot actually. It's a small town with just one main road ...

Last Day of Language School!, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Last Day of Language School!

A travel blog entry by heatherandrew

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We just finished our final and we are now heading into town.  Just a quick update because we are going back to Delhi tomorrow and I don't know the next time I'll have internet access will be.  We both felt pretty good about our final.  ...

Himalayan Heaven, Than Gaon, India travel blog

Himalayan Heaven

A travel blog entry by w4nderer

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After arriving in Dehra Dun and all our little conferences and form signing, we were informed that the girls and I would be lumped together for the next entire month....at first I was irritated, but they would soon grow on me... We were also told that ...

Day 10, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Day 10

A travel blog entry by heatherandrew

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We are now in Mussoorie.  The trip for Delhi to Mussoorie was unnecessarily long, about 12 hours.  We hit two hours of traffic on the way where we were basically at a stand still.  And for no apparent reason.  I guess some things don't ...

Day 28, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Day 28

A travel blog entry by heatherandrew

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... called "Landour Bazaar" that's where I got my shirts made.  It helps to zoom out then you can see the larger part of Mussoorie, where all the restaurants, bars, shops, and the ATM are.  That's how far we have to walk to go get some more ...

Day 20, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Day 20

A travel blog entry by heatherandrew

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... town in India?  We asked him if he had ever been to the states and he said "no I'm just a hillbilly I've only been to Mussoorie and Delhi my whole life."  It was so funny, he said he had just picked it up somewhere.  Also the guys at the ...

Resting days waiting for the big step, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Resting days waiting for the big step

A travel blog entry by koaclarck

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... Vipassana meditation course. That was not much time to travel around on the bike so I just opted for some lazy days in Mussoorie, a hill station where the Raj used to spend summer holidays. It is now a tourist spot for middle class Indians who will ...

Queen of the hills, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Queen of the hills

A travel blog entry by snoogantay

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... types: golden makaques, Hanumans, and two others that can scientifically be described as grey and black. The town of Mussoorie, like the rest of India (as was evident by the seven hour bus-ride up here), is dependant on and centered around the ...

The city on the hill, Mussoorie, India travel blog

The city on the hill

A travel blog entry by chinois_gal

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... car from the hotel is waiting to take us to the hotel which is on the hill. Even in the summer I can feel the cold breeze. Mussoorie is famous for vacation so it has a lot of restaurant and hotel there. After checking in the hotel, we go to walk around ...

The Zen of Mussoorie, Mussoorie, India travel blog

The Zen of Mussoorie

A travel blog entry by lucy87

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Hi everyone! I'm settling into the Mussoorie routine pretty quickly, with school and meals giving the days here their shape. We wake up at 7, breakfast at around 7:40, and at a little after 8 we leave for class. We have four classes each day which ...

Punch Pooper no returns, Mussoorie, India travel blog

Punch Pooper no returns

A travel blog entry by penelope

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... to go on a trip to Mussoorie, I got a little over-excited as I thought we were heading for America. I later learnt that Mussoorie is a hill station 6 hours north of Delhi, nestling in the foothills of the Himalayas. Known to the Indians as Queen of the ...

The road to Mussoorie, Mussoorie, India travel blog

The road to Mussoorie

A travel blog entry by w4nderer

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... next trip I guess....                After a beautiful hike to Mussoorie, I spent the next several hours being dragged all over the goddamn town, sampling ice cream, because one of my ...

Hem Kund Sahib und Valley Of Flowers, Gangaria, India travel blog

Hem Kund Sahib und Valley Of Flowers

A travel blog entry by hanno

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Wir wandern zusammen mit Kascha, einer Polin, die Wanderreisen fuer polnische Gruppen im Himalya fuehrt und jetzt zusammen mit ihrem Mann an einem Trekking-Buch zum indischen Himalya arbeitet, nach Gangaria. Am Weg wird gezimmert und gehaemmert was das ...

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