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Nagpur Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Nagpur, India
A day of relaxation in Deogarh
This is a top pick! ... our entirely Hindi counterparts describe the situation and relations. Today, the division is 80% Hindi and 15% Muslim in India (5% Jain, Christian, and other), although a majority of the Muslim population is situated in the North closer to ...
Deogarh with a side of peace and quiet
This is a top pick! ... his house. Both stops were great as we got a good feel as to how actual lives are led and not just that everyone in India knows how to try and scheme on tourists. His sister's family is a military one. The father of the house comes home ...
Last stop
This is a top pick! ... walking back. We visited the zoo which is well worth a trip, had a day at Happy Land Water Park, wondered round the streets alot and finally booked our flights. Our time in India has been amazing and we will return soon. To be continued. . . . ...
Porcelainamana
This is a top pick! So the first day of my tour, I became well acquainted with a new India God called Porcelainamana...or the Indian Porcelain God! Thank goodness we were staying in a really nice, A/C hotel in Ernakulum, India! I can assure you that Indian food ...
Another Land-speed record
This is a top pick! ... by the time I had my puri masala and a couple of coffees, I felt much better. 300 km later and more of the same, I approached Nagpur finally around 5:30, and of course it took an hour or better to find a lodge, no-one knew where they were, and at last ...
come swim in the sea of humanity
This is a top pick! ... when I say hello or simply nod their head. All this stress and weight I felt after traveling in S.E. Asia (and worrying about India) is melting. I feel that passionate enthusiasm to explore my environment, and learn. I guess I hardened my heart a bit, and ...
On to the Indian Subcontinent
... people had died. We were very very lucky that the monsoon arrived the same day we did. On this day, we saw the India Gate, Humayun's Tomb, and the Qutb Minar. Delhi is also working furiously to complete the metro system, and signs of contruction were ...
Germans - Dancing
THE GERMANS ARE COMING The last place I saw a white person was in the Delhi domestic airport. Today I saw 12. Unfortunately we will continue to see them all the way through the Hornbill Festival. We call them "the ...
Test match circket
... it was the perfect opportunity to see our first cricket match. This did require a pretty big detour as the match was in Nagpur, bang in the centre of India, but with travel being so cheap this wasn’t much of an issue. To get there, we first got a ...
Arriving in Southern India
... to go and see a film this afternoon, after having been assured it was the right film a dozen times it wasn't! - very typical of India, you ask for one thing and get the complete opposite!! None of us fancied sitting through the film that was on so we made ...
khatu shyam
In Hinduism, Khatushyamji is a name and manifestation of Barbarika, son of Ghatotkacha. This manifestation is especially popular in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The original Sanskrit name Barbarīka is often replaced in Rajasthan by the Hindi version, ...
Let me touch you with my Poo Poo Hand
... Sudder Street, which is like the Kolkatan equivalent of Benidorm and woke up the sleeping guy at Hotel Maria. What a lovely introduction to India. There was a room with two single beds (sheet metal on legs with a damp mattress) with dirty sheets and a ...
Nirantara Micro Finance Program
... are not responsible to repay other members who defaults loans. (They used to be responsible for each others loans). The India replications are more like Grameen I - the Grameen Bangladesh's program until 2002 then like Grameen II - which is Grameen ...
Arrival in Inja
After all the stories of harassment and general madness at Mumbai Airport, it was actually a breeze. In fact, the organisation of passport control and customs put Heathrow to shame. Apart from a short stop for the taxi driver to urinate on the pavement, ...
Hinghanghat
... to drive, fortunately, and I somehow managed to doze in the back of Dolly as she took us south along NH7. We got to Nagpur and I perked up a bit, and was kept amused by roadside signs such as "Control you nerves on curves", "No dreaming while driving", ...
A Hobbit's Tale by Wilbo Vaggins
... ass. We stumbled across a man charming his python in a basket with his discordant horn--a much anticipated sight for the India trek as a whole. I wandered around, as in many tourist spots, catching glimpses of the tour guides ramble--attempting to ...
Magic with locals in Khejdla
We left Pushkar after breakfast and travelled to Fort Khejarla. Khejarla is a tiny village that has very very few tourists so we generated huge interest and attention. In the afternoon we walked through the village. I performed magic in the street and we ...
India
... great time! Please enjoy the images. There are so many to chose from, but I really wanted to emphasis the beauty of the culture within India and the women that are so oppressed. If you'd like to hear more, I have so much to say about what we observed and ...
Weddings, hospitals, elephants and lots of food!
... India, can't believe I'm nearly half way through my placement! I made it to the wedding last Sunday (stomach finally likes India! = big relief!!) which was amazing!! The colours and music were incredible. After a ceremony in a temple we went to the ...
Surat to Bohranpur (MP)
From Surat Station we got train to Bohran pur. The train was already 2 hrs late and we were just fed up with that station... After 2 hrs. 10a.m. we got the train and we reached Bohranpur at 6 pm in the evening. Bohranpur is a small town situated in ...
Niranjan - The Personal & Family Side
... met Niranjan at Grameen Dialogue last November and I wound up being personally connected to he and Dr. Kulkarni - also of India. Niranjan's wife is in Bangalore with her parents and expecting their second child momentarily - Niranjan ...
OOPS, I did find internet
ELEPHANTS! This morning we got up at 5:30, were delivered hot tea in our room and were on our way by 6am. We were stopped briefly at the entrance to the park reserve, as we began driving I heard the monkeys going ape, I turned ...
KewlShare - Host Share and Earn money with your F
Make money hosting files in KewlShare. The KewlShare is a Online file-sharing site, where you to upload files, share it with your friends around the world, and Make money with it. In addition to earning money to share, you can also earn money showing ...
LORD BUDDHA LIFE
... THE LEGACY OF LORD BUDDHA During the remaining 45 years of his life he travelled through much of northern India, spreading his teaching of the way to Enlightenment. The teaching is known in the East as the Buddha-dharma - 'the ...
Cochin Continued (Again and Again!!)
... introduced by traders from the court of Kublai Khan.We also saw St Francis church said to be the oldest european church in India and built by portugese franciscan friars.Vasco Da Garma was buried here until they dug him up and sent him back to ...
Another day, another breakdown...
We set off from Maihar fairly early, keen to make some progress after losing some driving time yesterday. There has been plenty roadkill so far, but today we saw a really big snake - somewhat grateful not to see it alive... We also passed a ...
Historier från ett tåg.
... en annan kille, inte precis vad jag blev lovad av agenten. Man blir dock inte direkt förvånad: Anything is possible in India! heter det ju. Att det fanns massa cockroaches i sleeperclass visste jag dock om, det är ändå inte ...
KUMBALGARH
KUMBALGARH............ KUMBALGARH.............. is there a cooler name in the world for a fort than this one? no. the location is awesome, the fort is or was impenetrable, never got taken, only once and it took the armies of three ...
Surfaced in Dharamsala
I have surfaced here in Mcleodganj-Dharamsala after 2 survival days in Delhi and an night train/epic taxi ride up into the mountains. I feel like Ive lived 100 days in the past week. 25 hours of flying and a complete reversal of day and night, can ...