New delhi, India Travel Blogs

India
Oct 2, 2004 (16 photos)

... of crops or supplies. I even saw a few monkeys running around. I took a first class train today. After three nights in Delhi, I felt it was appropriate. Breakfast and drinks were served during the 5 hour ride. All for under $9. Not bad. I usually opt ...

Incredible India
Sep 26, 2006 (15 photos)

****work in progress *** please check back later for more pics and the full story*** About once a quarter Melanie goes to India for a very fast 2-3 days of meetings. Normally she arrives at midnight the night before the meeting and leaves at 2 a.m the ...

Holy Cow!
Feb 15, 2004 (5 photos)

... , they'd scramble across the railing and jump head first into the tree 2 floors down. From Varanasi we took a train to New Delhi. The Indian train system deserves some mention. It is the largest private employer in the world, and the tracks branch ...

Final Chapter
Dec 9, 2004 (3 photos)

... travelling we'd done already, nothing could have prepared us for this! Despite what we've just said, though , India is enchanting! Totally unwesternised, it's the most culturally different and exotic place we've ever seen. Despite the frustrations ...

A twist of karma...
Apr 30, 2005 (2 photos)

... Why would you go to that area and not somewhere else, like Agra Fort?" "Yeah yeah yeah- everything is always "closed" in India" (We've learned a few lessons from our Lonely Planet- namely that people in India will tell you anything that you want is ...

Touchdown India
Oct 18, 2004 (11 photos)

... that simple. I read that it's the wealthy's duty to provide work for servants or their stinginess is frowned upon. Riding back to New Delhi and our bus broke down. The driver fixed the engine with a piece of YARN! Magically, it worked and hours later ...

New Delhi
Dec 16, 2007 (29 photos)

New Delhi

Hills of the Himalayas, Golden Temple at Amritsar
Oct 23, 2006 (21 photos)

... a lot of singing and chanting (we think it was the national anthem). It was a great way to end our trip to India. As we arrived back in Delhi late at night, we saw the air was misty white and smelled funny. We weren't sure what it was at first, ...

Charlie's not feeling Delhi well!
Nov 14, 2007 (16 photos)

... we could prat around a bit more when taking photos, woo hoo! Back in Delhi I had my first rat run over my foot at New Delhi train station and was then told that I was "Big and strong... just like the Undertaker" by a borderline-midget Nepali waiter! ...

A short time in Delhi
Dec 12, 2006

... myself back in the states refusing to pay list price.  Oh, you want $70 for this...I'll pay you $35.....wish that could happen! Slept very well knowing that my one major problem I had encountered in India had been resolved quite satisfactorily.

The End
Dec 21, 2004 (19 photos)

... all, India is so enchanting. At times, though we felt a bit guilty because of all the poverty and begging in Delhi, well it was all over India, but it seemed to be magnified in Delhi. You sort of become immune to it, though because it's an impossible ...

Hell
Mar 28, 2006 (3 photos)

Spent a week in hospital. Recovered to the point where I was well enough to fly home, but not do much else (apart from an hours siteseeing). What a disaster. To add insult to injury I spent two days in the foreigner's registration office filling out ...

Telecom and IT Quebec Commercial Mission to India
Dec 12, 2007 (5 photos)

New Delhi

Back to Dehli
Dec 4, 2006

... on to Sri Lanka for a few days of sightseeing before returning home. The skies of Delhi are cloudy and smoggy...with intermittent rain. Winter in India is a much appreciated respite from the otherwise anticipated heat and humidity of this last part of ...

The voyage comes to an end :(
May 21, 2008

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Delhi Belly, Do Your Worse!
Feb 1, 2003 (2 photos)

... which was perfect as no words could describe what we were taking in, with regards to the amazing sights, sounds and smells of New Delhi! And people!!! People are everywhere! They don't seem to be doing much other than making the whole place look busy! You ...

Evening slow bus into India's capital of Delhi
Jun 17, 2006 (12 photos)

For this trip I made a phone call to pre-book my accommodation, as was recommended in the Lonely Planet Guide. Got in late in evening, but found things at the bus station were organised enough for me to book an autorickshaw without the battle for which ...

Day One in Delhi
Jun 4, 2007 (56 photos)

... the government and the poorest caste level in this state. And it seems it has spread from Jaipur to Agra and was supposed to spread the New Delhi today - GREAT we thought. So we are probably not going to be able to go to the Taj Mahal - one of the main ...

Welcome to India
Jun 3, 2007 (8 photos)

6-3-07: Kuala Lumpur to New Delhi   After a couple hours of much needed sleep, we woke up in the most random Guesthouse ever in the middle of Kuala Lumpur. Where exactly it was located, we didn't know - but we did know that we had to get to the ...

Akshardham and La Quila (Red Fort)
Jun 5, 2007 (42 photos)

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Welcome to the Quicky Mart!
Jun 7, 2006 (8 photos)

Holy freaking Jeasus H tap dancing Buddha! .....India Delhi...Can you smell what the Coooows are cooking??!?!!(Sorry Rock) If you can't, be thankful. Let us set the scene; dusty, hot air that blasts you in the face like a freshly opened oven, throngs ...

This is just a sweaty ramble
Apr 19, 2009

... my camera had already sorted itself out (more or less anyway). So what in the name of god was I doing here? This was Delhi, a city almost universally despised by everyone I know who'd been here (one rather imaginatively dubbed it 'Delhole', which was the ...

PRIA's "New Delhi" 25th Anniversary Celebrations
Feb 5, 2007

It was calming to be back in New Delhi for a couple of days (February 4th to 7th). I had flown back from Bangalore to participate in celebrating PRIA's "New Delhi" 25th anniversary celebrations. New Delhi was becoming familiar to me. Little was ...

Traveling in India with Tour Passion
Oct 24, 2009

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Dec 24, 2006

... arose such a clatter, I jumped out from my mosquito net to see what was the matter. Away to the balcony I flew like a New Delhi Blue Bus; (they remind me of the Calgary Stampede Brahma Bulls the way they drive). Looked out over the railing to see ...

back in town!
Aug 26, 2005

... just how much i love ikea! in any event, we got seats on the same flight the next day so got here just a few days ago! delhi is quite a change from france! well i guess the biggest thing so far is the weater. we got here at night and its still soooo ...

Midnight arrival
Feb 8, 2008

... , passing the dude I'd just bought toilet paper off, and soon I was in bed. Under 2 blankets. Who would've thought I'd ever be cold in Delhi. Last time I was here it was 40C. Now it's 10C in the morning, up to about 15 during the day. So, slept quite well ...

Delhi again
Jul 12, 2007

Back to Delhi to sleep...

The Mosquito, The Canadian and the Net...
Nov 2, 2006

... My supervisor had written in my monthly evaluation that I was showing no signs of culture shock and adjusting well to life in Delhi. Okay, so maybe I was showing slight signs of "adjustment."  I lay back on my pillow and picked up a book, glancing ...

First Day in New Delhi
Jun 30, 2007 (3 photos)

Today is a free day in New Delhi before our academic program begins tonight. We began our shopping excursion after breakfast - that is, breakfast on steroids; lunch is even more elaborate.  The food is already exhausting us!  Five of  ...