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Puri Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Puri, India
Up the East Coast, Part III: The Sun Temple
This is a top pick! ... well as China's nuclear weapons placed in Tibet along the contested area of Arunachal Pradesh were a large contributor towards India developing nuclear capability and perhaps a reason why American and India are being more friendly (oh the schoolyard ...
Cows and temples
This is a top pick! Okay, deep breath.... eww it stinks!! India sure is one smelly country and with a rising population it isn't likely to get any better. Besides the constant stench our train journey in 2nd class sleeper from Kolkata to the little beach side pilgrimage ...
Shitting on a beach (not me)
This is a top pick! ... were of Orissa and Manipur dance styles, stopping on the way in a little tent where they were holding a promotion for India tea. The promoters were seemingly glad to see us westerners and made the most of our presence, photographing us with their ...
Puri
Thoughts
... , medication, yet again and again these people end up on the streets. I wish they could see the zero opportunity India's homeless have and then reconsider their lot. It's easy to become calloused to the poverty here because ...
'Pourey'
... is made even more perfect by the ubiquitous donkeys, ice-cream carts, shell vendors, magic acts...I couldn't believe I was still in India! At the other end of the beach, however, are a few smaller streets lined with little hostels, hotels, knick-knack ...
back on the beach, real indian beach
... , they just don’t seem to give a shit that they are ruining the environment that they live in. Just looked on web and seen that the turtles a a rare breed Olive Ridley turtles, and they are being killed by illegal trawling off the coast of India. ...
Puri
Ohoj alle somaend, saa er der hilsen ude fra havet... Vi ankom til Puri by lordag morgen kl 9, og blev fragtet hen til vores hotel, som jeg havde forudbestilt fra Kolkata. Her stod en meget rar mand klar til at tage imod os. Vi havde booket et ...
Puri
Siin Puri (India idarannik). Tänase päeva veetsime peamiselt mere ääres - lained ja liiv silmapiirini. Ja mitte ühtegi kohalikku midagi müüa pakkumas või pilti teha tahtmas. Ma pole kunagi kohanud nii tüütuid inimesi kui india inimesed. ...
last day in Puri
Last day in Puri today, in the morning we are up and out and off to Chennai on our first air india flight of the trip. We have really tried to avoid using them because they are so bad, particularly on internal flights but for this leg from Bhubaneswar to ...
Beach day
This must be one of the most strange places we have been, miles and miles of beach and big waves, and not one bed chair or umbrella in sight, and not one beach bar. I think the indians just like standing in the water with all their clothes on, or ...
Puri, Light and Dark
... be completely sure that the bottled water you are buying has not been oh-so-cleverly-and-deceptively locally recycled! A fortunate thing about India is that you don't need an Rx. You just go to a medicine shop, tell them what you need and they sell ...
It's been a while...
... First hotel I was taken too was great. So I got a nice cushy expensive room. Yeah, if you can call $15.00 a night expensive? Here in India it is, but I don't care. I wanted something nice with a hot water shower and a TV. Yes, I said a TV. I just want too ...
Puri the dirtiest beach in the world, probably!
... there was any chance of cleaning it up Puri could be a great destination, and the surf looks great , those aussie boys we saw on Bondi beach would love it. What a shame it is so filthy. Good luck England in the cricket today, hope they beat India. ...
Funny Stories
... suspiciously smell of chinese food, and you're fed up. I think this statement is especially true for a country as chaotic as India. When in Calcutta a few nights ago, I bolstered myself out of my self pitying writhe of fever and ...
Chickens, Chaos, Mayhem, Madness
... then do nothing but complain about pretty much every single thing ranging from the lack of facilities, the food (its INDIA!!!!), the hygiene or lack thereof, the tents, the truck, the journey distances, the unpredictableness of it all. And ...
Puri Puri Juggernaut
... to jump over this black sludge Robert tripped and ended up bathing in fetid ooze. I hope he doesn't die. The cool part of Puri is that they worship Lord Jagannath, Lord of Chaos, Destruction, and Loose Change. Unlike all the other hindu gods, he ...
Mahaprabhu Jagganatha
... these deities in the temple." Since then, the three deities Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra are being worshiped in India at Jagannatha Puri. ...
Puri
... looking on the internet for roundtrip airfares from Chennai and found a great fare for about $160. I leave October 18th and return to India on November 15th. I love this freedom!! I can just decide to pick up and go wherever I want, whenever I want. I ...
aaahhh, much better
On the beach! Had a quiet Valentine's in Puri, a beach town on the east coast. Recovering from a stomach bug, taking it easy for a few ...
Fresh from the Well
... peace and calm in Puri, a small coastal town on the Bay of Bengal that is considered a major focal point of spiritual energy in India. It was an 11 hour train ride south from Kolkata. I took the night train from Howrah (across the Ganges from Kolkata), ...
Kollam-Amrita Puri Ashram-Alleppey
... I was told (with not a small degree of amusement) that there were no more boats until October. I had my first bout of India rage at this point. The outside temperature was around 30 degrees, the flies were too numerous and I thought if one more man ...
It's been a while...
... day's to go to The Sun Temple of Konark. Of course I wanted too after all it was One of the main reason's for going to Puri. I wasn't that sick, yet. A few day's later of we went to the temple and it was spectacular! But instead of the 'Sun Temple' I ...
Tribal India
... in India, we feel privileged that we were given the opportunity to visit the amazing state of Orissa. A place of tribal culture, simple living, extremely happy people, and breathtaking scenery. Orissa, 'Tribal India’, you definitely did spoil ...
Puri
Puri town. Nice little place by the sea. We stayed in a pretty ok hotel, but the mozzies here were mad. Our bathroom was sooo full of them . imagine sitting on the loo sourounded by about 20 mozzies......ahhhhh! Why the were inentied i'l never know. ...
Eco Resort ( not!)
... was where the houses were, and as soon as we turned the corner, it was cooler and quieter. We continued onward to Puri, which is a religious Indian tourist destination. I have videos, as words cannot describe. Everything we have seen elsewhere, only with ...