Bharatpur, India Travel Blogs

Rantham(bore)
Jan 15, 2007

After a few days chilling and drinking beers at Yesh and Mona's we decided we have to get moving because everything was getting a bit too routined and it wasn't helping our timeline or my waistline which was starting to relax into it's usuall routine ...

Bone Dry Bharatpur
Dec 12, 2007

... of the roofs which had over 200 different stoppered holes enabling all the palaces fountains to be manually controlled. Due to the drought Bharatpur was very quite but the next stop Jaipur, is firmly on the tourist trail.   

short trip to National Park - bird watching
Jan 1, 2009 (5 photos)

Fatepur Sikr - Fortified Ghost Town
Dec 4, 2008 (12 photos)

From Agra we moved on to Fatepur Sikr which was the palace of a past king, which is now abandoned. Again the remaining structures are magnificent with detailed carvings.   The king had a Hindu, Moslem and Christian wife possibly in an attempt to ...

Bharatpur - Rajasthan
Nov 16, 2008

From the long time, i was planning to go to Bharatpur to click few Photographs of Birds, and at last we went to Bharatpur for 02 nights, it is 146 kms from Delhi and till Mathura, the road is very good with 04 lanes. Just after Railway bridge, take "U" ...

Bharatpur
Oct 2, 2009 (54 photos)

Abans d'arribar a Agra, faig una parada tecnica a Bharatpur mes que res perque m'han dit que Agra es una mica indomita i mes val estar-s'hi tan sols el temps just per visitar el Taj Mahal i el fort. A Bharatpur hi ha el parc natural de Keoladeo que fa les ...

The Magnificant Mahal
Dec 31, 2009

... explaining we realised they wanted us in the picture...as about 5 cameras flashed around us. Now we are writing to you from Bharatpur where we are going to cycle around the bird sanctuary tomorrow to hopefully see some eagles...wish us luck!! Miss you all ...

India
Jul 26, 2007 (2 photos)

We took the train to Bird Sanctuary.  We got a moto to take us to  a guesthouse near the Bird Sanctuary which had been recommended to us by some other travellers.  We arranged with the owner for him to take us on a tour of the bird park ...

Bohpal, Agra and Bharatpur
Feb 4, 2008 (9 photos)

Hi there, Sorry I've been slack but I've been trying to download the pictures off my camera and it's proving impossible at the moment will have to get them put onto disk or buy more memory cards.  Not to worry I will battle on.  Currently in ...

Bharatpur
Oct 11, 2005 (7 photos)

... and took an autorickshaw to the trainstation of Sawai Madhopur. The traintrip was aboot three hours and I arrived around 10:00 in Bharatpur. I stay in hotel Spoonbill which has fine rooms for 200 rupees. After lunch I took a bus to Fatehpur Sikri. . This ...

Einen ganzen Tag lang vor einem Gebäude sitzen?
Jan 16, 1993

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Grass, at last!
Mar 13, 2009

You don't realize what you've got till it's gone! I don't think I ever appreciated the feeling of freshly cut clean green grass under my feet till we made this brief over night stop en route to the Taj. Whilst others went birdwatching I caught up on ...

Drive to Karauli
Mar 5, 2009

Drive to Karauli via Mahuwa and Hindaun ACTUAL from journal: This morning I enjoyed the solitude of my room before breakfast, until I learned that I had received a phone call but they didn't know which room I was in!  A bit of a downer, but okay ...

Colors, Gods, Wedding parades and Road chaos
Dec 5, 2009 (134 photos)

... with a quick stopover in Agra to get the van. With the wish for some more relaxed place, we make our way into Rajastan, Bharatpur. Sunil is joining is for one day. We have a great laugh together, as friends. Mira is sightseeing the Bird Wild Life sanctuary ...

Bird-a-pur
Jan 15, 2009 (8 photos)

This is a guest entry from Calvin's parents, Carol and Dennis.  They traveled with us for three weeks through India. After spending a few days in India, we learned a few basic rules: 1.  Be able to multi-task.  Avert your eyes to avoid ...

The Taj Mahal
May 1, 2007 (4 photos)

May 1, 2007 Bharatpur and Agra (Taj Mahal), India Today should be the "sightseeing highlight" of the trip. Early morning bicycle rickshaw ride through the Ghana Bird Sanctuary outside the town of Bharatpur, then back to train to ride to Agra. One ...

interesting... maybe
Aug 30, 2009

Go to the bird park, maybe its realy interesting in winter, but in the offseason we can see not so alot of animals like others tolk abaut it. And take the riksha there, its the long distanse for foot. 

Rajasthan - land of kings
Jan 28, 2008 (5 photos)

... fewer elephants, camels and horses on them. Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan but on our way there, we stopped off in Bharatpur which is a small village. Our night there was very restful as there was nowhere near as many beggars or people trying to ...

Hero cycles Tigers and Bhratpur Hillbillies
Nov 18, 2005 (5 photos)

... variety... 2 wheels, pedals, a seat and brakes. Manufactured by Hero Cycles there are millions of these reliable bikes all over India and every second street has a cycle waller making a megre living keeping them on the roads. camel. Fields of yellow ...

Bonus Adventure:Owlets,jackals,playing rickshawala
Nov 9, 2009 (4 photos)

... grabbing tourist operators.  I was planning to head to Agra but found out that the train schedule was much better going to Bharatpur, connecting to a bus or other local transport from there to Agra.  So why not head to Bharatpur and catch a few ...

Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary
Sep 23, 2008 (5 photos)

So after a short train ride from Jaipur I arrived in Bharatpur. This isnt really a scheduled stop on most tourists itinaries! And to be honest it wasnt really on mine, but I'm killing time waiting for a seat on a decent train to Varanassi in a few days ...

We are TV stars!!!
Oct 16, 2005

... around us in a circle and watch/listen to anything we were doing. I was quite surprised, as I thought that everyone in Bharatpur, since its on a typical touring route, wouldn't really care about a couple of tourists. Apparently, however, not only was it a ...