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Dehradun Slideshow
Dehradun
Travel Blogs from Dehradun, India
11. Back Home
After a stay of three days in Delhi, finally I am back home in the lush green Dehradun. It is quieter and relatively cooler. I am closer to hills and the twinkling lights of Mussorrie. Quite often the western sky is ...
1. Leave for Delhi
I love to be in mountains. My limbs are still strong enough to trek and climb atop a hill to enjoy the grandeur of the panoramic view of a verdant valley stretched across the terraced fields rippling in chilly autumn air where a singing stream lazily ...
at the hospital
This morning I went to the doctor's office! It was called a hospital, but really it was a clinic. But then again they had an X-ray machine, and I got a chest X-ray showing that I do not have tuberculosis. Score! I had been up all ...
Weekend not at Yamunotri
Yesterday was mostly spent resting and reading. It was heavenly! I don't know what I would have done if I'd gone to Yamunotri with the group. Saturday we had a nice night at a restaurant the Black Pepper. The food was great (we ...
web ads
Since I'm in India, the web ads along the side of Yahoo say things like "Arrange your OWN ...
Wildlife Institue of India & Rajaji National Park
... the best one on statistical methods for tiger counting (my dream job!) and a third less interesting one on the history of India's environmental legislation. Dr. Eaton may have dozed a little during these, which made the rest of us feel better about ...
pictures
Sorry I haven't updated in so long. I have no time! But I edited a video together, so hopefully I'll still be able to capture some part of the experience together. My videos and pictures will be here: ...
Institue for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Today we visited the Insitute for the Visually Impaired. Mari asked the questions "What's wrong with the word blind?" and we discussed ways in which his might be insensitive, but also that the Texas School for the Blind is called such. ...
On the bus to Dehradun
[very difficult to read handwriting] After an emergency bathroom break, when 5 of our number trooped out to behind a thatched hut into the woods behind, and shortly after a woman in a bright pink sari emerged smiling a big smile, the first boy returned ...
documentation into the wind
To date, have written almost 45 postcards. Only 15 to go. Should have gotten more at the second Rishikesh visit. I'm tempted to photocopy them, front and back, as a supplement to this journal, and to my own photos (textual and visual ...
Forest Research Institute (FRI)
Wasn't feeling well today. I could tell everything was interesting, objectively, but I had trouble standing for such long periods of time. In the wood museum, I remembered a lot about my time working at the lumber yard at Twin Oaks-the way to ...
Survey of India
... well. Dr. Gamkhar arrived today. Tibetan Cultural Center This was an odd little jaunt after the Survey of India. A Buddhist temple with a lot of construction sucking away all the Zen the place may have had. A lot of people ...
Central Soil and Water Conservation Res...CSWCRTI
The presentation at the museum was very difficult to understand because of a heavy accent. The parts I understood with the help of the museum's visuals were pretty interesting. I had been wondering what the terrace farming was supposed to ...
Dehradun
... I said, I don't mind there being mostly seller surplus (in the economic sense), but I think prices will be cheaper here in Dehradun. At the National Museum, we met a few guards. One gave us mango while we lunched in the Canteen, and later, ...
ajay
Himalaya trip
... our great accident in Orissa state, we decided trough out traveling by the main roads and pushed ourselves with the bike by train to Dehradun. We didn't stay here – just look in the map for some time and decide to go to Spiti Valley by the ...
On the way to Jim Corbett National Park
... ; weekend trip to Jim Corbett, the famous National Park in India. We all decided to reach there in four cabs, Zylo and Tavera from Dehradun Office branch. The distance of Jim Corbett from Dehradun is 265 - kms - 6 hrs by Car. We started for the trip in ...
Feb 01, 2011
garbage and cows!
... much a cattle car. The three of us (we met up with another girl on the trip, Sajel, really nice) have jut been exploring today. Dehradun is smaller, 500,000 people, but still lots of cows, and yes, garbage. We did some shopping and I got an outfit. My ...
Redefining the word "hot"
... . Rhetta and I are most likely staying here until Saturday and the we are probably head to Chandigarh (Corbs famous city in India) I'm very excited about it!!! and then we are headed towards the Himalayas for some hiking and hopefully some water rafting. ...
Off we go to Dehradun and Srikot :)
Day 1 – August 12, 2011 - Bangalore to Dehradun and Srikot We took our flights to Delhi and then Dehradun. Uneventful, except that one has to bear in mind, if you have a largish Camera bag, it cannot be stowed in the overhead compartment in the ...
Tibetaans klooster bezocht
Na een lange nacht voor Roger, onder de drugs voor maag en darm klachten (details zullen we niet bespreken) Zijn we vanochtend naar de tibetaanse klooster en hun tempels. Erg indrukwekkend, zoveel werk maken wij niet van onze kerken. Lekker rond ...
Jan 24, 2011
West to East
... the middle of the town. Morto. Thank god no one else noticed it on the bus, that or it’s quite the norm in India. Finally got to Dhera Dun and was so exhausted I just kept falling asleep everywhere (like a 5 minute auto rickshaw ride-which you ...
Status Report
... IGAs and 121 MEs. Out of total 187 tons vegetable production, 55.81 tons produce was marketed to nearby places like Dehradun, Vikasnagar, Almora, Gopeshwar-Chamoli and other local markets. Over all 20% premium was received by the farmers. 3.2.2 Spice ...
The Great Stupa
The great stupa in Og Min Ogyen Mindrolling Monastery in Dehradun, India, is 185 feet tall and 100 square feet in width. It is the world's largest stupa and is a magnificent example of buddhist art and architecture. The stupa is surrounded by a 2-acre ...
back to doon
I will be back in Doon tomorrow but just for few days as i shall be leaving for ahmedabad on 25th of this month, it is raining in Doon rite now & the cool weather has started to seep in, i luv cool, i am ...
1. A drive to Selaqui
... -like-droplets gently fall down but not today for I have an appointment to a cocktail party in a hotel in Selaqui, 25 km from Dehradun in Pachhuwa Doon. As arranged I am to be picked up by Viswajeet but he is facing a problem. Viswajeet is a senior police ...
our non profit work
hi Come one come all, log on to www.harkidun.com to know more about our travel & non profit ...
Opening Hope Home
... / verjaardagstaart. Thanx voor de sms-jes. Om 10 uur vertrokken we naar het Hope Home, wat ongeveer 20 km buiten Dehradun ligt. Aangekomen werden we door Manju en Lawrence ontvangen en konden wij het Hope Home bekijken. De gebouwen zien er fantastisch ...