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Travel Blogs from India, India
Indian home cooking/ luxury living in udaipur
This is a top pick! ...and then add a teaspoon each of cumin seeds, ground coriander, anise, red chilli powder, chopped green chilli, a pinch of salt and simmer... Aahhhh, the aromas emanating from the pot on the stove in Renu Mahta's kitchen are mouthwatering! ...
My butt hurts...
This is a top pick! After leaving our passports with an agent in Kathmandu, we headed off to Chitwan national park, to fill in time while Chinese and Indian visas were sorted out for us (there should be ominous music here... the words organised and Nepal really don't occur ...
Mansarovar Parikrama
This is a top pick! Holy Mansarovar to Hindus or Tso Mavang or Mapan to Tibetans is holiest of lakes. It is fascinating, inspiring and is revered by all who have glimpse of it even once or seen its mystic grandeur. Its sublime serenity and aura is soothing and calms the ...
photos from Jaisalmer
This is a top pick! I'll put in the story later. For now, here's what a desert city is like... http://www.flickr.com/photos/71103764@N00/ ...
Om
This is a top pick! ... Israelis here than you can imagine. We are tired- not going to lie. Since last we wrote, we have covered a LOT of ground. India is huge, and despite our best efforts to keep our plans realistic, we have worked our way pretty far north. We've seen ...
The last refuge of the hippies
This is a top pick! ... are friendly, which truthfully, is probably because the locals are all Tibetan. It was here that we sheltered from the rest of India while we organised tickets out of the place. Our original 20 weeks had turned into 3! But we decided to cut our losses ...
Live dangerously: eat in India
This is a top pick! ... flat space, i've flown over Oz and seen the African savannahs (ok, only on documentaries, but it still counts), but in India it's all cultivated. There are people everywhere. I think it's here that it actually hits you how crowded this country really ...
Time for Darjeeling
This is a top pick! Our Delhi to Kolkata sleeper journey had been really comfy, raising our expectations of Indian rail, and so we were a bit disappointed by our overnight journey from Kolkata to New Jalpaiguri (NJP) Station. Our ...
The Blue City
This is a top pick! ... symphony. Devinder guided us through a friendly and efficient check-in at Jagat Villas, our first homegrown guesthouse experience in India. The family matriarch watched over her well-trained boys in the kitchen while they made us breakfast. ...
OH MY GOD, I'M IN INDIA!!!
This is a top pick! Oh my God, I'm here! I'm actually in India... I'm typing this from an internet cafe on the main bazaar in Paharganj, Delhi, with the sweat trickling steadily off me and the incessant noise of horns blaring out on the street...it's chaos out there, but ...
Meltdown in the City from Hell
This is a top pick! ... feelings. I felt much better after doing so and by the time I climbed up into my berth for the overnight journey to Varanasi, India again seemed an adventure after the blip that was Agra. P.S. - I should also mention that since my last entry I spent a ...
Atop Lepulekh Pass and over to Tibet
This is a top pick! ... terrain. Reaching such dizzy height had been a great challenge, yet a highly exhilarating experience. The Pass is the international divide between India and China. Tibet is only a small step away from the top of the pass. There are no border posts, no ...
The Pink City
This is a top pick! ... Jaipur is a big city of about 4 million. In the afternoon we did a bit of a walking tour. I saw the Hawa Mahal, India's second most photographed building. Then ventured through the old town and markets, with a stop at LMB, Jaipur's famous sweet and snack ...
Navidhang and Om Parvat
This is a top pick! 'Navi' means navel and 'dhang' mountain. Navidhang is thus called because the mountain in the foreground has the shape of a navel mound. Our trek of today is only nine kilometres. We leave the camp after a heavy breakfast at 09,30. The ...
Taken for a ride
This is a top pick! I'm sure not for the last time we finally visited somewhere and wish we hadn't bothered. Not that it isn't interesting to see a variety of places but the time involved in getting to and from Bhuj and the less than inspiring tour of the surrounding ...
An overdiu rest! (groan)
This is a top pick! Diu is a bit of a suprise. It was still ruled by the Portugese, along with Daman and Goa, up until 1961 when India and Portugal actually went to war when India invaded the enclaves to get them back. Obviously Gandhi hasnt had too big an impact on how they ...
Still looking for our Kitty Kat!
This is a top pick! Woke up to coffee in bed and life is good. We take another game drive and come up empty handed as far as tiger sightings go. We did, however, get another stomach full of dust as the ground here is drier than the dust bowl of the ...
Delhi dally
This is a top pick! ... ;s swelter. For the first time in three months my body is not coated in varying degrees of perspiration. Sri Lanka and southern coastal India are 24/7 sweat machines. Two changes of shirt a day. Shower at lunch, rinse and hang, shower at dusk, rinse, ...
The last cow
This is a top pick! ... . Is this whole trip journal, all my so-called moments of insight, as superficial and obvious to anyone remotely familiar with India? Am I just repeating, in unending improvisations, the mesage "There's a sheep on the road back there!"? I always encounter ...
New vs. Old Delhi?
This is a top pick! ... (the god of love) for less than his "cost". Then came dinner... First of all, I was skeptical of a restaurant in India called Chicken Inn! Having said that, the food was amazing except for the fact that I definitely shed a real tear ...
On the way to Udaipur
This is a top pick! ... of China) in the world and ushered any potential invaders through 7 progressive gates on the way to a modest (as far as India's standards go) palace at the summit. The various temple complexes at the foot of the palace were more impressive once you ...
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 ...
A Trek in the Indian Himalaya
This is a top pick! ... because of altitude sickness or lack of leg muscle but because my insides went berserk the day before the trek. 3 weeks in India and not a hint of 'Delhi belly' but suddenly everything I swallowed rapidly reappeared from one point or another. Figuring ...
The Golden Temple, Amritsar
This is a top pick! I've become used to the entertaining Indian road signs urging caution and careful driving ("Better Mr. Late than late Mr."; "Drive like Hell and you will arrive there!"; and my personal favourite, "Be gentle on my curves!") but "Beware shooting stones!" ...
Test drive across Sri Lanka
This is a top pick! ... would only empirically begin in Vladivostok, the zen and joy of the road would, in any case, begin in Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state. Hit Colombo’s out-of-town Bandaranaike Airport by nightfall. It’s not far from the ...
Jaipur Day 5
... obviously a very popular attraction and it was the first time that we had been surrounded by other tourists since arriving in India. The elephants were beautiful, and there were hundreds of them. As with any tourist attraction, we were once again ...
A Kashmiri Wedding
This is a top pick! The family living on the neighbouring houseboat were celebrating their son's marriage all weekend - from our roof terrace we had seen them deck the boat with fairy lights, erect a large Kashmiri tent on shore, and sit for hours preparing food. We had ...
A perfect end to India
This is a top pick! ... of the first boats out but by 6am there were hundreds of boats going up and down the river ferrying all the tourists in India. Varanasi is a very religious place. Hindu's go on pilgrimages to the Ganges here to bath, even drink the holy ...