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India Slideshow
Travel Blogs from India
Shatrunjaya
This is a top pick! ... from Diu, but escaping the tropical beaches of Diu would've been hard enough without having to brave the public bus systems of India. A motor-rickshaw and two buses later we arrived in the noisy, dusty town of Palitana. The only draw there for us was ...
The long, hard road to Jaisalmer
This is a top pick! ... the charitable orginization Self Employed Womens Association (www.sewa.org - a worthy organizaion working to employ the women of India), the only other noteworthy part of the visit was that Ahmedabad had possibly the worst air quality we have experienced ...
Visit with local college students
This is a top pick! ... sides tested the waters. Being politically minded (and they asked what my major was) we delved into the pending US-India nuclear deal, but the conversation soon shifted into my choice of dress; thus begins my love-hate relationship with the dhoti. ...
Christmas in Darjeeling
This is a top pick! Oh, what a cold Christmas it was. But the train ride was ...
from bangkok to bollywood
This is a top pick! ... experience in bombay. if we had thought the driving had been bad in bangkok and cambodia... we really had no idea about india. there might be lines indicating some sort of lane division, but if they're there at all, the drivers pay no attention to ...
Hi-tech in the Blue City
This is a top pick! ... little descriptions of areas around the site. Until we visited the Meherangarh Fort in Jodhpur, that is. Finally...a tourist site in India that is getting EVERYTHING right! It is in immaculate condition, very well sign posted, and there are 3 cafes ...
Agra Day 7
... we met Jenna, a girl who was travelling on her own and therefore the bravest person I had ever met. She had already been in India for seven weeks so had loads of stories and so much advice. It was nice to speak to someone that wasn't Andrew for a while, ...
A passage through Dolma La Pass
This is a top pick! I get up early in the morning. It is very quite and cold outside. Snow-flakes are dancing up in the air and then softly fall down in the grey light of dawn. It seems as though eternity passed by as I stand in the open all by myself enjoying the scenario. ...
DELHI
This is a top pick! AAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHH FIRSTLY FORGIVE THE CAPS, ON THIS KEYBOARD ONCE YOUR BIG, YOU STAY BIG. ANYWAY WE ARE HERE, SPENT SO LONG TALKING ABOUT IT, THAT I STILL DONT THINK THAT IT HAS SUNK IN. ARE ALIVE, AND WELL FOR THE MOMENT, IF NOT VERY WET BEHIND THE ...
New Delhi - Day 12
... I could not have been more excited, today was Holi. I was going to experience the biggest Indian festival in the capital of India. Feeling much better than the day before, I got dressed into my new Kurta with some purple leggings, sat down and ripped ...
Our Camels, Beansy and Clyde
This is a top pick! At 4:30 A.M. Bikaner was another bleary-eyed arival. The cold air on the long, open-air rickshaw ride was not quite enough wake Sarah or I up for very long after we got our room. Waking up later that morning was much more pleasant. Bikaner was ...
The Taj!!!
This is a top pick! Kristen Said: So our trip to Agra from Jaipur was relatively uneventful, minus the rocky beginning...needless to say, when you have to get up at 5 a.m. (and anyone who knows me knows that in ITSELF is a feat) to catch a train and do so only to ...
Indian Thunder
This is a top pick! Sunday 15.9.06 Thunderstorms are made here. We've just had the greatest thunderclaps imaginable. The staff of the hotel even moved away from the hotel opening, near the driveway, the claps were so loud and in conjunction with the lightening. It was ...
Feelin' Hot, Hot ,Hot!!!!
This is a top pick! ... temples and tiptoeing round the dim interior of this one, skin exposed to the dark furry shapes scurrying round me, was somewhat unnerving! India is truly a land of contrasts: a few days ago I sat in the sublime Golden Temple, today I was guest in a ...
Port Haldia
This is a top pick! ... we were unable to drive through China or Myanmar (Burma), we had no alternative but to put the vehicles onto a cargo ship from India and freight them somewhere so we can continue our journey. I believed it was possible to drive to Myanmar from India, but ...
Dalai Lamas Home
This is a top pick! July 1st McLeod Ganj The Home of the DL and yes he was home when we called! We were subjected to quite a high level of security (metal detectors and removal of cameras, a quick frisking etc but the 'temple' was thronged with people listening ...
Agra Day 8
... we just had the massive queue to get into the Taj to contend with. It was pretty darn long, however, as with everywhere in India, there was a separate queue for women, so we got in faster than Andrew. He also had to go through all their ridiculous ...
Pink Flu Anyone?
This is a top pick! ... give to beggars but instead if you feel inclined, to make a donation to one of the official charities that exist all over india). However this does little to asuage your immediate guilt. We had a driving / walking tour of the main city sights in ...
Taj Mahal
This is a top pick! ... up 2 large buckets of hot water for our ablutions. The food was also good here. We can't fault the restaurant food in India and the staff are helpful too. Sometimes our requests are a bit strange like, beer with alcohol or cold coffee with ice cream, ...
A day in Leh
This is a top pick! 6a.m., walking through the narrow, twisting, dusty lanes of the old town: weathered faces on hunched bodies with gnarled hands fingering prayer beads, entering the gold-roofed Buddhist temple; 'om mani padme hum' echoing over and over; traders ...
May the guru have your email address please?
This is a top pick! ... out when I take off from India. The tiny part of this incredible country that I've seen has been wonderful. Everything is more in India, the colours are more vibrant, the smells (yup, that'll be both good and bad ones) are more potent, sounds are ...
Magical Taj
This is a top pick! Unlike other monuments or natural wonders that are over advertised or pictures of which you have seen far too often the Taj Mahal actually is magnificent. It is raised up on a platform with only the sky for a back drop and is so white that it looks ...
Rhino and Tiger spotting - Chitwan National Park
This is a top pick! ... amongst the many reasons why we will definitely be returning!! But leave we must and we made our way, very slowly back to Delhi (India), but not without incident of course. -See the next and final pod for this brief story) There is a clear difference of ...
INDIA WE HAVE LANDED!!
This is a top pick! Hi everyone We arrived in Dehli around 1.30am local time (8pm UK time). It was a nightmare clearing customs and we eventually got outside and into a cab just as all the power went off everywhere including the airport!! Got a taxi to digs - one from ...
Mumbai Day 2
So thanks to last night's power cut, we were once again super rubbish at waking up. By the time we got up it was 1.30pm, which to be fair to us is 8am English time. In a bid to try and save money, as we went a tad over budget yesterday and know that is ...
JS, Chai-walla
This is a top pick! ... exit from the temple were amusing. One jumped on the roof of the car. This does not surprise me now that I have been in India for over a week. We continue on over a high mountain pass to the highway then cruise into Udaipur in the late afternoon. After ...
Pushkar
This is a top pick! ... or so. Very surreal and interesting to just sit and watch. It rained very softly on and off all afternoon, the first rain in India since last October. So I decided to try my luck heading into town, but the further I walked away from the hotel, the more I ...
Oh to be beside the sea again
This is a top pick! ... take a rikshaw into town to book train tickets and bump into John who jumped of the boat to get his hug from Amma and tells us all about it over a beer or two. Tomorrow we leave for Trivandum our last port of call in India. To be continued. . . . ...
South Goa
This is a top pick! ... our blanket. The sun was hot but there was also a perfect breeze drifting across the water. Jason's first beer in India was a big Kingfisher just before sunset on Patnem Beach. We enjoyed a candlelight dinner at a table on the sand. ...