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Travel Blogs from Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Ashram Time
... of 3 weeks trying not to tear Shivani's ears off. More on that later. Aaauuum. I have yet to get a real feel for India....but we're here. And that's pretty freakin cool. Lots of love & kisses & appreciation for London Drugs. xoxoxox Chelah ...
Knocking around in Kolkata
... use into Bangladesh. If we get the permit in time, the plan is get the train north from Kolkata to Siliguri (top of West Bengal state, underneath Bhutan). Then a bus across to Assam state and into Arunachal Pradesh to Itanagar. The permit gives us 10 ...
A Holi-day on Holiday
... street sellers and open street urinals quickly shatter that illusion, bringing you abruptly back to down-town India. For its size Calcutta really is a pretty friendly city and if you could endure the hordes of people a pleasant place ...
Some tips for others
A few tips for those who want to visit these areas. 1. If you are on a budget trip and are not in a big team, Take public transport (bus or shared SUVs) to Kalimpong and then again a public transport to Lava or Lolay Gaon, rather than hiring a vehicle. ...
Namaste India!
... was indeed the temperature. I felt very hot and sticky in Bangkok where temperature was constantly around 34-36 degrees, but Calcutta is something different, almost unbearable. We knew it would have been hot, we were not really prepared for a constant ...
Kolkata-Delhi... Not enough and too much! (part 1)
... of just a few moments of experience. but (isn't there always a 'but'..?), i will give you my impressions, and my thoughts. kolkata (calcutta to the old school lot) full of crows. everywhere! never seen so many of the things. more crows than sit in the ...
Jan 4, 2009 Journal
... , an increasingly beckoning quality, despite the intensity of my reactivity last year to the often distasteful physicality of India. (The sweltering heat, the smells and seemingly ubiquitous filth, the pollution, the shockingly poor governance, and the ...
Who Is This White Robed Monk?
Baba told a beautiful little story tonight. Coming back from Assam yesterday, he was in the airport standing in the security line, bundled up with his black cap drawn over his ears and his forehead, all wrapped up in woolen scarves with hardly any of ...
End of India
... . Rea managed to even wean herself back onto solid food without feeling sick. We felt like we'd left India and had stepped back into Tibet. The people looked different, the food was different, there was no ...
WOW!
made it to india, after spending a lot of time in east and southeast asia i was looking for something different and it looks like i found it. i am seeing new things everyday that blow me ...
Trumping the Gray of Kolkata
My initial reaction to Kolkata's sights and sounds was a wave of sadness at the inescapable weight of its decay. Think gray. Think black. Think mold. Think an oily film. Think grime, real grime. Think mud. Think litter, more than you have ever ...
The sights of Kolkata
With a couple of days in Kolkata to explore we took to the streets and wound our way through the city to the west Bengal tourist information bureau as our first port of call, unlike many of the other tourist bureaus we had been to this one didn't really ...
Wow, no Bangla Desh...
Hallo zusammen und viele Gruesse aus Kolkata, Megacity wie KCK sie geliebt hat. Eigentlich wollte ich den Eintrag ja "heute geht alles schief" nennen, aber ganz so schlimm ist der Tag dann doch nicht geworden. Am vormittag habe ich versucht ein ...
City of Joy
Kolkata was formerly known as Calcutta. Since the end of the British Raj, the trend is to rename cities, streets, parks and all urban infrastructures with an Indian name. They're often given back ...
Nice to be back.
Spent 4 nights in Varanasi which was actually very nice and relaxing despite the heat. Ate lots of ice cream and drank lots of lassi. Caught the sleeper train from Varanasi to Kolkota (17 hours) and arrived early morning. Staying in Sudder ...
Ones more: Kalkutta
Mit Air India angenehm und mit Essen an Board nach Kolkata geflogen. Zurueck in die wirklich indische Zivilsation. Smog, Laerm, Gehupe, Dreck, trotzdem gutes Essen und nette Leute, wenn man ihnen nur mit einem Laecheln begegnet. Gepaeck gleich zum Bahnhof ...
A Privileged Guest at an LDLM Sundarbans Staff Mtg
... and motivation. Finding LDLM has been an answer to those prayers. This is my first trip to India since meeting Baba immediately after I returned from Calcutta in 1995. Seeing Baba Shuddhaanandaa's work first hand, I have only been more deeply inspired ...
City of Joy
We arrived in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, at 4:00a.m by train. The trains have all been late on arrival on our journeys, but for once it was actually a few minutes early! We caught one of Kolkata's ubiquous black and white cabs for a pre-dawn ...
Kolkata
... I landed at Kolkata airport at 15:30 local time and jumped into a cab into the city. Kolkata or Calcutta, its old English name, was India's capital city during the British administration from 1772 until 1911 when it was moved to its current location, ...
Why Varanasi - Well, you need to find it yourself!
... ?" ... I didn't answer. But I knew for what I am going to Varanasi. Varanasi got colors of life ... colors of my country ... India. We had our reservation in Mumbai mail - the train departed from Howrah in time. In it's route the train touches my ...
Up the Hoogly River
9 rupees buys a train trip to Hoogly which is a split from Ganges through Kolkata to the sea. Was a Portuguese settlement and has old muslim temples see pix. Life goes on along the tracks eat, work, drink, toilet you name it. Wan & I finding the ...
The Darjeling Mail
... mins before a share taxi picked us up for the ride down the mountain. The drive from Darjeeling to the plains of northern India is pretty intnse. Steep drops, tight turns, and narrow roads. Maybe because we were so tired on the way ...
India !!
Jihaa....na vele uren vliegen aangekomen in India. Ik neem een taxi naar Sudder Street. Ik hang uit het raam van de taxi... ik voel met net Indiana Jones beginnend aan een nieuw avontuur !! Maar wat kunnen die gasten achtelijk rijden en waarom ...
Madras to Calcutta non-stop by train
... my eye balls with fascinating India; frustrating Indians Booked second class non-sleeper all the way from Madras to Calcutta. Unfortunately, Bypassed some really terrific archeological sites along the way but I'd had enough of Indians and its aggressive ...
Vanvittige Kolkata (Calcutta)
Kolkata Puhaa hvor den lugter...og larmer...og er grim.. Efter en lang flyvetur med div. flyskift landede vi i Kolkata tidlig morgen. Planen var, at komme ud i verdens stoerste mangrove, som ligger faa timer fra Kolkata. Her skulle der vaere ...
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Being a tourist
... saying no repeatedly crosses all language barriers, right? Yep, decidely dodgy. It's the first time I've felt threatened here in India. The security guard industry here is massive. There are one or two stationed at every good store, restaurant, cafe and ...
Kolkata, where my world ends...
... there neither), and got the ship to Visakhapatnam, mainland India, from where a rough 12h-train journey took me to Kolkata (Calcutta). Sitting (and then sleeping) on my bagpack just next to the toilets between 2 carriages. Later in the night some sleepers ...
Happy New Year (The Good, The Bad 'n' The Ugly)
... relationship advice to an Indian man on the brink of losing his girlfriend. Really I think all he wanted was a cigarette. So, Calcutta - The Good, The Bad 'n' The Ugly...we did so much that rather than give you a tedious blow-by-blow ...