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Nagpur Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Nagpur, India
Day 7 - Madhogar
At first I thought this old fort had a weird atmosphere. Princess Diana and Prince Charles even stayed here. But then the more I tsyaed the more it grew on me. We did a village walk where we met the children and people who lived and worked in the ...
Holy Cow!
... we were delayed five more hours in Birmingham, England before the longest leg through Amritsar and finally, Dehli! We flew with Air India which was an experience in itself. It was hard to say goodbye to mom and then encounter a ...
Temple Tour
... eyes were so thirsty for living green that I felt renewed by the colors of the countryside, and the fresher air of rural India. It was a feast for the eyes. Bright golden yellows, vibrant greens, huts built of hay and sticks, bullocks with carts ambling ...
Tiger Trekking in Corbett National Park
Another night train and another city. Luckily for us, we had a short stay in Delhi (this time) since we got picked up at train station and taken on the 6 hour drive out to Corbett National Park for some Tiger Trekking!! Rachel organized the Safari ...
fun in athirapilly with friends
Athirapilly popular waterfall on the edge of the sholayar forest ranges are just 5 km apart.The waterfall joins a river called chalakkudy after plummeting down a 80 feet.The waterfall,its cool,misty waters cascading down in the backdrop of the thick ...
Kumbalgarh, Devi Garh, Udaipur
The last five days of the trip were peaceful and spiritual...we visited the Ranakpur Jain temples built in the 15th century, an ashram in Kumbalgarh and relaxed in Udaipur the "City of ...
mr. and mrs. rao in and out of ooty
DAY 1 shatabdi train leaves b'lore station at 11 am. 1: 15 pm you reach mysore station. get out, get in a cab. for 2000 drive upto masinagudi - right to the jungle retreat. thru the sanctuary. from a hot afternoon to a chilly late afternoon in 2.5 ...
She'll be coming down the mountain....
... but it was full so I had to 'make do' with the main 1911 restaurant which commemorates a major milestone in the route to India's independence. Photographs and paintings of the Raj adorn the walls. I often feel the hotel is more like a museum or art ...
McLeod Ganji
Od rana bujamy sie po restauracjach - ostro wchodzi nam to w krew. Po obfitym sniadaniu ruszamy do Dharamsali zeby kupic bilety do Amritsaru. Nad miastem unosza sie ciezkie chmury monsunowe, wisza tak nisko, ze az dotykaja konarow drzewe, ale jak na ...
What a difference a Dwali makes.... :o)
... a general overview I will say I survived!! Which was a good thing as Monday and Tuesday where festival days here in India to celebrate Dwali...said Dvali...it is like the Hindu New Year a time of gift giving , dancing , dressing in you best and ...
O DEAR!!! Mick knocked down by a tuk tuk!!
... with Kuba our Polish friend too, we also, amongst many other peole made friends with Claudia from portugal, also traveling India but mow nearing the end of her travels!....... its been marvellous dspite the few hitches...............anyway, the climb to ...
Shanti..Shanti .. on top of the world
... today having had no major traumas (so far!!) and having some space and peace... ahh bliss ... a rare commodity here in India. When I eventually got on the computer (power was off for couple of hours) and downloaded my photos it turned out I ...
Another crazy day in Vashisht
... of just slowing and chilling for a while to acclimatise to it all... so much diversity, its more of a continent than a country.. India...and certainly always comes up with more surprises!! I can see why the British Raj liked to come here though to ...
Chenai (Madras)
... dirty it was, very unusual. Then we smelt the smoky air and noticed there were particles of soot floating down - ugh so we retired to the cabin, we were covered in black spots. Not impressed with our first stop in India. Next stop ...
The Big Blunder..!!
... the Nepalese Kingdom, the 1st British house was built here 3 years later and in 1864 it became the summer capitol of India... till 1939...even the Indian Governments packed up and came here from Delhi etc..everywhere are signs of 19th century england ...
Tea with the Dalai Lama.. ...wow
... expectations in general.......and perhaps question it all somewhat, it certainly has this effect on me, on many i think!!... as I suppose India always does...but its not a bad thing to occassionally look at your life....re-evaluate a little... I have ...
Mcleod Ganj..Home of his Holiness the Dalai Lama
... this and enjoy the sense of freedom it brings...not that its all a bed of roses of course!!! ................... What do I hate about India!! 1) Constantly having filthy dirty feet, .... I despair, they just dont come clean and if they do its a very ...
Madhogarh Fort
... my culture investigator hat, and asked him all about his life and his background. I had read how the caste system was disintegrating in India, and no one knew really where it was all headed. Its clear the old structure does not function as it did 40 years ...
India
... friends was at the airport. She flew there from Perth to meet us on the trip, it was very exciting!! The first thing I noticed about India was the dirt and the cows and all the people! Imagine all of the people at EHPS and all the parents and 100 cows ...
First time backpacker and it was in India
... fly by Jet airways it's pretty good about the service 5hours and now I'm in Indira Kanthi international airport New Delhi,India. First time when I'm off the plane to the arrival gate here it's so strange yes I think everybody will think the ...
Adopted on the train
... , but he was quicker at getting his money out than we were!) and discussions on politics, the environment, family, tips on traveling in India and all sorts. After traveling as a couple for so long, it was nice to have someone else looking out for us. The ...
Indisk telefoni og vores tolke
Er lige kommet hjem fra et herligt måltid inde i byen, på hvad vi nok kommer til at kalde vores stamsted. Det er en lille punjabi restaurant, hvor der ikke er særlig hyggeligt, men maden er fantastisk. Det er kun anden gang vi var der, men bestemt ...
NJP on the way to Darjeeling
... Varanasi for the 13th Oct (successfully in 2AC) something we were very happy about (actually I think they accessed the Foreign Tourist Quota at the City Booking Office for India Rail). Stayed in Hotel Conclave which was pretty clean and ...
Still here...
Hey! I ony have like 7 minutes to write this entry. Still in tis godforsake town, not allowed to do anything for myself. Last week i have been teaching a lot and the kids run to the classroom when they find out i have their period (its blatently ...
Keralan Backwaters
On to the backwaters via a leisurely drive and several nice stops - Church, waterfall, rubber plantation - to a joke restaurant with an absolute double for Manuel - finally as threatened by Lonely Planet the menu was only some sort of list of what they ...
The Hampstead Pond Swimmer Goes to Rajasthan
... early night - getting near to the end of the J D Laing book and looking forward to starting Rohinton Mistry's book on India - A Fine Balance - which I found at the bookshop in Udaipur. Saturday back to shul for the morning service and was called up ...
My travel to Varanasi
... with granules of coke from the steam engine) blowing into our faces through the open window. This train, the Upper India Express, stopped at virtually every station on the line and trundled slowly across a rural landscape of green fields dotted with ...
Stilwell Road: A Trip to Amazing US Army Achieveme
... away, across two oceans and past three continents. They had employed some of the finest mechanical road makers from America, Britain, India, China and West Africa to fight against the wild jungles, tangles of swamp and forest, deep valleys and high cliffs ...
OOty & Nilgiri Hills
So we've travelled some mountain roads in our time but wow. Two things - I didn't realise you got 'mountains' in S India - we're 2200 metres up here and those mottos all over Indian roads 'Do Not overtake on curves ' do not work. That 2000 metres go ...