Pune
Travel Blogs from Pune, India
Thankyou Ave and Suraj
... 't worry about the fifteen feet of guard rail missing with a sheer drop the other side! Once we started getting to the outskirts of Pune, we realised it was obviously going to be big. We were still around 10kms out of the heart of the city, and the ...
Pune to Ganapatipule - a mistimed journey!
... tempting .. In addition to the usual Saturday - Sunday - weekend break , the Friday was a vacation (Republic Day , 26 Jan India). Three consecutive holidays and I was itching to travel. My friends had planned for a trek to a fort called Harishchandragad ...
Premiere journee terminee
Aujourd'hui on a rencontre Cyril et Emilie. Cyril est le directeur du studio et Emilie est a la tete du "departement" des ressources humaines... Je mets departements entre guillemet parce que je ne sais pas si 2 personnes ca fait vraiment un ...
new years eve pune
... --but that morning nothing helped except talking to Liese and Alan and breathing and letting time pass. Dec 31st Pune 6:27 a.m. India Notes while sitting at ashram registration: An overreaction of the emotions: more "wild gerbals" than "wild ...
Fait un bout!
... meme chose jusqu'a ce que la lumiere vire verte et qu'on redecolle. On est monte jusqu'en haut et de la, on pouvait voir tout Pune ou presque. Le vent etait bon et ca faisait du bien d'etre un peu plus loin de tout ce monde, de tout ce bruit. C'est ...
day of big decisions plus many photos
... be away from the internet for a week starting tonight. hopefully there will be a phone where I'm going. Some signs I'm getting used to India: I realized that it has taken a week but I have finally learned how to cross the road. And the other day I ...
Koregaon Park
... est avec du monde. J'ai le gout de me promener a l'heure que ca me tente et de m'arreter ou je veux quand je veux. Pune ne semble pas super trippante que je suis arriver ici et j'ai le gout de trouver les coins possiblement plus cool. Si coin cool il ...
You fat bastard, you ate all the pies
... - it would have been impolite for me not to. Diana, his wife, was a really interesting bird who used to be an Air India hostie. She's retired from that and now does tours for Indians to wherever in the world - a wealth of travel information. Basically, ...
Hey ma, the rains are 'ere!
Not much to report today (read: I can't be arsed). Two points of note... 1. Ave had our bikes cleaned by their bloke that washes cars. Nice one Ave! 2. It pissed down around dinner time and almost flooded in a few places around town... this monsoon ...
first impressions
... a ten minute walk away from the hotel we are staying at. it's an incredibly green campus, with trees and forest everywhere. college in india though is 11th and 12th grade, so we are a bit older than the regular students. the woman who is our 'RA' ...
ancient fort and scuzziness
- jaimes tour of the fort - weird guy, coupleness - rain, phone booth, kevin, hannah - high school attitudes - tea, squatter toilets, al - elephant in street - market buy cloth for clothes - sickness, food ...
The Armani of Ashrams
... the weirdy-beardy in their midst havig sex with all the white women, and he was sent back to India for breaking immigration rules. The Ashram in Pune is mega plush, described as the Armani of Ashrams and is absolutely chokka with middle aged Americns ...
Journey - Rajmachi
... Rahul and Prasant bought the tickets for Mumbai and said good bye to us. They were really a good company. We four bought Mammad-Pune express tickets and had vada pav and cold drinks before getting onto the train. Once on the train to Pune we saw the ...
Road Trip to Pune
... ago I thought the trip would be interesting to say the least! But we were told that there is now an expressway that links Mumbai to Pune and it should take approx 3 hours. But what we didn't expect was the amount of rain that fell that morning. The locals ...
Day 1: Pune -- Mumbai
... seat ... a middle seat :( Towards my left was a british lady (half-british/half-indian), who I learnt, spends every winter in India and every summer in London. She looked quite affable and possibly would make a good company for the trip. Towards my right ...
Red Robes and Red Dust
... Osho (famous for it's guru who went to Portland to start a colony after his beliefs and then was forced back to India where he started the Pune colony before being murdered). Since we expected a bunch of foreigners, we knew cost of living would go up and ...
Pune
Made a stop here on the way south. We didn't have time to visit the (in?)famous Osho Ashram (and I still don't think it's a great miss ...
Pune pronounced Poona
... horses. No seriously that was the name of the place we ended up in...not quite like the one in London. Pune is supposed to be a testament to the "New India" that is emerging from the old ways. It has the biggest middle class of a city this size ...
into the city
... , and decided to go. I also decided not to go North to Dharmasala to see the Dalai Lama. This was my opriginal plan in coming to India. But if I've learned anything in life, it's to listen to your gut. My guts said don't go last week. So I have separated ...
Beyond Mumbai
... variety of real Indian food ("The Curry Spice" eat your heart out). I am missing only one thing, and that is an emotional connection to India; I still see it, as if I am not really a part of it, but time is key, and I am sure that by the ...
Time to relax - taking a break, partying in Pune!
... exceptional massage, and eaten lots of cake (my Birthday cake was especially good - can you believe it, in the middle of India, I still had a birthday cake?!) There isn't really any more to write this time as I haven't been many places ...
Utter Chaos
Took that cab to Pune, and this place is no delight. Its is complete and utter chaos! Our cabbie is cool, but we drove around in cirlces for which seemed like forever! Finally we found another crazy man to follow to Hotel Deluxe.... Deluxe, maybe compared ...
Off on my own- at last
Off on my own at last.. took a journey with some new friends who live in Pune. It was a much much much better expereince than the first one I took with my travel buddy. This time was first class treatment. Wonderful hospitality and new great friendships. ...
Lots of Surgery
I'm 2 weeks in and I can't believe what I've seen so far! I've observed operations on the heart, brain, spine, abdomen (several different parts) and even the ear. I've also had the luxury of being 'educated' by a wide variety of ...
The Cotswolds of India
... ; The other main point of interest is the palace of the Aga Khan, where Gandhi was kept under house arrest for leading the quit India movement in the early 1940's. There is a poignant Gandhi collection here, as it is the place where both his closest ...
What a ride???
... a crazy lady in front who felt compelled to scream at the bus attendant about every little thing. MMMM mental note never ever go on an non A/C coach!!! Bloody Diwali everything is booked solid. Despite this little set back Pune was great. Very relaxed. ...
El indio rapero
... , es l'anecdota de l'indi rapero. Estavem reposant en un muret abans d'anar a sopar i xerrant sobre l'evolucio dels gossos tant a l'India com al mon. I de sobte, Hyderabad! del no res, va apareixer un indi forca western escoltant musica. Ens va deixar el ...

