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Travel Blogs from India
Brief
This is a top pick! ... natives and europeans alike.' or those that died during the various battles in the 1840's when the Brits were trying to conquor India, or for people that had died of dystentry or drownings. Quite a few long explanations. Outside it was still ...
Deogarh with a side of peace and quiet
This is a top pick! ... his house. Both stops were great as we got a good feel as to how actual lives are led and not just that everyone in India knows how to try and scheme on tourists. His sister's family is a military one. The father of the house comes home ...
Marvelous chai!
This is a top pick! ... small, thin, traditionally dressed Indians. Just like you would expect from colonial days. No wonder there are no wild animals left in India, they're all in Lalgarh Palace Hotel! It was nice to wander round looking at all the old photos though, and the ...
A stint in Mysore
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; In an effort to experience the famed Mysore markets, we dived headfirst into the bazaar. It was authentic India at it's finest: multi-colored tikka powder, burlap sacks full of chilies and potatoes, and hordes of men selling ...
Mum in Mumbai!
This is a top pick! ... than a city of over 16 million people! Not long after arriving, we headed down to the harbour to see the famed Gateway of India, built to commemorate the visit of King George and now a must-see on any Mumbai visit. Across the road was the palatial 5 ...
Gujarat, the ultimate travel challenge
This is a top pick! ... . They also have a training program for lay midwives in rural areas, in an attempt to reduce the maternal mortality rate; India claims 25% of all maternal deaths worldwide. There is an obvious need: literature on the birth attendant program quotes some ...
Jack Anthony Kelly
This is a top pick! 6.10.06 Welcome Jack Anthony Kelly The day started off on a sensational high for Des and I with a phone call from our son Josh telling us that his wife Tina had given birth to our third grand child, Jack, Ava's little brother. We could not have been ...
Calcutta
This is a top pick! ... off the last little way to the sea Port of Haldia. This was where we would have to clean the campers for export out of India to where, we hadn't decided where yet. The Golden Retreat Hotel, Haldia was our hotel of choice for the reminder of our stay ...
An Ode to India
This is a top pick! ... juicy steak, I'm getting the feeling we made another mistake! Let's head for the mountains where it's nice and cool, A part of India which is a real jewel. Kodaikanal is a trek and a half if you are catching the bus, I was minding my own reading a ...
To Shimla on the Himalayan Queen
This is a top pick! ... up, squatting with their butts out and a little pile underneath them. For ages and ages, with their chins resting in their palm. India must be a country of constipated people. At Kalka I swapped trains since the one up to Shimla is a narrow gauge toy ...
The Golden Triangle and Rajasthan, India
This is a top pick! ... like cattle and a small crowd soon formed around us, just staring and whispering. Speaking of cattle, cows are everywhere in India...wandering the alleyways, sleeping on the streets with cars whizzing by, poking their heads into shops to see what food ...
Team Lovely Cookie
This is a top pick! Heh, Jenny slept great. They're going to start fighting for the pleasure of sleeping with me. Having said that, I've got terrible wind. Might be the beans I scarfed the other night. We had a leisurely breakfast [the bridge was still out] and then most of ...
You want a Safari?
This is a top pick! ... in the Himalayas!! It was funny though, paddling round a man-made lake, in a huge blue swan on the edge of the desert in India with temples in and around the water! The fort looked brilliant from there. Back in our room it was nice to sit on the ...
Ripped Off, good karma?
This is a top pick! ... take it's toll. i think we already mentioned the roads are like no other.i just read a satistic that 1500 people die in india on the raods every single day, sorry mum. we have been passed loads of turned over or pranged, crushed lorries. virtually every ...
Of Moustaches and Men: an irreverent account
This is a top pick! ... under-30 crowd in a ubiquitous fashion, it gets a bit tiresome .) For my readers who haven't set foot in India (more specifically the south of India) you must realize that you have never seen a place with a per-capita moustache population ...
New Delhi - Day 10
I don't know why but lately we seem to have been having disastrous mornings, followed by really good afternoons and evenings. Once again this is how our day started. We woke up in our hotel and after having seen all the market stalls the night before, ...
Gwalior to Khajuraho
This is a top pick! ... ago. Their remote location is probably responsible for their longevity, as they avoided the later Muslim onslought when many temples across India were all but destroyed. The main group of temples stand in a modern day park with flower borders and lawns ...
GOA
This is a top pick! ... at the train station at least an hour before (as is advised) bought goodies for journey and waited for The Goa Express!! India's version of express and mine are obviously two completely different meanings. We got talking to Rob a traveler from England who ...
A (non) Monsoon Wedding
This is a top pick! ... on my last day in Hyderabad at the wedding of my friend, Anju, and her new husband, Amit. A native to southern India's Kerala region, Anju's matrimonial debut was set in traditional southern style with vibrant color under a beautiful floral altar with ...
Kali, incense, and major construction!
This is a top pick! ... basically collapsed for about 5 hours. Wandered a bit after I woke up, did some essentials, ATM, water, bookstore (found my India guide!) and had masala chai and veggie samosas at the Teahouse a local place that could have been right in San ...
MYSORE
This is a top pick! ... their own. At lunch we bump into Martin & Caroline and agree to meet for dinner. We chat all night putting the world or at least India to rights and before we know it its midnight and bed time. We have to spend one more day here so we go to the local ...
Bollywood here I come!
This is a top pick! Ok, so I'm not really going to Bollywood...but, was featured with two others from the Beach and Lake on the local news station after they interviewed many of us about the pollution in the lake/ocean and dead fish that had popped up the previous ...
Tea, politics and a step back in time...
This is a top pick! ... clearly had been constructed and then left to decay without any thought of continuing maintenance (quite the norm here in India unfortunately). Discussed some of these as well as environmental, political and ecological issues at length while down ...
Training for India
This is a top pick! ... land during it's struggle for independence, totally backfiring on its architects in London. Anyone who has any experience with India, either vicarious or direct, will tell you that the trains are the way to go: fairly cheap, reasonably fast, and it ...
CHENNAI
This is a top pick! We caught the over night bus to Chennai the state of Tamil Nadu. If you don't want to be harassed by rikshaw men when you arrive at a new destination simply leave your bags in the luggage storage at the bus or train station. Not all have them but when ...
"Do you like my India?"
This is a top pick! ... fellow passengers. A middle-aged woman asked if I'd had chai, and we got off the train and stood at the chai stand, blowing steam off the top of the little plastic cups, and watching the sun catch the station roof. "Do you like my India?" she ...
Delhi Assurance
This is a top pick! After a year in the life insurance business you can imagine my horror when, within the first minute of our first sight seeing tour of Delhi, our tour guide pointed out a huge, faceless orange-brick megalith and proudly told us "life insurance is the ...