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Nagpur Slideshow
Nagpur
Travel Blogs from Nagpur, India
Rural India served in Luxury
What better a place to spend your time than at Fort Ramathra a crumbly old fort just 60 Km shy of the famous Ranthmabore National Park. We were invited by Gitu and Ravi Singh descendant and now owner of this 16th century fort, that I first visited in ...
coorg
Coorg Situated on the Western Ghats of Karnataka in South India, Coorg have taken the sheer beauty that nature has to offer for granted. The greenery, the pure air, and the relative cleanliness scores high against the concrete ...
NJP on the way to Darjeeling
Good hotel clean comfortable 1000 rupees per night, helpful jeep stand is right outside the door. Got train tickets at the City Booking Office (India rail) booked Foreign Tourist Quota 2AC (pretty happy about ...
Beaches of Goa
... something from the beach shack way behind. Everything is more expensive here as that's were most of the short time rich visitors to India stop by. There are 2 Saturday night markets. I went to the closer one and it wasn't too big and I ...
To the Glacier - We Must be Mad
On Saturday 2 May, we set off early from Kanda, in a booked jeep which saved a rather long uphill walk to the village, we had gamely said that we would accompany Jenny (the Scotish lassie) on a trip to Pindari - little did we know what we were letting ...
Ever hear of the Raj Mahal?
... any of these monuments with the exception of the Taj Mahal. A foreign tourist pays 25 times as much as a citizen of India pays to enter these monuments but the money sadly is pocketed by the politicians of that district. So to see all these ...
Jolly's reflections on ASA & BRAC
... visit to Bangladesh as part of the ' FWWB' team is off to a great start - new acquaintances from the many parts of India bring unique perspectives to 'poverty alleviation' and the MFI movement. The exposure to ASA (read ASHA or HOPE) provided an ...
Guwhati
After Majuli we went straight back to Guwhati which was a long journey for not many kilometers. In India you can't get anywhere fast it seems. Again this was a pit stop on the way to ...
Da Darjeeling al Sikkim
... , la nostra destinazione, è una cittadina che si è sviluppata attorno ad uno stadio di calcio vecchio e decrepito; fatto singolare in India, soprattutto perché dentro ci giocano anche a calcio e non solo a cricket. È situata attorno ai 1300 metri, ...
Kipling Country
Hi there, It's been a few days since I last wrote my blog so quite a bit to write. After Bombay, Paul and I went to a lovely hill station called Pachmari to do some walking and chilling out in the countryside. We stayed in an old colonial house, ...
How not to ask for a donation
Our first visit to Neyyardam was by rickshaw, only IR170 from Trivandrum if he turns on his meter, our guy did after some persuasion and then spent the rest of the day seeking ways to turn it off and triple the price. Eventually he asked for IR600 but ...
Wayanad...heighest peaks in Kerala
I am at tallest peak in Wayanad district, and is a day's climb. To climb the peak, you need to get permits from forest department office at Meppady village. To reach Chembra, take the Kozhikode road from Kalpetta and turn left just after the town. You ...
Here and there!
I am sharing some photographs shot during the trip. Thanks to Jayakumar, Bhadresh Bhai, Shaila ji for sharing photos with ...
First few days
... attempts to speak gujerati very amusing. On the whole though, being in Gujerat so far has been great. I've just slipped back into 'india mode', not saying please or thank you and doing the infamous head wriggle all day long. The food has been yum. So ...
The Tigers Last Roar
... brefet of cover, is a perfect setting for seeing the tiger.Situated at a distance of about 270 kms by road from Nagpur, the winter capital of Maharahtra , kanha has excellent infrastructure with good hotels at the park boundary, excellent guides to show ...
Beautiful Murud
... , who could have easily claimed a seat for himself or his young daughter, ever so graciously let me take the seat. India is definitely about contrasts and differences. It is what makes this place so fascinating and infuriating at the same time. Although ...
kanchipuram
ca c'est une escale temples .C'est la ville , plus du tout le meme style ! c'est trop grand pour se deplacer a pied, et il y a trop de risque de se perdre ! Alors j'ai recours aux petits triporteurs pour faire le tour des 5 plus grands sites .2 le 1er ...
kathakali at varkala
... coast, and is known among geologists as Varkala Formation and a geological monument as declared by the Geological survey of India. There are numerous water spouts and spas on the sides of these cliffs. KATHAKALI AT VARKALA: kathakali emperor thottam ...
Where It All Began (Part 2)
... to us over the next two days. The couple were married at 8am on 5 February 1934, at the Agnes Henderson Memorial Church, Nagpur. In those days it belonged to the Church of Scotland, but today is part of the Church of North India. At the ...
Guwhati
Ok after Cherrapunjee we headed back to Guwhati. I may have mentioned before what a horrible place this is. When we eventually arrived you could smell the excrement in the air and I'm sure we trodded in it a couple of times. This was ...
I can't believe all this is real!
... it tasted like, he could only respond, "it tastes like our last week in India, all wrapped up into these new flavors, like nothing I've ever tasted before". So I'll tell you what it was called and sum up my entire India experience in one ...