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Travel Blogs from India, India
Teerathpuri
This is a top pick! September arrives with a golden dawn and beautiful clear skies. Teerathpuri is nearly 70 km north-west of Darchen. We hire Toyota land-cruisers. All the way through Parkha plains we drive on a trail amongst many which only the ...
Sensations of Epic Proportions and the New Knight
This is a top pick! ... is fitting, but only capures part of the story; it takes an epic the size of Midnight's Children to capture a good part of the contrasts, diversity, emotions, spirituality, filth, corruption, and history of India, invented at Midnight on August 15, ...
Annotated Bird Species List
This is a top pick! The Species List, with brief notes, for those interested: 1. Black Francolin (Francolinus francolinus) Seen in many habitats with scrub throughout Kutch 2. Grey Francolin (Francolinus pondicerianus) Frequently seen throughout thorn scrub in Kutch. ...
India Nature: Kutch Backroads, An Essay, part III
This is a top pick! ... A large flock of sheep grazed in the grassland, confirming the difficulty of nature conservation and environmental education in populated India. And the shepherd had a face, a name, a family. Combined with nearby Nalia Dhond, the two grasslands totaled ...
India Nature: Kutch Backroads, An Essay, part IV
This is a top pick! ... of the Wild Ass Sanctuary, the final worldly of the Khur. Only around 3,000 Khur remained after once ranging broadly around India. Along with the tiger, lion, rhinoceros, and dozens of other species, the story was the same: several thousand individuals ...
Vipassana and the Eightfold Path
This is a top pick! ... more aware of my body. Now I can concentrate my mind better. Now I can react better to the sometimes difficult street scenes of India. Now I can gain more insight into the human body and environment. It's not easy. As I write this ten days later, my ...
India Nature: Velavadar Black Buck National Park
This is a top pick! On the coastal plains of Bhal in Eastern Gujarat State, the Black Buck (Antelope cervicapra rajputanae) roam the tawny and burnt umber grasslands punctuated by acacia trees. Soaring, gliding, and hovering overhead, Pallid Harriers, Black-shouldered ...
Mmm Manali
This is a top pick! "Is-rae-li men, Hallelujah!" -- what The Weather Girls didn't sing. ~~~~~ Ahh, Manali! How I love your weed lined streets! Not. But every cloud has a silver lining: in this case it came in the form of an awesome shop selling Kullu shawls at ...
Ladakh is the crack
This is a top pick! 19 hours in a share-jeep driven by a guy who bore an uncanny resemblance to Rufio from 'Hook'. Good choice to sit in position 1 [front window-side] since sitting in 2 [next to the driver] means he grabs for your crotch every time he changes gear. ...
One Week on the Saurashtra Coastline
This is a top pick! ... drying fish filled the air, along with thousands of gulls, waiting for scraps. Nearby container ships and tankers displayed India's new economy, dwarfing the fishing vessels and the pilgrimage ferries. On my last day along the Arabian Sea coastline, ...
Flying Lizards
This is a top pick! ... of the river. This imposing entrance leads you to a fantastic palace complex which proved to be one of our 'surprise' finds in India. It doesnt have the reputation of other more 'touristy' destinations, groups usually whizz through in an hour or so. In ...
Jaiur - The Pink City
This is a top pick! ... he has just driven over it. He stops the car gets out picks it up and laughs saying "its good luck to break mirror in India" climbs back in the car, puts the broken mirror back in its casing and we head off. It's almost rush hour and the traffic is ...
India - the first time
This is a top pick! Excellent trip. Working with a fantastic group in a great location and helping wonderful people - the Tibetans. Trekking was one of the best I have done (after with PNG ...
Gay-dar in India
This is a top pick! ... driver's encyclopaedic knowledge of stars and songs is something unimaginable for straight men in the west; here, it's typical. Men in India will loosely hold each other's fingers for a few moments then disengage to lightly hold hands as they walk. It's ...
The Desert Fantasy and the Hill Station
This is a top pick! I've moved on...no longer the colonial memsahib, in my new fantasy I'm Lisa the veiled lady, hidden within the shady walls of my luxurious haveli in this desert fortress town of Jaisalmer, looking out through the delicately carved sandstone window ...
Fawlty Towers
This is a top pick! ... through the seven days and came out all the wiser in the end. One day we took a tuk-tuk to Alleppy beach, and the India that we were experiencing summed itself up nicely. An oldish guy wandered into the sea and proceeded to drop his keks and wash his ...
First look at the University
This is a top pick! ... bump, we enjoyed seeing the Foreign Students Hostel where we will be living. The floors are a beautiful red marble from north India and the rooms have more of the modern conveniences we wimpy American students depend on. Hooray for the end of ...
Yalitong la Mole Singing in Zanskar
This is a top pick! "Yalitong la mole" souded from the fields of Zanskar. T'was harvest time, and the locals were singing their happy harvest song. Periodically we would sing out the window of our vehicle, to the villagers, as we drove through Zanskar back to ...
Suprising Delhi
This is a top pick! ... had rolling hills and big trees and there were over 400 hundred stalls set up in thatched huts selling crafts from all over India. Add to these kites, dancers, singers, drums, puppet shows, coloured umbrellas, food from every region of India and of ...
Pink Bits?
This is a top pick! The night train from Bikaner was absolutely freezing and the snoring seemed to be louder, consequently neither of us slept well and were not about to put up with any shifty rickshaw drivers on arrival in Jaipur. But for once we received very unusual ...
Celebrity Encounter in Leh / the Road to Srinagar
This is a top pick! Along with my 4 trek-mates, I was set to leave Leh at 7 a.m. on Tues. By happy coincidence, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was arriving in Leh at the same time. So we joined the throngs of Ladakhis lining the few kilometres of road from the airport ...
Travels with Two Buddhas: Meditation and Knowledge
This is a top pick! ... can be difficult. This, I believe, is one of the main aspects that divide whether or not people love or hate India. Intuition, equanimity, faith, trust, awareness, and learning how to read people all become important in these situations, dozens or ...
Postal Service Tailors...
This is a top pick! ... . Now, you wouldn't think this seemingly simple task would require much however, you haven't ever tried to do it in India! As I mentioned in an earlier blog entry, there is a theft problem here apparently, so all packages have to be sewn up in ...
The Land of Lhagu
This is a top pick! With the small, one-street town of Rawok behind me, I passed a small hydroelectric plant near a large waterfall. As in the hydro plant near Tsakhalo, where I spent the night a few days ago, the employees were relaxed and enjoying themselves. ...
Realm of Tumo
This is a top pick! The canyon ahead formed a wind tunnel for the monsoon from the south. Cold wind mixed with rain pushed me backwards as I crossed the river and entered the canyon. Flowers decked the sides of the trail and the surrounding landscape. A few hours ...
The Taj Mahal
This is a top pick! So we left Bharatpur in the morning heading east to Agra. This was going to be one of the big highlights of the trip because Agra is home to the Taj Mahal, arguably the most magnificent structure in the entire world. The bus to Agra was only an hour and ...
Touring stunning Sikkim
This is a top pick! ... Sikkim immediately felt peaceful and comparitively affluent. According to the guide book this is because China has never officially recognised India’s claim to Sikkim, which was independent until 1975, so the Indian government has made it a ...
200 kms in just 10 hours
This is a top pick! Posted by Genevieve Looking at a map, the distances between Himalayan towns is not great. In fact, most places are very near as the crow flies. But we are not crows. We are humans lacking a car, and our only option for getting around is ...
Hmmm....
This is a top pick! Stepped off the train in Haridwar after sleeping for about 5 hours in my A/C chair class train and slogged over to the bus station across and down the street to pick up the local bus to Rishikesh. It left about 5 minutes after I jumped on and we ...