Travel Blogs from Nagpur, India
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 ...
DAY 22- Birdless bird park
DAY 22 Early moring start for the bus...which tamsin luckily made as she didnt vomit all night! We were taken by cars to the bus depot, where we had attampted 2 buses before we found the right one. As the kind caring friends we are lou and zoe help ...
DAY 22- Birdless bird park
DAY 22 Early moring start for the bus...which tamsin luckily made as she didnt vomit all night! We were taken by cars to the bus depot, where we had attampted 2 buses before we found the right one. As the kind caring friends we are lou and zoe help ...
Sikkim 2
Our jeep made its final stop at the central bus stop in the city centre. Most of the hotels are nearby while some more expensive ones are a bit higher up. After avoiding all the agents trying to snatch you from one another we started to look for a place ...
Holland meets Portugal meets India
... one didn't have huge cochroaches even if they were almost dead Fort Cochin is a bit of a weird place - it didn't feel like India and seemed only to exist for the tourists. This has its advantages for the area, beautiful buildings which had fallen into ...
On our way to Darjeeling
Hello all..... spent yesterday at a planetarium whose greatest thing was providing us a respite from the heat and crowds... it 'looked' like a planetarium but was more like a slide show on one side of the wall. Still, it was a relief to get ...
Sathyamangalam Wildlife Census - March 2009
... on 27 March 2009. Mr. Kalidass, Head, OSAI - NGO explained the nuances of the census. People from WWF - India explained in detail the secrets of the forest and survival there. Sathyamangalam forest area was divided into 85 ...
Bodhgaya, a place of buddhist pilgrimage
... with a different eye. The 17th Karmapa, like the Dalai Lama, the head of a sect of Tibetan monks and in exile in India since 1999 was there when I arrived ( he now leaves near Dharamsala and is refused residence at Rumtek monastery in Sikkim which is ...
to delhi and beyond
i am in salem preparing for my trip,getting all the things.tomorrow i am going to my village to attend my cousin's marriage,right after marriage straight from my village i will be leaving to delhi in train from salem on 10 march monday....i will reach ...
Kolkatta (Calcutta)
... Yugoslavia, hoy en dia Macedonia. A mi se me encogio el corazon al ver de lo que habla tanta gente sobre la India y la pobreza, no es pobreza, esta por debajo de eso, es miseria elevada al maximo grado. Hay familias que viven bajo un ...
first travel log entry
Please let me know if this is working, I think it will make it easier for me, but it is a bit of an experiment...... Tomorrow I was going to see the Dali Lama in Saranath, which is about 17 mi from here,(He is here for a week and people from all ...
Oh what a wedding!
... ;enthousiaster dan zn zus haha) en daarom vertrokken we donderdagavond richting het treinstation voor een 17 uur durende reis naar Nagpur (Midden-India). Slapen is er voor mij niet van gekomen die nacht..we hadden wel een ‘bed’ ...
Mumbai
... ip.... I either see crap or reslly expensive stuff. This was the firsy plsce today that was where regular people shop. Oh fzb india is another. But how many tnics of shalweers (long tunic worn with pants or leggings with a matching scarf). Will i ever ...
Monkeys, Rats and Children
... 5 inches!! That may not be completely accurate but i'm not getting skinnier. I do feel somewhat guilty going into the rural India and gaining weight! The hardest thing to deal with though is the wildlife. Firstly i have a resident rat. My first encounter ...
Himalayas by the Hampstead Pond Swimmer
The Hampstead Pond Swimmer goes to the Himalayas You may remember last time I went to India I showed up at Heathrow without a visa and had to delay everything by a day whilst I scrambled to get one. Well this time, but only by great good fortune ...
Two nights in the "Mosquito Factory"
... an idea if, having done two days on the Keralan backwaters - the bit of this area that many people actually fly all the way to India just to see, we wrote something about it! We've uploaded a few pictures with our previous blog entry and added a few here, ...
Calmed in Kerala
Our arrival in Cochin is of stark contrast to our experience of mumbai. We have travelled 2hrs south from cochin along the coast of the arabian sea to a town called allepey which is the major hub for kerala backwater houseboat tours. We have booked ...
Dinner, Tyre & Music
... & indicators, hazard-warning boards- in the perfect NHAI format. It felt so relieving after the torturous drive between Raipur & Nagpur- the work-in-progress highway. But, this relieving new road vanished even before it started. It was just 10 Kms ...
Travel from Neemrana to Mandawa
We woke up early and had breakfast in Neemrana and then headed to Mandawa. It was approx. 4 hour drive and many of the roads were under construction so it was one lane with cars, trucks, bikes, tuk-tuks, people, camels, cows, donkey's etc... all trying ...
Sterling Fern Hills in and out
Of all the Sterling Resorts in India, this one very impressive. Location, views, lawn, flowers, service, layout, design, front elevation, park area, rooms, holiday activities, cooking area everything is metuculously drawn. You can see the entire resorts, ...
Yongda e qualche nozione di buddismo
2 Maggio - Yongda e qualche nozione di buddismo. "Allora, non conoscete neppure i cinque veleni? No? Bene." Ed è da questo argomento che Yongda ha pazientemente iniziato. Sintetizzo, casomai non li conosciate neppure voi. I cinque veleni sono ...

