Carlton Hotel Lucknow
Shahnajaf Road, Rana Pratap Marg Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226 010, India
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Haha I found the Barras Market
Thankfully my Hotel was just across from the train station so I dodge the tuktuk's etc and just walk over. Only staying one night here and I'm kinda glad as there isn't another tourist anywhere near here!!! I jumped a rickshaw round about and it does look a nice place, I stumbled upon a huge market which is obviously ...
Haridwar Mystery solved
... place, thinking about using your leg as a urinal. Are you getting the picture. All together, not nice place to be.
Anyway, pay attention now as I am getting to the key point of this story. The tour guide was no where to be seen. After about 20 mins, I couldn't take the attention any more, and you know how much I like attention. I grabbed a guy who seemed to be touting for business,and he told me could get me a rickshaw. And only 20rupee. This seemed to good to be true. (It ...
3 days in Lucknow
... been driving his rickshaw for 6 years and was a good driver. He was able to read the chaos of the traffic with skill and intuition. Sometimes slowing before there was an obvious need, and other times speeding up into an invisible gap that opened magically for us, just when a collision seemed imminent. Our first stop was the Residency. Built in 1800, it was where the British resident lived until the First War of Independence, the siege of Lucknow 1857, a ...
Sleeper to Agra
... time. All of these factors however didn't keep our neighbors from sleeping soundly and snoring so loudly they shocked each other awake from time to time. When we finally arrived at Agra around 5:15am, we were bleary eyed and in a daze. We stumbled off the train into the early morning light trying to make sense of what we'd experienced. But we had already been in India long enough to know that making sense was not something India did well.
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Not So Lucky in Lucknow
... there was a train available to Agra but it was leaving at 5pm and would be in sleeper class and arriving in a place we worked out what 20km outside Agra at 3:40 in the morning. Not ideal. We decided to give the train a miss and stick with the bus so got a rickshaw with all our bags to the right place - we just said "Bus to Lucknow" and the guy got the message so that was handy. There was a bus waiting when we got there so we got straight on and, again, managed to bag the front ...


