Gujarat Bhavan Hotel
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Four days in Kalyan, Maharastra
... Saga International Hotel next to the railway station. Anything less like an "International Conference Centre" is hard to imagine. We got very little sleep there and Terry has a wonderful collection of bites!
During our stay we visited the projects supported by Rianna’s Fund here. They include :
- Pre-school in the slums. This keeps young children off the street in the mornings while their ...
Relax and recover
... couple of times, but to put it in balance, there were also some very good examples where people acted very well in all these points.
We discussed a potential reorganization of the program and got a lot of support from the local coordinator as well as the right hand of the governor of the district. On Tuesday we will have a face to face meeting with the governor ...
Passing through Mumbai
... still followed by a persistent taxi driver who insisted on driving us there (and suggesting his cousin’s booking agency for bus tickets as well).
We stopped at the New Bengal Hotel, which was pricey by Indian standards, but very ordinary inside even though we had a ‘luxury’ room. I think the luxury bit was because it had a bathroom! The good thing about the place was that it had wi-fi. We only planned to stop 1 night ...
Top 10s of India
... in the world to learn mathematics.
8. Indians don't see white people as human beings. They see us as money. There were times when I showed up to cities and asked for a hotel and their English was so bad that they didn't know what hotel, guest house or lodging was. I would make the sign for a bed or pillow and they would take me to a cheap lodge. After not being able to speak any English, they ask for ...
Mumbai (Panvel) for a day
... and when I got on the bus, I asked others how much they paid, they said $30. This is the 4th time in one day that I have been screwed over and the thing that really confuses me is that these people are Buddhist, so Buddhist believe in Karma. If they are Buddhist and believe in Karma, why would they screw people over all the time? It just blows my mind. The train was very windy and hard to sleep, but I managed about 5 hours of sleep. ...