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Travel Blogs from Ludhiana
Wedding memories
... We arrived a little later than expected at Kaka Mama's house. We were really looked after and had our favourite foods cooked for us. Was nice to be back with family after a very long time. Time at Ludhiana bought back memories of our wedding as we had many ceremonies from this house 5 years ago. We only stayed the one night but had a memorable time. Their dog was particularly ...
Short Visit, big hearts.
Bei Parvesh und seiner Familie zu sein war sehr schön, aber zu kurz. Seine Mutter verwöhnte uns mit dem besten Essen und der Vater, ein ehemaliger sehr erfolgreicher Musiker, erzählte mir Geschichten von damals und nachdem er meine Kamera entdeckte, auch von seiner Leidenschaft zur Fotografie. Der Bruder spielte mit bewundernswerte Soli mit seiner Gitarre vor, die neue Lust in mir weckte mehr zu üben und selbst die ...
Back to where it all began...
Today we took a tour of Aman's Fathers birthplace. It’s a 'pind’ (in Punjabi a village is known as a ‘Pind’) called Kilaraipur (pronounced kill-a-rye-poor). In total there were 8 brothers and 2 sisters who were born here and only 3 are left permanently living in India. On this particular occasion we were able to get Aman’s Dad and 2 of the brothers to take us on a tour (incidentally while we were here there were 6 of the brothers in India as ...
Scrub the Dirt off my shoulders
We stayed home today and mostly hung out at our families place in Ludhiana and acclimatized to the city. The amount of noise and dust are the first 2 observations we would make about Ludhiana and generally in all of Punjab. Horns are constantly honking, you can hear dogs barking and the sounds of engines rumble the ground all day. When you go outside for an hour or so you can literally feel a bit of a layer of dust ...
First Week
... crazy). Everyone is so warm and inviting, though, and you'd think we're celebrities with the treatment we've received - we've been given bouquets, featured on the news, in the newspaper, etc. We've seen the monkeys (yay!), camels, a couple of elephants, and of course the cows. There's also a lot of dogs and pigs that roam freely. Some things we've done so far include: Visiting a textile factory & steel factory Visiting ...
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