Hotel Indraprastha Katra
Hotel Indraprastha Jammu Road Katra, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, 182301, India
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Jammu und Kashmir
... allerdings in summe doch eine spur we***** schraeg. die stimmung hat sich dann aber doch wieder beruhigt - jedenfalls ging es dann doch ziemlich lang weiter - mit einer ansprache eines aelteren - wieder musik,... irgendwann hielt ich es dann mehr oder we***** fuer das ende und bin gegangen - mittlerweile war es dunkel - ich glaub ich war zwischen 1,5 und 2h in der kirche. brauchte dann eine bar.
so, jetzt ...
A Rest
... It had been a long 26 hours and we didn't want to go through the hassel of getting a 2nd class ticket, trying to find a sleeper seat, bribing the conductor, blah blah blah. Then we talked to the tourist desk and they said there was a train direct to Mumbai! only 32 hours long! Special train that only runs every week or so. It left the next morning. We're so on it!
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The Yatra
... to a cave where Vaishno Devi's shrine is located. The queue is kept moving along by some brusque and officious guards and you get about 30 seconds of Darshan before they stamp a Tilak on your forehead, wave your prasad packet at the feet of the diety and get you on your way.
One really gets a sense of accomplishment at having made it to the top but then begins the long journey back, aching feet and all. As I wound my way back toward the locker, I remembered to ...
Stopover in nondescript Jammu en route to Srinagar
An early start this morning, like 4am, so I could go to the Golden Temple one more time and get some pictures at dawn. Then off to the bus station to catch a bus to Jammu; from there on to Srinagar tomorrow is my plan. There isn't much else of interest in Amritsar to keep me here and it's a typical Indian city in that it is overcrowded, noisy, dirty and polluted.
There isn't anything worth seeing ...
Pink Eye and and Truckstop stays - Jammu
... 8217;ve got no lights, no signals and no horn, and being in a tunnel meant neither of us cold turn around to signal to the truck driver to slow down.
Anyway we made it out alive albeit a little shaken but that was instantly resolved the moment our eyes readjusted to the burning sun. The tunnel had led us into paradise, well paradise without a beach but amazing none the less. If any of you remember the movie "the land before time" this is what it felt like. When the dinosaurs ...



