Hotel Maya Palace Chandigarh

I keep on travelling to different states in India. Nah, not for me to stay in hotels and burn my fingers aand pocket. Here's a nice site www.payinguests.com . Whenever I need to get hold of an aaccommodation in any city I just search. If it is urgent then I give my own SOS advt. , which aagain is free of cost. A convenient way, hats off to the concept.

Headed out of Delhi on the fast train to Kalka - in class AC Seater 2nd (Indian railways have numerous, complicated classes). Neatly uniformed staff bringing a seemingly endless number of things a newspaper, bottles of water, tea (naturally), food. All very comfortable and efficient, whizzing across the plains of Northern India. You do however see some horrible shanty towns clustered by ...

... court. They guy had piles of paperwotk and told us that ths was just one days cases. We felt we had taken up enough of his (and the court's!) time, so we said we would leave and let him get on with his work. He then said he was on his lunchbreak so we thanked hi even more for making time for us!
Building ne 2 is the secretariat. Went thru a couple of cesurity checks guys with guns and reception - yes where the tourist office permission was exchanged for another ...

... and we could land. We finally arrived in Chandigarh four hours after we were scheduled, at 9:00 instead of the 5:05 that was planned. We had a good sleep, and woke up to a new day. We rented a video, and had a lazy sort of day. We have finished the travel part of the trip so we wil not be updating as often. You needn't check the blog every day, as we will probably not be updating every day.

... Caffee, Cafe Day, Mc Donald and Subway...simply great with AC for Indian summer).

POLISH

Jak widzicie troche tych kilometrow mamy za soba - w tej chwili wypoczywamy w Chandigarth, gdzie mam nadzieje, zatrzymac sie na dluzej. Jest to bardzo ladne miejsce, dosc nowoczesne, nie podobne do innych miast Indii...a co najwazniejsze, jest to baza wypadowa do polnocnych ...

... But pleasant it certainly was. After arriving in Kalka we jumped in a cab and hot-tailed in to Chandigarh. Built in the 1950s as a planned city with projects from the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, Chandigarh is billed as India's cleanest and greenest city and is supposedly a modernist masterpiece of town-planning? Milton Keynes anyone? There were lots of cows, but they were holy but not plastic. As for the clean/green claim, the city was as polluted as any ...

... is our sort of place and if we had, stress had, to live anywhere in India it would probably be here. It's cleaner, it's greener, and it's more affluent than other Indian cities of comparable size, all of which is great. But the clincher for us is that beer is sold here duty free, and unlike other parts of India you don't draw attention to yourself by simply buying beers in an off-license. It's all because of the local Sikhs, the turban wearing ...

... is minus zero. It was clad with ice even in the summer...the way was made with ice cleaned from the steps.it was a picturesque sight,it was difficult to reach the lingam as it was very very slippery and ice cold water in the feet as well as falling from top. out of the world sight.see the photos on a large screen to enjoy the beauty...

... when we woke up and he was safe and sound in bed. Day 2 - Seeing the tiger on the first day kind of ruined the rest of the safari but at least we didnt have to worry that we would not see one. Still, we hoped we would see some more. In the morning we went on a elephant ride which was brilliant as we got to go off track and through the 8 foot high grasses. When we got back we found the cheeky monkeys had half inched our towels ...

... and she mumbled an answer (whilst looking behind us) that clearly was a lie...ie "there were no trains or buses going to our destination today" she immediately spun her chair round and struck up a conversation with the man behind the next window, as if to dismiss us. I pointed out to her (loudly)that the timetable behind her on the wall contradicted her information, my apparent impudence had clearly angered her, she slapped her pen down stood up and closed the window in my face. I ...