Hotel President Dehradun

... br><br> 27.09.2009<br><br> Sunday<br><br> Guest house of Swami Narayan temple trust,Sarangpur<br><br> 28.09.2009<br><br> Monday<br><br> In Ashram Express train Ahmadabad to Delhi<br><br> 19.09.2009 to 29.09.2009 Travel details <br><br> 19.09.2009<br><br> 09.30 pm<br><br> By Mussorrie Express train from Dehradun ...

... bus stop to Khodiyar temple<br><br> 27.09.2009<br><br> 07.00 am<br><br> By shared autorikshaw from Khodiyar temple to Rangoli hotel Chokdi<br><br> 27.09.2009<br><br> 09.00 am<br><br> By private bus from Rangoli hotel Chokdi to Botad bus stand<br><br> 27.09.2009<br><br> 11.00 am<br><br> By shared tempo from ...

... Dehradun, but is a<br>typical day-trip for visitors to Mussoorie<br>and Landour. It is<br>located on a hill and one reaches there after a steep 1.5 km trek, from village<br>Kaddukhal, on the Dhanaulti - Chamba road.<br><br><ul><br> <li>DELHI - MUJAFAR NAGAR -<br> HARIDWAR - RISHIKESH - NARENDER NAGAR - CHAMBA - KANATAL - KADDUKHAL </li><br></ul><br><br ...

... is such a deep and complex religion, and their take on the concept of God and gods is much different from the West. In this way, a "god" is less of a tangible and defendable fact and more of an individual spiritual focus-- something that can be explained in thousands upon thousands of different ways. Thusly there are so many different gods, and as we ascended the temple they only got more and more creative. At some point we reached a priest chanting a mantra in front of a ...

... and watched a few kiddies doing backflips into the icy cold water. Or we tried to anyway, the density of flies was such that seeing past one's nose was a tad difficult. It was spectacular, a feeding frenzy of black buzzing creatures. They seemed to take a particular liking to me, even more so than my delicious looking curry breakfast. Such is my appeal in the eyes of flies, I felt rather like a great big steaming cow ...

... the Ganges. Some of us made it to yoga and Rajiv and Pradeep signed up for music (tabla and sitar) lessons. The riverside community is very quiet and peaceful. The only sounds are the occasional chatter of the ashram staff, people bathing in the ghats and the sound of temple bells clanking and chantings of devotees and bhajans. Rishikesh is beautiful and also relatively hassle free of touts which was a welcomed change after Varanasi. The ...

... shape. Honestly it was like trying to bend concrete! But a new mindset and a body primed after six weeks of lentils and er...very little else seemed to offer some optimism. So the following morning I met up with my yoga teacher, all geared up to be put through my paces. A small and addictively cheery woman with a warm round face greeted me and straight away I thought "hmmm maybe this isn´t going to be so bad!". She had one of those demeanours that could convice you the ...

... and soon everyone was crooning along. We had to unwillingly shut down the music by 10 pm  due to the regulation there. The party continued after dinner with a small group of enthusiastic people returning to the bar. Later we (I, Harry and Naveen) had our dinner with some RUM and then we were off to our special alpine tents. The next day had lots of work and fun in store for all of us.     Udit bhalla http://www.adventures-india.com            

We got up early and left for Rajaji National Park to see if we could find wild tigers and elephants. It took about an hour and a half to get to the Chilla entrance where we rented a jeep, a land rover, and a bus. I rode in the jeep for the first half of the excursion. We drove on a beaten path through a broadleaf forest, grassland, and through shallow muddy streams. It was already about 10:30 when we started, so there was not a very good chance we ...

... yet the very fact of togetherness of the group unknowingly gave each of us strength to overcome the travail of the journey cheerfully. Each derived strength in the other's company. It was as if the collective energy emanating from the group energized each of us. There is an urge in me to continue seeking enchanting sights that lie beyond, to travel slowly and without a care. Programmed schedule is always mentally and physically tiring, but then we did ...