Hotel Ritz Inn Ahmedabad

I have some business meeting of four days in Gandhinagar, India. I searched for hotel, found cambay five star hotel resort that is called, so I called for booking but I got some problems on book resort, after booked ...

Yaarit and I woke up at 8:30 in the morning in order to get all our belongings in order once more. We packed our bags and then headed for the usual Leopold's Cafe location for breakfast. We found the service there to be hit and miss. Some of the waiters were very friendly and went out of their way to explain things to us and answer our questions. Others acted like we were incoveniencing them and came off as angry and impatient when dealing with us. There are certainly some surly people ...

Got in to a bustling train station at 06:30 this morning. A rickshaw (Indian equivilent of a tuk-tuk, for those of you who have been in Thailand) took me to a ****** and over-priced hotel which I was forced to accept because, amazingly, there didn't seem to be any rooms in the city. We checked. I walked all around the ...

... their Microcredit Program. They have a successful program in Urban areas that is serving 10,000 borrowers. They are restarting a microcredit program in Rural areas. Ushma has developed a unique model which creates Self Help Groups and has them operate quite independently. The money is borrowed from the bank and without subsidy. The Cost of Money from the Bank is 12%, SAVE charges 6 ...

This is an extraordinary place. Supposedly the artisans who worked on this project were descendants of the workforce for the Taj Mahal, but then, they say that of nearly all monuments made in India since 1650. What is more confidently known is that following its construction (which took 15 years) the entire workforce was killed-off to prevent any rival ruler or realm from replicating its work ...

... This was supposed to be a real treat: very authentic wild chicken prepared specially by a local villager. The chicken was to be for later, apparently, and antics continued into the night. By the time the chicken was to be enjoyed, the masses felt that the metal tin containing the chicken was too cold, so we did the most logical thing and started a fire against the outside wall of the pod we were staying in with dry brush and leaves that were gathered, as ...

... passes out what's called Prasad, a mixture of several ingredients such as popcorn, to everyone who then tosses their lot into the fire. This is followed by singing, and the DJ stokes the tunes and everyone joins hands and dances in a circular motion around the fire. Passive though I may be, and certainly not a dancer, no one will let me stand by idly by while there is so much dancing to be done, so I join them in dancing around ...

Hi all, since i've found a cheap internet cafe with some relatively up to date computers, plus a decent internet connection,(very rare combination here) you hereby receive some more pictures :) They are of various places, with comments written below. cheers, vincent

... which was way nicer, with a really good view over the lake. There were a couple of nice english guys, some dutchies, the food was good, the bad was clean and comfy, there was a nice firework display every night, and there were some decent fishies swimming in the lake, which meant fishing could be done!! For the ones who don't know about this travel-hobby; i love my fishing once i'm abroad; back home i don't care much about it, but here you can catch some ...

Hello all! I hope everything is well with each of you wherever you are.. and if it's in Canada or the US I hope it's not too cold! I wish I could send a little of the nice weather to you from sunny India. I'm in Ahmedabad right now, which is in Gujarat, a state west of Delhi. Today is probably the nicest day I've seen in India so far, it's like one of those perfect summer days when the temperature is just right and the smell of grass is everywhere. I've never ...