Raunak International New Delhi

From Mumbai we went to New Delhi to visit our friend Tarun, and to attend a friend's wedding with him. Tarun is our very good friend of ours, who works with me with Statoil in Stavanger.
The 16-hour train ride was catastrophic. Non-sleeper, AC, seats, which where not adjustable in the back, and designed for short Indians! I can tell you, thi...

I'm back in Delhi again. Or plans for Nainital didn't end up working out so the Himalayas will have to be next time. I've been spending time around here this week. It's been an interesting stay. Naved and Zeeshan have been great hosts to say the least. I've been staying in Okla, which is one of the largest Muslim neighbourhoods in Delhi. I haven...

First up - a selection of photos from the trip so far are online - you don't have to be a Facebook member to view them:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1 66173&id=664532593&l=3cd5196cf1

A nineteen hour train ride took as back to Delhi for the last time on this trip. One night there (back in the old favourite the Good...

It is very difficult to describe ones first impression of India. Ours came at 7 am on a Tuesday morning and consisted of intense heat, a seemingly endless beep of car horns and lots and lots of people.

We stayed just 24 hours in this wonderful city and in this time we were exposed to both extreme poverty and fabulous beauty- a contrast...

Well i was really delighted on reading my email today for the 1st time in a bit, to see a message from Travelpod, saying that one of my pictures 'walking on Lakeside' in Pokhara has been selected from thousands to be featured on their home page ....its the one with the water buffalo in the mud in front of the lake, it wont be on there for a whil...

A few pictures from yesterday and the day before,Ive picked myself up from a stupor this morning determined that I would see some sights and choose on the Red Fort.Its an amzing edifice started by Shah Jahan in the 16th century and runs the gamut from Emperor to the British Raj.Its a really wonderful piece of architecture which I try and take in...

We flew from Udaipur this morning. Flight was delayed a couple of hours and it was hell getting in the airport. They do not let you in the actual airport without a printout of your check in details. We only had our reference number of course and had to wait for the air India counter to open so that they can print a copy! We pass our bags through...

So I arrived on the 26th, two hours past midnight, at gandhi airport, new delhi. A guy from the namaskar hotel picked me up, for a small extra charge, which avoided me all the trouble that comes with hiring a taxi there. Delhi was pretty deserted at that time of day, I got to my room without trouble. The Hotel is located in the pahar ganj, a dis...

We left our hotel in Delhi at 9pm in a convoy of taxis that took us to New Delhi train station. Began by the British in 1851, Indian Railways is apparently the world's biggest employer with around 1.8 million staff across 7,685 stations. Our station was packed with people, elbowing and shoving for position. We followed Chandra pushing our way al...