The Piccadily 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.

... diesel engine pulling us up hills no train should be able to manage, crossing hundreds of bridges and passing through dozes of tunnels. All built to take the British to Shimla, which during the summer months was used as the British Raj's capital. Each small quaint station enroute has two signs, one telling you how high you've climbed, the other a quote promoting religious harmony.

... modo a me piu' familiare, dopo i primi 15 giorni di india e' stata parecchio apprezzata.
E poi a Chandigarh c'e' il Nek Chand Fantasy Rock Garden. Un giardino grandissimo completamente immerso nel verde, costruito nel corso di oltre 30 anni utilizzando soltanto rifiuti urbani e industriali. Il parco e' fantastico nel vero senso della parola, e' un viaggio dentro la mente del suo creatore, sembra di entrare ...

... in. Soon into the ride, at the gas station, I discovered the drivers horn was broken. Apparently, I had the only car in India with no horn (everyone honks like crazy here, for good reason). This potentially just thrust the safety of my trip tot he level of the local bus at night. This all depended on the driver of course, but having been here for over two months, I doubted I would have a sane Indian driver.

The fields of Punjab were ...

... but clever. If they would go to the temple, they would have
taken prasad only once. But by sitting here they get it from many people''...

Basically every day of the week is dedicated to one of the god in Hindu religion
so the beggars would sit before different Temple every day waiting for prasad.

KASAULI -

1524 m above sea level, where you can see both - snows of the ...

I still hadn't fully shaken off the effects of my Delhi belly by the time I got to Chandigarh but an architect that I met in Nepal told me that Chandigarh was a must see for the architecture alone. I'll update with more info as soon as I have the time...

· Chandigarh, Punjab, India · GMT +5:30hrs 'symbolic to the future of India, unfettered by the traditions of the past, and an expression of the nation's faith in the future' - Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first post-British leader on his vision for Chandigarh Un-Indian We're in a place called Chandigarh, the capital city of the Punjab region of India, north-west of Delhi. Yep, we're definitely still in India, even if this place doesn't look or feel like the ...

... clue about hiking past the slide, I pulled on my bag and walked toward some guesthouses. Just then, my seat-buddy tapped me on the shoulder and waved me in his direction. I tried to explain my intentions but he spoke little English and was quite enthusiastic. We met his cousin in a restaurant and he explained that the road was just opened; we could catch a bus in an hour. The bus only took us partially there. It cruised past the slide ...

So here we are again.  Another year, another cricket tour.  This time we're in  India to see the first two (of three) tests of the series.   There has been an important addition to the Mr and Mrs R travelling circus for this trip as Miss Deborah H has joined us.  Quite what she was thinking coming on a two test, 2.5 week holiday is anyone's guess.  But one can only assume that she thought she would be doing the Taj Mahal, and stuff.  (As if).    What has been ...

... move through, before they triggered smaller landslides and the road was blocked again. After 8 and half hours some genius came up with the idea of swapping the passengers on the buses on either side of the landslide. And so we were off again with our driver driving like a man possessed, getting us back to Rishikesh in record time without any fatalities. I grabbed a 2 quid room for the night, it ...