Thara Mahal
Travel Blogs from Kolkata (Calcutta)
Kolkata: 18 t/m 30 oktober
... zij vliegt morgen richting Zuiden. We wisselden gevens uit en spraken af om te meeten in Varkala. Leuk! Heb de rest van de dag geprobeerd dit verslag te typen, maar heb gefaald toen Charly bij me aan tafel kwam zitten in the Cafe Coffeeday.Alweer niet gecheat toen de taxi me naar het vliegveld bracht; ik leer het wel! :-) 19:45u vertrek Kolkata, 21:55u aankomst Chennai. Prima vliegtuig! Beter dan het gemiddelde Ryanair toestel! 's Avonds op het vliegveld geslapen met mn ...
Messing about on the river
... for me after similar experiences in Africa, but I am pretty sure some of the group held it in for the night :-)
We were taken by road for the last stretch into Varanasi, and it was here that I finally found crazy. Proper crazy, like I had been expecting to see in Delhi. A thousand auto rickshaws, cycle rickshaws, motorbikes, cars and cows all trying to get down the same narrow streets. I am really not a person of nervous disposition but after about two hours ...
Out of Station (Away from Home)
... without allowing the mouth of the vessel grace the lip, a steady stream of bliss.
My time in India will always be surrounded by music and if you want to learn more about Raga music please visit Monsoon-music's blog http://blog.travelpod.com/members/monso on-music. My next entry will include my trip to Agartala, the capital of the state of Tripura India located on the eastern side of Bangladesh.
Health and Happiness
Shayna
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LES RANIS SONT FOLLES DE MON CORPS
... Fausse nouvelle croustillante. Figurez-vous que ce blog a attiré deux fois plus de visiteurs que son suivant sur l’année. Vous êtes incorrigible ! Pensiez-vous qu’enfin j’allais dévoiler les secrets de ma trépidante sexualité ? Je m’y serais précipité de la même façon ! Voilà pourquoi, de temps en temps, dans un pur esprit marketing, je titrerai mes messages de mots purement triviaux et sans rapport avec la réalité des choses ;-)
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Kolkata the last bastion of foot rickshaws
... br> West Bengal from 1977 till 2011 was a communist state in a demogratic country.
Kolkata's metro system is just like that of Cairo and both are Russian well more specifically Soviet style Métro systems. Love the Métro at a few ruppees its is fast runs on time and there is no traffic to deal with.
Buses
Went downtown by bus twice this week…You can tell that Bengal until only recently was a communist ...