Northern India

... my next adventure and this time my travels are taking me to the mysterious and history rich state of Rajasthan in Northern India. For 8 weeks I will be working with an organisation which runs various projects in over 550 remote desert villages before ...

India - the mad crush of people and sweet scent of Curry. The madness of traffic, the vibrant life of the people. Being Vegetarian is suddenly very easy! Too hot, too wet south of the Himalaya, up to Kashmir and Ladakh we go until the monsoon winds down. ...

... Varanasi and across to Rajasthan then down towards Mumbai. Trains will be the choice of transport and masala dosa's will be sought out singlemindedly. Christmas, new year, my birthday and our second wedding anniversary will all be spent in India. LETS GO!

Welcome to my India travelogue. Share in my adventures of northern India. I hope you are able to get a feel for what I experienced while I was there. What an amazing country!

... this maybe my last travel log entry. Tonight, we made it back to Chandigarh, India. It's in the Punjab Province of Northern India. There is a big cricket match between England and India going on here this week. The rainy weather is likely going ...

... up to outside travelers in the late 1970's. Ladakh's main city, Leh, was, and still is, the military and administrative center for northern India. Indian army helicopters and air force jets take off from the airport at Leh every morning, to watch over the ...

... after spending a day between my bed and the toilet!   It took me 12 days to come all the way up here in northern India and it was worth the 13 hours delay on the train and several night buses.  The last stretch was quite rough.  ...

... south. I think we will remember the place for the best meat thali we have eaten anywhere - we had been reluctant vegetarians in India up until this point as meat is quite scarce and generally not that good value, but this thali was excellent. We then ...

... dunes, where we watched the sun set over the Thar Desert. Bikaner After a sightseeing tour around another dusty fort, the whole "India" thing was wearing us thin, everything is such hard work. The hotel we stayed at In Bikaner had a great rooftop ...

... expect. We had seen the photos and read the literature. What occurred next was both perplexing and pleasantly surprising. We saw an India from a new perspective. We got insights into its rich history and tradition that one would not get from a museum or ...

Day 2 Delhi Visit Delhi's Jama Masjid, the largest Mosque in India and wander through the Chandni Chowk in old Delhi. View the imposing India Gate and marvel at the splendour of Connaught Place.  Day 3 Agra Visit the Taj Mahal - an icon of ...

... generally offered here are a year or two out of date. Our flights to Goa involved tickets with Kingfisher Airlines, reportedly India's premier domestic carrier, to Mumbai, then JetLite to Goa.  There is a problem using just the netbook to make ...

... lift in my first rickshaw (rip off no.2) to the old part of town. Andy's Factfile: Delhi is a metropolis in northern India. The name Delhi also refers to the National Capital Territory of Delhi which is a special union territory jointly ...

... and a excellent cotton crop, India became one of the first societies to create vast wealth, civilizations and a ruling class. Jaipur in Northern India was the seat of a ruler of India from 700 - 1800 C.E. Here there are forts, palaces and temples ...

... (overly), kidnapped, framed for drug trafficking (very nearly) or gone blind from Holi dye. I had miraculously made it around Northern India alone. I could teach Destiny's Child a thing or two about Independent Women. With all this bouying my spirit ...

... where Christ Church is located - a gleaming bright yellow church that was built in 1857 making it the second oldest in northern India. Unfortuneatly it looked closed so I walked downhill to the Lower Bazaar area which is full of little alleyways and ...

... bit at night, but nothing special. The following morning is a not-so-long trip to Pushkar. It is the hippiest spot in Northern India, and full of many foreign faces. Italian, German, Israeli and more. The story goes that when the gods were taming ...

... one day I'll even count the number of people who simply stare at foreigners. Next stop...Udaipur. The counting game continues. Northern India Recap Nov 21, 2004 Type-o's and all...Like a moth to flame I will probably spend the rest of ...

... When we all got tired of dancing around outside we had some great chats, meals and card games. As an aside the locals ( in northern India we saw this everywhere) collect the cow dung and the women mix the dung by hand with water and make uniform shaped ...

... at the bottom now Goodbye mountain bliss Since the last post over two weeks ago we’ve been bouncing around Northern India, dealing with visa bureaucracy (for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) while trying to avoid the sizzling 42C – 45C Delhi ...