Taj West End

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home." (James Michener) Taking on board such wise words, I will endeavour to embrace and enjoy everything both India and Nepal have to throw ...

... true what the guidebooks say: it's not a place exactly easy on the eye. But - it is the only place in India that has a Taj Mahal, therefore it wasn't a surprise to spend 500 rupees on a crappy room just to dump our bags for the day; we were leaving that ...

... you round the interior. The two buildings either side of the main Taj are the mosque on the east and a building identical on the west called the Jawab, this building is not allowed to be used for worship as it faces away from Mecca. The gardens are ...

... quotes from the kids this week (they had to finish these sentences in any way they chose): * 'If I was rich...I would buy the Taj Mahal' '...I would buy some chocolates and also a big home'  'I would help poor people' * 'I will never...be tall' ...

From Delhi we headed south to Agra, home of the Taj Mahal - India's flagship tourist site and something I've been looking forward to seeing since the beginning of the trip. Billed as the world's greatest monument dedicated to love, it was constructed in ...

... Glueck friedlich ablief, oftmals kann es auch zu Unruhen kommen). Die Bewegung moechte die Berge hier (Darjeeling, Kalimpong, ...) von West Bengal abtrennen in eine eigene Provinz. Und Samstag ist Markttag, ich habe ein paar Fotos eingespielt. Am ...

... in preparation for our morning pilgrimage. We got up the next morning a touch after 5.00am and walked the short distance to the Taj west gate, arriving at about 5.30. there was already plenty of people milling about, going for the sunrise option. After ...

... an evil demon and afterwards went home to her parental home with all their four children. Durga Puja, majorily celebrated in West Bengal, celebrates her homecoming and leaves opportunity to the wives to visiting their home (some time ago, this has been ...

... early and in the company of Dechen and a couple of aides we headed off in a mission jeep out of town to a farming area west of Darjeerling. In this area all navigatable roads were on the ridge lines of steep spurs off the main mountain range. This was ...

... los jardines estan tan bien cuidados a la distancia se ve como algo irreal. Para hacer todo mas bollywoodense, mientras recorriamos el taj,  llego un grupo de soldados que cerco algunas areas, y no permitian a los turistas pasar, luego llegaron los ...

... Russia for over a week and before tonight had not sampled any of the local beverage. After dinner we wandered back down Nevsky Prospect to the Hostel to settle in for the night ahead of visiting the Hemitage (err-mi-taj, 'taj' as in 'Taj Mahal') ...

... darting and dashing on Friday through miles of markets and warehouses of Kolkata, we spent a lovely afternoon today at the Taj Bengal - a truly 5 star hotel where pampering is their mission. We needed it! Great food at Chinoiserie restaurant. Junction ...

... maps are a bit vague, and many maps differ regarding street names and landmark locations. We knew we had to go north and west, so we followed the compass and eventually found Park Street. The sidewalks here are buckled and torn up for repairs and they ...

... the Golden Triangle tour which took me to the places I mentioned above (Jaipur and Agra). Although Agra is best known for the Taj Mahal I liked Jaipur best of the two cities as Jaipur's people seemed friendlier and of course I stayed in a great hotel. ...

... Mahal –which if you ever get asked, maybe in a Pub Quiz, is in Agra!We’ve all seen loads of pictures of the Taj but nothing prepares you for seeing it in the flesh. We went there at about 4pm which means you see the sun set.The Taj is totally ...

... povratnici iz Sikkima (oni koji su prvo otisli u Sikkim, pa nakon tog dosli u Darjeeling) su svi bez iznimke rekli da je West Sikkim puno ljepsi, pogotovo ako ti je glavni interess trekanje po Himalaji. Pelling je cudno mjesto, nije grad, nije selo, nego ...

... . Needless to say we didn't spend much time there and went out sight seeing. The hostel was infact 2minutes behind the Taj Hotel (sight of the terrorist attacks back in November) which was quite strange, the area was heavily policed as you would ...

... and the temples from the outside. The temples we were to visit were associated with Swami Vivekananda who introduced Hinduism to the West in the late 1800's.  It's an interesting story.  Here's some Wikipedia info which matches what we were ...

... before. I felt like a little kid again. It was actually the same feeling that I had a week earlier on the night before visiting Taj Mahal. Just thinking about what we've been able to see on this trip is hard to believe. First, it was the Angkor Kingdom ...