Hotel Prince Dehradun

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27.09.2009

Sunday

Guest house of Swami Narayan temple trust,Sarangpur

28.09.2009

Monday

In Ashram Express train Ahmadabad to Delhi

19.09.2009 to 29.09.2009 Travel details

19.09.2009

09.30 pm

By Mussorrie Express train from Dehradun ...

... snapped in his mobile phone. I used their BSNL
mobile phone to call Dr Akanksha in Dehradun to tell about my reaching there
and handing over her offerings of Chandi ka Chhatra given by her mother Usha.

14.00 Hrs
: Before starting my down hill journey,
I talked with an older Couple from Holland. Exchanged our introduction and took their ...

... and lack of a bar scene, eventually we all found that a good a old fashioned booze up would be greatly appreciated. Only problem was that the nearest shop was over 20 kms away. Thus, we spent the large majority of a day negotiating various rickshaws and buses, as we set out in search of the devil drink. We eventually ended up at the 'English Wine Shop', where an assortment of liquors were on sale. Amusingly, the place resembled a jail, with the staff and drinks being locked inside a ...

... Kelly and Mac to have a brown rice meal in a restaurant. I was eating my delicious meal, chewing very carefully (Oshava recommends chewing every mouthful 30-50 times...a long time to chew a mouthful of rice) when I bit down on something very hard. I carefully took it out of my mouth and thought it looked like a clove. But, it seemed a bit harder than a clove. I passed it to my companions, who, after examining it throughoughly, decided it was a rusty nail. We all sat ...

... up to a reasonable standard of hygiene and usability (they seemed to leak from every point, making for a most creepy experience), to burying the garbage (they now just toss it over the fence just like the rest of India), to reducing the heat in the meditation hall. I planned (mind you, this is while meditating) on installing a thatched roof over the tin one, leaving all doors and windows open in the hall after the morning meditation and running the fans for just 5 or 10 ...

... they were tossing these balls, and was astounded to see a gathering of phenomenally huge fish below (see photos). Mother Ganga's sands are more dazzling than you can imagine. While most beaches glisten and reflect light in the sun, the Ganga's sand flashes with such brilliant, intensely white and fiery light that you feel you are walking in sand littered with shaved diamonds. It is as if all the soul light, the infinite light and pure life force, of all the ...

... de n'importe quelle origine. Avant de faire l'essai, je tente tout de meme un ou deux hotels. Mais alors qu'au nepal, il etait possible de se loger pour 100 rupees ou moins, ici, l'accueil est sec et les tarifs sales. Arrivant dans un bled, je tente ma chance aupres d'un temple hindou. Apres tout, si les Sikhs sont censes heberger, la generosite religieuse pourrait bien etre de dimension reginale. Hum, la, je vais faire connaissance avec la ...

... da austria vetido de todo ce branco com colar "espiritual" e 2 inglesas "normais". depois de meio hora de aula sem bla bla ele comecou a falar... como sempre um non-sense completo de energia, guru, nascimentos... e ele ficava perguntando "faz sentido?" e eu segurando pra nao rir e fazendo sim com a cabeca. explicando nao sei la o q ele disse "artm", nas explicacoes eles sempre usam alguns termos no original sanscrito (nao tem ...

... than Air Deccan. There are TV screens on the back of each seat, the seats actually recline (except mine b/c I was in the aisle in front of the emergency exit), and there is a first class (not that it matters for me). I'm quite proud that I figured out a cheaper way to get around Delhi than rickshaw. My only tasks in Delhi were to get some mini DV tapes for my video camera, eat lunch, and get the bus to Dehradun. Cannaught place was on the way, so I found a bus that drove from the ...

Two wildlife excursions I neglected to write about were in the first week. The first day we visited the Wildlife Institute of India. First of all, they gave us all Pepsis, so that was an auspicious beginning. There were three presentations-first on the overview of the institution, then the best one on statistical methods for tiger counting (my dream job!) and a third less interesting one on the history of India's ...