I left Delhi on about a twelve hour sleeper train. These can be a little maddening because they are dirty and hot, and the guys selling tea walk by and yell "Chai!" really loud every minute or so. On the whole they are pretty awesome though because you get to see a ton of countryside, and usually meet interesting people. My next stop was in a famous city called Varanasi, probably the dirtiest place of them all. Its an extremely cool looking city set on the Ganges. You wind through narrow brick alleyways until you find your way to the [View Full Entry]

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Andamans! The very thought brings a smile on my face. 4 days and hell lot of places to visit! Well thats how the journey started :) Port Blair can be reached either by air or sea. I would suggest one reach the place by air.Two reasons are , well it saves time and don't fret that you are going to miss out the sea experience! Access to all places from Port Blair is by ferries or jetty's, so you are not missing out on anything. Port Blair is famous for the Central Jail located in the heart of the city and [View Full Entry]

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Halloj! Har sitter jag nu och konstaterar till min stora besvikelse att vi skall lamna Havelock Island imorgon.. Efter 10 dagar har pa on kan jag endast konstatera att jag kunde stanna har mycket langre! Imorgon aker vi bat till Port Blair varifran vi dagen darpa flyger tillbaka till mainland India och Chennai. Vart boende, Pristine beach resort har varit aldeles fantastiskt och vi har verkligen kannt oss hemma dar, knutit nya kontakter med framst Israeler men ocksa Polacker och Kanadikker. Personalen har varit super och det har aven var hydda vi botti varit. Gemenskapen vid resortet har varit [View Full Entry]

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halloj! Vi befinner oss sen tva dagar pa haveloc island i det andamanska oriket. Forsta natten bodde vi pa ett resort som var fullt av israeler som bara rokte gras hela tiden.. Vi trottnade ganska snabbt pa det och bor nu pa ett ack sa gemytligt resort i en bambu hydda. Vi har hyrt skoter och akte igar till en fantastisk strand med en otroligt vacker lagun dar vi badade hela eftermiddagen. Pa kvallen drack vi litet rom och larde kanna de andra som bor pa resortet, de verkar vara trevliga manniskor. Idag har vi akt till en strand som heter [View Full Entry]

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Halloj! Antligen har vi kommit till Andamanerna och narmare bestamt Port Blair. Resan gick dock inte riktigt som vi planerat.. Da vi kom till flygplatsen fick vi veta att flyget var cancelled... Detta for att Jet Airways har sparkat typ 1000 pers igar... Naval vi, och tva britter lyckades i sista stund pressa med oss pa ett annat flyg for ett annat bolag, vilket kostade oss ca. 100 euro extra, men vi borde fa tillbaka pengarna av Jet airways. Efter sakert 22 sakerhetskontroller och lappifyllanden kom vi oss ombord. Val pa planet var d kaos, Indierna sprang fram och tillbaka genom [View Full Entry]

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It was a long time wish to visit the Andamans though heard lot of it right from child hood in books and through friends. It was again as usual in the month of May 2008 we set off to Port Blair from Chennai on the 10 th May. It was quiet humid and the flight took off at 6 am. We were all excited as in two hours from then we would be landing in the emerald islands and enjoy the enchanting beauty. It was 7 am in the clock after an hour of take off when we heard an announcement [View Full Entry]

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I almost made it (again!) to an easy confluence but fate (or disorganisation) meant that it was not to be. The Andaman islands had been a destination I'd wanted to visit for many years - another of those exotic places that seemed terribly difficult/expensive to get to until fairly recently. So when I discovered I had the time and money while on my Indian trip, I couldn't resist the temptation of a few days on a tropical island. Besides, I'd realised that there was an unvisited confluence on Havelock Island, and I figured it should be easy to get to. The [View Full Entry]

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'klik' Het duurt even voordat het geluid doordringt tot mijn bewustzijn. Zo diep zit ik in 'What A Carve Up!', een aardige doch ietwat voorspelbare roman van Jonathan Coe, dat het een paar seconden duurt voordat ik door heb dat de vrouw voor me foto's aan het maken is. Het vroege tijdstip zal er ook mee te maken hebben; Het is bijna negen uur, en ik ben al 5 uur wakker. Er wachtte een vliegtuig op me dat een lang gekoesterde wens in vervulling zou brengen; een bezoek aan de Andaman Eilanden. Eindelijk, na twee dagen in het doodsaaie Chennai te [View Full Entry]

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Hello again! Just a quick entry because the internet here is dial up only and hence v v slow! Bit like life in general on the andamans.... It's all back to basics! Things here are really expensive too, including the internet, so if I don't mail anyone in the next few wks, it's only because I'm trying to cut down the amount of time I spend on here......emailing take three times as long and you're paying about 3 times the price for it! Things in the shops are more expensive here too. I've been told it's because everything is imported over [View Full Entry]

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Hello guys! How u all doing? Not long since the last entry I know. Didn't I do well! I'm going to make a concerted effort to do this more regularly so I don't have to write a book each time! My last week in Hampi flew by. I'd seen most of the sights already, so I was really just chilling out. I hired a bike to go to the lake for a swim, which I think I mentioned before, but that was fab. Really necessary too, as it was getting so hot, and the lake was a fab way to cool [View Full Entry]

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