Journey with Turkish Air was good, an interesting Afghan beside me. He's the national seed co-ordinator for the UN, no less, and insists I can visit and enjoy Afghanistan as a tourist, if I go to the right places, hmmm..... maybe next time. Delhi Nothing quite prepares you for Delhi, not even a previous visit. Chaos was invented here, I think, and it's practised very successfully every day - traffic, noise, enormous numbers of humanity zig-zagging in random directions, like a beehive at work. Raj, our Delhi fixer is very good and we hired him to take us around the sights, [View Full Entry]

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Delhi without the belly India again- can't believe it's 15 years since the last visit Safely in Delhi, chaotic as ever,...adjusting to a new planet ! Internet access is not easy because of terror threats so may be difficult to post many photos....maybe in a couple of days. [View Full Entry]

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Satiating the Senses ...Well, after a long absence from our blog we are online again. (It just became a bit too difficult to keep up to date while travelling in out of the way places. With luck, we may update photos etc from the years in between when we get back from this trip, as its so much easier now we are travelling with a netbook to download each day) Anyway, to the present...the ever incredible, interesting and enticing world of India Arrived in Delhi to find the familiar and not so familiar sights, sounds and smells of Asia totally [View Full Entry]

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Picture it. Close your eyes and imagine. You've been on planes and in airports for over 20 hours, you've just landed at New Delhi International, it's your first time setting foot on such foreign soil. The plane door opens, your breathing quickens - finally, at last, yes! You step out of the plane, look around and ugh, the smell! You can see 800 feet on the brightly lit runway. From the smog. Wow, welcome to India. We have been in Delhi for 7 days now and have lived a lot more than that. There is simply no way to describe to [View Full Entry]

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I have arrived in India and spent the day touring Delhi. My flight over was quite interesting. The PDX to Amsterdam portion was great. I had the row to myself, my vegetarian meal showed up...life was good. Then we landed in Amsterdam. I actually think we might have landed in Belgium and then taxied our way to Holland and Amsterdam. I think we taxied for an hour...okay maybe it was just 10 minutes but it felt like an hour. The flight from Amsterdam to Delhi was not nearly so pleasant. First they did sort of a free-for-all loading method with 2 [View Full Entry]

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Hi all We are soon on our way to Mumbai (tmrw morning!!), but I just wanted to share some pics from yesterday afternoon in Dehli. While Will was at a meeting I visited the fantastic Bahas temple! As always when I am out sightseeing on my own it creates a bit of attention and I often feel like a walking tourist attraction myself.. However, it is a nice building and I really like the whole Bahai idea, which is spiritual unity of all humans and religion (no, I myself have NOT turned religious:), just like the including all humans idea) On [View Full Entry]

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Following an 8 hour, night flight where either of us got any sleep, we arrived in a dusty building site. We were greeted by our rickshaw driver and he took us to our hostel. It was the craziest drive of my life, here, there are very few road regulations and drivers just fend for themselves, we regularly found ourselves on the wrong side of the road. Our first night was nice, both still very tired we walked around the surrounding area and found an authentic indian restaurant and had pizza lol. We saw our fist cows and got hassled by countless [View Full Entry]

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To explain the rather contrived title I’ll skip to the end. This morning (1/11/09 - which will be discussed in the next blog) when I arrived into Leh the first thing i noticed was that the sky was blue. Also, the sun was bright. Why would this surprise me, I hear you ask? Well, good question. The answer is that it’s because I’d spent the previous ten days or so in Delhi. Unless there was some weird seasonal effect going on, I can confidently report that Delhi doesn’t have much in the way of sky or sun, as they’re hiding behind [View Full Entry]

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Thursday PM It’s a little hard to know where to begin. I feel like I’ve been gone for weeks. I’m in downtown New Delhi having arrived here this morning by train from Mumbai (Bombay). This whole experience has been a dizzying one to say the least. It’s 6:30 in the evening and I’m in an internet café…more Americans and Europeans here than I’ve seen all day. Every thing went flawlessly until I hit Mumbai. Amtrak was early!!??!! Imagine that. My plane took off early, arrived in Amsterdam early and arrived in Mumbai early. After getting thro [View Full Entry]

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Vor ganz genau zwo Tage hab ich die Haelfte meiner Zeit hier erreicht und zwar wieder in Delhi. Nachdem ich drei Tage in Rishikesh verweilte gings wieder nach Delhi um weiter in den Sueden zu fahren oder um in den Osten zu fahren. Entschieden wurde sozusagen spontan vor Ort. Es geht in den Sueden Richtung Goa. Genau der passende Ausgleich nach dem kalten Norden in den warmen Sueden zu fahren. Doch zunaechst zu Delhi. Delhi war beim zweiten Besuch fast genauso stressig wie beim ersten. Aber natuerlich nicht wegen des Jetlags sondern einfach deswegen weil ich jeden Tag irgendwie auf Achse [View Full Entry]

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