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From the foothills of the Himalayas to the backwaters of Kerala, to the slums of Calcuta, to the ashrams, to the beaches of Goa.... India will fascinate, shock and excite.

So, strap on your seatbelt for a rollercoaster of a travel experience around this incredible sub continent. You will love it or hate it. You'll not forget it.

India is nicey. It is spicey. It is dicey, and if you are not careful it will be bery bery pricey my friend. Beware of touts and scams.

Highlights
• Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh
• The Great Himalaya Mountain Range
• Palaces and Forts of Rajasthan
• Sunny beaches of Goa
• Backwaters at Kerala
• Asiatic Lions Sanctuary at Gir National Park, Gujarat
• Golden Temple, Amritsar, Punjab
• Ajanta & Ellora caves, Maharashtra
• Andaman & Nicobar Islands

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By Keep Smiling
October 25th 2009

India - again? Asia » India » Kerala

Yes, it is me!
Sir Vivian Fuchs once said: "If you look anything like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel". I think I looked okay in my 1972 passport - but the years since have been very cruel!

I've been trying to work out exactly when I first travelled to India and how many times I've been back - and why?! My research took me back to my old passports (the Passport Office used to be quite happy to cut off the corner of your previous document and return it to you with your new one). My very first passport was issued in April 1962, in the days when I was carving out a career in the travel industry and rubber stamp manufacturers were making pots of money from immigration authorities. The visas and entry or exit stamps in [View Full Entry]

By Raghavarao
October 25th 2009

OLD COUPLES' KASHI-YATRA VIA KHAJURAHO Asia » India » Andhra Pradesh » Hyderabad » New Santoshnagar

OLD COUPLES’ KASI- YATRA VIA KHAJURAHO (1). Some of the Old Couples (those who have retired from Service/ Business) and would be Old Couples (those who are retiring shortly) who have read my travel blog ‘Jyotirlinga Tour of an Old Couple’ have sent emails expressing their appreciation of the details furnished and requested me to put in the travel blog any of my earlier pilgrimages to Punya Kshetras so that they would be a guide for future pilgrims. This request, along with my having no other work and plenty of time at disposal, prompted me to recollect and put i [View Full Entry]

By Katerosemary
October 25th 2009

the last day at sadhana... Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Auroville

hello!! well this week has been full of mixed emotions, mostly good but some not so good. i will start with the bad. yesterday after laura and I got back from Pondicherry we realised that her rucksack was missing and that the back gate into the forest had been left unlocked. After an hour of searching through trees (without any help) we came across it, although the bottom locked compartment had been forced open although nothing was taen except some english money. sadly i was not so lucky. they stole both my torches, my eppilator, my memory stick and a photo [View Full Entry]

By Katerosemary
October 25th 2009

just a quick note Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Auroville

after a conversation with my mum i just want to make a few things clear. i know laura and i said at first that we would be gone for 9 months, but i really dont think you can plan that far ahaed. i may be gone for a year or i may be gone 3 months, it really depends of how i feel. and even if i did come home i'd probably fly out again pretty shortly after. right now im having a wonderful time so i wont be home any time soon, but dont be thinking that you wont see [View Full Entry]

By shaun dellavedova
October 25th 2009

A bowl of peas in Jodhpur Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

Smoking something...

Leaving Jaisalmer for Jodhpur, the Golden City for the Blue City, I got to try out yet another type of bus in India. This one was built more like a Greyhound bus you would see in the West, with one twist. Where buses typically have a lot of headroom, and a rack for bags, in this bus this space has been replaced with a number of bunk beds. For a few rupees more than a seat, you can lie down above everyone else's head and take a nap. I would be in there like a slinky, but an average sized woman [View Full Entry]

By shaun dellavedova
October 25th 2009

Temple porn in Ranakpur Asia » India » Rajasthan » Ranakpur

Main Temple

This blog, without a doubt, will be the shortest entry to date, most because I only spent about 45 minutes in Ranakpur. Edwina had not been feeling well for a couple of days and just couldn't face the idea of a seven hour bus ride from Jodhpur to Udiapur and wanted to get a taxi. Rebecca, Allie and I were each happy to chip in the 700 rupees each to join her and gain a smoother, quicker ride and an hour extra sleep in. The road from Jodhpur is quite a good one and almost immediately the countryside began to show [View Full Entry]

By rjrsmith24
October 25th 2009

Evening in Mukherjee Nagar Asia » India » National Capital Territory » Delhi

It’s cruel how quickly the seasons change. One week I was sitting in my boxers, sweating profusely while drinking ice water (which promptly turned to hot water in my hands). The next, the sky has turned an even hazier gray, and the mornings are less than tepid. So I suppose that the weather has not changed too much, except that the difference is excrutiating without hot water. Thus, my mornings have become a painful foray into Antarctic chills. I wake up, having covered up from the fan above me, which is used to keep the air moving and, my roommate claims, [View Full Entry]

By thebigciccale
October 24th 2009

Delhi, and Srinagar Asia » India » Jammu & Kashmir » Srinagar

I arrived in Delhi on October 13th, at about 4 in the morning, I wasn't able to sleep so I hit streets and took some pictures. The first few days in Delhi we're so overwhelming, all the horns, people, animals, and smells left me needing to get the hell out of Delhi. So after 3 days in Delhi, I took a flight to Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, where it was much calmer. In Srinagar I was staying on a houseboat on a lake, very beautiful and very relaxing, Once I had some time to reflect on what was happening I [View Full Entry]

By rjrsmith24
October 24th 2009

The Gauntlet Asia » India » National Capital Territory » Delhi

Well, it’s not quite the gauntlet. More like a self-inflicted time crunch that will span the next month. That’s how long I have left in India. A month. It seems odd to say. I’m saving my travel funds until the program ends, and my lengthy end-of-the-term papers are growling at me. Plus, I have a whole language to re-learn, thanks to the long break in Hindi class and my sloth in studying on my own. It’s easy to not know Hindi in Delhi. So I have a month in Delhi, for better or worse. A month to savor all the tantalizing [View Full Entry]

By Chiz
October 24th 2009

Wildlife TRAFFIC or wild life and lots of traffic?? Asia » India » National Capital Territory » New Delhi

Little Hannah, Big WWF
WWF has its own building in Delhi which includes the TRAFFIC office and a lovely roof top view over the streets and trees

The destination for my latest venture is India, primarily Delhi, the city where anything and everything can happen in an instant. I have once again tied up the laces on my travelling boots and set off for unknown territory leaving behind the comforts of English living, clean water and safe food. The motivation behind this latest expedition is the opportunity to volunteer for three month with WWF in their wildlife TRAFFIC department. I did not know much about the trafficking of animals before I left but WWF seems to me an idol in the conservation world and so I was happy [View Full Entry]

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