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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 CraniOcean
October 9th 2005

The Navy Ball Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

navy ball

Here's some shots from the Navy Ball at the Sailfish Club in Palm Beach. Hope they upload. Quite a way to begin a trip to India. We were all pretty toasted by the end of the evening...least I was...ouch! There were the sailors celebrating the birth of the Navy, great women, people of different ages, and Rick the bartender, possibly the wisest bartender I've ever met. He agrees with the poet Rumi that the soul has the shape of a bowl, that is, when looked at from above. [View Full Entry]

By CraniOcean
October 9th 2005

Off to LA Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

Departing West Palm for Boca Raton. My sister (from the Navy Ball) will give me a ride to the Jet Blue Terminal at Ft Lauderdale International Airport...5 am. This will begin days and days of Jet Lag! "Why India?" It was purely intuitive. I was checking links on the site, craniocean.com and saw myss.com on it. i checked out the myss link and saw the news about a trip to India in 5 star hotels. It seemed a nice way to go...but before I knew it, intuition said to go. The feeling of intuition (even if a voice) is very different [View Full Entry]

By CraniOcean
October 8th 2005

Other Preparations Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

Ocean in Florida

Okay, bought a digital camera. A Kodak Easy Share 4.0 at Wallmart, but it goes great with iphoto for the Macintosh. The trick is to not install the Kodak software but to just do it and plug it in. Now, to figure out how to upload photos and so on. Thanks for your patience as I figure this out. The washing machiine will have to wait. [View Full Entry]

By pabloq
October 8th 2005

Do Nothing Asia » India » Goa

Palolem Beach

My sleeper ticket only cost me 2.90. You get for what you pay for! 8 people crammed into a space that could barely hold 6, more vinyl than John Peel and a few dodgy bugs crawling around. It’s only 12 hours of my life, plus I am too drunk to stay awake and worry about things. After a pretty reasonable sleep, considering, I got to chat to my fellow carriage mates. A Russian and 2 Czech guys, all had typical eastern European haircuts (to match mine I guess) and liked their football, which is always a good icebreaker, almost as good [View Full Entry]

By nicktuck
October 8th 2005

The Mighty Mighty Ganges Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh » Varanasi

Sunrise on the Ganges

I can't really describe how amazing the Taj Mahal was except to say that no amount of hype makes it any less spectacular - I got goosebumps just being there at sunrise! I can't imagine I'll ever see such a perfect building again. Also saw it from across the river at sunset and yes, I did get a photo on the bench, somehow without anyone else in it either - must have been because we were there so early. We had a few other stops out of the way, nice remote temples and forts, on the way to the totally unique [View Full Entry]

By Asra
October 8th 2005

Autumn in Lonavala Asia » India » Maharashtra » Lonavala

Western Ghats , Lonavala

It was the autumn break in our girls’ school, which brought us to Mumbai on Saturday, the 8th of October 2005. We left for Lonavala (a sleepy resort in the Western Ghats) that same day in a Toyota Innova. The ride was comfortable and the road great. Actually the road was unbelievable and I often found myself ranting about it! You could for a moment forget you were on the Mumbai - Pune highway and instead talk yourself into believing you were on a long drive through Ohio or Pennsylvania! The hilly terrain was similar except for the fact that highway [View Full Entry]

By Larluv
October 7th 2005

Palolem Asia » India » Goa » Palolem

San Francisco in India

Malte and I say goodbye to our friends in Arambol and head south to Palolem. It only took 4 hours and 4 different local buses (total cost of $4 USD) and we made it. We immediately let a local tout take us to a group of beach huts at a placed called San Francisco. For only $3.25 per day, we got our own huts....nice. It did not take Malte and I long before we made Palolem our home. We met two Swedish guys (Kris "Iceman" and David "Mavrick"), two Israeli girls we had met earlier in Arambol (Tamar and Julie), a [View Full Entry]

By robena
October 7th 2005

Delhi to Hardiwar Asia » India » National Capital Territory » New Delhi

i am sweating my sweet little ass off as this computer works off the generater that is humming in the background. i am in a basement internet closet and writing off 10r an hour...the cheapest internet charge i have found to date. i am buying time before i leave by train for Hardiwar and Reshikesh. i am spending four days there before taking another train to Amritsar. i had a fantastic experiece at a sikh temple in gwalior and look fwd to seeing the mother of all sikh temples in amritsar. the last couple of days have been interesting in delhi. [View Full Entry]

By CraniOcean
October 7th 2005

Before India with Dr. Carolyn Myss Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

Beach

I have to tell you. I grew up shopping with six sisters. Shopping can confuse me. I bought three suitcases and returned one, but lost the receipt so it was complicated, and then bought two pairs of shoes I didn't need on my store credit, from the suitcases. I was going to buy a new washing machine but a friend suggested I buy a digital camera. I'm saving back the washing machine for the photos to upload here--as soon as I buy a camera and figure out how to do it. I'm trusting my washing machine won't go on the blink [View Full Entry]

By SqueakyBean
October 6th 2005

India B'Ivrit Asia » India » Maharashtra » Mumbai

First off, I have a new phone number here. Please email me (you can do it through the travelblog) or my parents for the number if you need/want to reach me. Sorry I haven't written in so long, there really wasn't much to write about when I was in Chennai. And now for the full entry: **Warning: this entry include a great deal of Jewish references. If you don't understand, please post questions under comments. End of warning.** I think I was studying the wrong language when attempting to learn Tamil. Last Friday night I went to Chabad (the very orthodox [View Full Entry]

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