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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 wish we were still travelling
September 22nd 2002

bus day! Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jaipur

Decided to leave Bharatpur, as not a great deal to do and no where to go apart from a couple of e-mail places and fed up of being the only ones there!(had definetley gone at the wrong time) We both had iffy tummies (this will be a theme for our 5 months in india!!). Had minimal breakfast- plain toast and honey toast! Set off to catch the bus- rickshaw wallahs flagged one down for us thankfully; we got the "superior bus" (Mmmm!!) The bus was Rs 90 and took 4 squashed hours. We got a rickshaw to "pearl palace"- "top hotel"; [View Full Entry]

By DMac
September 21st 2002

Flood in India's holiest city. Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh » Varanasi

It was a 26 hour train journey which was quite nice if a little dirty. My stomach got a little upset towards the end, but luckily was sharing a coach with an English guy who had been to Varenasi before and got us to the guest house nice and easily. He also provided great company on the train - of which the most lively point was when a big barrel chested Sikh decided to tell the army officer on leave from Kashmir to stop drinking on the train. The army officer happened to be on the next bunk over from me [View Full Entry]

By wish we were still travelling
September 21st 2002

The keoladeo ghana national park Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

keoladeo ghana national park
this is the most excitng picture we got- guess what the bird is!!!!

Bri's poorly day today- we are only on day 5 and delhi belly has already hit... Had our first ghekko join us for the evening last night- could sit and watch them for ages (fab!) After a late start we went for lunch at the Sunbird- had tomato soup !! and cheese pakoras. Went to the keoladeo ghana national park- hired 2 ramshackle bikes for Rs 50 and a guide for Rs 70. We saw egrets, spotted owl, several varieties of heron, 2 large stark types, kingfisher, parakeets, loads of small exotic birds, antelope, turtles (huge) , monkeys, watersnake and a [View Full Entry]

By wish we were still travelling
September 20th 2002

our first local bus journey to bharatpur Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

Off to Bharatpur via a local bus- it was fine, we thought its would be a nightmare. We got a room (bathroom and aircon) at the falcon guest house for Rs 200- we were the only ones staying there (infact I think we were the only people staying in bharatpur as we were out of season for the birds!) We arrived at the guest house in the middle of "prayer day"- oops! We had lunch and wandered for a while... nothing to see apart from the national park , which we plan to go to tommorow. Decided to go on the [View Full Entry]

By DMac
September 19th 2002

Amritsar Asia » India » Punjab » Amritsar

I got a place to stay near the train station and headed to the Golden Temple where I bumped into the Austrians right away. It wasn't too hard since the couple of tall pretty Austrian girls usually attracted a crowd so large that police would be called. They were taking a taxi to the Waghar border - India's main border with Pakistan - to watch the border closing shennanigans at dusk. I joined them to watch the guards in their dress colors frogmarching around to the cheers of the crowds on both sides of the border in the specially constructed stands [View Full Entry]

By wish we were still travelling
September 19th 2002

The taj mahal Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh » Agra

taj mahal at 06:00
unbelievable to think that in an hours time it will be full of people- definetley worth getting up for

I was a girl with few words at the beginning of the trip, so really said very little (my journal entries got massive by the end!!) This is what I said about the taj mahal "up at 04:40 and met the rickshaw driver who took us to the taj mahal for 0600- cost Rs 750 each- amazing though- spent 2 hours there and returned to the hotel for breakfast... a toasted cheese sandwich" There we go, not alot said at the time! I can remember it being amazing though, especially watching the sunrise. There were so few people there, I would [View Full Entry]

By wish we were still travelling
September 18th 2002

on our way out of delhi Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh » Agra

Up at 04:00 hours! Got our taxi at 05:00 hours to the railway station. Our train was an eye opener to agra (it was the express) We were given water, tea bags a vacuum flask of hot water, biscuits, newspaer and brekkie (spicy bahji, chips and peas!) all included in our price (now know where british rail went wrong!!) We decided to stay at the tourist guest house- comfortable , aircon( when it works!!) room for Rs 500 Decided to go and sight see, so we went to 1- Agra fort- impressive; actually hired a guide (oh, how things changed a [View Full Entry]

By DMac
September 17th 2002

Pathenkot Asia » India » Punjab » Pathenkot

Kangra was pretty - the bus dropped me off at the main road and I had quite a walk to get to the train station. I was quite early for the train so I hung about on the platform. It was very quiet in some ways, until the sounds of the birds became clearer. It was very tropical sounding and a very relaxing interlude. The toy train was very slow and crowded (6 hours 70 km). I was hoping for a window seat, but since I didn't get on the train where it started there was no chance of this and [View Full Entry]

By wish we were still travelling
September 17th 2002

first day on our adventure- delhi Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

we arrived into delhi at 04:15. set off to our hotel (oberoi maidens)after much "help" from touts outside the airport! Our room was fantastic- it will be 75 rupee rooms from now on! Walked to the New Delhi train station in order to book our tickets to agra tommorow ( air con seat @0600 hrs for rs 420. We walked to connaught place ( many friendly touts trailing!)We bought our first sandwiches (indian stylie- warm and spicy!) Banquet meal and happy hour beers at night [View Full Entry]

By DMac
September 16th 2002

Mcleod Ganj Asia » India » Himachal Pradesh » Mcleod Ganj

The public bus from Mandi to Dharmsala stopped everywhere so it ended up taking about 8 hours and then the extra 1/2 hour up to McCleod Ganj - so I was quite tired on arrival. I still checked out about 4 guest houses in the rain before picking a room with a deck overlooking a valley. My neighbors were two Austrian girls who spent a lot of time with a couple of Australians. McCleod Ganj was a great place - many people were there to study Vipassana, Reiki, Buddhism or Tibetan. The Dalai Lama was there and shook the hand of [View Full Entry]

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