Blogs from India, Asia - page 1929

First things first. Any grumbles I have need to be viewed in the context of the fact that I wrote the notes for this entry sat in the shade made by my own bamboo hut, looking out over a beautiful and near-empty sand beach, with the sound of the waves and the palm trees blowing in the wind giving me the natural equivalent of a relaxation tape. In other words, my two days on a beach in Goa might not have been perfect, but that's not to say that they didn't have their upsides... Anyway, I decided on Mandrem beach. Had scouted out a couple of beaches the day before, and it seemed to fall nicely between the concrete and chips of Calungate and Baga, and the irritating hippies of Arambol and Anjuna. The adventure for ... read more

Jodhpur... read more

The hostel (Evergreen House) we stayed in, in Jaipur, is FAB lovely garden and terrace cafe with lovely food!!! Its just so nice around here. At Bengali's insistence we went sightseeing! He had a whole itinerary planned out for us but we were quite happy to just mosy around. We went to the City Palace first. Located in the heart of the walled city, The City Palace Complex gives you an idea about the farsightedness of the founder of Jaipur Sawai Jai Singh. He left behind a legacy of some of the most imposing and magnificent architecture, art and craft structure in the city. Sawai Jai Singh built its many buildings but some of some of the structures were also built by later rulers and some of them are even dated in the in the twentieth ... read more

OK. I have lost impetus on this blog. I'm not in India anymore. I thought I could keep writing it in retrospect but its really hard! I have lots to add to the following, I have hand written notes and everything... and I may update this over the weekend, but people have been asking for the next chapter and the quickest way to give it is to plagiarise. And quite frankly, although it's not the same way I'd write it, Toby is a better writer than I am! (don't tell him I said that) So check these two out for the Mumbai chapter at the end of my trip (feel free to read the rest of his trip too - its quite interesting!). My mumbai-for-the-cricket summary is: It was brilliant, I love Mumbai, we had a ... read more

So, travel blogs are easy when the internet is fast. Luckily, here in the beautiful city of Rishikesh (where the Beatles spent six month sharpening their sitar playing skills), in addition to being the 'yoga capital of the world', the 'gateway to the Himilayas,' and one of the holier cities in on the Ganges river, Rishikesh also has fast internet. This is my second journal entry to my travel blog that I'm not sure anyone is receiving or that I'm doing correctly; it's very exciting. Since my first entry, Jordana, Rachel and I have covered a lot of ground in Northern India, maturing from the luxurious and always delayed trains, to learning how to ride the public buses. After Pushkar, where we ended up hanging around an extra day because it's incredibly relaxing (which is another ... read more