http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , India , National Capital Territory en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:35:47 +0000 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:35:47 +0000 India is the perfect destination for luxury tourism. The forts ancient monuments and the magnificent palaces are all at the service of new age queens and kings. The only thing one needs to do is to contact a Luxury tour operator who have excellent India Tours package at their disposal. Their royal arrangements leave no room for complaint. But if one is eager to add personal touch to the luxury th http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/New-Delhi/blog-460982.html Journey with Turkish Air was good an interesting Afghan beside me. He's the national seed coordinator 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 traff http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/blog-459758.html Hello friends this is the blog that gives you information about maa vaishnodevi one of the most popular religious destination in India.Yatra on foot OR by pony The Yatra begins at Katra and pilgrims have to cover 13 km. of distance on footby pony to reach the Darbar. One kilometer away from Katra you would find Banganga place where Mata quenched her thirst and at 6 km. the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/New-Delhi/blog-459257.html Delhi is one of the most beautiful cities and the capital of India Tours a country in South Asia that is considered to be the seventh largest country and most democracy populace in the world. Delhi is stretched on the west bank of river Yamuna it boarders state Uttar Pradesh on the South and Haryana on the west. Delhi being a capital of India has witnessed necessary improvement. City is well c http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/Delhi/blog-459046.html hi going to delhi .. looking for dentist.. any help http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/New-Delhi/blog-456899.html Delhi without the bellyIndia again can't believe it's 15 years since the last visitSafely 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. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-456337.html 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 in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-455123.html 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 mi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/New-Delhi/blog-453092.html 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. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/Delhi/blog-453056.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/New-Delhi/blog-452420.html Hi allWe 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 templeAs 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/Delhi/blog-452340.html To explain the rather contrived title Irsquoll skip to the end. This morning 11109 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 itrsquos because Irsquod spent the previous ten days or so in Delhi. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/Delhi/blog-451586.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/Delhi/blog-451306.html Thursday PMItrsquos a little hard to know where to begin. I feel like Irsquove been gone for weeks.Irsquom 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. Itrsquos 630 in the evening and Irsquom in an internet cafhellipmore Americans and Europeans here than Irsquove seen all day http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/New-Delhi/blog-450936.html Hi EveryoneDelhi seems to me to epitomize all that is wonderful and horrible about India. I ended my trip here but most tourists start here because Delhi is a major international destination. I heard more than one horror story from fellow tourists that I met in Agra and Varanasi about the tourist scams that go on. One couple told me that instead of taking them to their hotel their taxi driver http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/Delhi/blog-450479.html This quote comes from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi or in India as Bapu. Gandhi was the political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian Independence movement and since his birthday a national holiday falls on the 2nd October shortly after my arrival here in India I thought it only right to pay my respects. The following day I headed http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/Delhi/blog-449970.html Well that's adios to Delhi New Delhi Old Delhi or whatever the fuck they call it these days. More on that later.Most of my time in Delhi was spent in the hostel just chilling and getting my bearings about me or at least trying to. Just lay about relaxing and having a few Kingfisher surprise surprise. I said in my first blog that there would probably be a few hiccups along the way and inde http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/blog-449860.html Day 15 16 Back to delhi We arrived back in Delhi with a mixture of happiness that we were going home and a little sadness that our adventure had come to an end. During the day we had gone to Connaught Square for the last bit of shopping and managed to finish our shopping and ensure that we had presents for everyone. We had one last meal with everyone at tea time and met at the only bar that ha http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/Delhi/blog-449531.html Following my time in Cambodia I decided to hit up India to see the Taj Mahal and to see for myself the illusions created by Rudyard Kipling and journalists of the early 1900's. I arrived in Delhi and I was expecting the airport to be a total shithole as noted by many travelers who have passed through it. It wasn't as bad as I anticipated and I have certainly been in worse Cairo Nairobi amo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/Delhi/blog-448325.html Itrsquos 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 mornin http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/Delhi/blog-448138.html