http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , India en-us Sun, 08 Nov 09 23:05:46 +0000 Sun, 08 Nov 09 23:05:46 +0000 Goa...Sonne Strand Palmen... Halt stop irgend etwas stimmt nicht. Richtig mit dem guten Wetter stimmt nur bedingt. Wenns um die Temperatur geht ist Goa nicht zu toppen trotz 30 Grad ist es angenehm und nicht zu heiss aber in den 2 Tagen seit denen ich hier bin war es zunaechst bewoelkt und dann begann es zu regnen. So ein richtiger Sommerregen wie in Deutschland bloss noch angenehmer. Zum Gluec http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Goa/Anjuna-Beach/blog-451685.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 Probably because Irsquod come from Manali which is about 2000 metres above sea level and come over the higher passes the altitude in Leh didnrsquot affect me too much. Leh is at 3500 metres. I still found that Irsquod get a bit out of breath and times when Irsquod suddenly feel a bit like I hadnrsquot been breathing enough. Other people also reported weird dreams which I also had http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Leh/blog-451558.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 I read a quote once that 'traveleling is only glorious in retrospect'. This i must say is pure wisdom. Even as I look back on the past couple weeks I already begin to feel quite fond of my recent experiences. However not enough time has elasped for the real experiences to transform into some glorious experience. Already I can say that I would not trade the 'experiences' for anything but I hope http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-451180.html oh well last day at goa ... had enough now and was looking forward to moving ... not sure about bombay though but we arrived at our hotel at 3.30pm and to be fair it was right on the beach in juhu where the film stars are all supposed to live ... as the picture show the beach is ok but filthy there beggars everywhere and theremust have been 50 people cooking or serving tea etc .. we went for dinn http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-451162.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 A One day trip to Hogenakkal This one day trip started with us waking up around 6. We used the public transport to get here from Bangalore Karnataka India. Tamil Nadu is a neighboring state and it takes about 5 hours to get to hogenakkal by Bus. We caught a bus from silk board to Dharmapuri. They give a 10 minute break at Hosur where you can have breakfast From one of the stalls..From Dharm http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Hokenkal/blog-450614.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 Tuesday Nov 3rdWhat a night Contrary to my hopes the roads got even worse. I donrsquot think I ever saw potholes that size At least I managed to sleep somewhat. This morning it didnrsquot really get any better. First I couldnrsquot find my contacts so I was pretty blind to start with second I was pretty disorientated and had o idea where I was going. Then I happened to run only into pe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-450438.html Friday Oct 30th Hampi KarnatakaThis morning was the first time in forever that we took a yoga class. It was different but not bad. Weird introductionhellip Whatever. We arrived in Hampi yesterday morning after a 14 hour bus ride. It was fun but also totally exhausting. It was a sleeper bus so picture this like a bus with a ton of bunk beds inside. Ok if you ever decided you wanna take a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Hampi/blog-450434.html Ok so let me do a bit of fast forwarding since keeping up with this things is hard....We had a great time in PuriReturned to Kolkata to travel north to DarjeelingTook a night train to New JaipalguriTook a jeep 3 hours up the mountain to DarjeelingMet a good travel friend along the way omriAte a bunch in Darjeeling took a freezing cold bucket shower and decided to do a trekDid a 5 day trek alon http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-450379.html Also die letzten zwei Tage haben wir eigentlich ziemlich gut ueberstanden . Mit buntstiften bewaffnet haben wir uns am donnerstag in die improvisierte schule gewagt und im grossen und ganzen verliefen die zwei stunden viel besser. die jungs waren ganz heiss darauf zu malen. Das thema war der dschungel und seine tiere pflanzen. Naja am ende kamen zwar trotzdem viele hunde und haeuser raus aber w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Goa/Margao/blog-450211.html Pushkar a small city in western Rajasthan was created when Lord Brahma one of the Hindu gods the creator actually dropped a lotus flower from his hand to the earth and at the spots where three of the petals landed water appeared in the otherwise dry desert area to from three blue lakes according to the Hindu history. On the banks of the largest of these lakes Brahma gathered 900000 celest http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Pushkar/blog-450088.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 The AshokaLemelson Tech 4 Society event was this past week in Chennai. The event brought together several Ashoka and AshokaLemelson Fellows to discuss opportunities and challenges as it relates to technology adoption in rural areas. The makeup of the individuals ranged from 25 years of efforts in the social sector to new entrepreneurs all of whom share common themes in their work including http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Andhra-Pradesh/Hyderabad/blog-449965.html I try to be quite informed about world issues especially those involving human rights. But I quite overrate myself.My first day in McLeod Ganj home of the Tibetan Government in Exile was kicked off with in style. I observed a parade of a hundred Buddhist monks and westerners alike walking through the streets holding candles to a chant imploring the world to bring about freedom for Tibet. I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-449954.html In Agra I decided to continue to a nice quaint area known as Rajistan and start in the city of Jaipur. I found out it is the beginning of the typical tourist route of Rajistan which includes Jaipur Pushkar Udaipur and Jodhpur. I hit 3 of the four places....damn I am a tourist As I said I started out in Jaipur which was and interesting ride from Agra. I got on the bus and we barreled dow http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/blog-449936.html MY VACATION TO THE VALLEY OF GODSGangotri Gaumukh SEPTEMBER 2009.After doing the Kedar Badri trip last year I decided to wander to the valley of Gods to offer my tarpan at the Gamukh on the auspicious Mahalaya day.My settling down base at Rishikesh had the purpose to wander around the Himalayas when ever time permits. Last year I had the privilege of enjoying the door closing ceremony of the K http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Uttarakhand/Uttarkashi/blog-449930.html Ajmer and Pushkar our next stop http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Ajmer/blog-449911.html