Blogs from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Asia - page 8

We've left Rajastan now and we've decided to head south again. The trouble with travelling in India is that you can never do anything on the spur of the moment. You have to plan everything days in advance. Not much fun if you want to change plans on a whim. Going from Udaipur we wanted to go to a resort area called Diu in the south of Gujarat. Well that would have taken over 24 hours by train so we thought let's go somewhere else. The trains all had waiting lists and the flights were too expensive so we took the bus. We thought that a sleeper bus would be a good idea. The problem was that it didn't have a toilet and there was only one stop, 3 1/2 hours into the trip. Add that ... read more

Goa is like Neverland for hippies and ravers. It's been trying to clean up its partying image but I'm not sure how well that's going... However, the beaches are very pretty and fresh seafood is always nice, so it wasn't a bad place to spend a few days. We mostly just bummed around Anjuna. There's a famous flea market there every Wednesday and we just happened to arrive Tuesday afternoon, so we got to explore that a bit. I picked up a nice pearl necklace for about USD$12! We rented a scooter for a couple of days and rode it over to a nearby beach called Little Vagator. It was such a nice day that we decided to lay out for a bit (If you know me, you know that I have many stories that start ... read more

Najzad uspevamo da se dokopamo do voza koji ce nas veceras voziti za Udajpur, ura!!! Docekuju nas opet kao filmske zvezde, vec malo smoreni od treceg ...dabada zaredom, ocekujemo slican provod, ali danas smo proveli sasvim drugciji dan. Dolazimo do Swaminarayan templa. U centru grada, muk. Gomila celavih (al sa repicima) svestenika obucenih u narandzste krpe, se izlezava na tremu koji okruzuje hram. Par minuta kasnije prilazi nam jedan ekstremno ljubazan dekica koji je zaduzen za turiste. Prvo nas je upoznao sa idolima i sa time sta koji predstavlja. u pauzama izmedju klanjanja sa ostalim vernicima nam sluze voce a posto klekli ispred starijeg svestenika sa terminator naocarama dobili smo i njegov bless. Posle nas je odveo na caj i cigaricu, male neke sto svi puse (donecemo kuci) i svo to vreme nam propovedao i davao ... read more

Nicky: That beautiful meal overlooking the lake wasnt so beautiful for long as it kept me up all night, on the train, while I was being sick. I am not going to go into detail just to say that it wasn't pleasant, I am trying not to remember much of it, but I do have vague recollections of launching myself kamakazee style from the top bunk where i was sleeping still wrapped in my sleeping bag, one handed and half shuffling, half running the 50 yards to the toilet (which was barely nice enough to wee in let alone anything else) several times in the night. My bad stomach continued until we arrived in Ahmedabad at 5.30am, while we waited for our next train, all through the journey to Mumbai - which was in what I ... read more

One of the longest hotel corridors must be located in Jamnagar at the Ashiana hotel and our room was at the end of this mile long hallway... But you can say it was worth the walk, it was a big spacious room and with a view of what could have been a nice park, were it not for the usual piles of garbage... Instead it was a haven for mosquitos! Jamnagar was where Tori was going to leave us to go back to Calcutta and fly home... Knowing her love for birds, we decided to go to Khijadiya bird sanctuary the last day before she left. Tori was in her element, sneaking around, blending in with the birds... We on the other hand were like elephants compared to her... We wisely decided to retreat into one ... read more