Blogs from Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India, Asia - page 5

13th Jan Up at 2am with feral dogs barking outside window - Greg still poorly oh dear. Up again at 7am for start of 2nd trip adventure which I've decided to call pilgrimage and mountains. Drive from Delhi to Hardivar for 6 hours with Deep (our new driver). Mainly on wrong side of the road, at speed. Visit to local pharmacy, basically shed with some dude dishing out all sorts of meds for about RS10 Scored some antibiotics and other stuff for Greg! Arrived in Hardivar, evening visit to Ganga aarti (prayer session on Ganges) at Har-Ki-Pari (Footsteps of god). Said to be the place where Vishnu dropped some holy nectar and left a footprint behind. This is a pilgrimage for Hindu's, we witnessed prayers, lit torches and released flower petal baskets into the river. 14th ... read more

Hello again I don't mean to bombard you with emails about our trip as I'm sure you will soon get bored of them (please feel free to delete!)) but as apparently there was a bomb in Delhi at the weekend I thought I would just send a quickie to say we weren't there! Instead we were trecking through part of the Himalayas to a place called the Valley of Flowers (around 4000 m above sea level), which sadly had very few flowers in bloom (July/August is the time for that) but was still very beautiful and had stunning views of some of the bigger snow-capped peaks. Wow. We are now in Haridwar soaking up a bit more spirituality by the Ganges before heading south tomorrow - next stop the Taj Mahal! Lots of love Kirst and ... read more

Haridwar a l orgine je ne comptais pas forcement m arreter mais lors du trajet en train je fais la rencontre de Tarun jeune indien qui me propoe de dormir ici pour la nuit donc j accepte a peine arrive chez lui sa mere me propose deja a manger et meme si ses parents ne parlent pa trop anglai j ai droit a apprendre a faire des chapatis et de voir l album photo familiale le lendemain taTarun me fait visiter en scooter ts les endroits a voir d harida et nottaement les gates sacres ou de nombreux pelerins se baignent dans le gange ... du coup il m explique enormement de chose sur la religion et la maniere de vivre des jeunes indiens les indiens sont tellemen acceuilants on le resent enormement a restant chez ... read more

Route: Kolkata-Delhi-Gurgaon-Gaziabad-Noida-Gurgaon-Delhi-Gaziabad-Meerut-Muzzafar Nagar-Roorkee-Haridwar-Rishikesh-deoprayag-srinagar-rudraprayag-Karnaprayag-Nandaprayag-Chamoli-Pipalkori-Joshimath-Haridwar-Lakshar-Roorkee Cantonment-Saharanpur-Shamli-Baghpat-Delhi-Gurgaon-Kolkata The Unfinished Business?? Wise men told me never leave something unfinished. It will hit you and haunting you in future from time to time. I didnot know that I will face to the same so soon and that too in couple of month's time. Life had become realy miserable with lot of blames and escalations on me at office. Tough life, dirty,pungent and stinky weather at Kolkata added to existing pressure of surviving in the midst of burdening work load. I was geting framed by people for non performance at workplace and missing time lines of delivery. Then one fine ... read more

Our week long vacation in Rishikesh was so relaxing, it seemed to not be in India at all. With warm memories of temples, beaches and Mount Valley Mama Cottage fresh in mind, we left at noon. Taking a bus to Haridwar to then catch an overnight into Amritsar, we had about 8 hours to kill. We wandered the bazaar, had a leisurely lunch, wandered about some more, and by the time we got around to checking our clock again we had a mere 7 hours left. Completely out of ideas and beginning to get weary of the constant hustle and bustle of a typical Indian downtown, we decided to head out to the more spiritual hustle and bustle of the crowded holy bathing spot in the river. As we'd been to this bit before, we knew ... read more