The 9 Euro ticket and more What a great deal they offered. We enjoy Germany but have only had one trip and hope to return soon. Thanks for introducing us to places we have not seen.
Amazing India! Wow! This just reminds me of how amazing India is - I may have to visit again some day! You visited sights that I've not been able to see yet, particularly the Golden Temple and the Dalai Lama's home. I'm not sure I'd like to visit the Rat Temple though - well done both for trying it...! Good idea with the socks I think!
India is really fantastic India is fantastic and there are so many treasures there to see and so many exciting places that can be visited. Next time I go to India I am going to try to see some stepwells. They have hundreds of them in India and they are a cultural heritage that is largely overseen by tourists. /Ake
Tiger and Turtle - Magic Mountain This looks like a funfare ride but you say it is a sculpture. It looks like it has steps but some gradients look pretty steep. Can you walk all the way inside it?
Not the loop You can walk everywhere except the loop. But there are steps and a rail going up there too so a well trained athlete, for example a gymnast could, for sure go all the way around. But it wouldn't be permitted. /Ake
Awww... I love these donkey sculptures, and it looks like their ears are being touched/rubbed for good luck. That 9-euro ticket is unbelievably good value! What an amazing way to encourage people to use public transport; Australia really needs to up its game when compared to countries like Germany.
9 Euro becomes 49.90 Euro From what I understand a similar offer, costing close to 50 Euro instead of 9, will be available in Germany next year, or possibly already now. If you travel around by train it is still a damn good offer. If I was going to Germany for a week and the ticket was available I'd buy one. You only have to go two or three short trips by train and a handful of local transport rides (like metro or tram) for it to pay off. /Ake
Trains I think we'd love that train trip- sounds amazing! I can't remember why we skipped the Red Fort in Delhi (even though we were passing by it at one point), quite possibly because we were tired or because we were visiting the Red Fort in Agra shortly afterwards. We definitely need to rectify that oversight next time we are there.
Intrigued I'm very intrigued by this part of India. What a beautiful story about the stray dog who followed you. We have met a few dogs who have followed us on walks but only two (one in Turkey and one in Bulgaria) who followed us to our hotel and wanted to come in... I was so sad we couldn't bring them home! I'd love to be brave enough to visit the rat temple too, and I will take a leaf out of your book and wear throw-away socks; possible a few pairs! :)
Bringing a dog home A few years ago a Swedish team competing in a multisport competition where the team was to transport themselves by running, walking, swimming, cykling and kayaking a very long distance under challenging conditions. The race took several days to complete and during the race they were befriended by a dog. They decided to bring the dog home. It cost them a fortune in quaranteen and vaccinations, but they did it anyway. /Ake
India's Intrigue I have not been to India so I find everything you write about here fascinating! Shimla must be an especially interesting place for not only it's location but what you describe as its European architectural similarity. Great photos!!
We liked Shimla We liked Shimla for many reasons. It was cooler there than in the lowlands, it is a pretty town and it was clean and quiet and not too many people. /Ake
969 bridges and 103 tunnels Never ceases to amaze me of the money that ebbs and flows in this World. 969 bridges and 103 tunnels required from Kalka to Shimla presumably because someone decided it was worth the expense and labour to move to a cooler clime when the whim decided. Thanks for the info...fascinating! I'll post it in the Trains thread in the Photography Forum.
I did not know about the trains in the forum I didn't know there was a train thread in the forum. Thank you for posting it there. Possibly I have one or two other pictures that fits there. Maybe I can find the time to have a looka at it. /Ake
Kalka-Shimla Railway The Kalka-Shimla Railway truly is an engineering marvel and you don't have to be a train enthusiast to enjoy it either. I think they in India have yet another of those railways that goes into the mountains. If i remember it right it goes to Darjeeling. That one is high on my wishlist. /Ake
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
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Street artist really have improved.