Destination: India
There are [2270] stories and [32299] photos from India
Most Recent | Most Viewed | Most Commented | Most Interesting | Random
It seems that India ticks a lot of boxes for long-term independent travellers... Read about the temples and sights, cheap food, mountain panoramas, spiritual pilgrimages, things your mum told you not to do and using your left hand. To help you keep travelling safely, we've even got a Hindi language guide that you can download to your iPod.
Latest Q&A about India
Latest photos from India
More photos from India >
Latest stories from India
Mon, 21 May 2012 | By flyingpiglet | Photo Gallery
Pragpur is India's only heritage village, and lies just outside judge's Court, a lovely old family home which is now a hotel.
See all 15 photos >>
Wed, 16 May 2012 | By flyingpiglet | Views [34]
Recently Gusti, Eva and I went to Kangra Fort, the
Brigeschwari Devi temple in Kangra, Masroor temple and the Tatwani hot spring,
as well as having a memorable lunch at Lanj / Lunj.
We set off at 8am with Hardeep the taxi driver ... Read more >
Tags: dharamsala, kangra fort, masroor, tatwani, temple
Tue, 15 May 2012 | By flyingpiglet | Photo Gallery
Masroor, Kangra Fort, Tatwani hot spring, lunch at Lunj
See all 10 photos >>
Sat, 12 May 2012 | By flyingpiglet | Views [77]
I’m sitting here feeling very full and satisfied after
dinner in one of McLeod Ganj’s newest restaurants – and one of the most
unusual. About five minutes’ walk down the road from Snow Height is Jogiwara
Village, a small collection of ... Read more >
Tags: books, cafes, illiterati, mcleod ganj, restaurants
Thu, 10 May 2012 | By thegypsydiaries | Views [61]
While I was working as a Legal Officer in a small Non-governmental Organization in Ahmedabad last year, I had the opportunity of meeting
some amazing young researchers who came from far and wide to conduct a
field study of Environment issues across ... Read more >
Tags: adventure, culture, experience, india, safety, single female traveler, travel, travel tips
Sat, 5 May 2012 | By walkingabout2 | Views [65]
I arrived in Rishikesh early in the morning via overnight bus from Delhi. The bus drops you off at the Ganges across the river from Swarg Ashram. I walked along the ghats to the footbridge to get to Swarg Ashram; this was no easy feat as I have ... Read more >
Sat, 5 May 2012 | By walkingabout2 | Photo Gallery
See all 9 photos >>
Fri, 4 May 2012 | By pookiehantas | Views [85]
The river Ganges floweth from underneath my arms, It’s tributaries form canals upon my sweaty palms.... As steady as the beating drum, the holy sweat it flows, Look closely as it glistens, upon my Arab nose... The sun she bears upon us, her fruit’s ... Read more >
Thu, 3 May 2012 | By flyingpiglet | Photo Gallery
See all 9 photos >>
Thu, 3 May 2012 | By flyingpiglet | Views [78]
Last Saturday Jocelyn, Gusti and I set off in a taxi from
McLo at 7am to drive to Amritsar. We had two aims in mind for the weekend trip
– to see the evening border-closing ceremony at Wagah on the India/Pakistan
border, and to visit the ... Read more >
Tags: golden temple; amritsar; wagah; india; pakistan;
Wed, 2 May 2012 | By nomad_at_heart | Views [54]
So… here I
am in India
again, a year after the moment I was looking forward to get out of this country
feeling something inexplicable. I hated India! No, I loved India! Really?!!
I couldn’t decide which one... I’d never felt that way before.... Read more >
Tags: on the road
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 | By insighterr | Photo Gallery
Leaving yourself for once is the one and only one way to get yourself back, paths are misleading but vision is never.
See all 5 photos >>
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 | By ipen | Views [49]
Rocky hillocks, a river flowing peacefully between the hills, little
coracles ferrying people across the villages on either side of the river
interspersed with lush green fields, grazing cows and goats. Sounds like any village
in India,
except ... Read more >
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 | By its_me_swatii | Photo Gallery
See all 7 photos >>
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 | By its_me_swatii | Views [74] | Comments [1]
Sixty-four Kilometers from Pune,in the abode of the Sahyadri mountains is a beautiful landscape famously known as the “Tiger Point”,Lonavala--(The reasons for this name are still clouded in obscurity, but my research continues). Well,what's strikingly ... Read more >
Tags: clouds, hilltop, lonavala, mystical, rain, sahyadri, sun, wind
More stories from India
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next >
