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Sun, 17 Mar 2013 | By dishanoyonika | Photo Gallery
Unraveling the many Indias within India.
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Fri, 15 Mar 2013 | By kirsty_nz | Views [1637] | Comments [3]
Where do you stay? I stay in Kolkata!
So I’ve been in Kolkata for a month & a half now – not so much travelling as learning to stay put and live in a totally foreign culture. The good, the bad and the crazy? Well this is India so ... Read more >
Tags: calcutta, freeset, india, kolkata, street life
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 | By sasjr | Views [226]
I've come to realize I need to suspend this journal. My personal diary has all the good stuff in it and I'm not sharing that with you fine strangers. And secondly, my emails to family and friends have the next best content. So, intrepid Nomads, that ... Read more >
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [324]
Our train ride to Delhi from Agra in sleeper class was totally comfortable. No complaints and no need for AC. So grateful that we were able to leave our bigger bags with Karolina in Chennai. Traveling with just small backpacks is convenient and easy! ... Read more >
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [334]
So I mentioned in an earlier blog about a Vipassana 10 day meditation course. I will give you a bit of background info first. So funny enough, the first time we actually heard about this was back in Australia. We were on a day trip with my cousin at ... Read more >
Tags: simon & garfunkel- the sound of silence
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [263]
Jaipur to Agra was our first train experience in India. The foreign tourist ticket office in Jaipur is hectic and generally unhelpful so we only arranged our trains for Jaipur-Agra, Agra-Delhi, & Delhi- Dehradun. So we have yet to book any travel ... Read more >
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [265]
We booked a tour through the official government tourist office for a half day excursion for about $5/ person! This did not include fees for monuments & palaces but there is a comprehensive 2 day ticket you can purchase that covers just about everything ... Read more >
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [282]
Not everyone is familiar with the name of Agra--- but this is the city where the incredibly famous Taj Mahal is , about 200 km south if Delhi. Our train was on time and got us into Agra before noon. Since we only left one day for Agra before we headed ... Read more >
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [432]
We flew out of Kochi to Jaipur (with a long boring layover in Mumbai) the next afternoon, arriving in Jaipur late night March 9th.
After our few recent hotel 'issues' in the past we were a bit concerned that something funny might ... Read more >
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [217]
We got to Kochi alive!!! YAY! We took a rickshaw to a restaurant Tom had read about (my cousin Karolina gave us a great book about India for the month- all the info so far has no eluded us!). Ela restaurant in Kochi (Ernakulam) was beyond delicious! ... Read more >
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [278]
The hotel we had booked in Munnar was just south of actual Munnar town so we asked him to drop us off a bit early. He claimed he understood the stuff we wrote down (names of hotel and town) but if it wasn’t for Tom noticing the sign we would have ... Read more >
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [300]
Alleppey is definitely different from the places we have been so far. It cleaner, friendlier, and calmer. It is hot & humid (feels much hotter than Tamil Nadu). However, the people are much easier to get along with and are more genuine from my experiences.... Read more >
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [246]
After our 2 day stint in Pondicherry we booked a night bus to Madurai, further south. We haven't yet oriented ourselves with the trains here in India, but we do plan to use them extensively in the North. But for this trip we made a quick decision for ... Read more >
Tags: sweet nothing- calvin harris feat. florence welsh
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [444]
Imagine a place where people of all nations live in unity and harmony; where no political troubles exist; where people live and do what they want; where sustainable resources are utilized all the time; and where a massive gold 'golf ball' looking object ... Read more >
Tags: feel the love- rudimental feat. john newman
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 | By kirsty_nz | Photo Gallery
Two months in Kolkata staying with my friend Pip & helping out at Freeset. Kolkata is so crazy, colourful, infuriating and full of joy & life. I love this place :) Escaped to the hills for a few nights in Darjeeling - clean air, great nepalese food & ...
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