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Mon, 30 Mar 2009 | By colleen_finn | Views [1782]
After spending the morning in Old Delhi checking out an old 17th century Muslim mosque (Jami Masjid) and a Sikh temple, I spent the remainder of the afternoon wandering around central Delhi and discovering anew one of the hazards of a female traveling ... Read more >
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Mon, 30 Mar 2009 | By colleen_finn | Views [1144]
I can hardly believe that I am in India. It feels a bit decadent to be taking a trip so soon after my last, but the timing could not be helped. Compared to my journey to Egypt, the journey here was unremarkable. The flights were on time, there was no ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, planes trains & automobiles
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 | By margitpirsch | Views [955]
A long train ride to Agra (every train ride seems to take 12 hours here), but this time with Gita and Larrry made it easier, because I didn't have to chain up my backpack and worry about my stuff going to the bathroom, which is - you wouldn't think so ... Read more >
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [670]
No local wants to plunder the river but unless they’re given viable alternatives for making a living the stripping of the Nila’s resources will continue. I’m onboard a traditional boat called a thoni slowly gliding down the river. Beside ... Read more >
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 29 Mar 2009 | By margitpirsch | Views [804] | Comments [1]
it thundered last night in Jodhpur, I had a good night sleep. My belly thundered and rumbled on for a while as well. Sweet Nisha - the hotel Mama made me some yoghurt (curd) and Chai, before leaving, but I put my two bananas on the table and the dog ... Read more >
Fri, 27 Mar 2009 | By evaamy | Views [554] | Comments [3]
My high spirits are back again, Borneo what an amazing place. I arrived in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah which is the Malaysian part of Borneo. My experiences here has been so different to any of the other places I have been to. I have seen huge amounts of ... Read more >
Fri, 27 Mar 2009 | By margitpirsch | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 | By qui001 | Views [570]
We arrived the night in Bickaner after a journey train of 8 hours. As usual when we descended from the train a crowd of tuc-tuc drivers asked us if we wanted a ride for our hotel, but our hotel was quite close to the train station so we walked for ... Read more >
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By qui001 | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [821]
Today is the opening day of the Kalyani Para music centre and the atmosphere around me is electric. Sweaty cameramen from Malayalam TV jostle for good vantage points while assembled villagers excitedly take their seats. Dedicated to the memory of ... Read more >
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [977] | Comments [1]
There’s at least a dozen kids all sitting on the floor in front of me. They are wriggling about torn between curiosity and shyness. Furtive glances and whispers are exchanged before the boldest one is half pushed by the others to come over. ... Read more >
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [715]
The picture is slowly taking shape: two massive entwined serpents which cover the courtyard. The little girl beside me looks out from heavily kohl-rimmed eyes, entranced by the strange colourfully swirling shapes emerging upon her courtyard. ... Read more >
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [624]
The workmen walk along the road dressed in crisp blue shirts tucked into colourful lungis. I love the fact that here you see men proudly wearing sarongs of dazzling floral displays of fuchsia-pinks, aqua-blue and lemon. You never know what you’re ... Read more >
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 | By solbeam | Views [1311] | Comments [1]
For the third time in a year, I’m in India. I feel ourselves in
something of a desperate love affair; one, and just as often the other,
on her knees, begging the other to come back, just go, or not leave.
Four months ago, in a dizzy spell in Delhi, ... Read more >
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