Destination: India

New travelling sport - Extreme Dehli Belly

Wed, 7 May 2008 | By true-claims-stories | Views [2224]

I didnt realise you could wind-up in hospital from diarrhoea until I travelled in India. I had been suffering 'the runs' on and off over three months and had lost about 15 kilograms. I was feeling extremely weak and dehydrated, and called in to a local ... Read more >

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Gallery: Vets Beyond Borders

Sun, 4 May 2008 | By nomad_vet | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Darjeeling, Sikkim and Delhi

Sun, 4 May 2008 | By will-n-raina | Photo Gallery

From Cool to Scorching in North India

Sun, 4 May 2008 | By will-n-raina | Views [1076] | Comments [3]

Well, it is a bit difficult to know where to begin with our time in the north of India. Our experiences were so varied and now that they are passed and we have arrived in Sri Lanka it is hard to sum everything up. They say a picture speaks a thousand ... Read more >

A Late Start

Sun, 4 May 2008 | By daniu | Views [345]

For too many reasons to begin with this journal has started late.  Now hopefully i will became more disciplined and keep it updated.  A lot has happened in the past two weeks while I've been travelling.  I would like to go over it all and explain everything ... Read more >

Gallery: Leopard caesarian

Sun, 4 May 2008 | By nomad_vet | Photo Gallery

Vets Beyonds Borders do a Leopard Caesarian in India

Sun, 4 May 2008 | By nomad_vet | Views [10873] | Comments [1]

The SARAH (Sikkim Anti Rabies & Animal Health) Programme in India usually focuses its attention on cats & dogs but when we were asked for assistance by the Himalayan Zoo veterinarian Dr Madan K.S.Shanker we were eager to help. ... Read more >

Rehab in Gangtok

Sun, 4 May 2008 | By nomad_vet | Views [3624] | Comments [1]

It’s a joke now that any veterinary volunteer who comes to help the SARAH (Sikkim Anti Rabies & Animal Health) Programme in Gangtok will also have to volunteer to piggyback me around. Since rupturing my achilles tendon playing cricket 6 weeks ... Read more >

A Month On

Sat, 3 May 2008 | By osiris | Views [1044] | Comments [6]

Today marks our anniversary of arrival, one month ago. We are currently in Bundi, a small (by Indian size) walled town in Rajasthan, with the fortress walls and palace dominating the belt of hilly lands surrounding the still modest market town. The population ... Read more >

Letting go.

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 | By heartrl | Views [1016] | Comments [1]

Well, Again I find it's been a while and I have so much to catch up. Bare with me. Assam. I loved Assam! When we finally reached the right side of the island it was like a fairy tale! Unbelievable. The island was lit up at night with a thousand fireflies ... Read more >

Gallery: India

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 | By osiris | Photo Gallery

First stop - India

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 | By osiris | Views [694] | Comments [2]

We landed in splendid Mumbai, the city where dreams are made (dreams of rats, poverty beyond explanation & sights & smells of human excrement, all of which are impossible to escape apart from meal times where you can sneak off to a semi-decent ... Read more >

Tezpur to Bomdilla

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 | By worldwidewaldo | Views [567]

Arunachal Pradesh permit starts! We set off at 12:30, on the 11:30 Sumo. “Indian Standard Time,” quipped a woman from the back seat. (Indians are always eager to peak English. The better they do it, the more affluent they feel they are, and they ... Read more >

Lumding to Guwahati to Tezpur

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 | By worldwidewaldo | Views [1512]

Thursday had nothing to recommend it, just a travel tale. Jim was sick but, being up early, had already found us a bus to Nagaon from which we hoped, the same to day, to get on to Tezpur, the departure point for western Arunachal Pradesh. (We all ... Read more >

Gallery: India, Lucknow Wedding

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 | By earthpacs | Photo Gallery