Destination: India

Gallery: mumbai and anjuna

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 | By beckyandsasha | Photo Gallery

Defence

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 | By damonlk | Views [1452]

Jodhpur and Jaisalmer were founded to defend the great desert trading routes east and so surround enormous stone and mortar forts built atop rocky bluffs in the centre of town. From below the forts are everywhere visible, and from their ramparts ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

mumbai to goa

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 | By beckyandsasha | Views [685] | Comments [11]

Our flight to Mumbai was rather long, sitting next to a boy visiting his family than insisted on talking the whole way. As soon as we arrived we went straight outside, you could practically see the heat. we got into the taxi which took us to colaba, ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Quaint Kochi

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 | By tessafb | Views [363]

I think I last left you in the Backwaters of Alleppey, cruising along on a houseboat. After that we headed up to Kochi, the capital of Kerala, and a town built in various suburbs on a number of penninsulas off the mainland. We stayed in the beauiful ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

some questions & answers

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 | By solbeam | Views [1457]

I recently answered the following questions from a Portuguese journalist and figured to recycle the content. The answers are short because the last time I had something published, the editor had no mercy with the scissors and cut my tresses of words to ... Read more >

Tags: Philosophy of travel

A few days later...

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 | By petitibiza | Views [348]

So, here I am again, now in Goa. Let's see...where was I the last time I wrote...? Right, Jodhpur, the Blue City.  After seeing the fort, pretty much did nothing for a few hours back at my hotel, chilled, read and ate, mostly, waiting for my night train ... Read more >

Tags: Relaxation

Gallery: India photos

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 | By tessafb | Photo Gallery

Along the motorway by elephant!

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 | By joyful_jo | Views [1264]

The Karla caves near Pune are fantastic –they date from the 2 nd century BC (same as early Ajanta) and have the largest and best preserved meditation hall in India. Heading out of the sprawling city there was SO much new building going on – all surrounded ... Read more >

Tags: planes trains & automobiles

Houseboats for spoiled westerners

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 | By tessafb | Views [482] | Comments [1]

Ok, so maybe the title is too cynical, but this may have been the most expensive experience we will have in India. Not that that is bad, but I did experience pangs of guilt as our boat swept past old ladies beating washing on the shore, and skinny skinny ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Himalayan Winter

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 | By bonnie | Views [1070]

Thanks to the World Nomads Footprints Program, People's Environmental Awareness - Khati (PEAK) is undertaking a water/hygiene education project in the village of Khati (Uttarakhand, India). Our first snow fall for the season was on the 11th & ... Read more >

Tags: mountain water project

Days 66 & 67: The long road to Singapore

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 | By markr_mcmahon | Views [1172]

Thursday 10th & Friday 11th January I checked out of the hotel and took a rickshaw to Varkala Station, where I caught the 10.30 train to Trivandrum, and onwards to the airport, getting there at 12.00. My flight was scheduled to leave for Mumbai ... Read more >

Tags: planes trains & automobiles

Hugging mother ashram - cult, spiritual guru or devoted humanitarian?

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 | By tessafb | Views [3308] | Comments [2]

Ah, so the hugging mother ashram. What a different environment to the last, quiet, spiritual uplifting Sri Aurobindo stay. Not that this was not intense, great and interesting... far from it. The first sight we glimpsed from the boat were soaring ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Backwaters of Kerala

Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By tessafb | Views [426]

Well, Trivandrum was a little boring, so I'll spare you the details of our long rambles around the zoo with the Indian bourgeousise (apparently its quite the thing to do on a long hot Sunday!). We left quite rapidly for Kollam to begin our real mission ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Voyage to Himachal Pradesh

Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ahay | Views [711]

I’m sitting in the dark right now because the power is out. Again. This is a daily battle in the year 2007 in a progressive city of 3 million+. Somehow I survived my Himalayan adventure and have made it back to Jaipur just in time for my finals, three ... Read more >

Tags: planes trains & automobiles

Pushkar Camel Mela

Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ahay | Views [967]

I have grown so lazy. I have to spend an entire day pumping myself up to write e-mails. There are just so many things to tell and so many ways to fail to explain how incredible and incomprehensible my life in India is. Just know that nothing I do or ... Read more >

Tags: adventures