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Mon, 15 Jan 2007 | By h1annah | Views [1849]
Hannah and I are currently in Mysore, south Karnataka. Since our last email, we took an overnight sleeper bus from Palolem to Hampi, arriving in the morning of 12th Jan, where we stayed for 3 days and 2 nights. The journey took another 12 hours! Comfortable ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | By sambarton | Views [459]
A treat once in a while never harmed anyone and with this in mind we hired a houseboat for a night in kerala. While it is definately not cheap (5000Rs/24 hours- even after lengthy negotiations!) it was certainly worth the money in my opinion. We took ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | By hollycassandra | Views [1639]
ADP: After spending nearly a week purging our bodies, minds and auras of all sorts of impurities at the Sivinanda Ashram in Southern India (who knew onions, sugar, alcohol, garlic and salt were so evil, anyway?) Jen and I decided that it was high time ... Read more >
Tags: People
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [618]
We're back home and clearly, we got lazy about this whole blog business. I was writing to a friend of mine about our drive to Agra and thought I would post what I wrote here, since it's pretty much what I would have said in the blog: we got lazy ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [569]
January 14th, 2007: - Drove from Delhi to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal - Marble inlaying factory Animals spotted in Delhi and Agra: - Dogs - Cats - Elephants - Egrets - Camels - Monkeys - Pigs - Donkeys - Horses - Cows - Chickens - Parrots - Lizards ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | By sophsossig | Views [655] | Comments [1]
This is our 2nd day in Delhi - had a good 14 hour sleep last might. Only woke up 0nce thinking where the hell am i? Who am i? It was a scary moment . . . . .. got on a cycle rickshaw to the red fort and it was an amzing, exhilirating experience and ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [452]
Arifa here... I just wanted to add something about our adventures at Akshardham temple. I had read that there was some kind of cultural boatride at the temple where they had replicas of the Ajanta caves and other sites of India. It sounded cool and ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [826] | Comments [1]
Howie here... We checked into the Hans Plaza on January 12th and were off to a full day of adventure on the 13th. The Hans Plaza was kind of a letdown - snooty staff, a scary elevator (scarier than Oxy's) and an average building. We were fairly high ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [460]
January 13, 2007: - Jantar Manter - Ghandi Samadi - Meena Bazaar/Jama Masjid - Lal Qila (Red Fort) - Akshardham Mandir - Ansal Plaza Shopping Center
Tags: Sightseeing
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 | By sophsossig | Views [571] | Comments [2]
12th Jan 07 arrived in Delhi (to our slight disappointment!!)as were offered 400 pounds by BA not to take our flight today because of overbooking and instead fly tomorrow. Unfortunately BA did not pick us in the end and we got our flight as scheduled ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 | By oddgrue | Views [481]
Flew to Delhi via Beihjing and Shanghai - stayed at the Hans Plaza Hotel. This hotel also wasn't that great. I think we were too spoiled by the Shangri-La. I suspect the Taj in Delhi would have been a better bet. Funny stuff from today: - The bus ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 | By h1annah | Views [861]
A cow walks into a restaurant....(this is no joke)...it did! Hannah and I were walking through the streets of Palolem and a cow walked into a restaurant towards the bar in between the food tables! The waiters just carried on as per normal, probably as ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 | By laura_thomson | Views [821]
08/01/2007 This morning I awoke to the sounds of pumping music and the gentle crash of waves at 5am. Obviously I was in the wrong spot sleeping when there was so much happening in the bar 15 metres away. The English love to party. Since arriving yesterday ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Tue, 9 Jan 2007 | By globalld | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 8 Jan 2007 | By h1annah | Views [541]
Hannah and I have now been in Goa since Jan 3. It took us 13 hours by train to travel south from Mumbai to reach Goa state. We were in a carriage where there is 6 beds that convert to seats, although very basic I was quite impressed. We went 3 AC class ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
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