Destination: India

Gallery: Srinagar, Kashmir

Fri, 1 Dec 2006 | By clarinette | Photo Gallery

Gallery: A kashmiri Wedding

Fri, 1 Dec 2006 | By clarinette | Photo Gallery

Arrival in Delhi and Kashmir Adventure

Fri, 1 Dec 2006 | By gwen1 | Views [1233] | Comments [4]

Well we got to Delhi in the middle of the night and by the time we got to the hotel in was 3am! mind you the drive to the hotel was quite something as we got our first experience of Indian driving.. its goes something like this... honking the horn, running ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Gallery: Various India

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 | By sambarton | Photo Gallery

Into the Desert

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 | By sambarton | Views [422]

A single train journey in this country can take you from one extreme to another. We have left the mountains and via Delhi have spent the last few days in the capital of Rajasthan- Jaipur. It is a busy city and the rickshaw journeys here are as whiteknuckle ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

jaipur ..

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 | By jessikat | Views [612]

Just sitting in Jaipur station waiting for our train to take us to Jodhpur, it is the first train we have taken that has been late and this one is so far predicted to arrive here 3 hours late! I just hope that it will not be much later than that. We ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Gallery: India

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 | By sunnybianca | Photo Gallery

the beginning ..

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 | By jessikat | Views [576] | Comments [1]

Well we are finally here or at least we have been for a few days. So far we have experienced all the craziness of delhi which is hard to describe and we are presently in the foothills of the himalayas in the hill station of Shimla. We arrived in delhi ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Gallery: India

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 | By jessikat | Photo Gallery

INDIA- Part 1

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 | By sambarton | Views [385] | Comments [1]

Arriving in India was always going to be a full on experience that I doubt I will ever forget. Not only is is the first point of call on the world tour, my first backpacking adventure, but also it is a place of opposites compared to bonnie scotland. ... Read more >

Tags: Mountains

On the road to Nepal

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 | By kokoricooo | Views [845]

the night train to Gorahkpur (way to Nepal) was a sweet exprience. It was supposed to be 14h hours long but it was about 20h long. No worries, it was confortable. I slept very well. Then we took our first Indian bus. The driver was driving the bus as ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Delhi

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 | By kokoricooo | Views [693]

The first day in India was very tough and full of scams. we fell in usual traps that indian visitors find on their way. Fake 'official tourism offices', lies about actual hotel prices, problem to find the REAL tourism office among thousands of fake ... Read more >

Tags: Scams & Robberies

Trapped in Varanasi

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 | By brentoc | Views [783]

Varanasi, or Benares to the Indians, is a pretty special place. Sure its dirty & theres alot of people after your money, just like other Indian cities, but theres something else.... I heard from many other travellers there that they were still in ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

Altitude Sickness

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 | By true-claims-stories | Views [2183]

I commenced on a walk up into the Himalayan mountains. After 5 hours climbing I began to feel shocking. I spent the night In Rumbak (Ladakh) and in the morning, still feeling lousy, decided not to continue the walk, but to descend. On reaching Leh, I ... Read more >

Tags: altitude sickness, himalaya, mountains, true claim stories

Day 12

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 | By cathydee1 | Views [681] | Comments [1]

woke at the blissful hour of 7am full of life. we had big plans for today. went for breaky then packed and checked out. asked the lady if she would mind out bags until we were leaving in the afternoon and thankfully she did. so we hired a couple of bikes ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures