Destination: India

Photos: Faces of India

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Photo Gallery

Photos: Passport & Plate - Secret Beach Banana Nutella Crepes

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 | By anishabangera | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

Tags: passport & plate: italy 2014

The wilderness of Kerala

Wed, 12 Feb 2014 | By rinchen | Views [440]

  Rinchen Dolma Gloriously slitting dawn into the magic wrap of light, as sun rose itself to flood its ray on our skin, we made our way from Kottayam to the next district. Idukki, situated in Kerala is a place of visual treat with a lot ... Read more >

Tags: sunrise, trekking

Delwara Jain Temples

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [819]

If marble could sing its melody would be the delicate beauty of the Delwara Jain temples.  And its words would be of the thousands of artisans and laborers and the decades of their lives they devoted to carving the pillars, walls and ceilings of ... Read more >

Romantic Udaipur

Fri, 7 Feb 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [1886]

Salzburg has The Sound of Music , Udaipur has Octopussy ; shows nightly at restaurants throughout town.  Udaipur has been called the Venice of the East and the most romantic city in Rajasthan.  But a poor monsoon can leave Lake Pichola looking ... Read more >

The Road to Udaipur

Thu, 6 Feb 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [606]

Today wasn’t a good one for tuk-tuks, those rickety, smelly three-wheeled taxis of India.  It took two to get to our early morning bus.  The first driver did the usual “Yes, yes,” when I showed him the address then turned ... Read more >

Goa - Sunsets and Scooters

Thu, 6 Feb 2014 | By away2travel | Views [1579]

Goa – Snakes, Sunsets and Scooter Rides Posted on   February 19, 2014 by   Tarynne Mingione January 25-January 31, 2014 We had the lovely addition of two new volunteers at Mandala this week; Jackson and ... Read more >

Tags: beaches, food, india, markets, roads, travel

Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary

Wed, 5 Feb 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [1768]

Ahmedabad won’t appear on many “Top 10” lists; our first order of business was to arrange for onward bus tickets to Udaipur.  You might wonder what we were doing in this dirty, noisy, polluted place.  The answer is the Nalsarovar ... Read more >

15 Dias em um Ashram

Wed, 5 Feb 2014 | By andreamxavier | Views [1768] | Comments [2]

Passar uma temporada num Ashram na Índia. Sim, esse era  mais um dos meus sonhos malucos desde a adolescência. Foi com certa surpresa que percebi que muitas pessoas não sabem o que é ashram , então tomei a ... Read more >

Photos: Sivananda Ashram

Wed, 5 Feb 2014 | By andreamxavier | Photo Gallery

Serenity in a Mosque

Sun, 2 Feb 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [2066]

Strangely enough, thousands come each year to meditation centers and yoga resorts amid the chaos and turmoil of India to seek spiritual relief from the chaos and turmoil of their daily lives.  Today we found solitude and serenity, not ... Read more >

Water is life

Sun, 2 Feb 2014 | By timtysonshort | Views [501]

INDIA OCTOBER 2013 Organisation:   Floods of Tears   “Water is Life” is the title of an album by Tinarawen desert dwelling Touareg supergroup,i is also a saying in Somalia, another parched land. On the other ... Read more >

Tags: floods, india, pragya, uttarakhand

Photos: Gujarat and Rajasthan

Sat, 1 Feb 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Photo Gallery

Photos: Passport & Plate - Grandmother's Biryani and Korma

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 | By thefoodconnection | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

The Caves of Ajanta and Ellora

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [1345]

Aurangabad is an overnight bus ride from Hospet followed by a short flight from Bombay.  And once inside the terminal, one is trapped.  You cannot leave.  Oh, well.  In any event, it would be a long way to travel for a noisy, dirty, ... Read more >