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Thu, 24 Oct 2013 | By extraordinaryexperiences | Views [3031] | Video

Spending a day in New Delhi's oldest marketplace feels more like a lifetime. Worn, weathered, and enriched with hundreds of years of active trade and commerce, it's like stepping onto a movie set, where everything seems almost too fantastical to be real.... Read more >
Tags: asia, chandi chowk, culture, delhi, food, getting lost, india, just go, markets, travel
Wed, 23 Oct 2013 | By backpackers | Views [1536] | Comments [3] | Video | Scholarship Entry

We are Divya and Justine, two media students and ardent travelers in search of a big break. Our idea of travelling is experiencing the culture, the lifestyle of people and their food wherever we may be. We believe in enjoying everything we do and making ... Read more >
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Fri, 18 Oct 2013 | By tjrossi | Views [1016] | Comments [1]

It has been the case for a long time that who you are in India depends very much on an accident of birth. We are told things are changing and there is a distinct middle and upper class here now, yet it seems clear that for the urban and rural poor who ... Read more >
Tags: caste system, delhi, education, equality, india, labouring, volunteer
Sun, 6 Oct 2013 | By flyingpiglet | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 6 Oct 2013 | By flyingpiglet | Views [2096]
If you are travelling in north-east India, I recommend Manali as a great place to go. I’ve been in McLeod Ganj (upper Dharamshala) now for two and a half months, including during the monsoon. While I love living here, and it’s got a great ... Read more >
Tags: guru rimpoche, kullu, manali, manu temple, padmasambhava, rewalsar, tso pema, yak
Sat, 5 Oct 2013 | By jlauretano | Views [468]
I've landed in Mysore...sort of. My travel experience has been quite easy; no delays or any issue of any kind has thwarted getting to my destinations. It has really all fell into place with a minimum of effort. After leaving Delhi and my ... Read more >
Tags: india, mysore, vrindavan
Fri, 4 Oct 2013 | By ruthandklas | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 3 Oct 2013 | By ruthandklas | Views [1586]
Five kilometres up the road from Laxman Jhula, where the mountains start to expand, become more jungle-ified, and where there are fewer houses and less people we found Phool Chatti Ashram, neatly positioned right on the banks of the Ganga.
We'd signed ... Read more >
Thu, 3 Oct 2013 | By flyingpiglet | Photo Gallery
My first yak! What a beautiful animal.
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Wed, 2 Oct 2013 | By nitinv29 |
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We set out for Hampi with a lot of expectations as we had heard so much about it and seen such wonderful pictures.
The sheer vastness, complexity and craftsmanship of the place left us awestruck and we were left wondering as to how something like this ...
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Tags: hampi, heritage, history, india, monuments, travel photography
Mon, 30 Sep 2013 | By thefoodpilgrims | Views [555]
In the indigo veil of the fleeting dusk, the song of her rainbow bracelets slipped into forgetfull slumber. Her gentle feet had glided on the yellow earth, enveloped by the greenness of the day. The liquid silk of her dress caressed the ... Read more >
Tags: bangalore, india, travel to bangalore, travel to india
Mon, 30 Sep 2013 | By krodin | Views [1868]

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The flight from Dibrugarh stopped in Dimapur, Nagaland before continuing on to Kolkata. From the plane window I could see lush green forested hills broken only by a few villages/towns with brown roads and waterways. Rivers ... Read more >
Mon, 30 Sep 2013 | By krodin | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 30 Sep 2013 | By krodin | Views [767]
Highlights from Assam Newspaper articles over the past few days (Sept 22-28,2013):
I thought I’d share some of the main stories from the newspapers and broadcasts over the past few days to give you a sense of what the region and country is ... Read more >
Sun, 29 Sep 2013 | By tjrossi | Views [885]

To the uninitiated Kolkata seems a city of pure chaos. At least that was my first impression.
Every type of transport jockeys for position on narrow streets with little or no pavements. To get from A to B on foot you experience ... Read more >
Tags: beggars, culture shock, india, kolkata, rickshaw, traffic
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