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Wednesday, 22 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery
Jaisalmer
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Monday, 20 Sep 2010 | Views [806]
Camels! We're on the way to the Thar desert and although the landscape hasn't yet changed there is a different feel in the air here in Rajasthan. Jaipur, our first stop, is known as the pink city, number one in a collection of three coloured cities.... Read more >
Tags: desert, fort, rajasthan
Monday, 20 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery
The 2nd corner for us of the Golden Triangle
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Thursday, 16 Sep 2010 | Views [688]
Let's begin with a fairy tale. Once upon a time, there was a city called Delhi. It was a huge and wondrous city, home to millions upon millions of people. One day, Delhi was chosen to host athletes from many countries in a huge celebration of sport, ... Read more >
Tags: commonwealth games, delhi, india
Thursday, 16 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery
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Tuesday, 14 Sep 2010 | Views [516]
After a pretty grotty change from a night bus to a delayed day train, we came at midnight to the lovely city of Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat. Why go to Gujarat? Two reasons really, it's on the way and a nice break between Mumbai and Rajasthan and ... Read more >
Sunday, 12 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery
Ahmedabad and Udaipur
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Friday, 10 Sep 2010 | Views [609]
Northern Maharashta is renowned for it's ancient temples, excavated from natural hillside caves. We saw both of the principal sites, to wit: Ellora cluster and Ajanta cluster. Ajanta was first, all Buddhist and chiefly Mayahana. A horseshoe shaped ... Read more >
Tags: bats, buddhist, caves, fort, hindu, litter, monkeys, tandoori, touts
Friday, 10 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery
Not quite like Chile...
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Wednesday, 8 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery
India's financial capital
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Wednesday, 8 Sep 2010 | Views [663]
We came prepared for a city that is bursting at the seams, and found relative calm. The streets were wide, the traffic un-jammed and there were even fewer people than we'd seen in many cities - in short, it was a pleasure to be there. Of course, Mumbai ... Read more >
Tags: colonial, cricket, ghats, mumbai, slums, temples
Saturday, 4 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery
Last of South India
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Saturday, 4 Sep 2010 | Views [543] | Comments [1]
A protracted exit from the Jungle Retreat led us to Mysore. There was some sort of hullabaloo along the way which delayed our bus, but we're more or less used to these things after the past four months. Ww were planning to make a short visit to a ... Read more >
Thursday, 2 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery
Hill towns and safari
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Thursday, 2 Sep 2010 | Views [1218]
Bye bye Leelu's, a record 6 nights in the same bed, and delightful Kerala. Hello again to grim faced Tamil Nadu, a night in bleak Coimbatore and a protracted journey to catch the famed Nilgiri Express. The full railway trip, also called the toy train, ... Read more >
Tags: elephants, jungle, mishap, ooty, train
Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery
Kochi!
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Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010 | Views [908] | Comments [1]
[Editor's note: It might help to know that many inhabitants of Kochi and Kerala are Syrian Christians...] Upon the first day past the second ten of August O-liver and E-ma didst come unto Kochi. Unto the Police Taxi Stand didst they repair, to buy ... Read more >
Friday, 20 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery
Thiravananananananananthapuram
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Friday, 20 Aug 2010 | Views [454]
Thiruvananthapuramm, Trivendrum or Trivvy was a pleasure to arrive in, even though we were pretty grimy and tired after the overnight train. We headed straight to the Maveli cafe, a marvelous spiral building (though a cafe built on a spiral has some ... Read more >
Friday, 20 Aug 2010 | Views [493]
A comfortable (even by 1st world standards) train brought us to Madurai for a flying visit en route to Thiravananthapuram. Stumbling out of the station into the hot night air was interesting, the small town feeling much more alive than the metropolis ... Read more >
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