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Long route home Our trip all the way home, trying to catch no planes and stay on the ground like civilised people. It's taking us via India all the way to Europe from Japan, the furthest of the Far East...

Photos: Delhi

INDIA | Thursday, 16 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery


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Ach, men are bad

INDIA | Tuesday, 14 Sep 2010 | Views [519]

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 >


Photos: Ahmedabad and Udaipur

INDIA | Sunday, 12 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery

Ahmedabad and Udaipur
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To the bat cave!

INDIA | Friday, 10 Sep 2010 | Views [610]

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


Photos: Cave in

INDIA | Friday, 10 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery

Not quite like Chile...
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Photos: Mum, Bai-bye

INDIA | Wednesday, 8 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery

India's financial capital
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Keeping Mum-bai

INDIA | Wednesday, 8 Sep 2010 | Views [666]

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


Photos: My sore feet

INDIA | Saturday, 4 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery

Last of South India
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Mysore, Bangalore; what for?

INDIA | Saturday, 4 Sep 2010 | Views [545] | 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 >


Photos: safari so good

INDIA | Thursday, 2 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery

Hill towns and safari
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Ooty and the Jungle

INDIA | Thursday, 2 Sep 2010 | Views [1220]

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


Photos: Doko desu ka? Kochi desu!

INDIA | Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

Kochi!
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EMMA 1:70

INDIA | Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010 | Views [911] | 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 >


Photos: Bang that Trivan-drum

INDIA | Friday, 20 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

Thiravananananananananthapuram
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Drive vans drunk in Trivandrum

INDIA | Friday, 20 Aug 2010 | Views [457]

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 >


Mad? U'r right

INDIA | Friday, 20 Aug 2010 | Views [494]

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 >


Photos: Madurai

INDIA | Wednesday, 18 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

Small stop at the temple town
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In d air to India

INDIA | Wednesday, 18 Aug 2010 | Views [524]

Impressive, Instantaneous, Imperious, Impulsive, Interesting, Incredible India Invidious, Intractable, Insolent, Intimidating, Infuriating, Impossible India ...and that's just the start of the 'I's.  It's a little late, thanks to the nature of the ... Read more >


Photos: In de end it was India

INDIA | Tuesday, 17 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

KL airport and the first blast from India
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The road less travelled

CHINA | Saturday, 14 Aug 2010 | Views [577] | Comments [1]

Getting from place to place has been a constant driver for this trip, as we're always heading off to somewhere new soon.  What's also different is the linear nature of it - as we're not circling like many others are, goodbyes are always final and we ... Read more >


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