INDIA | Wednesday, 12 Mar 2014 | Views [889]
IT TAKES JUST ONE LOOK AT THE CARVINGS on Lakshamana Temple to understand how India managed to grow its population to 1.2 billion. Even a thousand years ago they were a horny bunch! Screwing - in an astounding viariety of positions - and ... Read more >
INDIA | Sunday, 9 Mar 2014 | Views [1804]
TIGERS, EXCEPT FOR MOTHERS WITH CUBS, are solitary animals. They are an endangered and protected species with most living in national parks like Kanha and Bandhavgarh in eastern Madhya Pradesh. Seeing one of the big cats is anything but guaranteed.... Read more >
INDIA | Tuesday, 4 Mar 2014 | Views [2665]
WHEN IT COMES TO THE RELIGIONS OF INDIA we are five for five: Hindu temples at Hampi; Christian cathedrals in Old Goa; Champaner’s mosques; Delwara Jain temples at Mt. Abu; and now the Buddhist Great Stupa at Sanchi.
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INDIA | Sunday, 2 Mar 2014 | Views [517]
IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH YOU MIGHT REMEMBER hearing about Bhopal. On December 3, 1984, just before midnight, the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal farted out 4000 tons of toxic cyanide gas, immediately killing nearly 4000 unsuspecting Indians. The ... Read more >
INDIA | Saturday, 1 Mar 2014 | Views [947]
Keoladeo Ghana National Park is a maze of trails, lakes, and ponds and a guide seemed like the best way to discover its treasure of birds. All of the other guides pointed to Govind when we said we wanted a bird guide; he is undisputedly the tops.... Read more >
INDIA | Thursday, 27 Feb 2014 | Views [680]
For fifteen years during the reign of Emeror Akbar, Fatehpur Sikri was the capital of the Mughal empire. Today it is a ghost city, populated by wannabe guides and the tourists they prey upon. Since most of the prey arrive in tour groups, ... Read more >
INDIA | Wednesday, 26 Feb 2014 | Views [671]
It has been described as the most extravagant monument ever built for love. An Indian poet called it “a teardrop on the face of eternity.” Rudyard Kipling wrote that it is “the embodiment of all things pure.” ... Read more >
INDIA | Tuesday, 25 Feb 2014 | Views [568]
Our “escape from India” ended and we returned to the “ambiance” of Delhi and Prem Sagar Guest House where I promptly slipped on the stairs coming out of the bathroom. It could have been a trip-ender, maybe a life-ender, ... Read more >
INDIA | Friday, 21 Feb 2014 | Views [1228]
Once we saw the condition of the bus from Delhi (It wouldn’t have made the grade for a ‘chicken bus’ in Guatemala.) we knew that a taxi – expense be damned – was the only sensible travel option for the seven-hour trip north ... Read more >
INDIA | Sunday, 16 Feb 2014 | Photo Gallery
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INDIA | Sunday, 16 Feb 2014 | Views [691]
Delhi, from everything I have heard, sounded like the most unappealing city in India. Twenty million people, after all, is just too many, right? Well, much like with Kuala Lumpur, which I also dreaded, I was wrong. Not about 20 million ... Read more >
INDIA | Friday, 14 Feb 2014 | Views [538]
We sometimes forget – what with all the namaste -ing and karma- questing – that the maharajas of days gone by were warriors by trade. When they weren’t financing temples they were busy fending off encroaching Mughals and fighting ... Read more >
INDIA | Friday, 14 Feb 2014 | Photo Gallery
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INDIA | Tuesday, 11 Feb 2014 | Views [563]
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 >
INDIA | Friday, 7 Feb 2014 | Views [1719]
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 >
INDIA | Thursday, 6 Feb 2014 | Views [500]
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 >
INDIA | Wednesday, 5 Feb 2014 | Views [1583]
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 >
INDIA | Sunday, 2 Feb 2014 | Views [1912]
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 >
INDIA | Saturday, 1 Feb 2014 | Photo Gallery
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INDIA | Friday, 31 Jan 2014 | Views [980]
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 >
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