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Hi, it's all about the adventure... ((*_*)) 
Nov 11, 2007 07:00 PM A breathe of fresh air...
Nameste
I'm happy to have left India and to be in Kathmandu. So far so good, finally supermarkets, souvenirs, tourists and no one staring. I didn't realise my hair could command so much attention - who knew
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Nov 10, 2007 07:00 PM Will he or won’t he.
The travel agent was trying to get us to drive to Nepal, and the thought of a fifteen hours journey is a car scared me. Mind you it was never our intention to drive; so when we found an alternative travel agency to book our tickets is was a little peeved. And even though we said we would call him, his driver informed him what we were doing, and he flew down to the travel agency to try to secure his fee. But they wasn’t having any of it…
Now was the driver going to turn up? Was he going to be spiteful? Everything turned out ok but he definitely wasn’t a nice man.
Onwards and upwards
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Nov 09, 2007 07:00 PM Sunrise on the Ganga
We work up to the smell of burning, it was just a little unusually, but the air was think with the smoke from the fireworks of the Diwail celebrations.
We call it the Ganges but they say the Ganga - the sacred river and they flocked in their thousands to complete a spiritual cleansing.
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Nov 08, 2007 07:00 PM Plane trains and automobiles
Yesterday there was a train crash and two people died so all trains were on a go slow. Instead of arriving at 6.30 we got in around 11. We were meant to do a city tour but to be honest we were just fed up travelling, so we hung around the hotel.
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Nov 07, 2007 07:00 PM Midnight train to Georgia
It was a waste of time getting up at the crack of dawn to go to the Taj, the sun was fighting to get though the pollution and could hardly be seen. It wasn’t until after 7am that the light was good enough to get some good pictures. I feel satisfied now, I’ve done the Taj, number five on the new seven wonders of the world, only Petra and Chichen Izta.
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Nov 06, 2007 07:00 PM Top that London Zoo
Ranthambore was the best part of my journey; I loved the animals, the fort, the accommodations, the swimming pool, the time-out feeling. I almost don’t want to leave.
Before I life London I thought I’ll never see tigers, but to see four I feel really blessed, I was so surprised to have how many tigers are left in the wild, and know that they could be extinct in my generation.
But it’s back on the road again, nice and early, so we will reach Agra by sun set.
It must have been one night of celebrations, as our driver was late, and they when we got into the car it stunk of alcohol – what do you say? Luckily we had the day to ourselves.
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Nov 05, 2007 07:00 PM Everything but the girl
I really enjoyed yesterday, had a nice hike up to the fort and just wondered around for a couple of hours. The park is awesome, the fort has seen better days, but it was nice seeing the ruins as the sun danced. I saw so many peacocks that I lost count, but I must admit they all seemed like they were missing there feathers. And that would explain how come they are able to sell peacock tail feather fans.
Well this was an exciting day and what I wanted to do when I planned this trip to India. I so wanted to see tigers. I went to London Zoo and as I passed the tiger enclosure it came up to me looked around and then went about it’s business. I think that was an omen.
We drove around for an hour and a half, as the guide pointed out all the animals and birds, and whilst I didn’t want to yawn, I’d done the safari last year – oh well. On the journey back to camp, we could hear the monkeys signalling that the tigers were close. I didn’t believe it, but three tigers came out of the bush – it was really awesome. Then as everyone was looking one way, I turned around and could see the perfect reflection of a tiger as it walked past – so I saw four, not that I’m keeping score.
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Nov 04, 2007 07:00 PM O no I’ve missed bonfire night
A fairly late start today, but we have to complete nearly 200 clicks. I’ve seen some sights sincere I’ve been in indi9a, but the level of poverty is quite scary. As we headed further into the countryside, the large concrete buildings make way for the traditional structures, very similar to those seen in Africa.
Some towns seems so poor that most vehicles are camels and carts. Its funny as I notes, then there are the villages that have donkeys/horses, bicycles, motor cycles, converted tractors and then off course cars. Then there are the villages that have bicycle rickshaw or the tuk tusk. Its quite fascinating.
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Nov 03, 2007 07:00 PM I want to take an elephant ride
Ok the touristy of entering the fort is by elephant, so what do we chose, going by car, show how an hour’s wait just didn’t seem worth it – are we fickle or what. Really we should have gotten there a lot earlier.
The P9ink city was very interesting, as the build up to Diwali continued, people where shopping and seemed to be in good spirits, but the Hawa Mahal was been decorated for the celebration so it had bamboo scaffolding up.
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Nov 02, 2007 07:00 PM Vintage Cars
An early and funny enough I’ve been given the front seating, me thinks some thing is afoot.
The things that resonated with my from all that I saw yesterday was Indira Gandhi’s museum and seeing the path that she walked down (now replaced with a sheet of glass to simulate flowing water and the point she fell clear glass) prior to being assassinated and viewing the blood stained sari she wore – it was really moving. Also the astonishment of having to take my shoes off to enter a temple.
After an exhilarating day driving are arrive at the Amber for to watch the sun go down.
My first Indian – barbecue chicken with naan bread, it was really nice and I only felt sick a little, I had some antihistamines and all was well – may be this won’t be as bad as I was thinking.
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