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The Guru

"He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy. He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise." - William Blake ------- On the morning of the Fourth of July, Ravi and I set off from Ram Jhoola toward the dwelling place of Ravi's spiritual master. After...

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Katy and Mark Lewis on July 4, 2009 from Rishikesh, India

from the travel blog: India and Nepal

Goodbye India!

Waking up in our to-be-reimbursed room, we ordered breakfast by room service because the dining room was just as dismal as everything else about the hotel and we couldn't face it. At least this time we were able to shower and change before going for the flight. We stayed until lunch time so that...

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The Happy Couple on July 3, 2009 from Delhi, India

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Goodbye India?

The next morning we were up early to accomplish everything we had to before flying to Japan. First up was to check Couchsurfing to find out what replies we had from Japanese couch hosts and therefore where we would be staying in Tokyo. Unfortunately we still had no replies. We had sent our first...

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The Happy Couple on July 2, 2009 from Delhi, India

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Rishikesh is orange

Rishikesh is orange. Nearly everyone is wearing orange garmets, the cumin-spiced food is orange, the blazing afternoon sun is orange, and even causes the muddy Ganges river to take on a hue of orange. Many buildings are painted orange, the corn is not yellow, but orange, and even my pee is...

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Katy and Mark Lewis on July 2, 2009 from Rishikesh, India

from the travel blog: India and Nepal

We give in to grease

We were definitely ready to leave India now, and were getting really excited about Japan: after picking up our passports complete with Chinese visas, we bought a Japan Lonely Planet for a very reasonable price and that night decided to treat ourselves to a relatively expensive meal out in...

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The Happy Couple on July 1, 2009 from Delhi, India

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Bollywood Dreams Dashed

Back in Delhi it had also been monsooning and the streets of Paharganj, where we were staying, were even muddier than they had been on our earlier drive-by visit. Joanne was desperate to leave India now and kept complaining about the “disgusting filthy country”. Certainly Paharganj is not as...

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The Happy Couple on June 30, 2009 from Delhi, India

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Day 12 -haha- (6/29/2009)

You know that scene from Quantum of Solace where James Bond and the really really hot bond chick crash the plane in the desert, walk through the caves and the tiny village then arrive at the 5 star hotel completely filthy and shoeless and everyones looking at them as they pick up their room key?...

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Kennyboy12 on June 29, 2009 from New Delhi, India

from the travel blog: 2009 - Kenny Baldridge - "No Reservations"

Spooky coincidence in spiritual Northern India

Before we got the bus out of Manali, we took the opportunity afforded by being in New Manali for the tickets, to go into a Vodafone shop to try and sort out the problem with our SIMs. Not only had my credit been sent to someone else, but Joanne's had stopped working after just two days although...

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The Happy Couple on June 29, 2009 from Macleodganj, India

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

stuff in my head

It is surprising how comfortable you can get with cars passing no more than six inches from your legs as you try to navigate around the streets of Manali. I've really enjoyed my time here, and have made friends with people from all over India, and also from British Columbia, London, Grenada,...

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Katy and Mark Lewis on June 28, 2009 from Chandigarh, India

from the travel blog: India and Nepal

Day 11 (6/28/2009)

So today was very basic; woke up at the crack of dawn, caught my auto-rickshaw to the Agra train station I was on a tran back to New Delhi. Heh, during this journey some yound child started biting my shoe... In Delhi I found another place to sleep (The Hotel White Empire {a really sucky...

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Kennyboy12 on June 28, 2009 from New Delhi, India

from the travel blog: 2009 - Kenny Baldridge - "No Reservations"

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