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Welcome to India!

So, we are in India after leaving Thailand 1 week earlier than planned. India is a violent assault on all the senses, and all at once. There is alot of beauty and colors, but also alot of tragedy, there is smells lovely as incence, flowers, food and spices, and also smells that are less...

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agnesola on February 24, 2008 from Mumbai, India

from the travel blog: Baby and Baby's around the world travel...

Trains ar the Ticket

2/19/08 Back to the grind from another weekend adventure. Snapshot: Trains are the Ticket People tell you that if you come to India you have to take the trains. That’s totally true from an interest, economic, and in my case, obsession standpoint. The trains are awesome. I admit to...

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Drie on February 20, 2008 from Udaipur, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

burley town, pachipenta, vizianagaram dt, AP, india-wizay

21.02.08 pachipenta friends... Pachipenta is a very nice place.... sunki ghat is one of the beautiful place from which we can find wonderful landscapes and it is exiting journey to travel all the way.... once i just touched the clouds on this ghat....i could not found a person who...

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wizaykumar on February 20, 2008 from pachipenta, India

from the travel blog: pachipenta burley_wizay

From cows to camels

2/11/08 There is probably far too much for me to possibly cover since my last entry. On Wednesday we left on a class trip to Shekawati, a slightly more rural and desert area north of Jaipur. This area has several independent and largely similarly sized villages—an unusual design in an area...

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Drie on February 13, 2008 from Bikaneri, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

Haveli Holidays

/08 Haveli Holidays So our weekend excursion to Bundi is over Overall, a beautiful success. On our day in the town we got up and waited leisurely in the sun for mama to get in the kitchen and make chai and then—individual—incredibly good masala dosai (look it up if you don’t know) for the...

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Drie on February 3, 2008 from Jaipur, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

Bundi Advenures

Bundi Adventures 2/1/08 Snapshot: Sleeping with mice for a Starbucks chai We are now in Bundi! This is a much smaller town (around pop.100,000) several hours south of Jaipur. Getting there was a grand time. We had bought train tickets earlier in the week (rp340) and arrived at the train...

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Drie on February 2, 2008 from Jaipur, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

To Gandhiji

To Gandhiji. It’s the anniversary of Gandhi’s death, and the event is observed by 2 minutes of silence at 11. AM. It’s a nice gesture but as we stood in silence I heard the honks and street noises and thus was not under the illusion that the whole country stops in place to observe the...

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Drie on January 30, 2008 from Jaipur, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

Sidewalks arent for walking

The most homesick I’ve been I think. Its hard to say why really. A tiring day, maybe, or my headache, dealing with a few of the more annoying of my groupmates, or perhaps its just about that time. I feel a bit disillusioned somehow. In some sense it’s the feeling that I’m not ‘seeing the...

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Drie on January 27, 2008 from Jaipur, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

republic day

Our first weekend on the program and also Republic Day. Cheers to a Democratic India! Well, yesterday began alright, it was our first ‘class excursion’ meaning we took a truck around Jaipur to see city palace and went up for a short period to Amber Fort (the old fortified city in the hills...

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Drie on January 26, 2008 from Jaipur, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

ah the famous people

Today was a rather surreal and incredible day. I feel guilty because it was all very upper class and westernized but I suppose that one cannot say it is not the real India, but just one India –on very fascinating India—as Rima said. We had hindi in the morning as usual. We began to cover...

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Drie on January 24, 2008 from Jaipur, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

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