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Pushkar, Rajasthan

The journey from Agra to Pushkar was much fun indeed. The autorickshaw broke down on the way to the station so the journey was completed by cycle rickshaw. It really is incredible to see those guys cycling in temperatures in the mid 30's with 2 people and 2 heavy rucksacks in the back, you...

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jonnik on January 5, 2008 from Pushkar, India

from the travel blog: Jon & Kenty's Grrrrrand Tour

Agra

After leaving Varanasi and it's lovely, friendly, helpful, honest rickshaw drivers we boarded the night train for the ride to Agra, mainly to see the Taj Mahal. We initially had lots of room in the carriage, there were us and an Indian couple in a carriage for 6, but this soon changed as they...

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jonnik on January 4, 2008 from Agra, India

from the travel blog: Jon & Kenty's Grrrrrand Tour

easy day

We took the morning easy, enjoying the warm sun on our patio-with-a-view after a quite painfully cold night. I think our little cute bungalow was built for the British in the height of hot season not for people to stay in the middle of winter. The ceilings are tall and thin metal and a few...

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Drie on January 3, 2008 from Udi, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

The holy city of Varanasi

We arrived in very hot Varanasi late afternoon and were met by hard working and very friendly Indian touts outside the airport. We negotiated (with about 10 people) a taxi into town, which only actually took us half way into the city as he informed us it was too busy to go all the way to our...

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jonnik on January 3, 2008 from Varanasi, India

from the travel blog: Jon & Kenty's Grrrrrand Tour

Chennai (Home City)

Chennai

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naveen on January 2, 2008 from Chennai, India

from the travel blog: South East Asia Trip

a very trying day

Yesterday was a very eventful, mostly trying day. We left late in the morning from our very expensive Ginger hotel, moved to our much cheaper-but as it turns out, much poorer- hotel Darsham Palace. Afterward we walked on (constantly berated by rickshaw drivers)) to the marajaha's palace. Rebuilt...

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Drie on December 31, 2007 from Mysore, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

many MANY travels

Time moves at a different rate when you enter a truly foreign country. Or perhaps its just constant moving about. That is, its warped between making you feel like you've been here for forever and just stepped off the airplane. And we have done a lot of stepping off planes in the last 24 hours....

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Drie on December 28, 2007 from Delhi, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

AOP Ops/Engineering alignment

3 days of getting our AOP lined up.

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James Walker on December 8, 2007 from Mumbai, India

from the travel blog: james_vsnl's Travel Blog

Long Time No Sea

We arrived in Delhi for the start of Divali, the festival of lights, breaklights in our case. The bus was the most comfortable that we've been on with air conditioning and without the gaggle of local raconteurs we normally tend to attract on our travels. This was lucky as the 5 mile traffic...

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BecnWill on December 4, 2007 from Anjuna, India

from the travel blog: The World By Knight