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Backpacking in India #18 – Conclusion
People have asked me of some lasting impressions of the trip, so here goes: - Colour, colour, colour! The colour of saris, of Rajasthani turbans, ... Continue Reading →
Backpacking in India #17 – Our last day in India
Well, to be precise, we had more like a day and a half left, as our flights weren’t until 3 am much later that night. ... Continue Reading →
Backpacking in India #16 – The Tibetan village in Delhi
When Katie was in Delhi before I’d arrived, she’d stayed in the Tibetan enclave, thanks to the friends and contacts she’d made at the school ... Continue Reading →
Backpacking in India #15 – It’s the journey, not the destination, right?(!) Our 19hr train trip to Delhi.
We did a final check on our train ticket status for the train to Delhi, only to find we were still only waitlisted, #1 and ... Continue Reading →
Backpacking in India #14 – Waking up in the Desert
Sunrise was beautiful too, and we were greeted with hot chai cooked over the fire. In what seemed a classic example of famous Indian bureaucracy, ... Continue Reading →
Backpacking in India #13 – Camel Trek into the Desert
Off by camel into the desert! We left in the dark early morning by jeep, and drove an hour well into the desert to meet ... Continue Reading →
Backpacking in India #12 – Jaisalmer, home of the living fort and motorcyclists with humour.
We took a 6:30 am bus from Jodphur to Jaisalmer. It was not too far, and the highway was, by Indian standards, excellent, so we arrived ... Continue Reading →
Backpacking in India #11 – Jodphur, the Blue City
Our guest house in Jodphur, Singhvi’s Haveli, was a nice transformation of a real haveli (the Indian term for private mansion) into a guest house ... Continue Reading →
Backpacking in India #10 – Kumbhalgarh and Ranakpur
This was the first, and only morning, that I felt my system objecting a bit to Indian food. Luckily, the bottle of Limca (lime soda, ... Continue Reading →
Backpacking in India #9 – Udaipur, the Romantic City
The City Palace is, apparently, Rajasthan’s largest palace. (And given even just what we’ve seen already, that’s saying something). One rather odd part of it ... Continue Reading →
