Ahmedabad Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

Today started early around 5 am.  We caught a taxi through the already packed streets to the local train station where people were sleeping on the floor and of course, all over the place. The train was actually fairly nice.  We got breakfast and lunch served on the train and there were Bollywood movies and music videos the whole time.  They were in Hindi though so we were laughing trying to figure out what they were saying. The train journey took almost 10 hours altogether.&n…

Had a day of sightseeing on Sunday, the pollution was not apparant as it had mentioned in the guide books. I spent the day looking at the shaking minarets, varioius mosques and tombs, and temples. In the afternoon, I spent some time with local people, and it was fab. The men, women and children were really very friendly people. Even walking around people will smile and say hello. The architecture is amazing also. Left that night to go to Udaipur. Was sad to go, there is so much more in Guja…

In 2000 I started to travel around the EurAzian continent. Not in one vacation ofcourse, there is work waiting for me at home, but in leg of 6 weeks. Every journey is about 3000 km long.

We caught the overnight train to Ahmedabad arriving early in the morning and made our way to the Comfort Hotel.  After a couple of hours relaxing we sorted out our train tickets to Udaipur and had a relaxing stroll back to the hotel stopping off for a Punjabi Thali on the way. That evening we went to the Green House restaurant where we had pancakes with saffron infused syrup topped with rose petals and the best ice-cream we have ever tasted. The following morning we too…