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Other days Walked out to find something to eat. At lunch was so crowded with Indian. Since i was there, i met tourists not more than 4 couples! Where were they? No one come here??? ... Anyway, along the way had many many places to eat. Food shops on the street, some look so yummy! Most of Indian were eating there coz it's easy and cheap and quick and etc. Some of them wore suit and tie but they were there eating with hands as a traditional way to eat Dalbhat, main dish here. No chair, stood ...

Oct. 29 - Nov. 02, 07 Could I say this is my second time in India? :) Maybe not. We left here four weeks ago, even our first plan was to stay here for 4 weeks. Why did we change the plan? ...  How did India treat us last time? I was thinking about the answer. We're panic at first but we're more relax now. Why? I remember the first time we stepped in Calcutta, India. It was our first city of our first trip together. On that day, Ale and I don't know...

We landed in Calcutta and had to gather our bags and pass through customs. It took forever for the bags to come out (we should have carried them on like we have been doing all along!), then we went the wrong way, then there were huge lines, then we didn’t have the proper security tag and had to go back… We were a little panicky that we would be spending the night in Calcutta!   But we finally made it through to our gate only to find the plane was late coming in! We had time to spa...

  One taxi driver wanted 80 Rupees for the ride from the airport to Sudder Street but we knew better and bartered another for thirty. It was a long drive into Calcutta and the taxi's horn blew in a continuous frenzy. Crowded roads and streets were filled with awe and wonder; human-powered carts piled high with burlap sacks of cargo, cattle foraging garbage from the street-side gutters, a man with six fingers, and goats being gutted and skinned while hanging from trees along major thorou...

After a quick trip up to Pelling to view the Himalayas and visit a peaceful monastery, I went back down to Darjeeling for a few more nights.  Something about that place made it hard to leave.  Maybe it was the fact they had toast (Pelling had no bread, and due to bird flu, no chicken/eggs).  Or maybe it was the Himalayas that you knew were there (I actually saw a brief glimpse of them one icy morning from Tiger Hill).  Or maybe, just maybe it was all the exercise I was get...

We apologize for the lack of communication as of late, but it seems that India has grasped us firmly by its awe-aspiring wonder and we are just now able to spend some time reflecting. **PLEASE NOTE** Effective immediately, we will not be using this blog. We have started a new blog on a new site. The following link is to our main page: http://www.travelpod.com/members/tstewy or, to go directly to our travel blog: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/tstewy/asia-2007/tpod.html We apo...

I had a whole nice blog and I completely lost it, so now I start over (sigh).  I found the South Park Street Cemetary which was a fantastic place.  It's very quiet and isolated with these very old tombs everywhere.  I was the only visitor so after walking around by myself for a bit, the caretaker joined me and told me the stories behind many of the graves. I then went to find the very well-hidden Motherhouse, home of Mother Theresa.  You had to take off your shoes to ente...

My last day in India.  It's sad and not sad all at the same time.  I liked and disliked this country, but in all honesty, I never felt drawn into this place the way I was with many of the other countries I've visited in Asia such as China, Thailand, or Cambodia. It's time to leave, and with the heat and the monsoon on its way, there's no reason to stay even if I wanted to.    WHAT I'LL MISS: - watching the crowds of people on the street navigating through the cars, aut...

I remember getting up early in the morning. At 6 am. even Calcutta was sleepy. I turn a corner,,and this is what I see. The Rickshaw wallahs waiting for another busy day of almost no money and just trouble and hard work.

i've finally managed to escape the oh-so-fascinating world of hedge fund finance, and am now decadently indulging my long-suppressed wanderlust with 15 months on the road and around the world... *note: apart from the odd review (generally of something not found in your standard guide book), this is really more just a map of my travels than a proper blog, but if you want more information on anywhere i`ve been or what i`ve been up to, send me a message and i`ll see if i can rustle something up.

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.

The most peacful place in the for me!

My brief stay in Kolkata did not leave me hankering to return. "The Black Hole" stems from the time when the Indians briefly regained control of the city in the mid-18th Century & 40 or so colonial aristocracy were suffocated in a prison cell (Clive of India stepped in the following year to restore order - if that's the right term). Anyway, long explanation, short story is the city still ain't that great! I arrived on the Friday evening, just in time for the Germany semi-final, headed do...

To summarise what we learnt about Bangladeshi visas: if you want to apply for one in India, then do it in Kolkata, not in Delhi; it's much easier! We headed to the Bangladeshi Consulate in Kolkata and submitted our visa applications. We'd kept the forms we'd filled in from the last time, so we didn't have to do that again. They only required one copy of the form, and there was a separate queue for non-Indians, so we were able to submit the application quickly and head off to do some sight-se...