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We took an overnight train, 13 hours, from Agra to Biroda, India.  I have an Indian business associate from Chambersburg that is in India now and had invited me to visit him and his home town while I'm in India.  I made contact with him and he got us at the train station in Biroda and we had a full day of touring. 

I had been to palitana in gujarat india.. it is at mountain top and tempretue was 4 celsius.. it was chilling ..and high breeze, we were topless ( men only ) as being dress for rituals. high ..... and it was sheer fun.

By 17:30 I was in (sort of!) Ahmedabad... well some remote outskirt of it anyway. This place, somehow, was dirtier and dustier and maybe hotter than Rajasthan! Urggh... just wanted to get to my friend's place. I went to Ajay and Vijay's office by rickshaw, took long enough for the 20+ km ride.Ajay was obviously thrilled that I got him the booze... poor dude hadn't had any in months, after all Ahmedabad city doesn't allow purchase/consumption of alcohol really. But that would have to wait. Fir...

Navratri..Nav which means 9 in english..and "ratri" means night..which means " "9 nights"...is a 9 night festival where lord durga is worshiped and people do traditional dance known as "garba" and "ras" wearing bright and colorful and specail type of traditional clothes and jewellry.Though dates are not fixed,it usually happens in the month of october/november.Check out the pics..will post some videos too soon..

Well to sum up the last three days would be impossible but im on a time limit with the computer. So here goes After waking up in Delhi we literally had to run to car awaytch our train and go through about 20 cars to get to our seat. When we got to Agra we got our tickets for our 12 hour train ride to Vadodara, then hired a rickshaw to take us to a hotel. Ended up staying in the Hilton which was like paradise in the middle of the desert. Then headed off to the Taj Mahal during sunset to catch ...

I can hear this dude outside yelling about some kind of fruit...but anyways its been about a day since I landed in Gujarat. Man...going to India is a journey in itself.  After we leanded in Korea I thought I was a badass.  "A 12 hour flight? That ain't shit...I could do another 12" Yea, too bad I didn't realize I had more like 20 to go.  So over all including layovers the trip took something like 30+ hours from LAX to Gujarat.  Its weird leaving on Sunday from LAX and then...

I finally made it to India in January 2007. Spent most of my time in Ahamdabad ... a pretty part of India ... the kite festival was the highlight of my stay!

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Hey this is INDIA...

I spent my senior year of high school bunking everyday in Mumbai. It was the most amazing thing in my life and here are a couple photos that I stole from my friends.

Come chill out and chat about good times on the couch with me.... Simon (note the tilted pimp hat)

Following in the footsteps of Marco Polo by reliving the past of the Silk Roads from Syria to China, going upstream the mighty Mekong from Vietnam all the way to Tibet, see the roof of the world and more.....

Trip to India was one of the best in my life!

Dancing and swiming in the beach, I love psytrance and dance hehe!!

India December 2003