India Travel Blogs

I woke up at 7:30 for the second time, because we heard again the mosque at 4:30 am. After a good breakfast we had a tour through Old Delhi with a guide. Not many tourist do this but it is nice to walk over the markets and between the locals. We walked by the Jama Masjid again and over the local ma…

            INDIA THE MOVIE Art director: Jacqinmiddenamerika   While making India the movie I realised how wonderful or I must say incredible it was to travel through India. All those wonderful colours, nice and helpful people, beautiful landscapes …

“It is hard to leave a place where you can believe that anything is possible. But that is why one must leave. To see if you were right, to see if your insights can be lived in a different air, at a lower level.”   A Journey in Ladakh - Andrew Harvey   Besides being delayed the fli…

I'm not sure when I actually arrived in India.  Or whether indeed I have yet arrived.  When can one fully and finally declare 'Yes I am here.  This is India.'? My flight touches down at Indira Gandhi International Airport at 4.00am.  An arrival of sorts.  I collect my back…

Some rooms in a hotel in Delhi had been booked so we could shower and change before our overnight sleeper train to NainiTal. ‘Armpit Palace’ hotel, pretty sure that is what it was called, was very obviously a ‘pay per hour’ type of establishment, it was grim. Mouse droppings all over the be…

7/14/07 Well the flight to Mumbai and then on to Delhi was fairly boring.  We tried to get a pre-paid taxi to Darshan and Murli’s and had a bit of trouble since there was a huge line of people waiting (and mostly cutting around other waiting people) to hop in cabs.  We finally walked al…

I arrived in Mumbai for a five-day orientation last Saturday night.  The airport seemed not radically different from home… until I got outside.  Swarms of people behind a metal barrier.  Thankfully the AJWS arranged for a driver to pick me up (sweet!), and I spotted him holding a…

  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 car…

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 w…

  After three months in Windy we're off. We've travelled right the way around the country on trains, buses, taxis, tuk tuks, boats and foot ,in fact about the only form of transport left is paragliding but there's still time!!! Night buses are an odd thing, greatif you're in a couple as you s…

As many of my friends on Travbuddy know, I have been unwell since coming back from India. To cut the story short, something showed up on a CT scan of my lung after I complained of feeling breathless, very tired and lethargic and having chest pains when I got home, 2 months after my trip. 8 months …

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 g…

First Dutch version then English version below and as last you will find the Spanish version:   We staan vandaag vroeg op. De wekker gaat om 8 uur. Echter worden wij beide veel eerder wakker deze ochtend omdat er eerst een alarm gaat om 4 uur en daarna om half 5 de Moskee. Wij slapen pa…

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 w…

                   To please to my wife who wanted to see this attractive country in particular Rajasthan and Agra,I organised with Nishikant ,a staff of the reliable travel agency ACMETOURS www.acmetours.com from New Delhi a fortnight tour with a d…