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We set off from Delhi at about 6 in the morning, the usual band of rogue cows were keeping guard outside of the hotel.  We appear to be amoung the younger passengers on the trip.  About half the the group appears to be eligible for pension benefits.  I hope our CPR skills will not be required at any point along the way.  The ride out of Delhi was a surreal, a bit like riding at 50 kms an hour for an hour through a burning garbage dump with interesting scenery.&nb...

Puppies, Night Life, Lights in the Mountains

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Arrived in Simla from the overnight bus trip from Manali at 6.30am - grumpy, tired. Was one of my least favourite bus journeys, there were so many bumps in the road I kept flying off my seat for most of it! To add to the stress Shirley and I were determined to find a reasonable hotel, but got chased by the porters from the train station for 3 hours. Every hotel we approached, they ran in first to claim their "commission", it was impossible. Even the police just laughed at us. I was real...

After an early start, passing spectacular sheer cliffs, deep valleys and grassy terraces, we arrived in Shimla around 4pm. The entrance into the area is impressive - the road starts to hug the mountain side and houses appear nestled far above and below the road. The traffic was terrible - it seems like there's only one main road for vehicles in and out. E had erred on the side of caution and booked us into somewhere with heating - Hotel Combemere, a well presented if unatmospheric place. Th...

In 1994 I was travelling around India by train. I had been in India about a week and had just travelled from Varanasi to a small Himilayian Hill station.There I had my first run-in with a semi-beligerent monkey. It was the first of several such encounters. However, I never noticed any monkeys riding the trains. Apparently, in the subsequent decade, the monkeys of India have made an evolutionary leap and begun adopting mass transit as a means to get around: "They say it takes a thief to cat...

Delhi to Jakarta and everywhere in between...

Europe, North, Central and South America, Middle East, Asia and North of Africa (1998/2008)

Doing the old hippie trail in reverse, traversing from Nepal to see more of the roof of the world, visit exotic places as Bhutan, dwell in the lowlands of Bangladesh, seek the origin of Budhism in India and finally make my way out of the continent via Pakistan.