February 27, 2005
India Photo's III
Market stalls, Mysore. Ambitious rickshaw wallah. Madurai. Temple complex. Madurai. Holy man. Trishy Temple complex. My kind of temple! Temple complex, Trishy. Landscape Hampi Bullock cart, Hampi. Street scene, Hampi Goats transported by conacle. Hampi. Ancient ruins. Hampi. Chai...Read this update
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India Photo's II
Market stalls, Mysore Fishing Nets, Fort Kochi, Kerela. Fisher Men repairing nets, Kerela. Backwaters, Kerela....Read this update
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India Photos
Shiva's Chariot Gokarna Street scene Gokarna Om Beach Gokarna Overloaded truck. Gokarna Buffalo Racing, near Mangalore Buffalo Racing, near Mangalore Buffalo racing team Buffalo racing team Smile Ladies!...Read this update
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Chennai
Chennai 4th – 6th Feb 2005 The bus journey to Chennai takes us north-bound along the coast road, here we are witness to more tsunami relief camps. One thing that strikes me is that the relief camps have been located...Read this update
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February 15, 2005
Manmallapuram
Manmallepuram 3rd -5th Jan 2005 The bus journey from pondicherry to Manmallepuram took us along the coast road which was beautifull. The landscape however, was scared by numerous temporary settlements of tents. These were obviously there to house tsunami survivors...Read this update
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February 11, 2005
Pondicherry
1st - 3rd FEB 05 From Trishy we get a bus to Pondicherry the ex French enclave on the eastern coast of Tamil Nadu. The bus driver was without a doubt the worlds most dangerous driver and by the time...Read this update
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Trishy
Trishy 30th Jan – 1st Feb 2005 Trishy is another temple town north east of Madurai, we arrive early afternoon on the 30th, check in to a barely passable guesthouse (the TV swung it) and proceed to do nothing much...Read this update
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Madurai
Madurai 28 – 29th Jan 2005 The first overnight train ive been on in a long time and it was remarkable painless. I managed to sleep ok. And managed not to miss my stop 4.30am. The three of us are...Read this update
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February 07, 2005
Thrivandrum
27th – 28th Jan 2005 We arrive in Trivandrum and arrange some digs. All of us feeling rough, but we manage to muster enough energy to have a look around the town. After one afternoon looking around we decide we...Read this update
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Varkala
22nd - 27th Jan 2005 I arrived in Varkala. found accommodation, and within minutes met up with a guy ‘Scott’, that I had previously met in Mangalore. It turn out the previous night there had been a big party and...Read this update
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February 02, 2005
Alappuzha (Alleppey) and the backwater cruise
Allepey 20th - 21st Jan 2005 I arrived at Alleppey in the midday heat in a busy, noisy, and congested bus stand, full of seller’s rickshaw drivers, and hotel touts all after Mark the walking ATM. I walk away from...Read this update
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kochi (Cochin)
Kochi (Cochin) 18th – 20th Jan 2005 I stay one night in Coimbatore and get a train the following morning over the Tamil Nadu border in to Kerala and on to the coastal city of Kochi (Cochin). Kerala is one...Read this update
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Ooty
ooty 15th - 17th Jan 2005 Another Hill station, with some colonial remnants about it. Amazing scenery en-route even though the bus journey was the normal white knuckle ride. Climate here is nice and cool, bit a little chilly at...Read this update
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January 23, 2005
Mysore
Mysore 11th – 14th January 05 We wake up to the news that there has been a major bus crash in the state killing all 57 people on board. Described by the Indian press as ‘a mishap in which passengers...Read this update
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January 16, 2005
Madekeri
Madekeri: 9th – 11th January 2005 5 1/2 hours on a rickety old bus climbing up to an altitude of 1500m and we eventually arrive in Madekeri. The bus journey (although a little scary at times) was beautiful. The Western...Read this update
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January 13, 2005
Mangalore
Mangalore 6th - 9th January 05. Mangalore is and agreeable town, hassle free, and quite modern. It has these strange things called pavements. A rare phenomena in India and I’m not sure I can remember what they are for....Read this update
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January 06, 2005
Gokarna
Gokarna 3rd – 6th January 2005 So we finally managed to drag ourselves away from Palolim beach. Hard though it was! Another sad farewell to my Coco hut and we were on our way. Three bumpy local buses and three...Read this update
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January 04, 2005
Goa
I arrive back in Margoa and get a chilly 2 hour motorcycle taxi into the north of Goa to a town called Vagator. This is familiar territory now, the area I visited last year. I arrange accommodation, take a shower...Read this update
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December 20, 2004
Hampi
I arrive in Hopset (The nearest train station to Hampi) after another delightful 10 1/2 hours on an Indian train. From here I get a Rickshaw the final 13km. As the rickshaw drove out of Hopset the landscape quickly began...Read this update
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December 10, 2004
Palolim (south Goa)
Two energy zapping bus journeys and 24 hours later I arrive in Margoa the main regional town in the South of Goa. When I arrive I am absolutely knackered but eternally thankful that I had made it alive (The bus...Read this update
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Aurangabad and the Ellora caves
I arrive early morning in Aurangabad and straight away realise its not my kind of place. Just dust, crumbling buildings, chaotic traffic, poverty, and pollution. I had planned to stay here a few days and use it as a base...Read this update
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November 22, 2004
Mumbai
I arrive in Mumbai amidst an air of excitement and chaos. The test cricket is in town and all of Mumbai’s 16 million or so population seem to be followers. Walking out of the train station the first thing that...Read this update
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Pushkar
After almost 24 hours on trains and buses I arrived in Pushkar exhausted, I get a room in a great little guest house and settle in for some much needed rest. Pushkar is a small Holy Town set around a...Read this update
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November 07, 2004
Amritsa
Just boarded yet another night train heading for Delhi. I spent just one night and one day in Amritsa and I think thats enough. The Sikh Golden Temple is really all there is of interest in the town. That and...Read this update
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Mcleod Ganj photo's
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October 31, 2004
McLeod Ganj
After an 8 hour hair raising bus journey through the winding roads of the Himalayas, I arrived before sunset in the tiny Himalayan village of 'McLeod Ganj'. The first half of the bus journey was one of the most testing...Read this update
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October 30, 2004
Varanasi photo's
Sunrise over the Ganges Activity and boats at the Ghats, Varanasi. Varanasi Pilgrims at the banks of the Ganges Woman washing sari in Ganges People bathing in the holy (mucky!) water of the Ganges Prayers and meditation on the...Read this update
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Shimla. The Himalayen Queen and the Sh**ing Men!
I stayed a night in a guest house close to New Delhi train station, and had an early rise the following morning to catch the 6.00am Himalayan Queen (I’m learning that no Indian trains depart at sociable hours) heading north...Read this update
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October 25, 2004
Varanasi
With the exception of the desert in Rajasthan, the landscape we have seen so far on our journey has been pretty bland. Generally the land has been fairly barren with the odd patch of arable farm land but nothing that...Read this update
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Agra Photo's
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October 24, 2004
Agra and the Taj Mahal.
Agra.. Well what is there to say? Dirty, Polluted, Smelly, Hassle some, Shit-hole! Are a few of the words that spring to mind. This place really is the pits and there is only one good reason for visiting which is...Read this update
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October 18, 2004
Jaipur (The Pink City)
Arrived midday in Jaipur, The city that Jamie and I had worked eight year ago. We had made no arrangements for accommodation so i decided to head to the guest house where we had been staying all those years back....Read this update
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October 17, 2004
Jodhpur (The Blue City)
We arrived in Jodhpur after another night on the great Indian night train. It was very early (about 5am), and still dark so we decided to have breakfast at the station and wait for daylight before we threw ourselves into...Read this update
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Jaisalmer and Camel Safari photos
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October 16, 2004
Jaisalmer and the Camel Safari
We arrived in Jaisalmer after what seemed like days on the train. We finally negotiated our way through the crowds of rickshaw drivers and managed to get a lift to the fort area of the city in the back of...Read this update
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October 09, 2004
The Delhi - Jaisalmer Express??
Express? This word has been used in the very loosest possible way. The journey between Delhi and Jaisalmer is about 1000km.. (To those in the UK, or for that matter the USA, or North Korea that amounts to about 660...Read this update
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October 08, 2004
October 02, 2004
Day2/3/4 in the metropolis
This place is nuts... One moment I’m finding my surroundings all highly amusing and good entertainment and the next I’m having to step over families who have no where else to sleep but on the side of the road. It...Read this update
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October 01, 2004
Arrived in Delhi
I'm here and in one piece. After what seemed like 24 hours traveling to get here i was greeted with th e hassle of getting through the Indian immigration, the bureaucracy involved in getting money and the full on...Read this update
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