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October 27, 2004

On The Way To Delhi

DAY 373: All my bags were packed, I was ready to go... 'Cuz I was leaving on a jet plane, didn't know when I'd be back in Kathmandu again......

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October 29, 2004

Good Old Delhi

DAY 374: Centuries ago when the British came and butchered the people of India, there was an immediate resentment and a rebellion built up within the British-governed Indian society. This was to be expected of course; I mean, what do...

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October 30, 2004

American Leftovers and Indian Flair

DAY 375: Since my arrival in India I had two leftover errands from Nepal that I wanted to take care of right away: finalize my insurance paperwork for reimbursement from the rescue from the Everest trail (total expenses came close...

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Worldwide Pants

DAY 376: Bedridden again, this time in Delhi to rest my leg from the bacterial infection I contracted from a weird insect bite (and the mild "operation" I had to get it cleaned out), I sat in my room as...

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Posted by Erik at 10:19 PM
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November 01, 2004

Gandhi Park

DAY 377: In 1888, a young man from India went to London town to study law. Three years later he passed the bar exam and became a bonafide lawyer under the British court system and eventually became the legal representation...

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Posted by Erik at 09:16 PM
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November 02, 2004

Playing The Game

DAY 378: Every now and then back home in the metro New York City area, my friends and I, inspired by the movie Swingers, hop in the car for a spontaneous 2 1/2-hr. road trip to Atlantic City so that...

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Jaipur Introduction

DAY 379: I woke up in Agra fighting again, the constant fight in my mind between myself and The Blog. "Blog" wanted me to hang out in my shabby room in Agra until I typed up another entry, while I...

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Posted by Erik at 09:41 PM
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November 03, 2004

Monkeys, Elephants and Pangkot Palace

DAY 380: According to the tips provided by Blogreaders Duaine and markyt, the fictional Pangkot Palace from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is not just a set in a British soundstage. The exterior shots were filmed on location...

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November 04, 2004

Look At The Stars

DAY 381: From what I gather, astrology has a bit of legitimacy in the public eye in India. In fact, the day before I saw on the front page of the legitimate Hindustan Times, whose cover story was the US...

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November 05, 2004

Meet The Maharaja

DAY 382: Baldel, the bearded old Indian man in the paisley shirt, greeted me with a smile and a wave like he did every morning I walked down the market area from the Evergreen Hotel. It was his way of...

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November 09, 2004

Celebrities

DAY 383: I'm hoping that readers of The Blog don't think they don't have to travel on their own because they are simply traveling vicariously through me at their computers. Each journey is different for everyone -- this is simply...

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November 10, 2004

Holy Rats and Camel Humps

DAY 384: While Bikaner is home to the beautiful Junagarh Fort, it wasn't the architecture that brought me there. No, I had come for something much smaller in size than a big impenetrable fortress, and that little something was covered...

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November 12, 2004

Remembering Bond

DAY 385: Udaipur, the former capital of the Mewar Kingdom, named after its founder Maharaja Udai Singh II, gets plenty of tourism, as it is arguably Rajasthan's most romantic destination with its scenic palaces -- palaces perched on mountaintops overlooking...

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November 15, 2004

Trinidad. Erik Trinidad.

DAY 386: The centerpiece of Udaipur is the famous Jag Niwas, more commonly known as the Lake Palace, the one-time summer residence of the royal family when simply being crammed in a boat on Lake Pichhola wasn't good enough. "I...

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My New Beat

DAY 387: Mumbai is India's showcase modern and cosmopolitan city, or as Let's Go puts it, "India's largest city, in attitude if not in population...[uniting] all the country's languages, religions, ethnicities, castes, and classes in one heaving, seething sizzler of...

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November 17, 2004

Sacred Stones and A New Home

DAY 388: Within the confines of Mumbai Harbor is an island known as Elephanta Island, named by the Portuguese when they "discovered" it and found a big elephant statue on it. Elephanta Island, regardless of its lack of actual live...

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Holiday For Pyros

DAY 389: The Let's Go: India & Nepal guidebook just has one sentence to describe the Hindu holiday of Diwali in all of its 891 pages: "The autumn holiday of Diwali is an especially auspicious time of year when Hindus...

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November 18, 2004

Hindu For A Day

DAY 390: Despite the mass commercialization of the Christian holiday of Christmas, with its holiday songs, plastic lawn ornaments (that look absolutely awful if there's no snow on the ground), and disgruntled mall Santas with sore thighs from the constant...

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Posted by Erik at 05:07 PM
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Family to Family

DAY 391: Because of the hole in my leg from the pus drainage operation of the abscess I developed in Nepal, I wasn't exactly the most beach-worthy traveler in India. While salt water might have aided in the healing of...

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November 20, 2004

Return Of The Touts

DAY 392: It was Sunday, the one day weekend for Chrissy at the NGO she worked for since they expected her to work with the reset of them on Saturdays. (This she would complain about because she was already working...

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Female Condomania

DAY 393: Monday. For most people, the day to go back to work, a day when business reopened after a one- or two-day weekend. My only goal of the day was to go to the open airline offices and figure...

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November 21, 2004

Martyrs and Magicians

DAY 394: Chennai, India's fourth largest city formerly known as Madras, isn't exactly on a backpacker's must-see list. Cuckoo in Mumbai warned me there wasn't much to see there in terms of tourist sites. Geeta said it's primarily a place...

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November 22, 2004

The French Connection

DAY 395: Pondicherry, the one-time capital of French-occupied India, remains a city with a French influence, a place where curry meets crêpes. Pondicherry, which is of course English for Pondichéry, was founded in 1673 when France took over the area...

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Mothers

DAY 396: Pondicherry isn't just known for its France meets India vibe; it was in Pondicherry that a worldwide New Age movement was born in the 1960s based on the "integral yoga" teachings of Sri Aurobindo Ghose, which combined yoga...

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Posted by Erik at 12:08 PM
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November 23, 2004

All Roads Lead To Bangkok

DAY 397 (42 days since last Thailand entry): In India, I had a somewhat unique experience unlike the average backpacking Brit on "gap year" between high school and "uni," what with my "press credentials" opening doors for me, and my...

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Posted by Erik at 03:52 PM
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