It is true that travelers tend to regard time spent in Mumbai, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, as a rite of passage to be survived rather than savored. And it is also true that you need more than the one day we had at our disposal in the city in order to fully...
It’s April 3, 2008. We’ve just left Palolem Beach in Goa, India, after a rather relaxing & rather eventful 6 night stay. We didn’t intend to spend 6 nights doing nothing here. It just happened and we rolled with it. This is how it went....
We seem to be spending a lot of time on Indian trains lately. We´ve been on this train, the Goa Express, for 31 hours now and there are still about 8 more to go. We´ve already spent 1 night on-board and we´re about to settle in for night number 2. When you spend two...
It´s still 750 rupees to get into the Taj Mahal, just like it was 5-and-a-half years ago. That´s over €12, a lot of money in India. My guidebook calls the price `galling´ (good word) but it does go on to say that most foreigners don´t actually mind paying the fee once...
I’m in a place called Chandigarh, the capital city of the Punjab region of India, northwest of Delhi. Yep, we’re definitely still in India, even if this place doesn’t look or feel like the India we’ve spent the last 8 days dealing with. We got...
It seems to be all about timing here in Delhi. Some good timing, some bad/unfortunate timing. The unfortunate timing list reads as follows: · Pat waited until he got to Delhi to get sick, meaning we’ve had to stay near a toilet, in case of...
Taking the train in India is one of those quintessential Indian travel experiences & in a country so damn big it’s an integral part of a visit to the country for most travellers. It – riding the rails in India – is sometimes sweaty, sometimes...
Varanasi, the Hindu holy city by the sacred River Ganges. This place is the centre of the Hindu world (it was said to have been founded by the Hindu God Shiva) and one of the oldest cities on earth, having a religious history stretching back to the 6th century BC....
We finally made it to Varanasi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Getting here from Sunauli, the border town with Nepal some 260 kilometres north of here, wasn’t hard. It just took time. Lots of time. We’ve spent the last two days on buses and to make...
