 | The Joy of Making Things Go BANG!!
2009-01-30, Delhi, India. By: Damo | | It had long been a dream of mine to combine my love of cricket with India’s obsessive passion for the game, so when I discovered that the Aussies were to be touring the country at the same time as mys... |
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 | India Week 6: Delhi and triangulation
2009-01-16, Delhi, India. By: india2009 | | So Mr and Mrs Ganda left us and flew to Mumbai and proceeded on to the old village. We slept on the beach for a couple more days and then got a train and plane to Delhi, landing at midnight and findin... |
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 | And so, the end is near....
2008-08-31, Delhi, India. By: Kathryn | | Hi all,
Well this will be my last entry as I leave India tomorrow. I'm back in Delhi and have spent the past few days enjoying the sunshine, the noticable lack of rain, and most importantly, the sh... |
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 | Delhi
2008-06-12, Delhi, India. By: letlozz | | Hello! Just a quick entry to let everyone know i arrived in Delhi ok, and am settling in as well as can be expected (Ie,sweating like mad, getting over the shock of the toliet system and spending the ... |
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 | Smelly Delhi!!
2008-06-12, Delhi, India. By: Kathryn | | Hi all,
I arrived safely in Delhi yesterday and met up with Tim and Laura at our hotel in Pahar Ganj without too much of a problem. It's a pretty basic (i.e. scummy) place but the shower works and ... |
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 | Beggars and rich bastards
2007-11-12, Delhi, India. By: madjulios | | To try and keep some sense of continuity...last time I wrote I had just arrived in Udaipur after landing and had only been in India for a few days. This time I've been here for a couple of weeks, so h... |
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 | Chak De India!
2007-08-29, Delhi, India. By: mikl | | On Thursday last week I began a really serious attempt at learning Hindi. It was triggered for the most part by my first consideration of the possibility of returning to India in the future. I have ha... |
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 | Reflections
2007-08-21, Delhi, India. By: mikl | | I was very pleased to make my first journey in an auto-rickshaw for which I was not ripped off! So pleased in fact that I gave the driver 40Rs (about 55p) anyway despite the trip being worth only 33Rs... |
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 | Slum Photographs
2007-08-17, Delhi, India. By: mikl | | I will keep this short but I think I should paint a slightly clearer picture of the slums in Delhi now that I have more experience of them and have a few photos to show. Looking back at what I wrote i... |
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 | The Slums
2007-08-14, Delhi, India. By: mikl | | On Friday I was driven to the Maya Puri slum for the first time. Philippa and Sonam, the other two volunteers I share the flat with, were dropped off together first and I was left with the driver and ... |
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| First impressions
2007-08-12, Delhi, India. By: mikl | | I arrived at Indira Gandhi International airport here in Delhi at about 23:55 on Wednesday (local time) and so this first journal entry comes after the onslaught of four days adjusting to one of the m... |
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 | Emails from India - 1999
1999-08-24, Delhi, India. By: philstone | | Subject: Goodbye!!!
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 05:55:34 PDT
So, this is finally it, in 8 hours I'll be taking off for India, I don't
know when I'll next be able to e-mail you all but as soon as I... |
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 | Understanding India
2007-05-22, Delhi, India. By: mashman | | For the fourth and final time, I arrived in Delhi, my least favourite city so far. My train pulled into New Delhi train station just as I read another interesting newspaper headline:
"Mumbai Anti-... |
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 | How Many Dhal Baats?
2007-05-01, Delhi, India. By: mashman | | Dhal Baat, the staple diet of all good Nepalis consisting primarily of rice, lentils and maybe some spicey veg.
Fret not good people, in response to ongoing concerns about my levels of
food consu... |
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 | India 2006
2006-02-10, Delhi, India. By: chrisrak | | We jetted off to Delhi for a week's tour with On The Go travel. Delhi was just as mad as we thought it would be and after a days tour of the city we headed out to Agra.... |
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 | The First Night
2007-01-04, Delhi, India. By: mashman | | Well, arriving in Delhi was somewhat of a culture shock. I jumped in a reasonable looking taxi without any hassle and made for my hotel. Delhi's traffic has a rather lively reputation and so it prov... |
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 | Holy shit - shove me in it!
2006-04-11, Delhi, India. By: teamhoki | | Olse and Tash say farewell to the Middle East, and our beloved Chinny, and begin our new adventures in India.
After 12 hours of travelling through Egypt and a 6 hour stopover in Bahrain, we lan... |
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 | Namaste!
2005-10-28, Delhi, India. By: nutanp | | I said I would send an update so here it is! Nothing elaborate and long, for I feel pretty lousy at the moment, but a quick check- in. I've been in Delhi only since yesterday, but had a pleasant eve... |
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 | Kolkata
2006-10-02, Delhi, India. By: aw80sa | | SO, we're off to Calcutta by train today. It's a long one, 18 hours I think, but we can handle that, piece of cake. Well, actually it's Jenna's frist train...ever...and for me it'll be like the brazil... |
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 | Delhi
2006-09-18, Delhi, India. By: jandtrish | | We have been in India for nearly 2 weeks now and its taken that long to get used to it. India is a fascinating, bewildering and sometimes absolutely squalid place (Editors Note: It's complete & utter... |
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| A thank you...
2006-09-27, Delhi, India. By: aw80sa | | I just want to say thank you to everyone that has left me a message in my guestbook. It is always such an encouragement to know that my friends and the people I care about are still keeping an eye on ... |
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| In India
2006-09-18, Delhi, India. By: Jandtrish | | Well, we are finally in India!! And its hot and crazy!
We will be udpating our pages soon to let you know what we've been up to over the last week. Indian IT connections are a bit slow so its taki... |
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| Words can't describe
2006-09-23, Delhi, India. By: aw80sa | | India.
What comes to mind when you think of India?
Poverty?
Homeless?
Famine?
Dirty?
Dry?
Hot?
Markets?
Temples?
Curry?
Snake tamers?
Crime?
Terrorism?
Corruption?
Over population?
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| Ahh!!!
2006-09-20, Delhi, India. By: aw80sa | | India is CRAZY! I'm alive and well, but dont have time to write tons, too hungry, need food. Need water. Need A/C.
Hot... |
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| Whew
2006-09-19, Delhi, India. By: aw80sa | | So, I made it, I'm alive and being well taken care of by a man named Mushi whom I met on the plane. I prayed for God to send someone to take care of me and he did. The guy took me straight from the ai... |
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 | Gert Says "Thank You & Good-Bye" to India
2006-08-12, Delhi, India. By: gertjonnys | | After exploring the State of Rajastan and Cities of Delhi and Agra, I ended with mixed feelings about this part of India. The so-many people, chaos of the cities, pollution and unemployment on the st... |
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 | Controlled Chaos in Delhi........:)
2006-08-01, Delhi, India. By: gertjonnys | | Not sure if you can use these words, but this is what it felt like on my first day and night in India. After an eight-hour flight from Europe and a little luck meeting two Dutch brothers (Bart and Bo... |
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 | signing off in smelly delhi
2006-07-27, Delhi, India. By: guelf | | And so it is. sean and i parted ways of the sorts as he is carrying on with the crazy india adventures hans solo for the next few weeks and i'll be flying on to england for a 10 day fun filled family ... |
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 | India, land of cows & curry
2006-05-23, Delhi, India. By: thewilsons | | Well, we arrived in the Delhi airport at 3am after 18 hours of travel - we first flew from Beijing to Hong Kong and had a 12 hour layover in Hong Kong airport (which isn't so bad as it's one of the ni... |
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 | Back by popular demand...
2006-05-12, Delhi, India. By: kev_jen | | Thanks to everyone who emailed asking us if we were still alive. Its nice to know people are actually reading our stories!
Without further adieu, and back by popular demand...
ITS ANOTHER UPDAT... |
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 | India Update
2006-04-28, Delhi, India. By: krispy | | Hey Everyone! Well I'm just finishing up my three weeks in India, and it's been awesome! How to sum up India in one word... well... Chaos! But it's great. The streets are hectic and full of cars, buse... |
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 | Udaipur
2006-02-04, Delhi, India. By: archandfi | | Udaipur
We arrived in Udaipur on Burns night, but nary a Haggis to be found. Nor did Mukesh really seem to get it when we told him about haggis, neeps, tatties, Auld lang Syne, Tam O' Shanter, and ... |
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| Delhi
2006-02-04, Delhi, India. By: archandfi | | Delhi
We had a one-day tour of Delhi, but the main thing we wanted to see was Swaminarayan Akshardam, a magnificent new temple just outside the city. It's taken 5 years so far to build and sculptor... |
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| India tour guide recommendation
2006-02-04, Delhi, India. By: archandfi | | India tour guide driver.
We arranged a 16 night tour of Rajasthan through Sights India tours just off Janpath, they were recommended by the state tourism office. They organised a great tour for us ... |
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| Pushkar
2006-02-04, Delhi, India. By: archandfi | | Pushkar
On the way to Pushkar we travelled on a big dual-carriageway that goes all the way to Mumbai, but we turned off towards the mountains. They quarry marble here and around Kishnagargh (where ... |
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| Jaipur
2006-02-04, Delhi, India. By: archandfi | | Jaipur
The pink city really is pink; the natural orange sandstone is painted pink as the colour of welcome. We'd just missed the kite festival and every tree, telephone and electricity wire in the ci... |
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| Tour of Rajasthan
2006-02-04, Delhi, India. By: archandfi | | Tour of Rajasthan
Because we'd dawdled in the South, we were pushed for time to see the big sights of northern India so we blew the budget and booked a tour with driver; see separate entry for deta... |
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 | Delhi
2006-01-10, Delhi, India. By: archandfi | | Delhi
We took a Spicejet flight Goa to Delhi. It was cheap, delayed and spent 40 minutes circling above Delhi waiting for its place in the queue to land. Archie spent the whole journey being talke... |
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 | India part 2
2005-10-11, Delhi, India. By: hmakwana | | The harsh fever just increased as we started our trek to Gaumukh (the source of the Ganga). As the wind became cooler my temperature rose with the altitude and every step felt like an eternity. With f... |
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| yatra
2005-10-11, Delhi, India. By: hmakwana | | Although far from ready to leave, we had to get back to Oz to fly to India to meet up with our family.
Waiting for mum in Rishikesh for over a week was an interesting experience. Yoga lessons and A... |
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