 | Five Weeks of Superlatives
2008-05-18, Mumbai, India. By: janp | |
Five Weeks of Superlatives
Bangkok, Thailand
15 March 2007
travelwithjan.com
Beginning in early February and continuing for almost five weeks, I traveled more tha... |
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 | Coming to a Close
2008-01-02, Mumbai, India. By: tamale | | Already two weeks into February and I’m still thinking about just how to round out the India Blog, something that with endless school obligations and scarce internet access got pushed to the wayside. ... |
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 | Just pop by last month to experience life...
2007-09-19, Mumbai, India. By: marklee | | 14 million people live in Mumbai, the country's commercial capital. Half of them - migrants from other cities and towns -- in slums, clinging to dreams of making it big in this metropolis.
It isn't... |
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 | Tj: Bollywood
2000-02-02, Mumbai, India. By: tjtunes | | We wandered around several market stalls in Madgaon and came back to sit on the train station platform once more to wait for the train. I got fed up and convinced Kim that we should get a room to get... |
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 | From beach to hill station
2007-04-20, Mumbai, India. By: marlau | | Greetings from Mumbai. We could not update our journal because there is no internet access in Matheran where we have been for the past week. But first we will update our Benaulim stay. The frog/snake ... |
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 | India's Goa-ing better
2007-04-13, Mumbai, India. By: thenomads | | So India has it got better or worse? Well I grudgingly admit that it has got a bit better. We have spent the last couple of weeks in Goa. Starting off in Palelom, which is billed as Goa's most idyl... |
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 | TJ: Travelling through a T.V Screen
1999-12-20, Mumbai, India. By: tjtunes | | The train station was a huge building with high archways and lots of floor space. The place was packed, the majority of people were asleep on the floor, they were either waiting for a train, or it was... |
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| Tj; The Bus Stop
1999-12-20, Mumbai, India. By: tjtunes | | We left The India Guest House, 3rd floor, Kamel Mansions, Colaba at 3.15am all ready to catch the 3.30 bus to Victoria Train Station. Mumbai is much quieter in the early hours of the morning, as we w... |
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| Tj; The Relationship
1999-12-20, Mumbai, India. By: tjtunes | | The relationship had been falling apart for over a year, and this decision that I really couldn’t live in that house anymore was just fate’s way of telling us we should pack it in. Things had gone st... |
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 | Mumbai continued
2007-02-01, Mumbai, India. By: marlau | | We're falling behind in our journal. The journal did not finish Mumbai but we have been in Goa for about a week. Lying on the beach has kept us too busy to update our journal. Anyway, after the walk a... |
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 | Bad idea good outcome
2007-01-27, Mumbai, India. By: marlau | | Bad idea: Let say there is a couple vacationing in a hot country and the wife suggests a long walk (over two hours) during the heat of the day under the noonday sun.
Good idea: Same couple. Husband... |
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| Eating our way to Mumbai
2007-01-22, Mumbai, India. By: marlau | | Hi Friends & Family,
Just to let you know we are in Mumbai, temperature is very hot and humid: just the way Barbara likes it. Me, I'm sweating!! The trip was very easy and straighforward. Everything ... |
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 | arrived!
2007-01-17, Mumbai, India. By: katvillers | | Hello, have arrived in India. Had an interesting taxi ride from the airport... they drive all over the place and just hope for the best. So crossing any roads is interesting! we've got a nice hotel fo... |
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 | Merry X- Mas!
2005-12-25, Mumbai, India. By: nutanp | | I tell you, it does not at all feel like the holiday season out here. It's no wonder- I'm in a predominantly Hindu country! But still...I wish you a very Merry Christmas and some good holiday food:)... |
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 | GO-AHAAAAAAA
2006-04-06, Mumbai, India. By: alakas | | I’m back from Goa. I can call this my first luxurious holiday.
Earlier, I could not afford to spend much on holidaying. Besides, I always believed in roughing it out during such trips. But once I w... |
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 | reflection and showbiznatch
2006-05-17, Mumbai, India. By: guelf | | So we're here. and it's honestly taken 4 days to fully sink in. i have however formulated some preliminary opinions and random janter pertaining to this trip and preliminary becuase it's only the begi... |
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| 4 days, and still healthy
2006-05-17, Mumbai, India. By: guelf | | BOOF!!! Heh, that's the sound of India blowing my mind! Give it a shot: say "BOOF" out loud and I'm sure you'll get the picture! Seriously, this place is more different than anywhere I've ever expe... |
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| Invincible Janjira fort
2006-04-06, Mumbai, India. By: alakas | | The sea along Murud reflects the pattern of life there: languid and peaceful. This, probably was the pull for us — desperate to break free from the fast life in Mumbai. And the trip to the coastal vil... |
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 | Holy City Batman
2006-02-06, Mumbai, India. By: minesh | | Pushkar, as a city is regarded as the holiest city – no meat, no alcohol, no eggs, and no PDX and so based on the first three constraints we had a feeling we would not be hanging around Pushkar long b... |
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 | Fame, Fortune and Octopussy
2006-01-25, Mumbai, India. By: david2004 | | Since I wrote last time a lot more has happened.
Okay, so we left Pune having not found enlightenment. We were heading to Mumbai to head north and had only planned to stay one night. After heading ... |
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| Madness in Mumbai
2006-01-24, Mumbai, India. By: minesh | | Well leaving for Hong Kong, I would have to make the now obligatory stop in Bangkok (just cant avoid it) but my 3 hours here were spent in the luxury of the business lounge which gave me the ideal opp... |
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 | Cloudy in mumbai
2004-04-08, Mumbai, India. By: jimi | | We are travelling with my friend across india and first we came here into india just after flooding. There are no floods anymore and weather is clowdy. Place is quite cheap and we are staying in Colab... |
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| Heading home and more adventures to be written
2005-02-01, Mumbai, India. By: shiva~Moon | | A few days left in India. Have not even had time to write all of last weeks adventures. It has been rather crazy the last week and now the few short days left to my wonderful adventure. My traveling ... |
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| The days are getting Hotter
2005-03-03, Mumbai, India. By: Shiva~Moon | | Colaba:
After being reused from the Us Embassy I was taken too Colaba. I stay at the Salvation Army. The ppl there looked after me. June was a wonderful women who work the front desk. She was very... |
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| Gem Scam
2005-03-09, Mumbai, India. By: Shiva~Moon | | IT looks like once again, my entry didn't make a post.
I can't even get to my latest story, so how can the rest of you. I will re-tell my story in
short once again. While I was in Goa, I ran into... |
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| the power to break rules..
2005-02-12, Mumbai, India. By: icebuddha | | This is me...and i need a bloody respite..! but often i ask this question whom can i run from?..whom do i want to run away from?..why do i want to run..? hence i need i respite.
i hve been back in th... |
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 | welcome to Mumbai
2004-10-24, Mumbai, India. By: seta76 | | After a short stay with my relatives in Paris…arriving into the Mumbai airport was like a rush for my senses. The heat and humidity welcomed me into this amazing country. I arrived around midnight…b... |
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 | Message From Mumbai
2004-01-10, Mumbai, India. By: craigvern | | January 2004
Hello Friends and Family -- Greetings and Salutations from India! Let me begin by wishing you a Happy New Year in case I was remiss about that (HAPPY NEW YEAR). Craig and I toasted i... |
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 | Our Arrival to India
2004-01-28, Mumbai, India. By: g8inglost | | We arrived in India exhausted from a long 24 hour day of travel. Despite the miles of Shanti Towns as we flew in, India is not what we expected. While there are beggers everywhere, the people have b... |
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 | ROASTIN
2004-02-04, Mumbai, India. By: rachael | | Well,
Now we are in Mumbai (Bombay). We have been here for two nights staying in a room that is visited regularly by a little mouse!!!!!!!
I forgot to mention last time that when we were on a t... |
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 | City sightseeing in Mumbai
2004-02-02, Mumbai, India. By: eberglund | | After arriving in Mumbai early morning we took a taxi to the area we were recommended by a guy on the train to find cheap and good accommodation. Unfortunately many things were closed due to some Musl... |
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 | Fond Farewells
2003-03-01, Mumbai, India. By: createam | | Big up in the area and thanks for a top send off folks. Quality nights had before leaving those snowy shores behind. You shall be missed.
Current location: Juhu, Bombay.
Home to the Bollywood je... |
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 | Super STAR
2003-04-25, Mumbai, India. By: lshtram | | Can you beleive it, me of all people and on Bollywood movies. Actually it sounds more exciting than it actually is. It was not a movie, just a TV series, and a soap opera for that matter, but it was r... |
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| The quiet inside the noise
2003-04-27, Mumbai, India. By: lshtram | | And so I am trying my best at creating a relaxing week while awaiting Matt's arrival. And Mumbai is not an easy place to do so.
I tried creating a schedule that will be sustained everyday of my wee... |
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| Landing in the subcontinent
2003-04-23, Mumbai, India. By: lshtram | | Here I am! Mumbai, India.
I am in the first day of my great adventure, completely and utterly free of any obligations, restrictions, posessions and so on. Free to roam the world (at least until my ... |
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 | Departure, Arrival
2003-03-01, Mumbai, India. By: shatner | | Good flight from Manchester on Thursday morning, departure was delayed by 1 hour, but we made time up on the journey.
Arrived in the heat of Mumbai at midnight Indian time. Had to collect baggage and... |
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 | Where's Jonny Morris when you need him?
2003-02-02, Mumbai, India. By: pudseystu | | Phew, what a busy day yesterday was........ Headed out towards the outskirts of the city to Sanjay Ghandi National Park looking for tigers. We spent about 50p to go on a bus safari through the park on... |
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 | India fatigue
2001-10-12, Mumbai, India. By: nsuffield | | Somewhat fed up of Mumbai, we spent most of the doing little errands like getting our air tickets changed and developing some of Andrea’s APS photos out ... which no-one can do in the entire of India ... |
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 | A bit like London .... but with Palm Trees
2001-10-11, Mumbai, India. By: nsuffield | | Walked up the Colaba past some rather posh shops and a lot of Leyland red double-decker buses. One of the first Indian cities that has the luxury of pavements ... amazing ... no more walking through r... |
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| The Orient Express ... Indian Style
2001-10-10, Mumbai, India. By: nsuffield | | We said goodbye to Dan at Amedabad as we rushed off to get out 7am First Class train to Mumbai (Yes! First Class .... whey hey!). As we walked along the platform we had visions of mahogany veneered co... |
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