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The Draw of India: Beauty and Ugliness – India
The Draw of India: Beauty and Ugliness
India
Before India, I could have given you a definition of culture shock from a dictionary or in psychological terms, but now I can tell you from emotion and experience. As soon as we stepped out of the confines of the port I knew this country would be a t
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Going to New Delhi: A Word to the Uninitiated…Particularly Female – New Delhi, India
Going to New Delhi? A Word to the Uninitiated…Particularly Female
New Delhi, India
For a first-time international traveler, diving into the chaotic madness of New Delhi, India, is probably not the most gentle of introductions to other forms of lifestyle and culture. However, in the intere
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Waiting to Die – Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
“You want to see the bodies? Madame, you want to see the fires?”
Achi, I replied because I thought that meant “maybe”. Now I don’t think it means anything, literally. It doesn’t translate into anything. I guess it really says “I’m a clueless white girl muttering a meaningless phrase that
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The Golden Temple – Bylakuppe, Karnataka State, India, Asia
The car I had hired turned left onto a pathway (from the Kulshargarh highway). This pathway was lined with Tibetan prayer flags. Tibetan monks (dressed in dark yellow vests and red robes, wearing Reebok shoes, carrying bottled water, even Pepsi), were walking to and fro. Monks who could not
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Two Weeks, Two States: Tamil Nadu and Kerala – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, India, Asia
Two years ago I developed that January yearning for palm trees, so familiar to those of us who live in New England. Consultation of the U.S. State Department website, which provides advisories to travelers, revealed that crime, insurrection and general violence thrived in much of the tropics, b
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This Renewed My Faith in Humanity – India, Asia
There is one place in the world that I would call exceptional and extraordinary – southern India. It is tropical with its coconut palms, but that is not what makes it so idyllic.
People make a place. My measure of a wonderful place is this. Would they take you off the street if you were i
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Pieces of India – India, Asia
Nearing BombayThere's a moment, just before a plane's wheels drop, as the landscape is resolving itself into buildings, then people clumps, when I generally feel great fear. It escalates as Bombay comes into focus.
I know this place from birth, nevertheless, I've never managed to fi
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Discover Wayanad with Soochippara Waterfalls – Wayanad, Kerala, India, Asia
A Little Bit of ParadiseThe scenic beauty of Wayanad and its rich natural resources offer several opportunities for adventure tourism. The hills, rocks and valleys that make the unique character of Wayanad cater to the ever increasing demand of this type of traveler. Every place is incomplete w
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The Luxury Tax – Asia, Europe, South America
The following is a guide to how the luxury tax is levied, worldwide.
ASIAChina has the highest tax in the region! Charging a hundred times the regular price is typical. If you negotiate at all, they will stand two inches in front of your face, and scream You PAY, you PAY NOW. In India a bunch o
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Train and Hotels in the Indian Subcontinent – India, Bhutan, Asia
The Opportunity
My prior trip to India in 1997 was highly enjoyable, I promised myself I would return. The opportunity to participate in two successive bike tours (India and Bhutan) presented itself this past February and March. These tours were operated by two leading travel companies, Butter
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Wild Encounters at Corbett National Park – Uttaranchal, India, Asia
Powalgadh, Kaladhungi, Choti-Haldwani, Pipal-Pani – places I had often read about, they drifted through my mind as we pulled into Ramnagar station, one May morning. An overnight train journey from Old Delhi had brought us to Ramnagar. A jeep ferried us to the jungle where Jim Corbett had once s
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An Elephant Gone Mad – India, Asia
A few years back, I was at Kanha Tiger Reserve leading a group of bird watchers as a naturalist. Being at Kanya National Park is an enthralling experience, unsurpassed by any for a bird watcher and tiger loving naturalist. So it is for the accompanying tourist who is as enthusiastic about bird
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Abraham, the Merchant Seaman of Rameshwaram, South India – Asia
The sharp smell of drying fish filled the South Indian summer air as Abraham and I walked together around the fishing docks of holy Rameshwaram, the abode of Rama's shivalinga, the place where god worshipped god in the epic Ramayana. Today was the day when hundreds of fishermen unloaded the
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Pushy Pushkar – India, Asia
Pushkar was the official hippy hangout in India during the 70's It has continued to be a place where backpackers stay for indefinite amounts of time, experimenting with dreadlocks, drumming, divine teachings and drugs.
We have been in Pushkar now for over two hours. We were virtually attac
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Snippets of India – Asia
Diu, a tiny island on the southern tip of Gujerat; main exports are beer and seafood. Once a Portuguese colony, it is still strongly influenced by that history – the houses are brightly coloured terraces, the town is full of beautiful old churches and Catholic monuments.
Old St. Thomas Ch
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Surviving Mumbai: From the Airport to Victoria Station – India, Asia
The flight from London was long, about eight hours and with the time difference, it was 12 hours later when I finally touched down in Mumbai. Taxiing in, I saw my first bits of India from ground level: shacks next to decent-looking houses, trucks and airport equipment busy being used or used up
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A Functioning Anarchy: India Traffic – Asia
Typical traffic scene
Up until now, I used to think that Vietnam had the craziest traffic I had ever seen. Well, move over Vietnam. Enter India. I am positive that the word clusterf*#k was created here by some Westerner riding in a taxi around Delhi. During my month long stay in India, I h
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Land of Contrasts: India – Asia
I wasn’t supposed to be in India. When I left the U.S. a year ago, many people asked if I was going to India on my around the world tour. I said, “No, I don’t want to go to India, and I certainly don’t want to go solo. I think it would be too hard for me and I would be frustrated.” India see
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Chai with Baba – Chitai, India, Asia
Burfi, named by my friends after their favourite Indian sweet, is an energetic young mountain dog, keen for her morning walk. We decide to take her up to the nearby Shivalay (prn: she-VAH-lee, roughly translated, abode of Shiva) temple. As we approach, climbing the slope, it's impossible
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This is India – Asia
We almost gave up waiting for our guest house driver at the Delhi airport – a short dark-skinned Indian man in his 20s, half-wet from the generous monsoon rain holding a dripping placard with our names, barely discernible. When he finally appeared, he was apologetic, "too much wat
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