Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 13th, 2006
At 4pm on Day 36, had things gone to plan, I should have been sitting in a Darjeeling hotel, sipping their famous locally grown tea and viewing a panoramic horizon featuring Mount Everest and some of the world’s other highest peaks. But I wasn’t, I was in a Varanasi cinema watching a Bollywood action musical […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 12th, 2006
I arrived in Varanasi with a certain amount of hesitation about what to expect. Chatt had hyped it up as one of the worst places on Earth. He had been ripped off 750Rs after being asked to donate money to buy firewood for cremations, was swamped by dozens of children asking for money and nearly […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2006
In the past four and a bit weeks all my time has been spent in the relative north west of India. As such I haven’t had any genuinely long train journeys, and only one overnighter. One aforementioned journey took 13 hours due to a break down, and a 6 hour bus trip reached its destination […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 6th, 2006
I’ve been quite lucky up to this point in my trip in that I have avoided being the fancy of India’s mosquito and insect population. When I shared double beds with Chatt, he would frequently awake to discover he had been subject to a fresh set of bites, while I would wake up with my […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 4th, 2006
On Day 26 Pablo, a Londoner I met in Jaipur and I arrived I Pushkar just as the town was building up to it’s annual Camel Fair. Although we left before the fair started proper, it was still quite a spectacle. Down a dirt road two rows of fair ground rides and market stalls separate […]
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