Category Archives: India

A few checks on the bucketlist

10. Sleep under the stars 11. Watch the sunrise and sunset 21. See a shooting star 14 to go!

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Final thoughts: India

Our final route. Originally supposed to be Delhi > Goa > Mumbai > Gujarat > Saurashtra > Pushkar > Jaipur > Delhi > Agra > Varanasi > Calcutta Ended up going to Delhi > Vagator > Arambol > Hampi > … Continue reading

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Cal-cunt-a

Sorry for the vulgar pun. We’ve had a bad day. Our train stops at a Kolkata suburb (it’s usually called Kolkata, not Calcutta). We get an expensive (280 rupees) prepaid taxi to city center, where our hotel is supposed to … Continue reading

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Varan-ass-i

After spending the night on a train, we end up in Varanasi and reunite with the Ganges river. As our time in India is running out, we have to book a train to Calcutta on the same day, so we … Continue reading

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Virtual Vi-Agra

Agra is bigger than I expected. I guess I thought there would be a few sights, a handful of hostels and a restaurant or two. Not much. Instead, we’ve been more out here than say, Rishikesh. After the movies and going … Continue reading

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