India travel stories

My left foot and the perils of paradise

In the Bay of Bengal, around 1000km east of the subcontinent, there lies a chain of islands, an archipelago if you will, which is currently being inhabited by a group of people who look out of plac...

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Last hurrah in the city of the dead

I flew from Port Blair to Calcutta, thus ending 8 and a half months of solid over-landing. Arrival was a bit of a shock at first - after the peace of the Andamans, the chaos of Sudder Street was ov...

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Vipassana

My travelogue account of a ten day vipassana course I attended in Leh, Ladakh. There are many vipassana centres throughout the world set up by S.N. Goenka. They do not charge for the course, costs ...

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Rajasthan

http://www.simon.collins.dsl.pipex.com Written: Nov 16, 2002 Location: Jaisalmer, India Hi All. This entry describes my time visiting Jaisalmer and Pushkar in Rajasthan. I took the train from De...

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Trek from Gangotri to the source of the River Ganges

http://www.simon.collins.dsl.pipex.com Written: Oct 18, 2002 Location: Gangotri Glacier, Uttaranchal, Northern India This entry describes a three day trek from Gangotri to Gaumukh the source of t...

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