Rajasthan is great. It’s full of maze-like dusty streets, ridiculous mustaches, camels, Arabian style weapons and architecture, snake charmers, deserts, temples, enormous forts on hills, and many other things that are straight out of Aladdin. In a couple hours we are going out head out for our 2 day camel trek through the desert near […]
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We had a 15 hour overnight jeep right from Leh to Srinigar. I was crammed in between an overweight Indian guy and the window with hardly any room to move. This was actually not a problem for me at first, the initial 6 hours of the trip were totally fine for me. […]
The bike ride down from Khardung La was amazinggg. It ended up taking us a long time (4 hours) because we stopped so much to enjoy the views. The ride was 25 miles long with around 7000 feet of elevation drop.
The next day 4 of us (Me, Chris, Trudy, and Korbi) went in a jeep […]
I’m in Leh right now at the very Northern tip of India. It’s almost 12,000 feet elevation and a center for trekking, rafting, and snowy mountain peaks. It’s also extremely beautiful in a Western desert mountain kind of way. Our guest house that we are paying 3 and a half dollars each for is up […]
Chris and I just finished our 4 day stay in McLeod Ganj, a beautiful city perched on a mountain side in Northern India. It’s the capital of the exiled Tibetan government and is filled with mostly Tibetans and supporters. We came to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s birthday on July 6th but he was a no […]
I thoroughly enjoyed my stay in Varanasi. Varanasi has a population of 3 million people which is far more managable than the 15ish million of Mumbai and Kolkata. It also has something incredibly sacred to the roughly 900 million Hindus in the world: The Ganges River. In Varanasi alone every single […]
First I would like to say that I’m in Bodhgaya right now, the city where Buddha achieved enlightenment. The fact that I can be at the same temple where Buddha achieved enlightenment is amazing enough to be the “I love India” aspect of this post. Here’s the “I hate India” part
Every day in […]
Anybody that thinks New York City is dirty and crowded would absolutely hate Kolkata with a passion. In fact, you would easily hate any major Indian city. My pictures do not do major cities justice, nor any part of our Indian travel experience for that matter.
There is lots more to read below the […]
You can get a lot of details I don’t have time to write about on Chris’ blog. I spent most of my time here working on pictures. Here are some unrelated things:
- We believe Aman, the Indian guy we met on our first day in Goa, was trying to scam us. The next day after […]
Our first day in Mumbai we spent the first part of it reserving tickets. We got our bus ticket to Goa, our hostel in Goa, and our train ticket out of Goa (to Hampi). After that we had some fantastic tuk tuk rides around the city. These are basically motorbikes with a small cabin for […]
