Typed up at: USA Hotel in Hong Kong
Posted from: Internet Cafe in Hong Kong
Binsar is a nature reserve on a hill offering some great views of the surrounding countryside and, on clear days, of the Himalaya mountains to the north. When we arrived it was fairly hazy, but we stayed 3 nights and every day [...]

Typed up at: Internet Cafe in Hong Kong, USA Hotel in Hong Kong
Posted from: Internet Cafe in Hong Kong
Corbett is supposedly a great place to see tigers, and even offers the opportunity of doing so while riding an elephant. At least, that’s what the guidebook says. The elephant rides were canceled due to a recent [...]

Typed up at: Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, USA Hotel in Hong Kong
Posted from: Internet Cafe in Hong Kong
Haridwar is a Hindu holy city. It is situated more or less where the Ganges leaves the Himalayas, meaning that it hasn’t yet had a chance to become completely polluted. We really just wanted to stay [...]

Typed up at: Cyberia in Nainital, Hotel Vivek in Delhi
Posted from: Internet Cafe in Hong Kong
From Amritsar we wanted to go to Mussoorie, a small resort town in the foothills of the Himalayas. This would be a 2-day journey. First we took an afternoon bus from Amritsar to Chandigarh. It was an AC bus, which [...]

Typed up: on Amritsar-Chandigarh bus
Posted from: Internet cafe in Mussoori
From Bikaner we went to Amritsar. It sounds pretty innocuous written like that. At 9:30pm we were at the train station to take a sleeper train to Bithande. This train didn’t have any of the fancy classes, just plain sleeper. In theory this just means it [...]

Typed up: at Vijay’s Guest House in Bikaner, on Amritsar-Chandigarh bus
Posted from: Internet cafe in Mussoori
We took a sleeper train from Delhi to Bikaner, AC 3rd class (A3 or AC3). There were no closed compartments inside the carriage. Instead on one side there were 2 fixed beds on top of each other against the window, [...]

Typed up: East West Medical Center in Delhi
Posted from: Vijay’s Guesthouse in Bikaner
We returned to Delhi to spend the weekend with my friend Abhijit, his partner Hassath and her daughter Amu. We were hassled big-time as we walked over to the prepaid tuk-tuk stand, but just keeping on walking and smiling and saying no got [...]

Typed up: East West Medical Center in Delhi
Posted from: Hotel Vivek in Delhi
From Bharatpur we took a train to Sawai Madhopur. It was our first 2nd-class train ride in India, and really the facilities were fine. The only problem was that we had a middle+aisle seat, while the woman in the window seat had two [...]

Typed up at: East West Medical Center in Delhi
Posted from: Hotel Vivek in Delhi
We came to Bharatpur to see the birds in Keoladeo Ghana National Park, and that’s exactly what we did. We stayed at the Falcon Guest House, which was cheap, had awesome sheets, and a very friendly proprietor. At the park entrance we [...]

Typed up: at Hotel Vivek in Delhi, Hotel Red Castle in Delhi, East West Medical Center in Delhi
Posted from: Internet Cafe in Delhi
From Delhi we took the train to Agra. We’d booked fancy seats at the tourist train office, so we rode in comfort for a few hours. We watched green farmland roll by, with [...]