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BEACHES Goa
37 Reviews Yes, I think you mean Baga! Never mind but one of the most scenic walks really a long time ago,with a bit of a climb is to be had there. I guess most travelers dont know about it but I happenned to do...
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DAY TRIPS AROUND MUMBAI Mumbai
60 Reviews Within Sanjay Gandhi National Park there are several public walking trails. The popular Ashok Van trail winds up through thick forest to a dense cluster of Ashoka trees that are a welcome half way...
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Tips collections Delhi
20 Reviews Valley Of The Dolls. One can find just about every kind of a doll one needs to see in Shankar's International Dolls Museum. There are about 6,000 dolls collected from over 85 countries and a third of...
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Places around Hyderabad Hyderabad
8 Reviews 200 km fron Hyderabad. once the heartland of telugu culture, the capital of Kakatia rulers, Warangal is endowed with great architechtural buildings and its natural surroundings. (APTDC Punnami Hotel,...
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OTHERS Goa
44 Reviews There are several dozens of very stately mansions in Goa, most of which were built in the 18th and 19th centuries. There are also several hundred smaller mansions spread out amongst Goa's numerous...
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MISCELLANEOUS Mumbai
32 Reviews Palace on Wheels Tour Duration: 8 days Rate: USD 2626 - Single traveler. USD 1999 - Twin sharing. This is the closest you can get to living like a maharajah. One of the top ten luxury train...
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Agra - Taj Mahal Delhi
4 Reviews I think most people know about this place and have seen tons of pictures of it. But when you see it for the first time in real life, it still takes your breathe away for its shear beauty and...
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Everyday a Sunday Hyderabad
4 Reviews Try and find a local guide and take a ride. Get to know the local people, thier lifestyle, their habits and aspirations. Its fun and amusing aswell, but it teaches you a lesson or two in optimism....
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RELIGIOUS SITES Goa
13 Reviews I recently went on a pilgrimage to Meherabad and loved it. It is home to the Samadhi or Tomb-Shrine of Avatar Meher Baba, who claimed he was God in human form. Engraved on Baba's gravestone is the...
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INDIAN MOVIE SCENE Mumbai
8 Reviews Castella de Aquada(“Fort of the waterpoint”) is also known as the Bandra fort. It is located at Land’s End in Bandra and was built by the Portuguese in 1640 as a watchtower Overlooking Mahim Bay,the...
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Parks Delhi
6 Reviews The Buddha Jayanti Park is situated in southern part of the Delhi ridge in New Delhi.A beautifully gilded statue of Buddha stands under a pavilion in an artificial island in the park. The park laid...
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PROMENADES Mumbai
2 Reviews Located northwest of South Bombay, Bandra is one of the wealthiest suburbs/ neighbourhoods in greater Mumbai. It was once a completely separate port town from Bombay, but rapid urban growth swallowed...
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Coronation Park Delhi
2 Reviews Kingsway camp, on the outskirts of Delhi, was the venue of King-Emperor George V's Coronation Durbar in 1911. After much intense debate about the merits of the capital remaining in Calcutta, or moving...
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FESTIVALS Mumbai
3 Reviews International Film Festivals in Mumbai The Pumelo Independent Film Festival(PIFF) ( http://www.pumelo.com ) is from February 25th to 1st March of 2007 in Mumbai, India. They have a competition for the...
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Safdarjung's Tomb Delhi
4 Reviews This marble domed mausoleum is the last famous Mughal monument built in Delhi in 1753-54, by the son of the second Nawab of Awadh Shuja-ud-Daulah. It is a son's tribute to his father, the Wazir of...
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ENTERTAINMENT Mumbai
5 Reviews SUPERDOME- Superdrome is one of the best sports- cum-leisure centres in the city. Conveniently located in Tardeo, it offers an entire gamut of facilities There are 4 AMF Bowling lanes as well as 6 AMF...
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Humayun's Tomb Delhi
4 Reviews More pictures of Humayuns tomb here... The design is said to have inspired the design of the Taj Mahal, which was built by Humayun's grandson- Shah Jahan. You can look up more info on the monument at...
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Corbett national park Delhi
3 Reviews A convenient and popular weekend getaway from Delhi is Corbett National Park. Its a wildlife reserve, located in the foothills of the Himalayas and is a great place to see the tiger and other animals...
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Nainital Delhi
1 Review Nanital is Suited in Uttranchal state North India Kms 330 from Delhi by road.Nainital is known as the Lake City as it is located around the 'Nayana Tal'. The city is a beautiful mixture of all the...
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Purana Qila Delhi
1 Review Visiting Purana Qila was unexpected: we had wanted to see Humayum's tomb but found it closed - since some minister was visiting it. We looked at our map and Purana Qila seemed pleasantly near. In a...
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Qutab Minar Delhi
3 Reviews At the Quitab Minar complex you can find several buildings, with windows like these. When the sun shines through you can see little stars being reflected on the ground. More abou the Quitab Minar...
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Lotus Temple Delhi
2 Reviews I came across the Bahia Faith Lotus Temple by accident - and what a pleasant surprise! The Temple is a marble representation of a lotus flower and is located in the South of Delhi. I visited on a...
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Raj Ghat Delhi
1 Review Something that maybe is less than spectacular to most, but made a deep impression on me, is the place where Ghandi was cremated. It is surrounded by short walls in the city, but once inside it is...
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Here are some photos taken from ageold rituals in the villages of India. Young children carrying water on decorated structures and walking barefooted uphill to pour that water on the head of a deity. This takes place every year and band of little boys playing certain musical instruments like drums, follow the procession of little girls dressed in saree.
Shoe shinemen are very common to see in India, on roadsides, railway platforms, outside super markets and malls and everywhere. They diligently do their work, putting every effort to ensure that your shoe shines like new and what they get in return ranges from Rs 2 (1 euro cent) to Rs. 5 (2.5 euro cent) per pair depending upon the cost of living of a city.
A sight of manual labourers carrying loads on their heads is not rare in India, be it villages or be it cities. Tourists have also looked amazed at the existence of hand pulled and paddled rickshaws in India. Some photos
Some photos of children here. twin sisters looking curious, two little boys playing their favourite cycle tyre game (running the tyre with a stick) and a teenage girl returning home with a load of grass on her head for the cow.
Here are some people at work. A candy seller protecting himself from rain with a pulythene packet on his head, looking for the next bus to board for selling his candies, an old begger women looking for coins, a bamboo artisan busy preparing a bamboo structure, a tired handvan puller giving all his efforts towards pulling the van loaded with rice bags and a women returning from the field after her day long work of cutting grass
Kanya Kumari is in the state of Tamilnadu(Madras or Chennai(new name) is the capital of Tamilnadu)Kanyakumari which is at the tip of the Indian peninsula can be reached from Kerala and Tamilnadu by road or by train.It is both a touristic place as well as a pilgrim centre.It is famous for the Kanyakumari(virgin Goddess) temple.Of special mention is the nose ring of the deity in the temple that shines bright as a flame.In olden days it saved many a ship from getting wrecked on the shore,since it saved the purpose of a light house and warned the approaching ships of the shore nearby.One could take a boat ride to the Vivekananda rocks which is in a small island located at a very short distance from the mainland of India,near Kanyakumari.Kanyakumari is also a special place to watch the sunset and sunrise.It is indeed a sight to behold the sunrise and sunset along the Indian ocean.Vpas
No, this is not a construction left over from a movie by Fellini. This is an assembly/theatre structure. Sonagir is a MAJOR pilgrimage site for the Jain- an offshoot, like Buddhism, of Hinduism. It's a small detour off the tourist route that runs south from Agra to Gwalior to Orchha to Kajuraho. Use the train connecting New Delhi through Gwalior to JHANSI - The crossroads of central India- and get a connection to SONAGIR. From the Sonagir train station you will see the towers of DOZENS of temples and shrines set on a craggy outcropping. There are many tribals living in the area which boasts the largest concentration of elephants in India. You can walk around the entire city of temples on a special trail (about an hour). The surroundings are impressive as are the changing views of the different buildings rising out of the cliffs above. Of course, you are welcome to visit the temples too.
While I was visiting Kumbhalgarh Fort I decided to wander around the fortress walls for a short walk. To be honest I wished I had spent more time here to do this as in no time I came across this interesting Jain Temple. I came across it a couple hundred meters from the main compound. I entered the temple to discover a lonely old guardian who greeted me with great enthusiasm and showed me. The temple was small and relatively plain for a Jain temple but it was quite old, dating from the 13th century. Kumbhalgarh Fort is full of such temples and there is said to be 300 of them. If you a have a full day here you might be able to see many of them and it is recommend that you attempt to see some.
The Lodi Gardens were the most pleasant surprise out of the attractions I visited in New Delhi. They do not get much publicity compared to other sites in the city but they are well worth a visit. The Lodi Gardens is a large park were there are a collection of large tombs built during the Mughal dynasty. This makes for a splendid outing for New Delhi families. There were many having picnics during my visit. Because the Lodi Gardens are located in neighborhood that would be best regarded as "privilaged", the locals tend to be decidedly middle and upper class Indians. Still I did run into one hawker here but I guess they are everywhere in India. There are several remarkable tombs here. The most noteworthy are Bara Gumbad, which features a wonderful large dome and the Shish Gumbad which has a smaller glazed dome. There are several other small but attractive domes here tooA visit to the Lodi...
As you walk east along the road from Orchha you come across a collection of cenotaphs. These were built in the 17th century and seem to be somewhat neglected. Compared to the other attractions in Orchha there were few visitors. Six of the cenotaphs are actually quite large, being about two stories tall. I climbed up onto the second floor in a couple of these and found that I had to twist quite a bit to get through the pathways. To be honest there was little within them worth seeing. To get a decent photograph of them, cross the nearby bridge and climb up on to the bolders along the length of the river. This makes for a decent image. The cenotaphs were in fact are memorials for the local rulers.
Neemrana Fort-Palace State of Rajasthan
2 Reviews and 235 Opinions This is such a lovely place, whether for a couple celebrating their love or for a singleton,...
Taj Lands End Mumbai
4 Reviews and 521 Opinions 22,000 square feet of meeting space connected by pre-function areas suitable for exhibitions ...
Leela Goa
5 Reviews and 461 Opinions hallo was meeting adam pyotr mancic in the surfclub arambol. best friend at this time. every night...
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