Entries By Miek
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Pokhara is a friendly, quiet town. The entire 'lakeside' is one big tourist trap of course, with nothing but souvenir shops and restaurants, but it's all so small scale and cute that you don't mind that. It's quiet in the streets as well, with as many cows walking about as other traffic. Of course we [...]
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India & Nepal – Agra to Kathmandu
From Ranthambhore, another fairly uncomfortable train ride in an unairconditioned car followed by some 60 kilometers per taxi brought us to Agra. On our way, we stopped to see the palace complex of Fatehpur Sikri and you have to hand it to those old mughals, they certainly knew how to take care of themselves. The […]
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India – Bombs & Bagh
The day after the bombings, all tourist attractions and all shops in Jaipur were closed and the old walled city was inaccessible. You read about bombings almost every day, but somehow they’re a lot more worrying when they explode in a place where you were walking around only a few hours earlier. We spent the […]
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India – Mumbai
Wow. Mumbai is very different from Chennai and Goa and not necessarily in a good way. The people seem fairly rude, often trying to rip us off, and our rather expensive hotel room is a bit of a dump. However, everything looks different in the sunlight, and we spend our first full day in the […]