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Beating the Rickshaw Commission Hotel Scam in Puna
For the final bit of fun after our 31 hour train journey, Carrie and I found ourselves with the unenviable task of finding cheap lodging near the world famous (who knew!) OSHO Meditation Resort in Puna during a festival. The first few guesthouses we saw were too expensive and we …
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Nanda: A Phony Baloney Guru
We originally chose to stay Puna both to break up a long journey and to take a tour of the OSHO Meditation resort. OSHO attracts a mix of those seeking answers, hippies and curious travelers, so at least the area that we fought so hard to stay in was filled …
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Matheran: A Relaxing Hill Station and a Break From the Heat
Tough to get to and far off the tourist track, the shady, quiet and secluded hill station of Matheran was a welcome break from the chaos of traveling. While it may be a popular weekend spot for Indians, we were two of the only foreigners there and reveled in that …
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Hanging Out With Locals in Bombay
Despite our original plans of spending a mere two days in Bombay, train schedules forced us to do double that…and it couldn’t have worked out better for us. But first, a little background. We stayed in the Colaba area, which is very popular with the tourist crowd and full of …
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A Day As Zoo Animals With the Kindest Family in Bombay
We happened to be in Bombay during the Mumbai Festival and read about a free Buddha Festival with teachings on Buddha, live music, local food and more. After an hour long taxi ride in which our driver drove in circles to get the meter up (we didn’t pay the whole …
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Free Concerts to Celebrate Mumbai Festival
Carrie and I love music and concerts, so when we saw that the area between the Gateway of India and the Taj Hotel (a mere 5 blocks from our guesthouse) had been fenced off for a series of concerts we of course wanted to go. Tickets were free, but only …
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Go Relax in Goa
You read the blog. You can imagine how the stress level builds as in between all the amazing, rewarding and fun we are moving our home every two days. So, after more than a month in India we came to the beach town of Arambol in the state of Goa …
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Bombay, Spiritual Healing Circles, More Scams and Beach Towns This and That
We tried to rent a motorbike in Goa but were denied because we made the mistake of asking for instructions on how to ride it. One night some eggs must have hatched because our light in our bedroom was covered with hundreds of buzzing flying ants. They were all dead …
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Bombay, Spiritual Healing Circles, More Scams and Beach Towns: Photo Links
As always, here is the multimedia section that compiles all videos and photos from this entry. Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/greggoodman/sets/72157613425010112/ Videos: Sanu Niigaam concert – 2nd concert in bombay Hero Honda – Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009 Carrie plays games at the Festival Umbrella Carrie gets a henna Belly Dancing …
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Finishing Up the North With Some Wild Experiences
This entry is being written from our porch overlooking the crashing Arabian Ocean in a beach in Goa and life couldn’t be more tranquil. The events of this update, however, are a mixed bag. Between Jan 11-19, Carrie and I found ourselves having a never-ending series of train mishaps as …
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Agra and the Taj Majal
“Do we really have to go? It’s so far away!” and “Can we really come to India and not see the Taj Majal?” were questions we wrestled with for a few weeks before deciding that no matter how out of our way Agra was, we had to see it. Once …
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A Trio of Crazy Train Stories: Each More Ridiculous Than the Last
The Only Train in India to Ever Leave Early If you go by the saying “when it rains it pours,” then Carrie and I have been stuck in a monsoon lately when it comes to our luck with the trains. It all started when our 9 hour express train from …
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Funeral Pyres, Kite Festivals and the Dirty Ganges in Varanasi
Varanasi one of the oldest cities in the world and one of the few to be untouched by the British rule in India. It is most famous for the hundreds of ghats (sets of steps that lead down to the Ganges River) that line the shore and are where most …
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Sexy Architecture and a Possible Scam at Khajuraho
“A place that few tourists go” are words that we LOVE to hear about our next destination. So, after the madness of Agra and Varanasi, we were thrilled to arrive at Khajuraho with our new friends, Dave and Jonathon, from the taxi ride. We originally planned to be in and …
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Finishing Up the North: This and That
All trains have a ladies only car that even the male companion can’t get into. Many ticket windows also have a ladies only line. There are 3 brands of bottled water that contain more than 100x the EU acceptable levels of pesticide. We avoid them at all costs. We encounter …
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Finishing Up the North Photos and Videos
Click here for photos from our latest adventures Video Gallery: A boat ride down the Ganges River in Varanai A view of kites flying over Varanasi during the Kite Festival A puja (religious ceremony) on the banks of the Ganges River
The 3 J’s of Rajasthan
India has a lot of different states, all of which have very different characteristics. However, unlike in the USA, each state is often massive. For instance, we spent most of the first few weeks of our trip in Rajasthan, which is in the Northeast of the country. Everything from my …
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Let’s Talk About Lines…Or What Passes as Them in India
Lines are an essential part of life in Western society and are usually organized and formal. This is not the case in India, where they are something of a maddening experience of disorder, pushing and cutting.
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A Camel Safari Through the Desert…With Delhi Belly
Jaisalmer, India One of the things Carrie and I were most excited about thus far was a camel safari through the desert next to Jaisalmer (a desert town in the far west corner of India, around 75 miles from the Pakistan border). The town itself is architecturally one of the …
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A Morning in the Emergency Room
The tail end of the camel safari tale found us getting into Jaipur at 4:30am, convinced that we had parasites in our system that were causing the Delhi Belly. As such, we wanted to get our poo tested and the man at the train station sent us to the emergency …
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