One can’t see everything and I had to make the decision to cut Khajuraho and its fascinating ‘Kama Sutra’ temples and Bodhgaya, the place of Buddha’s enlightenment, from my list. I am heading west to Rajasthan and they are both in the opposite direction. There is one place, however, that I would never miss and [...]
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Agra and the Magnificent Taj Mahal
Posted in Gap year, India, Solo travel, Travel, Woman Travelling alone, tagged "24 hour check-out", "colour festival", "Hindu festival", "holi festival", "Kama Sutra", "sleeper class", "Taj Mahal", Agra, Bodhgaya, festival, Holi, Jaipur, Khajuraho, Pushkar, Rajasthan, Taj Ganj, train on February 25, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Varanasi
Posted in Gap year, India, Solo travel, Travel, Woman Travelling alone, tagged "Burning ghats", "funeral pyre", "Ganga river", "Ganges River", "sleeper class", "Uttar Pradesh", boat, cow, cows, funeral, Ganga, Ganges, Hyderabad, Sadu, Varanasi, Varanassi on February 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My Southern adventure has come to an end which means that I only have about two months left in India. Heading north but not wanting to face a thirty-eight hour train journey from Chennai to Varanasi, I took the twelve hour sleeper train to Hyderabad. I had one day there to see some cultural sight [...]



