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Holi Festival In India – The Festival Of Colours and Elephant Beauty Contests
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 3 February 2012
Holi Festival In India Today, I’ve got an unusual travel photo from Wanderers Travel India about the Holi Festival which is celebrated in India and in many other countries of...
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Día 11: Bundi y cómo ir a Jaipur (viajer por el norte de la India)
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 12 July 2011
Bundi, 19 de enero de 2011
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DÍA 8: Jaipur (viaje al norte de la India)
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 14 June 2011
Jaipur, 16 de enero de 2011. Como de costumbre, ese día volvimos a pegarnos un madrugón. Teníamos escasamente un día para visitar Jaipur, ya que a las cinco y media de la tarde salía nuestro tren en dirección a Kota para ir a Bundi. Por ese motivo, encargamos el desayuno para que a las 7.30 am estuviera listo. No obstante, cuando bajamos al comedor muy puntuales, justo lo estaban empezando a preparar y, en lugar de salir a las 8 am como teníamos previsto, salimos del hotel sobre las 8.30 am.
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Día 7: Shekhawati y Jaipur (Viaje al norte de la India)
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 7 June 2011
Jaipur, 15 de enero de 2011. Esa mañana era nuestro último día en Shekhawati y nuestro último día con Mahendra. Por la noche no habíamos dormido nada bien porque Sonia seguía con una tos que sonaba muy mal, a pesar del jarabe y los Strepsils que se había comprado el día anterior. A pesar de todo, nos levantamos con la calma y desayunamos.
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Photo Essay: Exploring the Amber Fort in Jaipur
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 11 April 2011
On our drive up to the Amber Fort, I had no expectations. We eventually left behind the city density for shady roads that were surrounded by more trees than people. We began to see the old city wall of Jaipur, jutting out of the sides and tops of dusty hills. I felt a tangible presence [...]
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Two Thought Provoking Palaces in Jaipur
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 7 April 2011
The Hawa Mahal and the Jal Mahal were the original poster children of Jaipur for me. A couple months before I went to India, I browsed a travel friend’s photos of India. I hadn’t yet booked anything and wasn’t sure if I’d go and I was looking for ideas on where to go. Amongst the [...]
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Photo Essay: Shapes and Patterns at the Jantar Mantar in Jaipur
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 3 April 2011
On my day tour of Jaipur, one of my tour mates was a man from Switzerland who’d once lived in India and had been visiting the country for decades. He had already seen all of places on our itinerary. It was clear that he couldn’t get enough of the sights of Jaipur, and throughout the [...]
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Brief Encounters in Jaipur
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 31 March 2011
A Breakfast Sales Pitch There weren’t enough salt and pepper shakers at the hotel’s breakfast. Not long after I asked a boisterous Australian man to borrow the salt and pepper, an Eastern European woman asked me to borrow them. At the time, I wasn’t sure if she wanted to use the shakers or if she [...]
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Photo Essay: Candid Snapshots from Jaipur
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 22 March 2011
The tour driver motioned for me to sit in the passenger seat of the 4×4. I was ready to go when he insisted that I buckle my seatbelt. I usually put it on automatically, but after a week and a half in India, I’d gotten used to the fact that every car I sat in [...]
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Snapshot: Amber Fort
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 29 October 2010
In honor of last night’s birthday dinner (Indian takeout, since it was also the night before our final), today’s snapshot is from my first trip to India in April 2009. I say first because it just might end up being chosen for my Spring Festival trip next January/February.
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India’s Royal Pink City of Jaipur
Blog: WildJunket - 23 August 2010
From the desert city of Jaisalmer, we continued our journey eastwards towards one of the most popular destinations in India. Along with Delhi and Agra, Jaipur forms the third corner of India’s tourist circuit, the Golden Triangle.
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Our (Unsuccessful) Exorcism Temple Outing
Blog: Seat of Our Pants - 22 March 2010
Our Lonely Planet guidebook said that “people bring their possessed loved ones (to this temple) to have bad spirits exorcised” and that “the street outside feels like it’s hosting a Hindu rave.” Sounds like an amazing place to see, right? The temple they referred to was in Balaji, just three hours drive from Jaipur. We had [...]
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The Urban Jungle
Blog: Timothy Allen on BBC Earth - 22 March 2010
Cheeky monkeys in India's pink city.
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Kite Festival Jaipur, India
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 1 February 2010
We have been lucky enough in India to witness many festivals during our two months in the country. Our arrival in Jaipur was no exception. The Kite Festival is an annual event that the whole of Rajasthan get's pretty excited about and nowhere is it bigger than in the city of Jaipur. It is a festive event. Dancers and musicians play for the crowd, camel carts offer rides along with elephants.
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Travel Fatigue, Have You Ever Had it?
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 29 January 2010
"What are you planning on doing in Jaipur?" our hotel manager asks us. "Not much." We say. "Can you point us to a mall?" We are two months into our trip in India and travel fatigue has already kicked in. We don't want to see the Pink City, we don't want to see the Monkey Temple or Amber Fort. We just want a mall.
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Lady in the Golden Triangle
Blog: A Lady in London - 23 December 2009
Destination #1: DelhiMy most recent adventure was a very last-minute trip to India. Two weeks before I left, I bought a plane ticket and wrangled a visa from the crazy India visa office in London. I spent a few hours one morning booking seven trains and three flights. I found hotels, packed, and made sure I wasn't forgetting anything. With all that done, I jetted off to Delhi in a comfy seat on a 747 thanks to a last-minute upgrade from BA.
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A Little Fun…My Three Best Kept Travel Secrets
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 29 November 2009
There’s been a little movement throughout the travel community – an attempt to unite travel bloggers and create a list of the most unique travel destinations and secretly amazing places to visit. Nellie over at Wild Junket nominated me to participate in Tripbase’s “3 Best Kept Travel Secrets,” and that’s a pretty hard task because there are some amazing places out there. But there are a few places and experiences that particularly stood out in my mind as I backpacked around the world: 1) India’s Festival of Color, Holi Holi ...
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Lady in the Land of Kings
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
Continued from Lady and the Leopard...Destination #5: GaltaAfter my exciting albeit tiger-less safari in Ranthambore National Park, I headed back to Jaipur for a quick stop in Galta. Galta, a collection of 250-year-old temples, is on the outskirts of Jaipur's city center, and is a peaceful haven from the chaotic Pink City.
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Khadela Haveli (and Jaipur).
Blog: Leave Me Here - 31 October 2009
We were quite excited about our time in Jaipur, gateway to the wild west of Rajasthan, Amber Fort and an old city that’s completely pink, but when we were dropped off at Khandela Haveli (http://www.khandelahaveli.com), we had something else to be excited about.. I’ve stayed at some seriously nice places over the years, but Khandela Haveli [...]
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Rajasthan
Blog: By Way of the World - 19 September 2009
We began our 10-day whirlwind tour of Rajasthan in Agra, which is technically not in the state of Rajasthan, but very close. Our next stop was Jaipur. Jaipur is known as the "pink city" because most of the buildings are painted a shade of orangey-pink.
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Jaipur
Blog: Travelicious - 10 September 2009
The time had come for us to start our assault at Rajasthan, the fairytale state of India. And we were quite excited about it.
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India
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 19 October 2008
Through my work for the Unitarian Universalist Association, I get to travel frequently around the country to meet with generous supporters of the Association. This fall, I was given a unique opportunity to travel to India to see schools being built in the Khasi Hills, where there is an indigenous Unitarian population, made possible by donations through the Association. Patrick obviously would have loved to join me, but his own work responsibilities kept him in Boston.
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