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Día 16: Amritsar y el cierre de la frontera con Pakistán (Viaje al norte de la India)
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 23 September 2011
Amritsar, 24 de enero de 2011A las cuatro de la mañana, llamaron puntualmente a la puerta los del servicio de habitaciones para traernos un desayuno preparado especialmente para nosotras. A las seis salía nuestro vuelo a Amritsar, donde íbamos a pasar una noche para volver a Delhi, así que dejamos las maletas en el hotel y preparamos una mochila para esos dos días de viaje.
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Día 17: Amritsar (Viaje al norte de la India)
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 23 September 2011
Amritsar, 25 de enero de 2011Ni el frío polar, ni la tabla de madera sobre la que dormí y ni tan siquiera los cantos del monje de turno durante toda la noche lograron impedir que durmiera del tirón hasta las nueve de la mañana. En el patio interior no quedaba nadie durmiendo y estaba limpio y ordenado como si allí no hubiera pasado nadie la noche.
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Badami Cave Temples Part 4
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 23 September 2011
The fourth cave at Badami is the only Jain cave among the four. This is also by far the simplest cave, though there are quite a lot of renditions of the Jain Tirthankars. This was also the only cave which the school students gave a miss, so it was practically empty! Unfortunately, this cave seems to get less than its rightful share of eyeballs, so it was dark and dank. The inner sanctum was so dark that I could see nothing!
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Badami Cave Temples Part 3
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 20 September 2011
Badami Caves Part 1 Badami Caves Part 2
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Badami Cave Temples Part 2
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 19 September 2011
Please read the first part Badami Cave Temples Part 1 (if you haven’t already) before reading this one!
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The Cave Temples of Badami
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 17 September 2011
The main attractions at Badami are the rock cut cave temples. Carved out of the sandstone cliffs in the late 6th and 7th centuries, these caves have a verandah at the entrance with pillars cut into the stone. This leads to a pillared hall or mandapa, which in turn leads to a small sanctum. There are 4 such caves – the first one is dedicated to lord Shiva, the second and third are dedicated to Lord Vishnu and the fourth one is a Jain cave.
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Ganpati Bappa Morya! Pudchya Varshi Laukar Yaa!
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 11 September 2011
Those are the words which resound through the air as we bid goodbye to the Lord. Literally, they would translate to 'Glory to the Lord! Come again soon next year', but to the devotees who bid goodbye to the Lord with these words, it means so much more.
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One Last Ganpati Before Its Time to Bid Him Goodbye!
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 10 September 2011
Tomorrow, we bid goodbye to Ganesha, and have to wait for one full year before he arrives again. I have taken you along as I visited Ganeshas all over Mumbai, and there is just enough time to share with you the last one for this year........ This one is the one in our colony - the Chedda Nagar Ganpati. The decoration features the one person who is probably the most popular this year - Anna Hazare!
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A Collaborative Post on Ganesh Chaturthi
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 9 September 2011
A festival is all about getting together, and what symbolizes it more than the Ganesh Chaturthi which brings together the most disparate of Indians? On the 9th day of the festival, as the Lord readies to go back to his abode, Arti from My Yatra Diary has managed to get together 4 of us bloggers to write our own versions of the way we celebrate the festival.
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Visiting the Matunga Ganpatis
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 8 September 2011
Matunga is a place closely associated with South Indians living in Mumbai. I remember braving the train crowds as a child, visiting Matunga to see the Ganpatis, and especially the serial lights strung up all along the roads. I was then brought here by my uncle. Later, as I studied at Ruia College, I no longer needed anyone to accompany me. The ten days of the festival used to be busy ones for me, as I explored every lane looking for some interesting Ganeshas or at least some interesting decorations.
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A Few More Interesting Ganeshas
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 7 September 2011
Now that our own Ganesha has left, we have time to go and see a few more Ganeshas around us.... Here are a couple of interesting ones we came across.... This one was Krishna-style, with a flute and Gopis in attendance.....
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Faces of India in Pictures
Blog: Two Backpackers - 2 September 2011
Samuel Jeffery of Nomadic Samuel captures the faces of India through his lens. Before descending upon India, I had been backpacking continuously for nearly a year and a half. I was feeling particularly worn down both physically and mentally and the repetitive nature of constantly being on the move and seeing ‘yet’ another temple was [...]
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Ganesh Chaturthi 2011 - The Festival begins!
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 1 September 2011
This blog has been selected by Blogadda for the week's Spicy Saturday Picks, 3rd September, 2011! Click on the image or the link above to see the other wonderful posts on the list!
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Día 14: Jaisalmer y rumbo a Jodhpur (Viaje al norte de la India)
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 30 August 2011
Jaisalmer, 22 de enero de 2011 Esa era nuestra última mañana en la ciudad de Jaisalmer y para ese día teníamos pocos plantes porque a las cuatro y media salía nuestro tren hacia Jodhpur.
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A Festival I hadn't heard of!
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 26 August 2011
Considering how much I enjoy festivals, and coming from a family obsessed with celebrating not just our own, but every festival we come across, I had thought myself to be fairly well up to the mark when it came to knowledge of festivals celebrated in India.... at least those celebrated in the parts I come from and where I live! It just goes to show you how much I know when I came across a completely new festival today... in the market of all places!
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On The Road From Bharatpur To Deeg
Blog: Windy Skies - 26 August 2011
Deeg was not on the cards originally, not until we found we had time to spare in Bharatpur on a warm summer day in March some years ago.
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Seven Super Train Travels
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 26 August 2011
Who Likes Train Travel? We love taking the train. There is nothing better than watching the countryside pass by as you relax in your compartment while getting to know your fellow passengers.
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Aihole
Blog: A Wandering Mind - 23 August 2011
This was the sight which greeted us as we entered Aihole, and it is probably the best description of Aihole that I can ever give.
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Photo of the Week: Sand Dune, Thar Desert
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 21 August 2011
On Thursday we flew to Hong Kong and began our second trip to our favourite continent Asia. It is scenes like this one in the Thar Desert near Jaisalmer, India that draw us back. We took an uncomfortable camel trip out into the desert, just us and our guide on trusty steeds. The highlight was [...]
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100 Greatest Travel Experiences: How Many Have We Done?
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 17 August 2011
People who hear that we plan to travel forever sometimes ask us if we’ll run out of places to visit. Now we can point them to Wanderlust’s list of 100 Greatest Travel Experiences. The British travel magazine asked readers to vote on what they consider the ultimate travel experiences, as travel is more about the [...]
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Daily Travel Snapshot: Amritsar, India
Blog: WildJunket - 8 August 2011
The Golden Temple of Amritsar, India.
