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Sunday snapshots – Sunrise at Taj Mahal
Blog: Sophie's World - 12 February 2012
6:15 am Taj Mahal: romance and tragedy Even though it’s a mausoleum, a funeral mosque, the Taj Mahal must surely be one of the most romantic buildings in the world. But then romance and tragedy often seem to go hand in hand, don’t they? In 1631, Mumtaz Mahal, wife of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, dies [...]Sunday snapshots – Sunrise at Taj Mahal is a post from Sophie's World
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Top India Destinations Of 2011
Blog: Vagobond.com - 31 May 2011
India is big and there are just too many cities and too many states to see them all in short period of time.
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Photo Essay: The Taj Mahal + 5 Things You Don’t Often Hear About It
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 14 March 2011
1. You can see the Taj Mahal from the roof of many nearby hotels. Many of them have conveniently placed (overpriced) restaurants on their rooftops. I got my first glimpse of the Taj Mahal while having lunch on my hotel’s roof. 2. At the main entrance, the Taj Mahal ticket office is not next to [...]
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A 20 Hour Indian Train Experience
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 11 March 2011
4:30 pm The panic I felt while stuck in mind-boggling traffic is fading. I’ve made it to the Varanasi Junction station in time for my 4:45 train to Agra. I step inside, and India assaults me with full force. It seems that not a single spot in the train station is unoccupied; people are sitting [...]
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Varanasi the Incomprehensible
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 4 March 2011
Before I went to India, I knew that I could expect to see an intense religious devotion there; the kind of faith that leads people to make pilgrimages just to plunge themselves in waters that are considered to be sacred. I also knew that I could expect layers of filth. But I hadn’t expected that [...]
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The Teardrop of Agra
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 11 February 2011
Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore described the Taj Mahal as "a teardrop on the face of eternity", and his elegant phrasing came irresistibly to mind when I visited the famous Moghul tomb on Wednesday.I arrived near the west gate of the complex before dawn on a chilly morning, dropped off by a tuk-tuk after a ride through scrappy narrow streets, dodging the rare passer-by and stray wandering dogs. Now I had to walk 200 metres or so down a dark laneway past closed restaurants and budget hotels to the gate.
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Sarnath, The Deer Park In India Where Buddha First Taught
Blog: Quillcards - 21 June 2010
Buddha’s Religious Teachings Having adopted the life of a religious master from the age of 35 until his death in 486 B.C. at the age of 80, Buddha taught the ‘noble truths’ that the craving for pleasure and the avoidance of pain leads to existence and suffering. To get out of this cycle, Buddha stressed, [...]Sarnath, The Deer Park In India Where Buddha First Taught is a post from: Quillcards
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Both Ways Around The Roundabout: Traffic In India
Blog: Quillcards - 19 May 2010
This scene is in Varanasi, but the traffic is like this in all the cities in India we have visited. I cannot imagine what it is like to work as a rickshaw driver in this heady cocktail of fumes every day for years and years, as many do. The rickshaw in the photo above is a [...]Both Ways Around The Roundabout: Traffic In India is a post from: Quillcards
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A Package From India: From Cloth To Sealing Wax
Blog: Quillcards - 28 April 2010
And Now For Something Completely Different The iconic Monty Python’s Flying Circus TV show that aired in the ’60s and ’70s promised viewers towards the beginning of each of its comedy sketches before it set off on its wonderfully crazy path, “And now for something completely different.” I am reminded of this slogan as I try to [...]A Package From India: From Cloth To Sealing Wax is a post from: Quillcards
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Selling Flowers At Four: Child Poverty In Varanasi
Blog: Quillcards - 6 April 2010
Varanasi, An Ancient City On The Ganges River There we were in the city of Varanasi in India, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. Set on the Ganges, Varanasi is one of India’s holiest places and one of the locations in India where there are ‘ghats’ – landings and steps that jut out into [...]Selling Flowers At Four: Child Poverty In Varanasi is a post from: Quillcards
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Murals and signs in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 24 March 2010
Indian political poster
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Jain Temple at Bachraj Ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 24 March 2010
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Holy city of Shiva: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 24 March 2010
Varanasi ghats and temples in the morning
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Varanasi – Manikarnika Ghat
Blog: Quillcards - 10 March 2010
The river at Varanasi flows in a long gentle curve and is dotted on one side by temples and steps or landings called ghats that lead down to the River Ganges. Except for the evening puja or purification ceremonies that take place up and down the river, the lazy relaxation of this man and these buffalo [...]Varanasi – Manikarnika Ghat is a post from: Quillcards
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Kagyu Tibetan Monastery: Vajra Vidya Institute, Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 3 March 2010
Kagyu Tibetan Monastery: Vajra Vidya Institute, Sarnath
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Mulagandha Kuti Vihar of Mahabodhi Society, Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 3 March 2010
Entrance gate to the Mulagandha Kuti Vihar of Mahabodhi Society, Sarnath
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Korean Buddhist Temple in Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 3 March 2010
Korean Buddhist Temple building in Sarnath
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Migadawun Myanmar Temple in Sarnath near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 3 March 2010
Burmese style temple gate in Sarnath
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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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Agra, India
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 23 October 2009
At the top of many a traveler to India's to see list is the Taj Mahal. Katrina saw it on her first day in India last year, and it was our first destination on this trip after leaving Delhi.
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