by eliasc64 | Mar 15, 2012 | Asia, Destinations, India, Nepal, Trips
I always wanted to visit India, so mystical and different than the west, a land of many attractions. We decided to do it in March 2012. The planning took longer than usual in order to combine some culture, a safari and the beach. Then I thought that it would be a pity...
by eliasc64 | Mar 9, 2012 | Asia, Destinations, India, India Nepal 2012 trip
We decided to spend our last week in the Indian subcontinent in Havelock, part of the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal. Only few of them are open to tourism and Havelock is home of the famous beach no. 7 or Radha Nagar, the best beach in Asia according to the...
by eliasc64 | Mar 1, 2012 | Asia, Destinations, India, India Nepal 2012 trip
It was a long drive from Delhi to the Jim Corbett NP. We left Delhi shortly after noon and took seven hours for the 250km to the Corbett Hideaway. It did not help that the Tigers in Corbett driver did not speak a word of English. Later, Ramesh, the head of the...
by eliasc64 | Feb 26, 2012 | Asia, Destinations, India, India Nepal 2012 trip
The next morning we had to leave to Jim Corbett national park but we had three hours to spend in New Delhi. We preferred to skip the monuments and drive to the old market to get a feeling of everyday life. On the way to the center, we passed by a slum. The situation...
by eliasc64 | Feb 25, 2012 | Asia, Destinations, India, India Nepal 2012 trip
Early in the start from Jaipur. On the way to Agra we stopped in Fatehpur Sikri, the short-lived capital of the Mughal empire that was abandoned shortly after its completion due to paucity of water. It is definitely worth a stop, as it is one of the best preserved...
