India
6 posts.
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India – Mumbai – the finish…
Following a lengthy car journey from Khana National Park to Nagpur (where airport to Mumbai is situated), with the journey taking almost 7 hours along a mix of bumpy roads and tarmac highways interspersed with small villages, larger towns, fields and a log lorry plummeting down the swirling steep hillside into a small wall, yes, […]
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India – Kanha National Park
So, did park area 1 this afternoon (previous times were park 2) – much more mountainous, green and more water areas – up there with rock climbs of Samburu, and declines of a Disney roller coaster! Thank goodness our land rover jeep is made of sturdy stuff and coped with all thrown at it – […]
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India – more jungle …
So, after a good sleep in our little cottage, listening to the odd critter bleeping away and the whirr of our ceiling fan overhead (sounds authentic and tranquil right ….? ) we received our gentle ‘wake up’ knock on our front door at 5:15am …. ‘ello’ from Bhola, our butler – a change into ‘jungle […]
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India – Bandhavgarh jungle!
Hello from the Bandhavgarh jungle! Started an early morning flight from Delhi airport, Air India, having enjoyed a lovely McDonald’s before take off, lusting after t shirts in marks and spencer, accessories in Accesorize, soaps in Body Shop and all things that looked British (has it only been a week?!) … Flight very swift and […]
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India – Jaipur and Agra …
Good evening from Jaipur and Agra Well, Tuesday started early with collection from hotel at 5am. We were taken to the railway station by cox and kings transfer chap and escorted to our carriage on the Shatabdi Express – I have to say, on arrival at the station amidst sleeping bodies along the platform, […]
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India – Delhi – the start…
Greetings from Delhi – following day one of our official tour of India, book table for dinner, have tea and cookies, Indian meal in eve (most yummy!) and slept like logs in enormous VERY HARD bed in the Leela Palace; I am pleased to say, all is sunny, pretty hot and good ….. This […]