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Tag Archives: India
Holi Smokes Batman!
Last week it was the Holi festival where people throw colourful powder and drench each other with water. I took a cycle ride through the Mehrauli area near the Qutab Minar monument just as the festivities were peaking in the morning.
Posted in Expedition Journal, India Also tagged celebration, colours, Cycling, festival, Food, holi, powder 1 Comment
Bureau (desk) crazy
I’m not talking about Ikea but the bureaucratic situation I face regarding visas. I’m in Delhi, I got a Pakistan visa about 2 weeks ago. I had applied for an Iran LOI (letter of invitation – required for the visa, through tour agency Stantours.com for a princely sum) and was waiting for the little code [...]
Posted in Constructive Ranting, Expedition Journal, India Also tagged Bureaucracy, Delhi Leave a comment
Frustration
Having arrived in Delhi, I had been wishfully thinking that I would pick up Pakistan and Iran visas again and make my way by public transport back to Turkey.
Posted in Expedition Journal, India Also tagged Borders, Bureaucracy, Caucasus, Challenge, Couchsurfing, Delhi, Embassy, Forgetfulness, Iran, Motivation, Music, Nepal, Pakistan, Productive, The Streets, Transition, Visas, Waiting Leave a comment
Leaving India and onward to Kathmandu
I arrived last night in the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu. The country holds great intrigue for me and my initial impressions do not disappoint. Kathmandu is a relaxed and historical place which, I get the inkling, has a great deal to offer for those who are willing to hang about and dig deeper below the [...]
Posted in Nepal Also tagged Borders, Buddhism, Bus, Chay, Cities, Clothes, Crafts, Cycling, Enlightenment, Extrawheel, Filming, Foam, Food, Gaffer Tape, Getting Lost, Happiness, Historical, Improvisation, Internet Cafe, Intrigue, Kathmandu, Lethargy, Mental State, Negativity, Nepal, Pedalling, Photography, Physical State, Relaxed, Risk, Silence, Stomach Bug, Street Food, Trekking Leave a comment
Varanasi
Breakfast is required. Slept in police station last night. Roti and Aloo Gobi – Chappati and fried cauliflower and potato. India republic day today. The police had a little ceremony putting the flag up, then ate loads of jelebi (gooey sweets). I cycled to Varanasi. Whilst getting there was too busy thinking about how great [...]
Posted in Expedition Journal Also tagged Aloo Gobhi, Cauliflower, Chappati, Crazy Traffic, Getting Lost, human, Jelebi, Mechanical, Police, Potato, Roti, Too busy thinking, Truck Crashes, Varanasi Leave a comment
Headspin
Macho, ego says: ‘what if you regret not continuing East?’ My heart says: ‘Go back to Georgia and then see what happens’ My realistic head says how? – 3 onward travel options: 1. Nepal, Tibet, China 2. Pakistan, Central Asia 3. Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Georgia 1. = Expensive, painful… 2. = Waiting until May to [...]
Posted in Expedition Journal Also tagged Central Asia, China, Continuing East, Different Route, Ego, Expensive, Filming, Georgia, Going Back, Hysteria, Intrigue, Iran, KKH, Lateral Thinking, Macho, Nepal, Onward Travel, Painful, Pakistan, Paranoia, Photography, Reversal, Sensible, Tibet, Turkey, Visas, Waiting Leave a comment
Indian Food
Indian food is addictive. To start with it’s like ‘curry for breakfast,lunch and dinner’ – hmmmm…. But Indian food isn’t really about just eating for the need of it. It’s an experience of taste bud adventure pretty much every meal. In fact the whole Indian experience is a bit like a macrocosm of the eating [...]
Posted in Expedition Journal, India Also tagged Acceptance, Addictive, Adventure, Aloo, Aromatic, Begging, Bikaner, Breaking Preconceptions, Buffalo, Burning, Carelessness, Chappati, Childlike, Children, Chocolate Brownie, Christmas, Chutney, Concoction, Confusion, Cool, Creamy, Curry, Detoxification, Dhaal, Dirty, Disgust, Donnie Darko, Douk, Eating, Entertainment, Experience, Farting, Food, God, Gormlessness, Happiness, Helplessness, Hot, Hotels, Hunger, Indian Food, Jainism, Lime, Macrocosm, Mangoes, Memory, Monkeys, Mountains, Nutty, Observation, Opium, Overload, Phlegm, Pickle, Pilgrims, Police, Pungent, Radish, Rangy, Raw Onions, Rice, Richie Hawtin, Rough, Rubbish, Sabzi, Salt, Shampoo, Sleeping, Smoking, Smooth, Smugness, Soup, Sour, Spicy, Spitting, Stomach, Sunset, Tasty, Tractors, Vegetables, Visions, Washing, Waste, Whisky, Wild, Wonderment 3 Comments
Air pollution becomes an everyday problem
I have noticed quite clearly that since I entered Pakistan and India the significant drop in air quality in general. In Pakistan if I blew my nose I would get similar coloured nasal mucus to if I had spent a day in Central London.
Posted in Expedition Journal, Hungary, India Also tagged Adolescence, Air Pollution, Air Quality, Bizarre, Black Mucus, Brick Furnaces, Burning, Busy, Central London, Chimneys, Climate Change, Communication, Conversation, Cross-Culture, Degradation, Development, Diesel, Disgust, Fire, Grunting, Hysteria, Illness, Industry, Instincts, Locals, Lonely Planet, Marbles, Pakistan, Particulate Air Pollution, People, Pollution, Primitive, Smoking, Spitting, Staring, Survival, Toilet, Tourism, Traffic, Urbanisation, Western, Westernisation 2 Comments
India, Amritsar – The Golden Temple – A Photo Essay