The border between India and Pakistan. Attari is the Indian side Wagar is the Pakistan side. Everynight they have a closing ceremony, on both sides, to officially close the border for the night. The ceremony is soo big they have built grandstands for the crowds that come everynight. It is pure Hollywood... I should say pure Monty Python. It reminded me of Monty Python doing the 'Ministry of silly walks'. It involved lots of goose stepping, stamping feet, high kic...

The Yoga capitol of the world. This is where the Beatles came in the 60s and wrote the White album. It is also where the Beach Boys came at the same time and learnt Transcendental Meditation. Others just came for the cheap drugs but they all became disillusioned and left eventually. John Lenin even wrote "You made a fool of everyone" about the Maharishi Yogi. It has taken me a 1hr ride on the local bus and 3hr walk to get here. Well Im actually not at Rishikesh a...

I was booked on the overnight bus so was killing time. I decided to get something to eat and headed down main bazar to find something. There was a bloke and his son cooking aloo tika that looked OK so I ordered some. He put on sauce that I didnt want so we had a fight about it and I stipidly took it cos he said it would be better with the sauce. The problem was a curd based sauce, I would NEVER have that type of sauce here. I scrapped most of it off and thought I...

Another day in Delhi so I went for another walk. This time I decided to head through the old part of town through some of the old bazars. You see pictures all the time of the jumble of power lines in India but it is really the case. And it goes for miles. As far as you can see there is a jumble of power cables and if someone wants a new connection they just add it on. There were rows of people selling fruit and veg, probably home grown, and tea and spice shops. W...

I arrived late into Delhi cos the train was late. The day before the trains were about 10 hr late cos of fog. I was only about 2 hr late. Luckily the hotel I booked is 24 hr cos a lot are not but when I got to my hotel they said the price was 495 rp not the 300 advertised on the net and confirmed in my email.I told them where to stick the booking and all of next week as well and set off looking for a hotel and it was just past midnite. After a few hastles with to...