After the peace and quiet of the Himalayas, we were very reluctant to head back onto the Indian Plains. We broke up the trip to the capital by stopping in Chandigarh, home to great Le Corbusier architecture and, as it turned out, the largest recycling program in the world. A Pakistani-turned-Indian started using building rubble to create sculptures and structures in the forest outside the city in the late 1950's without anyone knowing about it. After more than ...

Northern North India - difficult to get to, easy to stay. A place to find your inner self (again). One of our EHT goals (yes, we still have these!) was to find our soul again. We had lost some of it in Hong Kong due to working hours, lack of time to spend with others or just plain keeping in touch with your inner self - you know, the stuff that you pay a therapist thousands to help you stay "centered". So during the trip we have kind of been hoping ...

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I was just reading trough the message board and realized that some of you must have missed the comment we wrote on the message board about the visa and the Don. So please see below! We are pleased to let you know that in the end the Don did not require anything else and that we were able to extend our visas (without any fee!!) till 10Aug. It seems that he meant we should bring him a souvenir FROM South Africa the next time we come TO India. Forgive us - some...

After the mind blowing madness that was Varanasi, we were on an overnight train to Agra. Generally, travelers claim that there aren't many reasons to go to Agra. The people hassle you for your money, it is unbearably hot this time of year, there are more scams to separate tourist buck from tourist wallet than in most other cities, and the accommodation and food is much more expensive than in other places. The only thing that attracts Indian and foreign tourists...