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I know it doesn’t justice the extremely wide range of sights and activities that the subcontinent offers, but not every one can spend two years traveling all around India and explore every corner of this huge country. I had the chance to spend three weeks in Inida back in 2011 so I tried to make the … Continue reading »

Delhi, Agra and Jaipur – that’s the three cities that make up the world famous Indian Triangle. It’s called like that because of the triangular shape formed by these three locations. It’s not only popular because of the relative proximity of the three cities (between 4 to 6 hours from one to another by bus … Continue reading »

Jaipur is part of India’s world famous Golden Triangle, along with Delhi (270 km north) and Agra (220 km east). On my first trip to India in 2011 I spend three weeks mainly traveling around India’s north and obviously Jaipur as part of the Golden Triangle was a must-visit. I arrived in Jaipur on an … Continue reading »

Varanasi is maybe the most extreme city that I visited in India. Everything that I found to be “typical Indian” during my travel around the subcontinent is concentrated in this melting pot on the Ganges River around 700 km east of Delhi. On my overnight train trip from Agra and the Taj Mahal to Varanasi … Continue reading »

Frankly speaking my stay in India’s capital has not been one of my highlights in India. New Delhi is extremely hectic, not very clean in most parts, full of tourist scams and just huge and extremely crowded with more than 14 million citizens (2013). I was told that all before I visited so I knew … Continue reading »

The camel safari in the Thar Desert has been an experience that I didn’t really expect like that. When I thought of India, the picture of turbans camels, and sandstone buildings just didn’t come into my mind. But that’s how it actually is on the western end of the state Rajasthan, less than 100 km … Continue reading »