Travel Costs: India Budget Update
We’re continuing to post our spending numbers as a resource for other travelers. Here is a breakdown of what we spent for two people …
2013
Holy Cow: 10 Sanity-Saving India Travel Tips
We spent 6 weeks in India. Even though we went there as fairly experienced travelers and Jordan had been there before, India …
Home Cooking, Mumbai Style
Four years ago, I landed in Mumbai on a trip for work. It was my first time traveling outside of the U.S. …
The Golden Temple: How did we almost miss this?
“It’s better than the Taj Mahal.” We heard this from not one, not two, but at least five different people while we …
Bedlam at the Border
If you find yourself watching burly moustachioed men goose stepping with rifles a stone’s throw from the Pakistani border, you might think …
That week we were hippies in India
Dharamsala / McLeod Ganj is an interesting little town in the Himalayas. It’s really more Tibet than India. Makes sense, as this has …
Udaipur: “We’re the only idiots here — and it’s great!”
India is a place where vacation itineraries come to die, or perhaps be reincarnated. Plans have a way of morphing and changing. …
The Taj: Breathtaking beauty and romantic love (the building, not us)
One of the best things about this trip is the chance to experience a whole year’s worth of milestones and mundane things …
Varanasi, Holy City on the Ganges
[O]lder than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together. — Mark …
When in India, head for the hills!
After our wild ride in Calcutta, we were so ready to beat the heat, the crowds, and the pollution of the big …
Crazy for Cricket
I don’t think I can set the scene for our first cricket match better than Bobilli Vijay Kumar did in his Sunday …
India…OMG
India. It defies description. Like music, or love, or the color red, explaining doesn’t quite do it; you have to experience it …