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Debating Which is Faster-walking or an Indian Train-and Visiting Agra, home of the Taj Mahal
December 22, 2005
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'... even the most jaded of globe-trotters often find themselves smiling in wonder as they behold the Taj'. - Let's Go We’ll we showed up at the train station in Amritsar at 3:30PM for our 4:10PM train to Agra. Make that our 5:00 train… Actually 6:
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Amritsar – Finding Peace and Equality in a Temple Made of Gold
December 21, 2005
We arrived in Amritsar at night, and went directly to see the beautifully lit Golden Temple. Our next destination was Amritsar. This was not a night train, it took about 4 hours.…
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Exploring Delhi’s Red Fort & Jama Masjid, Lunch at Karim’s & Shopping in Chandi Chowk
December 19, 2005
The following day, we started out early to see the Red Fort. Our trusty driver didn’t know how to get there – he ended up paying an auto-rickshaw driver and following him.…
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First Day in Delhi-Trying to See the Sights for the Cows: Raj Ghat, India Gate, Qutb Minar, and Humayun’s Tomb
December 18, 2005
The next day, the first thing we did was head out into the city to find an ATM. At 8am on the weekend, Connaught Place was a ghost town. It to ok us about 4 ATM’s before we found one that accepted foreign cards.…
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Arranging a Flight and Staying at the Filthy Central Court Hotel, Delhi
December 17, 2005
We spent 3 weeks in India during Christmas 2005. We are backpackers, and stayed at budget places and ate at cheaper restaurants. We got around using a train pass. Getting There Getting tickets to go to Delhi at Christmas time was a little challenging.…
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Great Wall of China, Badaling, China
August 22, 2005
The following day we was our day to visit the Great Wall of China (at Badaling, the most accessible section from Beijing). The previous day, we had already scoped out the departure point for the public bus that we thought would take us to the Great Wall.…
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Can Tho, Mekong Delta
August 07, 2005
The last part of our trip took us down to the south of Vietnam to see the floating markets at Can Tho and the Mekong Delta. From Saigon, we took a very long bus trip on a very old bus.…
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Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) – Mme Cuc Guesthouse, Shoping, Sights
August 06, 2005
Staircase at Madame Cuc'sBack in Vietnam, the airport taxi in Saigon tried to rip us off – refusing to use the meter and wanting to charge an exorbitant rate. We bailed and got another taxi, which took us to our hotel in Pham Ngu Lao, Mme.…
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Hue
August 05, 2005
See all our Hue pictures here That evening we headed to Hue on the night train. We were supposed to get in at 8am, but various official-looking people told us different things about the actual arrival time and we finally got there mid-afternoon.…
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