Travel
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Day 11 – Varanasi – The Ganges and a surprise rooftop patio
We met the group at 6 for our sunrise boat tour on the Ganges. Again, just incredible and surreal. Our CEO explained about the bacteria in the Ganges that eats other bacteria and viruses, which I had seen in a… Continue reading
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Day 10 – Waking up on the train / Varanasi
We all slept well on the overnight train. I was woken up by hands under my sheet, which freaked me out, I lifted my eye mask and it was just Derek. Phew! It was 6 am. I slept for a… Continue reading
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Day 9 – Orchha and the Overnight Train
We didn’t have to meet our group till 11 am, so we all figured it would be great to sleep in. 6:30 am hit and speakers came on with a man speaking Hindi. Followed by a female singing. It stopped… Continue reading
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Day 8 – Orchha, The hidden city
The group met at 7am to head to the train station. We would get some food on the train, so we wouldn’t be having breakfast at the hotel like we had been every day so far.We got to the train… Continue reading
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Day 7 – The Taj Mahal
Pretty uneventful drive, except our CEO losing his footing on the bus (I think we swerved to avoid a cow).We got to Agra and immediately went to the Red Fort. It was something out of Indiana Jones, with stories like… Continue reading
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Day 6 – Getting Lost in Jaipur
We were supposed to be up at 5 to go for a hot air balloon ride, but it was cancelled due to the weather. Instead we were out by 8. We visited the Amber Fort, but on the way we… Continue reading
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Day 5 – First Day in Jaipur
We left Delhi at 8 am on the bus. As we left the hotel, we all noticed there was a metal detector built into the doorway. Outside there were women with children and babies begging for money. When we boarded… Continue reading
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A walk on the street coming back from dinner
We went out for dinner as a group and on the way back I fired up the GoPro and this is what it caught. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhkhG0W_euI Continue reading
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Day 4 – Delhi Explored
Morning [JB] Neither of us slept well. We arrived to Hotel Perfect at midnight and went straight to bed. The room is big, but everything in the room aside from the TV seems pretty old. The windows aren’t well sealed… Continue reading
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Day 3 – Sunday Still Going
Day 3[DB] Due to the time difference we decided to start Day 3 as we got on our plane to Delhi, so following on from the last post we got to Gate 71 pretty fast, yes I was a little… Continue reading
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Packed
With lots of room for things we will buy we are packed, packing the daypack was the hardest. Jenn has been sick the past few days but is slowly mending. The countdown is really on now. Continue reading
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