Another fucking travel blog

Learn how to ride a motorbike – In our experience, exploring a region by motorbike is one of the best ways to see a country. View at Picasa Badass.15-Nov-2009 09:48, OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. u1030SW,S1030SW , 3.5, 5.0mm, ’0.004′ sec, ISO 80 addHSSlideshow(‘group1′); Sure, renting a bicycle is best if you’re only going a few kilometers [...]

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View at Picasa Compulsary pose05-Jul-2009 08:02, OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. u1030SW,S1030SW , 5.0, 5.0mm, ’0.003′ sec, ISO 80 addHSSlideshow(‘group2′); Let’s keep this short and not make it any harder than it has to be. You have a beautiful Taj, and you make great food, but baby, you drive me so crazy sometimes. In the end I’d [...]

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For anyone considering traveling to India, I beseech you, don’t come in the summer. It’s hot as balls and you won’t be able to enjoy 80% of the country. On the bright side, you can head to the mountains and enjoy the beautiful scenery, which due to snow, is inaccessible for most of the year. [...]

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Continuing on our escapades, we headed for the biggest and craziest city in India – Mumbai. Okay, we actually couchsurfed in a quiet suburb and left the very next day for Aurangabad. But don’t worry, we’ll be back to Mumbai soon enough. We went to Aurangabad to see the Ellora caves, a system of man [...]

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Don’t expect a correct response to your question – In Indian culture, it is considered rude or embarrassing to not know the answer when asked. For example, if you ask someone where the train station is, they’ll say just down the road and to the left. This might be completely wrong but to save face [...]

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Phew – two weeks in India down and we’re still alive and sane. The most common advice we got about traveling in India was, “Brace yourself. There is travel in the rest of the world and then there is India.” As a result, we decided to go straight to the beaches of Goa, the hippie [...]

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