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Delhi, India. January 2014

Posted on January 26, 2014August 15, 2015 by SvetaNYC

January 19, 2014 Sunil and I left Mandawa in the morning, shortly after the breakfast. After 16 days in Rajasthan and 35 days in India, it was my final road trip before reaching Delhi. Despite all the extremes that happened to me in Rajasthan, I made a right decision to come there and see with my own eyes…

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Mandawa, India. January 2014

Posted on January 19, 2014January 27, 2015 by SvetaNYC

January 18, 2014 Pictures of Mandawa Before an incident in Jodhpur, I planned to leave Bikaner for Amritsar, but after spending a month in India and witnessing first handedly the attitude of Indian men and dangers that traveling alone presented, I decided not to part with Sunil and my car and have him drive me…

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Bikaner, India. January 2014

Posted on January 18, 2014January 27, 2015 by SvetaNYC

January 16, 2014 Pictures from Bikaner Having been told a day prior that Bikaner, a city about 330 kms away from Jaisalmer, was having a yearly Bikaner Camel Festival, Shu and I decided to drive there as soon as possible. Against Sunil’s pleas to leave at the later hour, we embarked on the trip at…

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Jaisalmer, India. January 2014

Posted on January 16, 2014January 27, 2015 by SvetaNYC

January 13, 2014 Pictures of Sam Sands Dunes and Jaisalmer.  Sunil and I left Jodhpur at 6 am because I have booked an overnight camel safari out of Jaisalmer (280 kms away) and had to be there by 1 pm to register and check-in. Nico has decided to come with me on the safari, since…

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Jodhpur, India. January 2014

Posted on January 14, 2014May 16, 2017 by SvetaNYC

January 11, 2014. Pictures from Jodhpur. After spending 5 days in the old Mewar kingdom (Chittorgarh, Udaipur and Kumbhalgarh), it was time to move on and get acquainted with Mewar’s arch-enemy – the Marwar dynasty and its capital Jodhpur. Second largest city in Rajasthan, Jodhpur has a few names and all of them are correct….

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Kumbhalgarh and Ranakpur, India. January 2014

Posted on January 12, 2014January 27, 2015 by SvetaNYC

January 11, 2014 Pictures. The great advantage of having a chauffeured car in India is freedom – freedom to drive anywhere, stop for as long as you wish and more importantly, flexibility to come up with a new destination a few days or hours prior, pointed it to your driver and have him get you…

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Udaipur, India. January 2014

Posted on January 11, 2014January 27, 2015 by SvetaNYC

Pictures. January 9, 2014 After a good and warm night of rest, delicious home-cooked breakfast and a thoughtful present from an affectionate and beautiful Parvati’s daughter, it was time to say goodbyes to the magnificent Chittorgarh fort and follow the steps of Maharana Udai Singh II, who in 1568 abandoned the fort for good and…

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Chittorgarh, India. January 2014

Posted on January 9, 2014January 27, 2015 by SvetaNYC

January 8, 2014 After observing the early morning rituals by the holy Pushkar lake, Sunil and I continued our car journey through Rajasthan  and proceeded to another spectacular site, usually skipped by most travelers, Chittorgarh Fort.  Located about 180 kms from Pushkar, Chittorgarh is the largest fort complex in India regarded as the epitome of…

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Ajmer and Pushkar, India. January 2014.

Posted on January 8, 2014January 27, 2015 by SvetaNYC

January 7, 2014 After 3 fantastic days in Jaipur, I had to abandon the world of luxuries and start a real road-trip around Rajasthan.  On January 7, I planned to pay a visit to two most important religious sites in Rajasthan – Ajmer and its Dargah of the Sufi’s saint Khwaja Muin-ud-din Chishti  and an ancient…

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Jaipur, India. January 2014

Posted on January 6, 2014August 15, 2015 by SvetaNYC

A drive from Kushalnagar to Bangalore’s airport took 6 hours and, because our car broke in the middle of the city, we sadly weren’t able to meet up with Kunal, our Oxford classmate. We arrived just in time to catch our flights; I was going to Jaipur and Dimitris was heading back to Delhi. After…

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