Mumbai was calling, so we caught the train to Delhi, and spent a night in Nizamuddin West before taking another train to Mumbai. Hazrat Nizamuddin is one of five major railway stations in Delhi, and Nizamuddin West is a well-preserved…
Mooji, Prem Baba, and Shantimayi (Celebrity Gurus of Rishikesh): Day 840-877 (Jan 17-Feb 23, 2016)
Mooji was one of the main reasons we went to Rishikesh – Mooji and Prem Baba. Both are celebrity gurus, who spend a short season in Rishikesh each year in the spring. When we arrived in January, Prem Baba’s team…
Chandigarh – Day 864-868 (Feb 11-14, 2016): Smelling The Roses
We took a quick trip to Chandigarh to visit a friend. Chandigarh is on the plains of Punjab, and was planned by French town planners. It has a completely different feel from a regular Indian city. The streets are wide,…
The Golden Temple, Amritsar – Day 867 (Feb 13, 2016)
The Golden Temple is the spiritual heart of the Sikh religion. When we went to Chandigarh to visit our friend, Dan, he insisted that we must see the Golden Temple at least once in our lives. The Sikh religion is…
Rishikesh, India – Day 840-860 (Jan 17-Feb 6, 2016): The Monkeys of Rishikesh
Rishikesh has a LOT of monkeys. It is in the mountains, with plenty of national parks nearby. There is an endless supply of soft-hearted or soft-headed tourists, who can be cajoled or tricked into giving the monkeys food. And there…
Rishikesh – Day 839 (Jan 16, 2016): Satsang With Prem Baba, And Monkeys
The next day, we went to our first satsang with Prem Baba. It was so bitterly cold in the hall that Jenny went out to the nearest shawl vendor, and bought the warmest shawl she could with the 1400 rupees…
Rishikesh, India: Day 837-838 (Jan 14-15, 2016): Discovering Ganga Ma
We arrived in Rishikesh late at night and very hungry. Our guesthouse had a policy of locking the shutters on the front doors at 9:30pm, but it was after that time when we arrived, and we hadn’t eaten. The dedicated…
India: Day 835-838 (Jan 12- 15, 2016): Back to India!
We made a strategic error in booking our flights from The Maldives back to India – we took the cheapest combination of flights, which resulted in us taking three two-hour flights over one night, with layovers of 2-3 hours in…
Trivandrum, Capital of Kerala – Day 812-22 (Dec 21-Dec 31, 2015)
We had promised to visit a friend (Vimal) in Kerala for Christmas. One of those travelling tales – we bought a SIM card in Kuala Lumpur, got chatting with the guy in the shop, and found out he was from…
Panjim (Panaji), Capital of Goa – Day 805-811 (Dec 14-20, 2015)
Panjim is in a beautiful location – the centre of the city is on a peninsula, at the point where two rivers meet and empty into a vast estuarine bay. On the west coast, ocean waves break against orange-yellow sand dunes,…