Travel Indochina is excited to announce the launch of its new Handmade Holidays: India & the Maldives brochure.
The brochure is currently being distributed to travel agencies across Australia. The Travel Indochina Handmade Holidays range provides travellers with a specially-selected range of travel products from across India.

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I'm really sad because about 200 photos somehow disappeared from one of my picture cards...so no photos of the Bird's Lagoon, the backwaters, or most of my travels across Kerala. I am usually really good about backing up but what with staying in remote places and the lack of good efficient internet services - I let 200 photos accumulate and now they are gone.

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I spent three nights (16,17,18) with no electricity in the woods and it was really fun. Once again the location is not on the travelblog available locations list but it was near to Silent Valley (which unfortunately I could not visit because it is the bad season (monsoon).

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Je suis de retour a Mumbai et j'ai trouve de l'internet convenable alors ce post est pour toi car je sais que tu adores ce genre de chose. It is very delicious and good looking place for all who is come here.

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Our school's midterm break arrived and a group of us decided to go to the Himalayan hill station of Ranikhet, in Uttaranchal state. To get there, we took a seven hour train and then it was a two hour drive up the mountain, which was basically a 60 km series of switchbacks. Our trains going to and returning from were both overnight sleeper style.

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Well... It's been awhile since we added to the blog. In actual time we have traveled through India, Seattle for two weeks, Mexico for our amazing wedding on the beach of San Pancho, honeymooned in Cancun, and are currently writing to you from Justices cousins home in Ipswich England. We are now married and back on track, delivering the next installment of ... Where Are They Now.

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Keith Lotman went to New Delhi on a two-week business trip. But a quick day of sightseeing in India's capital city left him enthralled and ready to see more of the country. "I have about a hundred different places that I'd like to visit," said Lotman, 31, a business executive from Philadelphia, as he checked out the world's largest Bahai temple in New Delhi. "A hundred different kinds of experiences."

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It takes at least 2-3 days to get fully adjusted to the time difference between the US and south Asia. I woke up way too early the first morning and used the time to take a driving tour of the city. One of the sites we saw was a fishing village right on the beach where they had tall racks full of drying fish. A lot of Bombay reminded me of a post on deputy-dog.com showing the contrasting pictures between rich and poor.

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Of course me being me I left everything that I wanted to do in Shimla till the last day which meant that it would be a long day but hopefully exciting. After class Michelle, Ben and I went to the High Court of Himachal Pradesh which is the state Shimla is in and since Shimla is the capital they have their high court within the city. Ben and I were dressed like shlumps, I had no choice as all my stuff was packed away in my bags since we were leaving the next day for Dharmasala. When we got to the High Court.

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Today was our first full day in Dharmasala. I woke up to a large monkey staring in to my window. I jumped back a little bit and it was a great way to start my day. I then had some breakfast with Sarah who happened to be down there after I went on the internet. After breakfast I went upstairs to get my books and then downstairs to where our mock classroom would be. As it turned out we didn’t have any chairs so for 3+ hours I sat on a mat on the floor typing on my lap.

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We got our first real taste of the city yesterday—at a stop light. On our way to the Nehru Zoological Park, eight of us crammed into a taxi van, the windows were down and our spirits were up. In the States, saying “no” to a vendor can typically ensure that he or she will leave you alone and move on to the next perspective buyer, but here in India it’s a totally different story.

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The mix of animals, traffic and people in New Delhi is fascinating any day of the week. When I lived there, pulling up alongside an elephant at a traffic light did happen. Avoiding hitting the cows that meandered at the sides of the roads was a daily venture. Once, our car grazed a cow just as it twitched its hind end towards traffic. When the side-view mirror was snapped off, my husband quipped, "It must have been in a reflective mood."

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So the rafting trip was rescheduled for today and the weather appeared to be cooperating with us so far. I got up at around 715pm, got ready for the rafting, packed the necessities and went down for some breakfast. We were supposed to leave by 8am, but everyone was late including the tour company who arranged the jeeps for us to take.

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Well after I left the internet cafe, I got a rickshaw back to the apartment. When I got back Rahul had informed me that his parents were coming to stay with him for a few days. This meant space would be tight. There would be six of us now in the small 500 square foot, one bedroom apartment. I still had a place to sleep so I wasn’t bothered by it and was actually excited to have a chance to meet his parents.

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Spiked wheels crunching through snow was the only sound we heard for miles. I find myself riding in an archaic Ford, adventuring through arctic Sweden on our date with a frozen lake. The manual gear shift was a metal rod sticking out between both seats. The steering wheel had no protective leather cover.

“You’ll be fine,” my intrepid driver assured me, seconds before a potentially harrowing head-on collision with a snowmobile that magically appeared. The passengers sped off, unfazed.

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