Back in Bombay for a day, I was staying in a totally different part of town, not too far from the airport. I used Uber to get to the hostel, which needs a bigger sign (I was standing in front of it and couldn’t find it). I was definitely feeling sick at this point and…
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From McLeod Ganj, I needed to go back to Amritsar. My original plan for India had included more of the “kill myself” type of travel I’d done at the beginning, seeing Jaipur (another fort city in Rajasthan state) and then Rann of Kutch (giant salt flats where the horizon becomes indistinguishable) and Bhuj, both in…
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After running myself ragged for most of my time in India, I needed a change of pace. I stayed in Amritsar 2 nights, which was the longest I’d slept in a bed for a while. I also wanted to see something different, instead of more Rajasthan (I’d planned to go to Jaipur next). I was…
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Amritsar is another “can’t get there from here” route to the city. I sleep better on trains than buses, but the trains run to the city of Jalandar, about an hour’s drive to the east. No worries. In my group of 6 beds, there was only 1 person there, when I got on the train….
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To say that I had an interesting time getting to Bikaner, in western Rajasthan state, would be an understatement. After getting to my bus spot quite early, I realized there was no station at all. It was just an intersection, and you stand on the corner, waiting. And waiting. The bus never came. Luckily, there…
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