Tag: India
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Extraordinary Travelers – Cosmas the Flat Earther
He was not the person that ‘cosmology’ was named after, though it was one of his passions.
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Vagobond Travel Museum – Curating travel around the web
Each Friday, I will bring you the highlights here at the Vagobond Travel Museum.
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4 Great Musical Acts Who Found Inspiration Through Travel
The best musicians take inspiration from their surroundings: so if you’re starting to find that you have songwriters block, it might just be time to strap on that backpack and…
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Best Hotel in the World- Oberoi Udaivilas in Udaipu, India
What is the world’s nicest hotel? The best hotel in the world is the Oberoi Udaivilas according to this guest writer.
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Palampur, India – Kangra Tea and Lord Shiva’s House
This guest post comes from Srishti Jha, a writer and traveler in India. Srishti introduces Vagobond readers to the beauty and wonders of Palampur, India.
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Dharbanga, India – Home of the Ramayana
World travel begins with where you live and this guest post from Gunjan Priya highlights one of the most significant cities in India you may have never heard of. Dharbanga.
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Making Money While Traveling – A Few Ideas
Earning money while you are traveling the world isn’t as hard as you might think it is. Of course, making a lot of money…
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Stargate found in Peru
A huge mysterious door-like structure has recently been discovered in the Hayu Marca mountain region of Southern Peru. Hayu Marca, 35 kilometres from the city of Puno has long been…
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Carniverous Cows…Run for your life!!!!
It’s happening. I knew it would eventually come to this. I’ve had nightmares about it for years….the carnivorous calf has been born. Now many others will follow and we will…
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'Hepburn dress' school opens up
Wow. This is great, but what a crazy world we live in where one dress equals fifteen schools…. The first of more than a dozen schools to be built with…
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Could "RDB Phenomenon" occur in US?
The Chairman and I had the good fortune to attend a screening of Rang de Basanti last evening at the Honolulu International Film Festival. Rang de Basanti (Hindi for ‘color…
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Nurturing nonchalance about condoms in Andhra Pradesh
A public health intervention that makes sense?? Can hardly believe it. Right on. A truck driver’s assistant blows up a condom during an AIDS awareness campaign organised by a non-governmental…
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'Hitler' restaurant to change name
I blogged about all the controversey with this restaurant a few days ago. Not that you would have noticed unless you tuned in when the duelling server carrying that story…
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Coca Cola and Pepsi Banned from southern Indian state
From an organization I’ve had some involvement with – Global Exchange. If your’e prone like me to want to stop corporate growth and greed you might find it inspirational. …
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Approval for Trade #3 —The Red Devil for PEZ!!!!! Not…trade scratched
I’ve had some great offers for the Red Devil of R.A. Miller. I was offered a car, a mobile home (without land), 3 months free room and board in Indiana,…
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India tries to chase monkeys from trains – Yahoo! News
They look pretty nice to me, but apparently they scare the hell out of Monkeys…they look sort of like those little pencil trolls…don’ t you think? cd NEW DELHI –…
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Sunday in Hawaii, Trees, snot, stars, canoes, and Superheroes
Grossology Had a very nice weekend and found some great things to let Hawaiichicken readers know about. Saturday evening we had dinner at a GREAT Indian restaurant in Waikiki. India…
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The Incredible Ice Cream Drunken Driver
Okay…I’ve been pretty lax on my homework….here are the stories I have been following the past several days… cd Dennis Cogburn likes to do things in the good old-fashioned cowboy…
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India's eunuchs seek new way
Castrated males are no longer recognized as male by Indian law, nor are they considered female. Sudha is dusky and wears a salwar kameez, a traditional dress for women in…
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Singing Tibetan nuns finish epic trek
I can’t help but picture “The Sound of Music….” Two Tibetan nuns have arrived in a hill town in northern India to meet their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. They…
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Do you like to Party?
This looks pretty cool. Jason in Arizona sent me this link hoping that Mink Hippie and I would write about some of our burning man experiences last year or maybe…
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Afghanistan's feared woman warlord
I’m fascinated by “bandit queens.” You may have heard of India’s famous Bandit Queen, Phoolan Devi. (A movie has been made of her life – it was well done, but…
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All Headline News – Penmanship And Languages Are Highly Important At Indian School – March 10, 2006
(Thanks to Chuck for sending this our way…I wish I could do this…I can barely speak English, let alone write… cd All Headline News – Penmanship And Languages Are Highly…
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Arundhati Roy on Bush in India: "Just Not Welcome"
I am a big fan of Arundhati Roy’s writing and of her political sentiments. Here’s a lovely example of both. (And if you haven’t, read her heartbreaking The God of…
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