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The flying carpet diary: Atari / Wagah border
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The flying carpet diary. View Map journey 2009-2010. In a larger map. Monday, December 6, 2010. Atari / Wagah border. Some km-s from Amritsar, there is Pakistan border and the only crossing to Pakistan is through Wagah /Atari border point. Every day thousands of Indian people and foreigners are going to the border, but not to cross it, but to witness the unbelievable border ceremony that is taking place there at sunset. Women section on Pakistan side. Men section on Pakistan side. Before the ceremony sta...
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The flying carpet diary: November 2009
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The flying carpet diary. View Map journey 2009-2010. In a larger map. Sunday, November 29, 2009. Seamed the most suitable phrase for them to say. Bunch of english students, who found common language with us. The picture of Iranian streets is not THAT colorful. A shopkeeper who was so pleased to have us as costumers. Shifted us few centuries back in time. Queue waiting for the fresh bread. Very nice things started to happen! Great days are always the greatest - Kadri got a present from two Teheranian girl...
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The flying carpet diary: July 2010
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The flying carpet diary. View Map journey 2009-2010. In a larger map. Saturday, July 24, 2010. Goa is a main destination of most western tourists. SInce Goa is mostly christian, it is not uncommon to see. Indian women in western clothes instead of sarees. Traditional Goan food - Baji. Goan coffee - warm milk with 1teaspoon of coffee powder. We first went to Calangute, since we had arranged a couch there - a Turkish-Polish couple, living in Goa and teaching yoga. In the bus station. One day, when going ou...
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The flying carpet diary: May 2010
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The flying carpet diary. View Map journey 2009-2010. In a larger map. Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Like most of Tamil Nadu cities, also Madurai is famous for its huge and grandiose temple complex. All the carvings and details on the temple complex buildings are truly amazing. Sewing and market section in the temple. Birthday dosa. Probably the cooks knew about the birthday, because it was the biggest dosa in Kadri's whole life. Our waiter ;-). The "Banana leaf restaurant". We reached to the most southern tip...
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The flying carpet diary: October 2009
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The flying carpet diary. View Map journey 2009-2010. In a larger map. Thursday, October 29, 2009. Last stop in Turkey. Hitchhiking in turkey is so easy - does not matter if you are 1, 2, 3 people, even if it is two men and one woman. It did not take too much time after we were all three picked up from the place where Onder left us. The longest ride was with the bus - for free of course. When we hitchhiked a turkish car, the driver said: Kurdisatan - problem! Murat camping was at the same time organizing ...
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The flying carpet diary: August 2010
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The flying carpet diary. View Map journey 2009-2010. In a larger map. Tuesday, August 24, 2010. First we wanted to make a stop in a hill station Mt. Abu just south of Rajasthan. Mt Abu has become another tourist hub, because of the higher altitude and thus better climate. To enter to Mt. Abu, white people have to pay a fee 10 Rupees, so did we. But we had no idea when paying, that our stay will be very short. The reason was that the government wanted to change Mt. Abu into eco-sensitive zone. Later on we...
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The flying carpet diary: October 2010
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The flying carpet diary. View Map journey 2009-2010. In a larger map. Sunday, October 17, 2010. Then when you manage to enter the train, reach to your place through the crowd standing in the aisle and see that already five indians are sitting on your double seat, your brain wakes you up and fighting hormones rush into the blood. It took us some 10 min to gain victory over our place, that we had bought. But within this 10 min we lost at least 10 000 nerve cells each. Taj Mahal and the slum in front of it.
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The flying carpet diary: March 2010
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The flying carpet diary. View Map journey 2009-2010. In a larger map. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Ganga river at the dawn. Varanasi was surely one of the most unrealistic place, that we happen to visit during our trip. No wonder Timothy Leary, writer, psychologist and researcher of psychedelic drugs, went to Varanasi to test the effect of LSD on himself. Varanasi is simply high concentration of absurdity of all life. The most everyday life of Varanasi is going on on ghats - stairs of the river bank. Every d...
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The flying carpet diary: December 2009
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The flying carpet diary. View Map journey 2009-2010. In a larger map. Thursday, December 31, 2009. Our hosts in Esfahan were young newly married couple - Shahram and Bahareh. As they were honoring all the islamic traditions then even a handshake between Kadri and Shahram or Branko and Bahareh was totally out of topic. Otherwise the atmosphere in their home was very relaxing. Even with an afternoon nap! Sio-Seh Pole, thirty three arches, about 300 m long bridge, no water in the river at this season. There...
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The flying carpet diary: November 2010
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The flying carpet diary. View Map journey 2009-2010. In a larger map. Thursday, November 4, 2010. Agra, Delhi and Jaipur should not be a "must" when traveling to India, but Amritsar should! It was definitely one of the most spiritual experiences and highlights of our Indian trip. We were only sorry, that our flight back to Europe didn't depart from there. It would have been a perfect ending of our journey. So why was it that we were so much fascinated about the city;. Even in Golden Temple area people ha...
