June 21: To Calcutta, India
We spent the first week of June in Kathmandu getting our visas for India -- once gotten, off we went... It took a couple of days to get to east Nepal due to transport strikes and a bus accident that was pretty bad. Once in India, we went up to Darjeeling, but there was also a stirke ... a pretty bad one. The state of Darjeeling wanted to be a separate entity. We had to leave being that we didn't want to sit around idle waiting for the indefinite strike to be over in order to catch a ride out. So we went to Calcutta -- a crazy, chaotic city stuffed to the brim with people and rubbish.
From Kathmandu, we went east making our way towards Calcutta in Inida. Yellow is our path in Nepal and Green is in India. Darjeeling is in the north (top of Green line).
Here's where Calcutta is in the overall map of India. Arrow indicates our direction after Calcutta. Being that it's summer and monsoon season, we're going to go north up to higher elevation where it's cooler and hopefully more dry. Eventually we'll be up in Ladakh.
Here's our path since Nov 1st 2007 starting in Bangkok, Thailand.
In Calcutta, there are many forms of transportation... here's one.
A taxi... pretty cool model.
Or an auto-rickshaw (very similar to tuk-tuk's in Thailand).
The best way... human power!
Truly human-powered! Wonder how they'd do with running shoes.
This is one of the ways to get around Calcutta....
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2008
2008
January
10: China Part I
16: China Part II
26: China Part III
February
6: China Part IV
End: China Part V
March
5: China Part VI
9: China Part VII
12: China Part VIII
24: We Make it to Tibet
April
2: We Arrive in Kathmandu
25: Back in Pokhara, Nepal
29: A Hotel in Pokhara
May
4: Back to Kathmandu
31: Trekked to Everest Base Camp
June
21: To Calcutta, India
25: More of Calcutta
July
12: Quick Trip to Thailand
August
8: Back to India
10: The Golden Temple
12: In Dharamsala, India
21: Marijuana in Manali
September
9: Northern India
22: More of Inida
October
3: Aswan & The Pyramids
4: Abu Simbel (Egypt)
7: Onward to Luxor
13: White Desert in The Sahara
20: Egypt's Awesome Beaches
November
30: 40 Days in the Desert
December
13: Jordan & Syria
18: Then Turkey
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