Postcard Scribbles

Notes from travels far and wide

Monthly Archive: February 2014

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Royal Chitwan National Park

This was our second safari expedition, the first one in Brazil didn’t go well (it was too cold and the animals were hiding), so we were hoping for better fortunes in this National Park...

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Pokhara

Pokhara is a lakeside town situated near the Annapurna range, where we would be trekking. It seemed a quiet town to leave, but morphed into a hub of civilisation upon our return from the...

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Trekking in the Himalayas

Nepal was not on our original travel list, but it is such a short hop away from India, it was too hard to resist. After some research, we decided on a trek in the...

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New Delhi

We stayed in Delhi three times over the course of our trip. We did A LOT! It started with a clothes trade show with cat walk parade. We met some of Leaflace’s closest work...

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Udaipur

We took a rather civilised train ride from Jaipur to reach Udaipur, the ‘Venice of India’!  We’ve not been to the Italian parallel, but Udaipur was wonderful. It has two large lakes which have...

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Jaipur

We passed some large, densely populated slums on our way into Jaipur, so we were not sure what to expect on our arrival. It ended up being the city which really encompassed what we...

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Fatehpur Sikri

Halfway through a misty drive from Agra to Jaipur, we stopped at Fatehpur Sikri, an old fort complex which was deserted many years ago. We took a tuk tuk to the entrance, and had...

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Agra

We were excited to enter Agra on its bumpy roads of mayhem, just minutes after exiting the clean open toll roads from New Delhi. The busy city was full of people, rickshaws, traders, cows,...