Tag: India
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Incredible Indian Food!
Read more: Incredible Indian Food!Traditionally, we tend to do our food posts closer to the end of our stays in a country so that we compile a number of eating experiences, but we thought – “why wait until the end of our stay? Let’s do some cooking right now!” As mentioned in previous posts, our Couchsurfing hosts, Ravi, Anju…
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A Perfect Valentine’s Day Love Story
Read more: A Perfect Valentine’s Day Love StoryHappy Valentine’s Day! What better way to celebrate the holiday of love than to visit a monument of love! We walked to the Taj Mahal at 7:00 in the morning from our hotel which was only 500 meters away. The first word that came to mind when I saw it was “WOW.” It was stunning! Everything…
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Agra-cadabra!
Read more: Agra-cadabra!After a smooth train trip from Jaipur, we “magically” appeared in Agra…without even using that trusted magical phrase “abracadabra”! Agra was our second stop in the “north India triangle”. This “little town” of 1.2 million people is almost 1/2 the size of Canada’s largest city, Toronto! Having settled into our hotel, Katina found a well-rated…
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Barefoot Learning
Read more: Barefoot LearningWe have really enjoyed our time in Jaipur; it’s a lovely city with some really nice tourist attractions that Oliver, Mik and Zoe have shared. Lucky for us, while staying at the Jaipur Friendly Villa, our hosts Shveta and Kul shared with us a remarkable story about a college that has transformed a nearby village,…
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Shop Around the Block!
Read more: Shop Around the Block!An incredible form of art we saw while in Jaipur was block printing. This is where wooden stamps are used to make designs on textiles. To learn more about this art form, we went to the Anokhi museum which had information on the history and recent uses of block painting. The museum is in an…