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Category Archives: India
What This Book Is Not
A book about India. An epic adventure tale.
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Things I Love about Travelling in India
Is India the most colourful, mad, exciting country in the world? Probably.
Here are ten things I love about it.
Try Travelling With A One Way Ticket
I don’t know where I am. My feet hurt. My shirt is heavy with sweat. It’s been a hard day. I have walked since dawn, about eight hours, down red dusty tracks beside the sliding green waters of the Kaveri River. I am hiding from the sun in the shade of a chai stall, enjoying [...]
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Photo Friday Story – Exploring Sikkim
Istvan Hernadi is a Canadian adventurer and photographer. Here’s his Photo Friday story: Exploring Sikkim with friends I met in Gangtok helped me learn about the culture of an ancient kingdom populated by the peaceful and shy Lepcha people who continue with their Buddhist traditions in the foothills of the Himalayas. I shall return to [...]
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Top 10 bits of kit for a long walk
10 of the best bits of kit that I took to India. 1. Orthotic insoles and trainers Profeet and Mizuno Wave Inspire 5 £149 (insoles and fitting), £68 / 252 grams (shoe) I used to associate long distance running and walking with inevitable injuries and pain. No longer. Since I began using Profeet’s orthotic insoles [...]
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Kit selection for a walk across India
The night train thunders past. The vibrations shake the ground I am lying on through my small inflatable mattress. My head rests on my rucsack. From the darkness I snatch glimpses into the brightly lit carriages. As suddenly as it arrived, the train is gone. The darkness and the silence it leaves behind feel more [...]
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A Short Walk through India
I had never heard of the Kaveri River until I decided to walk across India. I could only squeeze a 6-week trip into my calendar so I cast my eye southwards down India’s triangular shape until I reached a latitude I reckoned I could get across in the time available. And that is how I [...]
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Photo Friday: Urine pass is prohibited at this place
One of India’s wonderful roadside signposts that helped the kilometres pass less painfully during my recent walk through India. DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.
A bit of a catch up
I’ve just arrived back in London. I had to return home from India earlier than planned, but it was still an excellent trip. I completed the walk as planned and I’ve got lots of material that I’ll be putting up on the site over the coming weeks. The most exciting thing that’s happening at the [...]
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Walking across India
The river Kaveri is one of the 5 great holy rivers of India, revered by pilgrims for centuries. From its source amongst the coffee and cardoman plantations in the cool hills of the Western Ghats, the river flows 500 miles across southern India towards the hot plains of Tamil Nadu and the Bay of Bengal. [...]
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