“I spent the whole day clicking photos and documenting the big ceremony at the Kasha monastery. It was snowing and I was struggling with the sub-zero temperatures. It was so cold that the pixels on the monitor would freeze!”, narrates Rahul, about yet another day at his work. Meet Rahul Datta of Starving Artist...
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That is me, holding the earmuffs and wearing my cleanest boiler suit, against the backdrop of I-don’t-remember-which-place-it-is! And that is how my life used to look like, before I decided to quit and started searching for the best travel job! My Life as a Marine Engineer Dirty, sweaty and noisy are a few of...
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How can one miss the gorgeous golden or organgish sunrises of Varanasi while staying there?!! If you are looking for an answer from me, the answer is “by oversleeping”! That would have been the case, if I had really overslept. But somehow minutes before the complete rise of the sun, I woke and got...
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This is a journey through various people in and around Varanasi ghats. We can start our journey visiting an old lady who runs a shop in one of the narrow streets of Varanasi. There are more shops and shopkeepers in whichever turn you take in that narrow labyrinth. Some of the people from that...
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Varanasi is a photographer’s delight. Wherever you look, you will find something interesting or colorful. Here are some of the pictures from Varanasi. Hope you will get a taste of Varanasi through these pictures. Varanasi. The sound of it reminds many things to different people. For some, it would be the Ghats, for others...
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Bus Journey to Varanasi Trucks and trucks everywhere. Our bus was amidst all the trucks and nothing was moving. Everything stayed liked that for fifteen minutes. When the traffic started to move, it was a race to make up for the lost time! Since the train to Varanasi was cancelled all of a sudden,...
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Pro Travel Tip while In Agra Let me begin with a Travel Tip. If you are in Agra and you don’t want to haggle with taxi, tuktuk, cycle rickshaw guys, book an OLA cab. Ola is same like Uber. You can download the Ola app and book a taxi and pay the taxi fare...
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I slept well in my mini dungeon. They should probably turn it into a real dungeon and market it that way. They can probably sell it better on airbnb as “Stay in a historical dungeon if you are in Agra”. That could have been a better marketing strategy and a more truthful one! The...
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The train journey to Agra entered into its second day. Most people were the same. People on the side berth changed a few times. That is the problem with RAC (Reservation Against Cancellation) Tickets in Indian railway. With an RAC ticket, you can enter the train but you don’t have a fixed seat until...
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I am back on the road again. To be precise, I am on the tracks at the moment. I am taking a 40+ hours of train ride from Kochi to Agra. I have bought a ticket till Delhi, but I will get down at Agra. So that is my plan for the moment. But...
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