First part here
My beloved garden hereCheck the india tag for the rest of my india pictures ( Read more... )

Part one.
This garden/courtyard was possibly my favorite part of all of india and I'm not sure why, exactly, but I just love it a whole lot.

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Amer Fort! This is the picture post I've been most looking forward to putting up because it was my favorite part of India. Gorgeous and amazing and it just really resonated with me somehow. There is lots to learn about this place, so here is the wiki pageAmer is located outside of Jaipur, and was the capital of Rajasthan before the Maharaja moved ( Read more... )

And now.. from Mumbai (all the mumbai pics can be found in the travel pics tag)

Jaipur is the capital of the desert city Rajasthan (Raja=king sthan=state (basically)). Population just over 3 million. My favorite place in india, the Amer Fort, is just outside of Jaipur, but first I thought I'd show some of the random pictures I took in the hotel and ( Read more... )

62% of the people who live in Mumbai live in slums. 62%!!! On what is only 6% of the city's land! 1/3rd of the residents have no access to clean water. And in 2015, Mumbai will become the world's largest city. It will have more people than Australia or all of Scandinavia. IN ONE CITY. Seriously, think about draining every human being in Scandinavia ( Read more... )

This is the biggest and best batch of Mumbai pictures!


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Colaba is the southern most tip of Mumbai. Mumbai used to consist of several islands, which in the very early 20th century were turned into one landmass by reclaiming land from the ocean. It was ruled by the Portuguese for a long time, before finally being turned over to the British in 1762. Planning and architectural styles still remain from the ( Read more... )

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I love hotels. I'm kind of a connesieur. By far my favorite hotel ever on earth was at the Intercontinental Marine Drive, overlooking the ocean in Mumbai. I really wanted to go to The Taj Hotel (infamous now for the terrorist shooting there in 2008) but it was expensive. We used Thomas' business points to get into this one for two nights, and it ( Read more... )

[Wiki words on Vipassana & this Pagoda]
Vipassana is one of the world's most ancient techniques of meditation, which was introduced by Gautama Buddha. It is a practice of self-transformation through self-observation and introspection to the extent that sitting with a steadfast mind becomes an active experience of change and impermanence. In English, vipassanā meditation is often referred ( Read more... )