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To North India With Love

Deepanjana Sarkar Befriends a Lonely Castle in the Shivpuri Forests

To North India With Love - tonorthindiawithlove [767]

I knew how I would feel if an invited dinner guest failed to show up and a carefully prepared meal had to be thrown in the trash. Disappointed. But I couldn't begin to imagine how I would...

Destinations: India | North India
Topics: Culture | Adventure | Nature | Architecture
To North India With Love

A. Murray Seeks Out Unusual Views of the Taj Mahal

To North India With Love - tonorthindiawithlove [767]

There had to be other perspectives from which to view the Taj Mahal. Unusual angles that captured its different moods. Perhaps, distance was one element that could be used to introduce some exciting...

Destinations: India | North India | Agra
Topics: Culture | Travel | Photography | Architecture
The Taj Mahal at dawn

The Taj Mahal at Dawn

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,427]

I wake up at 5:00 am in Agra, India. I am excited about visiting the Taj Mahal at sunrise.

Destinations: India | Agra
Topics: Adventure | Literature | Animals | Art | Culture | Economy | People | Religion | Nature | Ancient History | Architecture
A waterfall across the path through Tiger Leaping Gorge

Last Days of the Tiger Leaping Gorge?

Adam Bray - kanzis_slave [2,430]

Deep in Yunnan Province, at the foot of the Himalayas, the Yangtze River (here known as the Yellow Sands), carves the deepest gorge in the world between Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (5,596m) and Haba...

Destinations: Yunnan | Himalayas | Tibet | Lijiang River | China | Yangtze River
Topics: Travel | National Parks | Adventure | Animals | Ecotourism | Culture | People | Sports | Nature | Architecture

Tourist boom brings threat to Leh's Tibetan architecture

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188]

Leh is the capital of India's Buddhist Ladakh region. It's Old Town has just been put on the World Monuments Fund's list of the world's 100 most endangered sites . . .

Destinations: India | Ladakh
Topics: Architecture
Rajasthani folk dancer at the 'Jaipur Heritage International Festival 2004' on Rajpath in Jaipur, the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan.

Rajasthan's forts and palaces battle urbanisation

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188]

JAIPUR, India, Jan 20, 2004 - The home of India's most famous maharajahs, their forts and their palaces -- the desert state of Rajasthan -- is putting on a gala show of its ancient heritage to save it...

Destinations: India | Rajasthan
Topics: Architecture

Renovation work may prove Indian emperor built Nepal monastery

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188]

KATHMANDU, Feb 10, 2003 - Ancient artefacts unearthed during renovation work on Nepal's second-oldest Buddhist monastery may prove a long-held popular belief - that the structure was built by the...

Destinations: India | Nepal | Sri Lanka | Colombo | Kathmandu | New Delhi
Topics: Ancient History | Architecture
The Taj Mahal

One Man's Love: The Taj Mahal

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632]

There are really only a few things one must do before leaving this Earth. They include falling in love; making something useful or beautiful, be it a spaceship or a sonnet; and seeing, with one's own...

Destinations: India | Agra
Topics: Ancient History | Architecture

The Price Of Love.
The Taj Mahal - The Ultimate Valentine's Present.

Susan Storm - sstorm [1,087]

It gleams in the moonlight, a ghostly ice-structure mirrored in the rippling water. At dawn, it's aglow with shades of violet, rose pink, and muted gold. In the early morning, shrouded in mist, it...

Destinations: India | Agra
Topics: Art | Architecture
Qutb Minar...

New Delhi: Magnificient!

Ee Lin Wan - eelin [4,079]

Exotica... From the distinctive aroma of Indian curry, the colorful array of sarees and the exotic array of culture and heritage, India is a country that evokes all your senses. With its more than one...

Destinations: India | New Delhi
Topics: Culture | People | Religion | War & Conflict | Ancient History | Architecture
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