my trip to india

as many people know i spent my vacations in india. i was there for a month and boy, what a month that was. its been 10years now since my family decided to explore a little bit of india each time we went back to the motherland.

this time along with the usual traveling to meet relatives, my family travelled to jabalpur (in the state of madhaya pradesh) for my cousin's wedding. since we were in MP, we ended up travelling around MP. so in this trip my family visited Delhi, Ajmer and Jaipur (in Rajasthan), Jabalpur, Maihar, Satna, Panna and Khajhurao (in MP) and Mumbai (in Maharastra). *phew*

as expected we spent a substantial time travelling. infact we had 3 16hour train journeys, Jaipur to Jabalpur, Jabalpur to Mumbai and Mumbai to Jaipur. other than travelling in trains we travelled in buses, autos, SUVs, safari jeeps, jeeps and, the usual cars and motorcycles. all in all i can safely say my ass was numb most of the time....

our vacation started when we landed in delhi airport on the evening of 3rd dec 2006. we travelled to ajmer straight from delhi. we were there till the afternoon of 6th dec and then we were off to jaipur. we spent 4 days in the Pink City.

on the 10th afternoon we left Rajasthan and moved to the state of MP. we travelled to the city of Jabalpur by tain. this was the 1st of our 16 hours journey. according to our schedule we were supposed to be in Jabalpur till the evening of 15th of Dec. however due to riots breaking out in Bengal our train out of Jabalpur got cancelled. the cancellation of our train left us with 4 extra days in Jabalpur. with nothing to do in Jabalpur my father decided for us to travel around Jabalpur.

so we left Jabalpur late in the evening on 16th Dec. we had rented a Tavera (an SUV) and gotten a driver. we drove to the town of Maihar, reaching there late night. we moved on from there to Khajhurao on 17th Dec. we stopped in Satna on the way for an hour or so. our road trip continued till we arrived in Khajhurao in the evening of 17th Dec.

we travelled to Panna for 3-4hours on 18th Dec and spent the rest of the day in Khajhurao. we moved out of Khajhurao late in the evening and reached Jabalpur in the early hours of 19th Dec. we finally moved out of Jabalpur in the evening. back in the train, we travelled another 16 hours to Mumbai.

we reached Mumbai on the 20th of dec. the Mumbai trip was one packed full of activities. altogether we spent 5 days there. the weekend spent there is one i can never forget in my life. after spending christmas in Mumbai, we headed back to Rajasthan on the 26th of Dec.

after travelling for 16hours once again in the train, we arrived back in Jaipur. there we had a Qualis, an SUV, waiting for us. we drove to on, reaching Ajmer on 27th night. from there on we were in Ajmer.

we went to Jaipur for 2days and 1 night on the 30th of Dec, mainly for shopping. on 1st of Jan we made another day trip to Pushkar. on the morning of 3rd of Jan we made our final trip out of Ajmer. we travelled by Tavera, an SUV, to Jaipur. we stopped there for lunch before moving on to Delhi. on our way to Delhi we stopped at Bairoar midway for a rest and quick freshening up.

at 0010hours on 4th Jan our place took off from the motherland for our island home.

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i'm gonna be elaborating on the various small trips i have mentioned in this entry gradually.