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A strange day in Delhi by AC Car

June 27, 2011 Asia
A day in Delhi

Every time I visit Delhi, I promise myself that it will be the last time. Delhi is crazy. It rivals Beijing for the number of sights packed into the one city, and you could spend two weeks there and not see it all. But it’s also crowded, it’s dirty and the people are not particularly [...]

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Making masala chai

June 25, 2011 Food
Making authentic chai

These days I find it difficult to believe that in the not-so-distant-past I didn’t like tea. I was a coffee drinker through and through. In fact, I could count on one hand the number of days on which I’d not had a coffee since the age of about eight years old. I even remember my first [...]

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Photo Friday: Love is in the air in Mandalay

June 24, 2011 Burma
Mandalay Hill, Burma

Late one afternoon in the city of Mandalay, in Burma, my friend Alicia and I made the long and sweaty trek up Mandalay Hill.

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Superlatives at Amritsar’s Golden Temple

June 22, 2011 Asia
The Golden Temple at Amritsar

It was one of those moments where my brain didn’t quite trust my eyes. Was this place for real? Could there really be such a building in such a setting, one where the whole place almost seemed to shiver like it was as insubstantial as vapour?

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A rickshaw ride through Amritsar

June 20, 2011 Asia
An auto-rickshaw ride in Amritsar

There is nothing like riding in an auto-rickshaw in India. Looking over my photos from Amritsar recently I came across a few that I took during one such ride and just had to share them with you.

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Photo Friday: The death railroad…almost

June 17, 2011 Inspire
Bridge over the River Kwai, Thailand

Finally! The tourists hoades had disappeared and I had the famous bridge over the River Kwai, in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, almost all to myself.

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The Bollywood Border

June 14, 2011 Asia
The Bollywood Border between India and Pakistan

The enthusiasm of the crowd is infectious. Families and school students are rushing, many even running, from the road, where trucks wait in a long line to cross the border, to the entrance to the small stadium. In the distance, close to the Indo-Pakistan border, I can hear a thudding – not cannons or gunshots, [...]

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