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Indien 2018 Spring

Nagaur Festival 2018

We got seduced to come back for a fourth time by the offer of a nice room at the hotel instead of …

Jodhpur 2018

Same procedure as every year…….. we decide to escape the cold and gray winter in Europe for some time. Starting out with …

Golden Temple

The Golden Temple is the holiest shrine of Sikhism. Here the Holy Scripture is kept and read throughout the day. The central …

India-Pakistan Border

Amritsar to Lahore is just 55 km, but you have to cross the border into India’s enemy Pakistan if you want to …

Dharamsala

We head out of Amritsar into the seamless unending fertile plains of the Punjab. We cross many irrigation channels transporting water from …

Kangra Valley

There is still more to see in the beautiful Kangra Valley. The ruin left of Kangra Fort after the 1905 earthquake sits …

Kangra Valley Toy Train

This is the day when my rail fan soul gets its fill. We travel for three hours on the Kangra Valley Railway …

Shimla

The climb up to Shimla lets us experience a different kind of foothills. Here the Himalayas do not start with a sheer …

Shimla Railway

Shimla is the end of the line for the narrow gauge (2 ½ ft) line up from the plains. This line is …