<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756</id><updated>2011-04-21T22:48:45.126+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Alex Indian Touch'</title><subtitle type='html'>Discover a new culture, new people, new feelings... 
Begin A New Life !</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-4523707817672713197</id><published>2006-12-13T21:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T22:40:39.032+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Varanasi</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Shopping in Varanasi : the silk city !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Silk         weaving is perhaps the most popular art of Varanasi.&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;The shopping hotspots in Varanasi are Chowk, Gyan Vapi, Vishwanath Gali, Thatheri Bazar, Lahurabir, Godoulia or Dashswamedh Gali and Golghar. Besides the illustrious and fine silks and brocaded fabrics, one can also buy shawls, carpets, wall hangings...&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;When you enter a silk shop, the owner will offer you a masala tea and then he will show you all the silk scarfs he has in his shop ! All of them are very colourful, you can't even choose one because there are so many different styles, colours, sizes... It's like the 1001 nights or Alibaba palace. Completely amazing !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYByh-_1LzI/AAAAAAAAAFY/cX8XrO58i5A/s1600-h/DSC04088.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYByh-_1LzI/AAAAAAAAAFY/cX8XrO58i5A/s400/DSC04088.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008128713807966002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ganges baths&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBsu-_1LwI/AAAAAAAAAEo/UKMZfrQOl6k/s1600-h/CIMG2939.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBsu-_1LwI/AAAAAAAAAEo/UKMZfrQOl6k/s320/CIMG2939.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008122340076498690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very early in the morning, at about six o'clock, hindu people take their bath in the&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBzHu_1L0I/AAAAAAAAAFg/HdJGJ1lcKTc/s1600-h/DSC03758.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBzHu_1L0I/AAAAAAAAAFg/HdJGJ1lcKTc/s320/DSC03758.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008129362348027714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Ganges river to purify themselves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; This bath is a spiritual act with special rites.&lt;br /&gt; It will purify the soul from sins and is an important step on the way to an ultimate goal - the Nirvana, which means the salvation from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth and ultimately to be one with the almighty God, the creator.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Varanasi also is a favorite place to die, for hindus believe, that one who dies at Varanasi gains emancipation automatically, such is the greatness of this shrine! That's why there are ritual cremations on pyres from Sandle wood and in crematoria each night. All hindus desire, that no matter where they die, at least their ashes be merged in the pious waters of mother Ganga who in Hindu's belief in her immense love for her children will bring emancipation from the trauma of the cycle of birth and death!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBuYe_1LxI/AAAAAAAAAEw/MaRe5NECxMI/s1600-h/CIMG2919.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBuYe_1LxI/AAAAAAAAAEw/MaRe5NECxMI/s400/CIMG2919.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008124152552697618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The PUJA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBqb-_1LvI/AAAAAAAAAEg/tRgImW00sBE/s1600-h/CIMG2885.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBqb-_1LvI/AAAAAAAAAEg/tRgImW00sBE/s320/CIMG2885.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008119814635728626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBvR-_1LyI/AAAAAAAAAFM/X7ED4DGF0yw/s1600-h/DSC03888.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBvR-_1LyI/AAAAAAAAAFM/X7ED4DGF0yw/s200/DSC03888.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008125140395175714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Every evenings, Hindu people perform the  "Puja"    with lighted lamps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;They offer candles to the Ganges while musicians are playing music and siging holy words.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;The ambience is spectacular and very spirituous.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBqKO_1LuI/AAAAAAAAAEY/VHnvIGosQ98/s1600-h/DSC03910.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBqKO_1LuI/AAAAAAAAAEY/VHnvIGosQ98/s200/DSC03910.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008119509693050594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-4523707817672713197?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/4523707817672713197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=4523707817672713197' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/4523707817672713197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/4523707817672713197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/12/varanasi.html' title='Varanasi'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYByh-_1LzI/AAAAAAAAAFY/cX8XrO58i5A/s72-c/DSC04088.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-9139222152777608190</id><published>2006-12-12T19:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T22:28:13.278+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 21 : Sarnath</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;img style="width: 251px; height: 152px;" src="http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/images/sarnath1.jpg" alt="Teaching at Sarnath" align="left" border="3" hspace="10" vspace="5" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;"  &gt; Sarnath is the city where Buddha preached his first discourse in the deer park to set in motion the 'Wheel of the Dharma'. It is one of the most holy sites as in this place the stream of the Buddha's teaching first flowed. &lt;/span&gt;                 &lt;p  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;At this place, the Buddha encountered the five men who had been his companions of earlier austerities. On meeting the enlightened Buddha, all they saw was an ordinary man. "Here comes the mendicant Gautama," they said, "who has turned away from asceticism. He is certainly not worth our respect." When they reminded him of his former vows, the Buddha replied, "Austerities only confuse the mind. In the exhaustion and mental stupor to which they lead, one can no longer understand the ordinary things of life, still less the truth that lies beyond the senses. I have given up extremes of either luxury or asceticism. I have discovered the Middle Way". Hearing this the five ascetics became the Buddha's first disciples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBmlu_1LsI/AAAAAAAAAEA/VDIjj0m7y0A/s1600-h/DSC04049.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBmlu_1LsI/AAAAAAAAAEA/VDIjj0m7y0A/s320/DSC04049.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008115584092942018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                  &lt;p  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Gautama Buddha started teaching not to debate but for the advantage of and out of compassion for human beings. He explained the middle way which avoids extremes, the Four Noble Truths, and prescribed the Eight-fold path. The Four Noble Truths are: 1. There is suffering; 2. Suffering has a cause; 3. The cause is removable, and 4. There are ways to remove the causes. So as to remove the causes the Buddha prescribed an Eight-fold Path: Right speech, Right action, Right livelihood, Right effort, Right mindfulness, Right concentration, Right attitude and Right view. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;strong&gt;The                  Dhamekha Stupa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBl7O_1LqI/AAAAAAAAADw/PUCiecJGtpY/s1600-h/CIMG2947.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBl7O_1LqI/AAAAAAAAADw/PUCiecJGtpY/s320/CIMG2947.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008114853948501666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                &lt;p  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This is the most conspicuous structure at Sarnath. Colonel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Cunningham bore &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;a shaft from the top centre of th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;e stupa and discovered a stone tablet on which an inscription is written with the word Dhamekha, and mentions that this is the spot where the Buddha delivered his first sermon. Dhamekha seems to be a distorted form of Dharma Chakra which means turning the wheel of the Dharma. It is also said that at this spot the five ascetics who left Gautama Buddha in Bodh Gaya used to live in huts. The original stupa was constructed by Ashoka. The present size of the stupa is 31.3 m high and 28.3 m in diameter. The lower portion of the stupa is covered completely with beautifully carved stones. The design consists of a broad band of Swastika (fylfot) carved in different geometrical patterns with a finely chiselled lotus wreath, running over and below the swastikas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                &lt;span style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;"  &gt;The Dhamekha stupa is considered to be the sacred place where the voice of Buddhism was first heard. Many dignitaries of Buddhist countries visit this place for circumambulation of this sacred stupa and to worship the Buddha. Tibetans Buddhist circumambulate it chanting the mantra 'Om mani padme hum'. The first discourse of the Buddha was on the 'Wheel of Law'. The wheel symbolises samsara (world), the eternal round of existence which goes on and on, life after life because of ceaseless cravings and desire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-9139222152777608190?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/9139222152777608190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=9139222152777608190' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/9139222152777608190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/9139222152777608190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/12/day-21-sarnath.html' title='Day 21 : Sarnath'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RYBmlu_1LsI/AAAAAAAAAEA/VDIjj0m7y0A/s72-c/DSC04049.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-429873788135399612</id><published>2006-12-06T19:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T07:58:42.984+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 20 : Varanasi or Benaras also known as Kashi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcQI8r6yXI/AAAAAAAAADA/cMuG7h79ppo/s1600-h/CIMG2931.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcQI8r6yXI/AAAAAAAAADA/cMuG7h79ppo/s200/CIMG2931.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005487256760928626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Varanasi is one of the oldest cities in the world : more than 3000 years old.&lt;br /&gt;It is a Holy and worship place for Hindu people : same as the Vatican for the Catholics or the Mecca for the Muslims. Moreover, this city is THE one which reflect the most the real Indian culture and the power of Hinduism.&lt;br /&gt;Every year, more than one million pilgrims come to have a bath in the Ganga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcQe8r6yYI/AAAAAAAAADI/s5fqdJuumJM/s1600-h/CIMG2942.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcQe8r6yYI/AAAAAAAAADI/s5fqdJuumJM/s320/CIMG2942.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005487634718050690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It is believed by Hindus that bathing in the river Ganga results in remission of sins and that dying in the holy city of Kashi (Varanasi) circumvents rebirth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcRLsr6yZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/PMiHy73QK74/s1600-h/CIMG2854.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcRLsr6yZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/PMiHy73QK74/s320/CIMG2854.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005488403517196690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Walking on the ghâts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Walking on the Ganga ghâts, we met different people having a bath, cleaning and drying their clothes. The atmosphere is very quiet and peaceful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXkNBcr6yaI/AAAAAAAAADk/N4CzyUtcjnc/s1600-h/CIMG2858.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXkNBcr6yaI/AAAAAAAAADk/N4CzyUtcjnc/s320/CIMG2858.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006046779330447778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-429873788135399612?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/429873788135399612/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=429873788135399612' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/429873788135399612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/429873788135399612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/12/day-20-varanasi-or-benaras-also-known.html' title='Day 20 : Varanasi or Benaras also known as Kashi'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcQI8r6yXI/AAAAAAAAADA/cMuG7h79ppo/s72-c/CIMG2931.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-5575324096100968118</id><published>2006-12-06T18:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-06T19:10:04.450+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 14 : Back to Jodhpur</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb_V8r6yRI/AAAAAAAAAB4/C8NFd16Gt1Y/s1600-h/CIMG2567.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb_V8r6yRI/AAAAAAAAAB4/C8NFd16Gt1Y/s200/CIMG2567.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005468788401555730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Clock Market&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The clock tower is the central point of Jodhpur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a big market standing around the clock : spices, fruits &amp; vegetables, clothes, varieties of seeds (corn, lentil, rice...) &amp;amp; lots of other things... The tower was built in 1910 by Maharajah Sardar to give the time to inhabitants. That's why the market is called the Sardar Market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb_wcr6ySI/AAAAAAAAACA/jnS_MrSMoDQ/s1600-h/CIMG2782.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb_wcr6ySI/AAAAAAAAACA/jnS_MrSMoDQ/s320/CIMG2782.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005469243668089122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcALcr6yTI/AAAAAAAAACI/XyHHN0E3LtA/s1600-h/CIMG2785.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcALcr6yTI/AAAAAAAAACI/XyHHN0E3LtA/s320/CIMG2785.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005469707524557106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Umaid Bhawan Palace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also visited the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Umaid Bhawan Palace&lt;/span&gt; where the Maharajah of Jodhpur is living at the moment. This monument has got three different parts :&lt;br /&gt;   1- The Maharajah &amp; his family house&lt;br /&gt;   2- A Palace Hotel part of Taj Resort which is a famous Indian Hotel Brand all over the country.&lt;br /&gt;  3- The museum&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcB9sr6yUI/AAAAAAAAACQ/hwggEIqIxHM/s1600-h/CIMG2776.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcB9sr6yUI/AAAAAAAAACQ/hwggEIqIxHM/s320/CIMG2776.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005471670324611394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Having fun in the small blue streets of the old city&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcEf8r6yVI/AAAAAAAAACY/D9yrBIZHIYM/s1600-h/CIMG2803.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcEf8r6yVI/AAAAAAAAACY/D9yrBIZHIYM/s200/CIMG2803.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005474457758386514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We met very nice indian people walking in these very tight streets.&lt;br /&gt;We also had Masala tea with old men and tried to discuss with them because they couldn't speak english.&lt;br /&gt;Masala tea is the most popular drink in India. It's tea with milk, cardamon &amp; ginger. First, you boil the milk twice, then you had Chai tea, the spices and sugar. This is a very good hot drink and you can find it wherever you want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcFdsr6yWI/AAAAAAAAACg/zl7kvMejsw8/s1600-h/DSC03723.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXcFdsr6yWI/AAAAAAAAACg/zl7kvMejsw8/s320/DSC03723.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005475518615308642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-5575324096100968118?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/5575324096100968118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=5575324096100968118' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/5575324096100968118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/5575324096100968118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/12/day-14-back-to-jodhpur.html' title='Day 14 : Back to Jodhpur'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb_V8r6yRI/AAAAAAAAAB4/C8NFd16Gt1Y/s72-c/CIMG2567.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-4978266145775383637</id><published>2006-12-05T07:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-06T18:22:51.612+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 13 : Going to Osian</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Temples&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way to Osian, a small town near Jodhpur in the desert, we visited Hindu and Jain temples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXUeZDXk8-I/AAAAAAAAAAY/SorZkHb11zk/s1600-h/CIMG2670.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXUeZDXk8-I/AAAAAAAAAAY/SorZkHb11zk/s320/CIMG2670.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5004939976641934306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXUe7TXk8_I/AAAAAAAAAAg/q9guebLhFyI/s1600-h/CIMG2688.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXUe7TXk8_I/AAAAAAAAAAg/q9guebLhFyI/s320/CIMG2688.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5004940565052453874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The desert&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;In Osian desert, we had a fun camel ride et just looked at the beauty of such a landscape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXUj4TXk9AI/AAAAAAAAAAw/oxu0pzodxDs/s1600-h/CIMG2722.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXUj4TXk9AI/AAAAAAAAAAw/oxu0pzodxDs/s320/CIMG2722.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5004946011070985218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb5xcr6yMI/AAAAAAAAAA8/jE2Rwy1iLqc/s1600-h/DSC03546.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb5xcr6yMI/AAAAAAAAAA8/jE2Rwy1iLqc/s320/DSC03546.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005462663778191554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb6Ncr6yNI/AAAAAAAAABE/G1GxuyAO3zg/s1600-h/DSC03587.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb6Ncr6yNI/AAAAAAAAABE/G1GxuyAO3zg/s320/DSC03587.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005463144814528722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Camel Camp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb7hcr6yPI/AAAAAAAAABU/dy-4kwqBf2k/s1600-h/DSC03643.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb7hcr6yPI/AAAAAAAAABU/dy-4kwqBf2k/s200/DSC03643.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005464587923540210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, after the ride, we took a break in an oasis lost in nowhere in the desert called the camel camp. We had a nice lunch and rested in this beautiful and luxuous place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb73Mr6yQI/AAAAAAAAABc/ERdxqFNXjfc/s1600-h/DSC03641.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXb73Mr6yQI/AAAAAAAAABc/ERdxqFNXjfc/s320/DSC03641.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005464961585694978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-4978266145775383637?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/4978266145775383637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=4978266145775383637' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/4978266145775383637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/4978266145775383637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/12/day-13-going-to-osian.html' title='Day 13 : Going to Osian'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXUeZDXk8-I/AAAAAAAAAAY/SorZkHb11zk/s72-c/CIMG2670.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-88277103469940568</id><published>2006-11-28T20:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-05T07:58:53.472+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 12 : Jodhpur</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/420574/DSC03660.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/264531/DSC03660.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We arrived in Jodhpur at about 10 in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;A driver took us at the station and we went to our Hotel Ratan Villas.&lt;br /&gt;It was a nice colonial house built in the 1920s.&lt;br /&gt;The owners were very kind and they were the fifth generation living in this house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mehrangarh Fort or the Citadel of the Sun&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2751.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/320/CIMG2751.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/358452/CIMG2595.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/35233/CIMG2595.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Then, we decided to visit the fort. It was constructed in 1459 like a real eagle nest by the founder of Jodhpur: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;rao&lt;/span&gt; Jodha who gave the name of Jodhpur. The fundation is dominating the town at 135 meters above the city ; its width is 250 meters.&lt;br /&gt;Mehrangarh (meaning Majestic Fort) is one of the largest forts in India.&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maharajahs lived there until the 20th century and then go the&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; Umaid Bhawan Palace &lt;/span&gt;(I will talk about it later).&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/956670/CIMG2636.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/61743/CIMG2636.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Battle scars of canon ball hit by attacking armies of Jaipur can still be seen on the second gate. To the left is chhatri of Kirat Singh Soda, a soldier&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt; who fell on the spot while defending the fort against the armies of Amber. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;There are seven gates, which include Jayapol meaning victory built by Maharaja Man Singh to commemorate his victories over Jaipur and Bikaner armies. Fattehpol also meaning victory gate was built by Maharaja Ajit Singh to mark the defeat of Mughals. The palm imprints still attract devotional attention and are covered by vermilion paste and paper-thin silver foil&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;We took the audio guide to have the whole story of this fort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/642700/CIMG2619.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/320/988491/CIMG2619.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blue city&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Jodhpur is the second largest city&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; in the Indian state of the Rajasthan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; Jodhpur is a popular&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/687475/CIMG2599.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/551968/CIMG2599.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;destination, featuring many beautiful palaces, forts and temples&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;, apart from a stark, scenic desert landscape&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;. The city is known as the "Sun City" for the bright, sunny weather it enjoys all year. It is also referred as the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;Blue City&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;, due to the indigo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; tinge of the whitewashed houses around the Fort&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;. Jodhpur is also known for gentleness of its people. The old city of Jodhpur is surrounded by a thick stone wall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;. The wall has six huge gates called Nagauri gate, Merati gate, Sojati gate, Jalori gate, Siwanchi gate and Chand pol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXUYlzXk89I/AAAAAAAAAAM/mhsHv8v6Oxs/s1600-h/CIMG2768.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXUYlzXk89I/AAAAAAAAAAM/mhsHv8v6Oxs/s320/CIMG2768.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5004933598615499730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-88277103469940568?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/88277103469940568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=88277103469940568' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/88277103469940568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/88277103469940568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/11/day-12-jodhpur.html' title='Day 12 : Jodhpur'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2cn03io4lc/RXUYlzXk89I/AAAAAAAAAAM/mhsHv8v6Oxs/s72-c/CIMG2768.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-7466462486230397546</id><published>2006-11-28T19:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-28T20:28:27.059+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 11 : Going to the Rajasthan</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;On the way to Jodhpur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2558.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/200/CIMG2558.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had a 4 day week-end from Thursday night to Tuesday morning...&lt;br /&gt;So we decided to go far away in the Rajasthan. We took the night train at Old Delhi Station in category 3 AC (that means the 3rd class with Air Conditionning).&lt;br /&gt;Indian trains have 5 different categories : First, Second AC, Third AC, sleeper and general.&lt;br /&gt;It is funny because the names are written on a paper and you have to check your when you get in the train. In our coach, there were 6 + 2 beds. It's enough comfortable: you have cloths, blanquets &amp; pillow.&lt;br /&gt;We had a nice dinner: we brought a "saucisson sec", some olives, crisps and fresh vegetables.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2562.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/200/CIMG2562.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-7466462486230397546?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/7466462486230397546/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=7466462486230397546' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/7466462486230397546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/7466462486230397546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/11/day-11-going-to-rajasthan.html' title='Day 11 : Going to the Rajasthan'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-1126496672798524422</id><published>2006-11-28T18:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-28T18:45:01.142+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 10 : Visiting Hero Honda</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/hero_honda_logo.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/200/hero_honda_logo.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On wenesday afternoon, we had the opportunity to &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2555.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/200/CIMG2555.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;visit an Indian plant : &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hero Honda&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In a little over two decades, the world's largest manufacturer of bicycles and the global leader in motorcycles have created not only the &lt;b&gt; world's single largest motorcycle company &lt;/b&gt;but also the most endearing and successful joint venture for Honda Motor Company worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;They manufacture 6500 motorcycles every day : one bike is made every 3 seconds ! It was really interesting to see the assembly line which is very modern and has great technologies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.herohonda.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.herohonda.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-1126496672798524422?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/1126496672798524422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=1126496672798524422' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/1126496672798524422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/1126496672798524422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/11/day-10-visiting-hero-honda.html' title='Day 10 : Visiting Hero Honda'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-6384923286280459915</id><published>2006-11-28T17:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-29T14:51:40.588+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 7 : Week-end time</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:130%;" &gt;Jaipur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notre dernière journée à Jaipur a été pleine d'émotio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;ns. Nous avons repris notre taxi pour aller visiter la ville et le palais du Maharajah de Jaipur. Mais l'ennui, c'est qu'à peine installer dans la voiture, notre chauffeur sentait l'alcool et été complètement à l'ouest. Et pour couronner le tout, no&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;us avons eu un mini accident &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;avec l'autre chauffeur qui nous suivait avec 4 potes en plein milieu d'un énorme rond-point où tout le monde klaxonnait, criait !!! La foire !! Les flics étaient là... Constat, perte de temps et compagnie...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2528.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/200/CIMG2528.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Nous avons dû prendre une rapide décision pour la suite vu que&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;nous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; avions déjà perdu 1h30 avec tout ce cinéma. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Nous avons choisi de payer notre taxi driver et de nous rendre le pl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;us vite possible à la gare pour aller prendre des billets de train pour notre retour l'après-midi ! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2530.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/200/CIMG2530.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Nous a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;vons encore patienté après avoir fait 4 fois le to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;ur de la gare pour trouver le bon guichet. Et enfin, nous avons eu nos fameux tickets bien mérités !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;près tout ce stress, nous avons enfin pu aller visiter le city palace, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2536.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/200/CIMG2536.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;demeure actuelle du maharajah et sa famille. Ce gigantesque &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;palais comprend différents petits palais. Admirez...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2539.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/200/CIMG2539.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2542.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/320/CIMG2542.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ensuite, nous avons admiré le plus célèbre monument de Jaipur : le Palais des Vents. Il s'agit d'une façade d'environ 3 cm d'épaisseur. Elle a été construite en 1799 de telle sorte que le vent puisse y circuler afin de rafraîchir l'atmosphère. Son côté pyramidal à plusieurs étages permettait aux femmes du harem d'observer dans être vues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2547.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/320/CIMG2547.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-6384923286280459915?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/6384923286280459915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=6384923286280459915' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/6384923286280459915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/6384923286280459915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/11/day-7-week-end-time.html' title='Day 7 : Week-end time'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-7764634945424619658</id><published>2006-11-20T20:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-28T18:28:28.924+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Days 5 &amp; 6 : Week-end time</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/228369/Nouvelle%20image.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/396972/Nouvelle%20image.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;On the way to Agra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Les cours se sont terminés à 13h30, v&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;endredi. Le week-end peut donc commencer. Nous avons décidé d'aller découvrir quelques lieux incontournables de l'Inde.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/90482/CIMG2377.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/949052/CIMG2377.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Nous sommes donc partis en fin d'après-midi en direction de la ville d'Agra, célèbre pour son fameux palais : le Taj Mahal.&lt;br /&gt;Nous avons embarqué à 9 dans une voiture avec chauffeur suivie d'une autre voiture de 4 personnes. Nous étions donc assez serrés mais l'ambiance était assez cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Il faut rappeler que les conditions de sécurité en voiture sont peu ou complètem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;ent inexistantes. En e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;ffet, il n'y a pas de ceintures de sécurité, il n'y a aucun panneau de signalisation, le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;code de la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; route n'existe pas et chacun conduit com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;me il l'entend. Autant dire que le danger est maximal sur les routes indiennes surtout la nuit sans éclairage et avec les pleins phares des voitures ou camions venant en sens inverse.&lt;br /&gt;En Inde, on conduit à gauche. Les doublements par la droite sont atroces et le nombre d'accidents est faramineux. Autant dire que je n'ai jamais eu autant peur en voiture que ce week-end.&lt;br /&gt;Après plus de 5h de route pour faire 250kms entre Gurgaon et Agra, nous sommes enfin arrivés&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; à bonne destination dans un petit hôtel situé à 100 mètres de la porte Est du Taj Mahal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Agra : Sunrise on the Taj Mahal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/304272/CIMG2398.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/940648/CIMG2398.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Le réveil mati&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;nal à 5h du matin pour admirer le lever du soleil sur le Taj Mahal en valait bien le c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;oup. La porte Est ouvre à 6h, heure où il fait encore nuit. Quand je suis rentrée dans le site, la pénombre était encore présente. J'ai aperçu le palais dans le noir puis j'ai attendu tranquillement que le spectacle commence.&lt;br /&gt;C'était absolument magnifique de pouvoir découvrir ce monument sous différentes teintes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/414883/CIMG2447.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/320/132998/CIMG2447.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/980298/CIMG2469.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/320/942456/CIMG2469.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/462830/CIMG2456.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/553437/CIMG2456.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Le Taj Mahal est la 7ème merveille du monde. Ce palais fut construit en 1631 par l'empereur Shah Jahan. Il est LE symbôle de l'amour éternel : il a dédié ce palais à son amour qu'il a perdu.&lt;br /&gt;La mort de son épouse Mutaz Mahal, dotée d'une beauté légendaire, laissa le coeur du souverain complètement dévasté. Fou de chagrin, il décida de construire un édifice à sa mémoire et à l'image de son amour. Pour construire ce monument, il a fallut 22 ans de labeur et plus de 20000 artisans.&lt;br /&gt;Ce palais est symétrique. Les 4 tours ont été construites pour donner la perspective du monument.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2443.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/400/CIMG2443.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Agra : The Red Fort&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/68001/CIMG2494.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/179291/CIMG2494.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Après le palais de l'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Amour, place au fort rouge et&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; à &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;la richesse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Quatre générations d'empereur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; se sont succédées pendant près de 95 ans. Le fils de Shah Jahan qui contruisit le Taj, décid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;a d'emprisonner son père dans ce fort pour régner à sa place. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/485733/CIMG2498.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/333035/CIMG2498.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Pendant huit ans, le vieil homme put contempler de sa fenêtre, son admirable chef d'oeuvre où reposait &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;sa bien aimée. Les piliers incrustés de pierres précieuses et les mosaîques&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; de toutes les couleurs lui donnent des airs de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; palais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/400273/CIMG2489.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/636869/CIMG2489.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/371242/CIMG2488.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/748392/CIMG2488.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/428951/CIMG2481.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/945325/CIMG2481.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way to Jaipur : Fatehpur Sikri&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/732794/CIMG2506.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/454558/CIMG2506.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Fatehpur Sikri est une petite ville entre Agra et Jaipur. Nous en avons donc profité pour nous y arrêter en chemin pour visiter la citadelle. Elle a été construite par l'empereur Akbar en 1572 pour y installer sa cour. L'architecture est similaire à celle du Red Fort mais en plus baroque. La fantaisie de ce momunment vient du fait du mixage des différentes religions : hindu, muslim, catholic and jaine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/196255/CIMG2519.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/626377/CIMG2519.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Nous avons eu le temps de faire un tour rapide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; et de voir les différents tombeaux et la mosquée qui sont à l'intérieur de cet édifice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-7764634945424619658?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/7764634945424619658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=7764634945424619658' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/7764634945424619658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/7764634945424619658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/11/days-5-6-7-week-end-time.html' title='Days 5 &amp; 6 : Week-end time'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-1811188224778283624</id><published>2006-11-20T19:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T20:31:02.255+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 4: Having fun at the Lemon Tree Hotel</title><content type='html'>Pour se changer les idées et sortir du campus, nous partons découvrir les bars aux alentours. Ce soir-là, c'était le bar de l'hôtel Lemon Tree à environ 10 min à pied du campus... Enfin, pour y arriver, c'est une sacrée mission puisqu'il faut traverser l'autoroute dans le noir !! Surtout que la nuit, il y a beaucoup de camions qui transportent des marchandises et les conditions dans lesquelles ils conduisent sont risquées.&lt;br /&gt;Ce bar loundge fut très agréable : bons plats et cocktails raisonnables, tout cela dans une ambiance assez occidentale et classe.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/744221/CIMG2362.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/907545/CIMG2362.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-1811188224778283624?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/1811188224778283624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=1811188224778283624' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/1811188224778283624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/1811188224778283624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/11/day-4-having-fun-at-lemon-tree-hotel.html' title='Day 4: Having fun at the Lemon Tree Hotel'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-2292758797647811937</id><published>2006-11-20T18:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T20:29:36.887+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 3: MDI students &amp; professors Welcome</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/610987/DSC02716.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/320/655726/DSC02716.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/718622/CIMG2330.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/379163/CIMG2330.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/924049/DSC02714.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4636/4485/200/965986/DSC02714.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Une petite réception a été organisée pour nous souhaiter la bienvenue au MDI de la part des étudiants et les professeurs. Au menu, buffet de petites spécialités et gâteaux indiens.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Nous avons également eu un petit discours de la part du responsable de l'université. Ambiance sympa et chaleureuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-2292758797647811937?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/2292758797647811937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=2292758797647811937' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/2292758797647811937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/2292758797647811937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/11/day-3-mdi-students-professors-welcome.html' title='Day 3: MDI students &amp; professors Welcome'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-1781322949261512598</id><published>2006-11-16T21:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-17T10:30:37.997+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 2: Facing Indian life</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sector 14&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Le MDI est situé dans le secteur 17 mais pour faire quelques courses, il faut aller au secteur 14 où se trouve un petit marché et des petites boutiques. On y trouve de tout : des superettes, un tailleur, le coiffeur, des fruits, des légumes, des banques... C'est là notre point de ravitaillement d'eau en bouteille !&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;La mission pour s'y rendre en 10 min est de prendre un rikshaw: engin similaire à un pousse-pousse qui peut transporter des personnes ou des marchandises. C'est assez dangeureux sur la route mais au moins, ça donne des émotions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/DSC02730.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/320/DSC02730.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/DSC02737.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/320/DSC02737.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/DSC02727.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/320/DSC02727.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Le soleil se couche à l'horizon, la vie d'étudiant au MDI commence vraiment...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2320.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/320/CIMG2320.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-1781322949261512598?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/1781322949261512598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=1781322949261512598' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/1781322949261512598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/1781322949261512598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/11/day-2-facing-indian-life.html' title='Day 2: Facing Indian life'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-4177340353439598005</id><published>2006-11-14T20:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T21:29:43.736+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 1: Management Development Institute MDI</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Après quelques heures de sommeil bien méritées, nous avons découvert le paysage qui nous entourait.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/logo.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/400/logo.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Le MDI est situé dans la ville de Gurgaon à 25 km de New Delhi. Gurgaon est une des quatre principales villes satellite de Delhi ; elle est considérée comme une des capitales nationales de la région.&lt;br /&gt;Le MDI a été créé en 1973 avec l'aide de l'&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Industrial Finance Corporation of India&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;IFCI&lt;/span&gt;). Le MDI est la quatrième université en Inde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/campus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/320/campus.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nous vivons sur le campus avec des étudiants indiens mais aussi des personnes qui viennent en séminaire type MBA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On y étudie le management, les ressources humaines, la politique ou encore les relations internationales...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  De mon côté, nous avons cours tous les matins de 8h30 à 13h30.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/CIMG2304.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/320/CIMG2304.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Au programme : Corporate Finance, Doing Business in India &amp; Asia and Organizational Behaviour &amp;amp; Team Management. Le tout in English of course avec un bel accent indien et des professeurs passionnés et captivants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour plus d'infos, vous pouvez toujours aller faire un petit tour sur le site du MDI :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mdi.ac.in/home/home.asp"&gt;http://www.mdi.ac.in/home/home.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-4177340353439598005?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/4177340353439598005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=4177340353439598005' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/4177340353439598005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/4177340353439598005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/11/day-1-management-development-institute.html' title='Day 1: Management Development Institute MDI'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-4571869591052022999</id><published>2006-11-13T20:41:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T21:20:13.219+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome to New Delhi</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;-Samedi 11 novembre-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: left; font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/DSC02661.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/200/DSC02661.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après avoir passé 8h dans un boeing 747 d'Air France, nous avons atterri à l'aéroport International de New Delhi. Pendant le vol, nous avons assisté à un magnifique coucher de soleil au-dessus du Caucase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Nous avons atterri à 23h heure locale, soit 4h30 de décalage avec la France. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/DSC02678.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/200/DSC02678.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nous avons tout de suite baigné dans l'ambiance. L'Inde est un pays où il faut s'armer de patience. Après l'épisode du visa, ce fut le tour du passage à la douane. La file d'attente é&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;tait monstrueuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/1600/DSC02679.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4636/4485/200/DSC02679.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Enfin, au bout de 45min d'attente, nous avons pu récupérer nos bagages. Nous sommes arrivés à destination vers 2h00 du matin. Vers 4h, nous avons pu nous coucher avec l'envie de découvrir ce mystérieux pays à la lumière du jour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-4571869591052022999?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/4571869591052022999/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=4571869591052022999' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/4571869591052022999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/4571869591052022999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/11/samedi-11-novembre-aprs-avoir-pass-8h.html' title='Welcome to New Delhi'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-116245687759782825</id><published>2006-11-02T09:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T20:19:31.427+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Diwali</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/1600/diwali-greetings.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/200/diwali-greetings.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Le 23 octobre dernier, c'était le "nouvel an indien", "Diwali" =  la fête des Lumières, ou plus excatement de La Lumière.&lt;br /&gt;Pendant le festival de Diwali, toutes les folies sont permises. Du moins pour la nouvelle classe moyenne indienne, qui consomme sans penser au lendemain. Le nouveau mot d'ordre : travailler fort pour dépenser beaucoup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;À Diwali, le festival des lumières indien, la surconsommation est de mise. Pour les hindous et les autres minorités religieuses, c'est en quelque sorte l'équivalent de Noël en Occident. On achète des vêtements neufs, on fait des cadeaux à ses proches et à ses employés. On court le marathon d'une fête à l'autre. On dépense sans compter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La fête est célébrée depuis des siècles dans le vacarme des feux d'artifice qui éclairent le ciel des villes et des villages. À Bombay, la capitale financière de l'Inde, le centre-ville s'est transformé depuis deux semaines en véritable ruche de consommateurs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-116245687759782825?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/116245687759782825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=116245687759782825' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/116245687759782825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/116245687759782825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/11/happy-diwali.html' title='Happy Diwali'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-116206452886347656</id><published>2006-10-28T21:24:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T20:19:31.287+01:00</updated><title type='text'>India</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Quelques chiffres clés sur ce pays:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/1600/drapeau.7.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/200/drapeau.3.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chef de l'état &lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Abdul Kalam (élu juillet 2002)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Capitale &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;:            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;New Delhi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Langue officielle&lt;/span&gt; : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Hindi, anglais&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Superficie&lt;/span&gt; :      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;3 287 263 Km2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Population&lt;/span&gt; :      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;1 103 596 000 hab. &lt;span class="date"&gt;( en 2005)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Monnaie Nationale&lt;/span&gt; :       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Roupie indienne (INR)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                        PNB&lt;/span&gt; :      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;567,604 Milliard(s) de dollars&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Le  saviez-vous ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Castes :&lt;/span&gt; on dénombre 14 à 30 castes dont 4 principales : Brahmanes, Kshatriya (nobl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;esse militaire), Vaishya,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt; Shudra. 140 millions d'Indiens sont hors castes, dont 90 millions d'Intouchables (" I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;mpurs ", assignés aux besognes impures). Aboli par la Constitution de 1949, le&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/1600/india-political-map.1.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/india-political-map.0.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt; système perdure dans les faits.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Confusion :&lt;/span&gt; les Cipayes, Indiens au service des armées britanniques, se révoltèrent en 1857 : les Anglais avait fourni par erreur aux supplétifs hindous du suif de boeuf et aux supplétifs musulmans d&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;u suif de porc pour graisser leurs cartouches; les Cipayes furent matés après avoir massacré 500 Européens.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div class="insolite"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; &lt;h4 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rituel :&lt;/span&gt; chaque année 6 millions de personnes se baignent dans le Gange car il a la vertu de guérir tous les maux physiques et moraux ; les restes de 35 000 corps y sont immergés après avoir été incinérés mais on y jette aussi beaucoup de cadavres à demi-consumés. La capacité d'auto-épuration du Gange est dépassée. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul class="datas" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-116206452886347656?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/116206452886347656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=116206452886347656' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/116206452886347656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/116206452886347656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/10/india.html' title='India'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36745756.post-116206125508842828</id><published>2006-10-28T20:46:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T20:19:31.102+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Preparing the Trip - Making the VISA</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" &gt;Mon voyage se prépare tranquilement. Le passage à l'ambassade d'Inde à Paris pour obtenir un visa touriste à entrées multiples donne un avant-goût de ce qu'il y aura comme ambiance dans ce pays ! Il faut être très patient. En effet, des plages horaires sont réservées pour faire la demande de visa et d'autres pour le récupérer 48h plus tard...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après avoir attendu 30 minutes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" &gt;dans une longue file humaine, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" &gt;sous la pluie un matin de septembre, j'ai enfin pu avoir un ticket rose qui me donnait le droit de m'entretenir avec un indien de l'ambassade. Bien sûr, il y avait plus de 60 personnes devant moi et j'ai donc pris mon mal en patience car je n'avais pas le choix : je devais attendre. Attendre que le numéro affiché sur une écran géant soit le mien. Entre les coursiers qui viennent avec 15 passeports, les personnes qui n'ont pas les bons documents ou la mauvaise dimension pour les photos, il y a une certaine ambiance ! Deux petites salles pour accueillir environ 100 personnes qui s'observent mutuellement... Au bout de 4h, mon numéro s'affiche, YES, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" &gt;c'était enfin mon tour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" &gt;. J'ai donné tous les formulaires, photos et signatures nécessaires pour décrocher ce fameux sésame qui me permettra d'entrer dans ce pays extraordinaire. J'ai eu le papier rose qui permettait de récupérer son passeport avec le visa le surlendemain. Une matinée pour avoir 4 lignes sur son passeport !!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le surlendemain, me revoilà pour récupérer mes papiers. Même scénario, l'attente interminable dehors avant de pouvoir entrer. A l'exception près que cette fois-là, c'est "Premier arrivé, premier servi". Ouf, heureusement, il n'y avait qu'une vingtaine de personnes devant moi. J'avais parlé trop vite puisque lorsqu'enfin j'allais récupérer mon passeport et mon visa, je me suis rendue compte qu'il y avait une faute dans mon prénom et au lieu d'Alexandra, il était noté Alexandre !! J'étais assez énervée car je ne me voyais vraiment pas revenir et attendre encore 4h+2h30 soit 6h30 pour avoir une page remplie avec des lettres dorées ! Ils ont été sympas, ils ont corrigé ça sur le champ mais à la mode indienne : mettre du blanc et réecrire au Bic noir mon prénom. Ce n'est pas très pro mais bon, ils m'ont dit qu'il n'y aurait pas de problème. Espérons-le.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36745756-116206125508842828?l=alexindiantouch.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/feeds/116206125508842828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36745756&amp;postID=116206125508842828' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/116206125508842828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36745756/posts/default/116206125508842828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alexindiantouch.blogspot.com/2006/10/preparing-trip-making-visa.html' title='Preparing the Trip - Making the VISA'/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10432702180640760935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4494/4114/320/Photo015.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
