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Travelogues
If there's one
thing I like almost as much as writing, it's travelling. So the end
result of the two has got to be a lot of travelogues, right? I've
written a number of them, on destinations across the world- mainly
Asia, and in particular India. Some of these travelogues have been
posted on www.journeymart.com
(a company with which I worked for two years- all the travelogues featured on this site
are copyright JourneyMart), and there are many more on the delightful www.igougo.com,
where I'm masquerading as a guide named phileasfogg (what else!!).
Anyway, here
goes; this month's featured travelogue:
The
Taj: More Than Mere Passion
Agra, at first
glance (and for much later too) doesn't strike you as being vastly
different from any of the hundreds of other jaded towns which dot
India. It is dominated by grime, dust, rickety cycles and crowds- of
hassled tourists, sharp-eyed touts and persistent rickshaw-wallahs
(who will willingly show you the elegant red façade of St John's
College and pass it off as the famous Sikandra, the tomb of the
Mughal Emperor Akbar). And crawling all across the city are families
from all across India. They come, uncles and aunts, parents and
children, generations of eager holidaymakers, yearning to tell
everybody back home of their trip to the Taj...>
Check out my
other travelogues:
Bharatpur:
Of Lipstick Birds and Jungle Kotwals
Serendipity
in a Seashell: Sri Lanka
The
Pilgrim's Progress
London:
One City, Many Faces
The
Taj: More Than Mere Passion
Ladakh-
The Land of Passes
Go to my member
page on igougo.com to read many more journals on many more
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