Full Stop India

Off to India for several weeks…many more posts to follow at that time.

Catch up soon,

Chris

Palace on Ganges was a pick by my travel partner who had read a brief snippet on this newly opened hotel. Four years later I am starting to see it reviewed in the guide books.
Located overlooking the River Ganges, at Assi Ghat, Varanasi, the hotel is away from the main action yet only a boat [...]

How my travel partner and I found this spot escapes my memory yet I remember vividly the many meals I ate here. In fact, over the course of 3 days, Haifa restaurant become the go-to location when hungry.
Don’t expect any thrills here. The dining room is an open area at the front of the building [...]

While staying at the magnificent Imperial Hotel I found myself with not enough energy to venture past the ground floor to find lunch. The short walk from my room to the main hallway led me to Daniell’s Tavern, one of the in-house restaurants at the hotel.

The lunch crowd was long gone, in fact most of [...]

Stephen Alter, an Indian born American, gloriously describes his experience trekking the Char Dham Yatra. What is so impressive about this feat is that he did it the traditional way, by foot. As he himself points out, originally this trek was completed anywhere from 2 to 4 months, but with the construction of roads and [...]