After a 9-hour train ride, in which we (Maria from Khajuraho accompanies me) were involved in a conversation with Indians for about six hours, we arrived in Agra very tired. My first impression: I will stay here longer. But that changed quickly the next day when I met the Indians in an unpleasant, very enterprising […]
Hooting cars, blasting rickshaws and mopeds and screeching bicycle bells combine to create a deafening noise potpourri that torments my drumming field. Varanasi – the holy city on the Ganges and the holiest city of Hinduism! And it’s so unbearably loud in the city center that I have to hold my ears more often. I […]
Hyderabad is the capital of the newly created Indian state of Telangana in 2014. With 6.8 million inhabitants in the actual city (more than Berlin) and 7.7 million in the agglomeration, it is the fourth-largest city in India and the center of the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the country (source: Wikipedia). The city can look […]
Badami in the north of Karnataka is not one of the most beautiful cities that you must have seen in India – but surely it is for climbers worth a visit. The town offers some cave temples as well as a huge pool of water called Agastytirtha which as accompanied by a Bhutanatha Temple. I […]
Hampis cultural heritage In the Hindu epic Ramayana Hampi is referred to as the realm of monkey gods (Kishkindha). This seems to me still quite obvious once you become aware of the monkey bands in the area running over rooftops daytime and nighttime and watching the people from a safe distance from the tops of […]
