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India Hits the Gym

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

India's pot-bellied males hit gym for Bollywood buff look...

Destinations: India | New Delhi
Topics: Sports
The intrepid Mr. Singh

The Intrepid Mr. Singh

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443]

We placed our lives in the hands of an expert as we traveled through northern India.

Destinations: Jaipur | New Delhi | India | Agra
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Animals | 20th Century History | Traditions | Culture | Economy | People | Sports
A waterfall across the path through Tiger Leaping Gorge

Last Days of the Tiger Leaping Gorge?

Adam Bray - kanzis_slave [1,617]

Deep in Yunnan Province, at the foot of the Himalayas, the Yangtze River (here known as the Yellow Sands), carves the deepest gorge in the world between Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (5,596m) and Haba...

Destinations: Yunnan | Himalayas | Tibet | Lijiang River | China | Yangtze River
Topics: Travel | National Parks | Adventure | Animals | Ecotourism | Culture | People | Sports | Nature | Architecture

Bullfighting revival in India

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

In the Indian resort state of Goa, there is talk about reviving bullfighting...

Destinations: India
Topics: Sports

Extreme Skiing in Indian Kashmir

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

The 2,000-metre (6,600-foot) vertical descent to Gulmarg, a village in revolt-hit Indian-administered Kashmir, is what many ski devotees rank as among the best skiing on the planet. Just ignore the travel warnings...

Destinations: India | Kashmir Region
Topics: Sports

Cycling across the Himalayas

Colin Hinshelwood - chinshelwood [123]

The 1,200-km Highway 318 from Lhasa to Kathmandu has suddenly become one of the most fashionable, gruelling and wondrous trails for international mountain bikers. Originally an artery of the famed...

Destinations: Nepal | Lhasa | Thimphu | Himalayas | Tibet | Bhutan
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Sports
Cable car at Kongdoori in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Skiing Kashmir

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

KONGDOORI, India, Feb 19, 2004 - The scenic Himalayan territory of Kashmir, where the tourist trade has been devastated by a 15-year insurgency, is hoping to become an elite ski destination when its...

Destinations: India | Kashmir Region
Topics: Travel | Sports
A gondola making its way from the Gulmarg resort to Kongdoori on the only existing cable-cars in Kashmir.

Highest cable-car to prompt winter sports boom in troubled Kashmir

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

KONGDOORI, India, Jan 8, 2003 - Rebellion-torn Indian Kashmir will be among the best ski destinations in Asia when one of the region's highest cable-cars is completed this year, officials said.

Destinations: India | Kashmir Region
Topics: Sports

Film Review: Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099]

The year is 1893 in the fictional village of Champaner in the Central Indian province of Madhya Pradesh, where the impoverished inhabitants are not only under the tyrannical rule of the merciless...

Destinations: India | New Delhi
Topics: Culture | People | Performing Arts | Sports | Ancient History
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