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Hello, dear friends☀️🌺🍀 The photo of cat (from internet) was published on my instagram on May, 31 and had a name "Jump toward summer👻". Second photo has a name "It was a good jump" 😆. So, now i'm in a hospital with a broken foot, but it's okey, life is go on and i think the question not "Why?", but "For what?" Good day to you and keep safe youself🌺☀️🍀 For a photo of a cat from the Internet in Photography I was banned for 1 day, I decided to leave the publication here😊
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"Once you catch traveler's fever, you can't get rid of it and you'll be infected with it for the rest of your life" (Michael Palin) How well and exactely said! It seems that I caught this fever when I was 14 days old😊 when my parents took me to show my relatives in Kazakhstan. At the age of 2, I visited the Black Sea in Dzhubga. At the age of 8, we traveled to the North Caucasus. I would love to go back there again. Magnificent fresh mountain air, southern fragrant trees,…
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Good evening, dear friends🙂 I want to tell you about Indian Ferris wheel🎡 From time to time, our Goan company made trips to the nearby town Mapusa to a local football game. Returning from one of the matches, we suddenly found a Ferris wheel that had come from nowhere. "Wow! Take a ride?" - I tell my husband. "No question!" We came closer to the wheel… and I realized that I didn't want to ride anymore😂. The wheel did not just move in a steady circle, but gradually picked up…
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Hello, dear friends! ☀️🌺☘️There is an expression "I would prefer coffee at the airport to the most delicious breakfast in bed". Absolutely! Today I want to show you a small selection of airports. The biggest impression on me was made by the Delhi airport. Magnificent sculptures with elephants, with mudras, soft carpets and long horizontal escalators, in addition to seats for sitting there are recumbent seats, with long connections it is very, very comfortably. The same…
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Today is World Oceans Day. In my life, I was lucky to visit one of them, the Indian Ocean, in town Kanyakumari (India). The uniqueness of Kanyakumari is that it is located at the extreme southern point of the globe. At this point, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal merge together. When I learned that today is the Day of the Oceans, I immediately remembered priest Fyodor Konyukhov, a Russian traveler. I read his book, "The Solo Narrative: The Traveler's…
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Another small selection of photos from airports. In the Indian city of Hyderabad, I had a night change of flights. It makes no sense to go out into the city, because i can't see any beauty at night. It remains only to wander around the airport waiting for my flight and look at the sights of the airport. My attention was drawn to the pictures, which I want to share with you.
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What a bizarre sky it can be! Dear India, thank you for teaching me to look at the sky more often, to admire and enjoy a bright or gentle sunset, to be surprised by the various patterns of clouds and the play of colors. This dragon, trying to swallow the sun, I also saw in India in 2018. In Goa, there was a 3-day carnival, the streets were decorated with small colorful flags, carnival masks hung everywhere, and in the town of Arambol there was a freak parade dedicated to the…
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Meeting with India How did India start for me? It started with colorful Indian films, their original songs and dances, where you empathize with the main characters and resent the villains. With the film by Dmitry Bulnygin about his travel through India, which plunged into the atmosphere so much that, leaving the cinema on a snow-covered Siberian street, I involuntarily turned my head in search of cows, phlegmatically wandering between the fast-moving and loudly honking…
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So, the first bright impression of India was the sunny, friendly people. First of all, we got our baggage at the Mumbai airport and changed into summer clothes (oh, what a blessing to get rid of heavy winter boots!😂). Then, at the currency exchange office, we changed the money, the minimum for immediate expenses. Even if you have been given a good course at airport, you should be prepared that a commission will be added to it. And so we walked out of the airport into the…
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At the exit from the airport, I stopped in surprise. There were an incredible number of Indians standing around the perimeter of the guardrail. A strike? Some kind of protest? It turned out that these were taxi drivers, who immediately began to invite us into the car. But we still took a pre-paid taxi at the airport, realizing that the taxi drivers will tell us the price 2 times higher than the usual fare. Our way lay to the Victoria Terminus railway station (in 1996,…
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My favorite Goan sunsets❤️☀️ A delightful, non-repetitive sight. The sun also goes to sleep🌅 Birds and flowers fall asleep. And the local people in India go to bed early to get up early in the morning and start their daily life with its labors, cares and joys. God bless India, Russia, and all-all countries. May there be peace and love on earth🙏❤️
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We arrived at the Victoria Terminus railway station after midnight. It was 6 hours before the train to Goa, and we began to look for a corner where we could stay. But no! All the seats in the waiting room were occupied. Even on the floor, the Indians made a real fur seal rookery😊, they slept peacefully on the floor on their covers. They also slept on the street, but at least the ground was warm. As a result, we were placed in the hall where the ticket office is located. Soon…
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My friends, I am so embarrassed 🤦 🤦 🤦♀️ I absentmindedly sent the continuation of the story about the Mumbai railway station without a photos😩. I correct my mistake and post a photos ghere, and you can read the story here https://noise.cash/post/ln7q826p Nice evening to you! 🌺🌺🌺 ☀️... There will be a continuation... ☀️ #india
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So we spent our first night in India at the Mumbai train station and stayed awake waiting for the morning train. With the first glimmer of dawn, the sleepy train station was alive with food vendors, people carrying huge bales, and passengers rushing to their trains. By the way, in India, an interesting feature is that passenger lists are posted directly on the train cars, depending on the class in which the ticket is purchased. If a company is traveling, a general ticket is…
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In India, there are several classes of train - 1AC, 2AC, 3AC, SL, CC, GC. The most expensive is 1AC, the cheapest is GC (general class). We managed to travel in all but 1AC and CC. The guys once went even to GC from Thiruvananthapuram to Goa😊 On our first trip from Mumbai to Goa, we rode by a 2AC. It is similar to our Russian platzcart, only with a much more "human face". My husband and I rode in the side seats and our compartment was fenced off with a thick curtain. Like a…
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However, Indian trains, along with their amazing advantages also have an unpleasant feature, they can be late, sometimes very significantly. And the most incomprehensible feature of them (not only trains, but also buses) is that they can go earlier😂 In Hampi, I was slightly stunned when the bus started not at 21.00, as indicated in the ticket, but at 20.55. If I had looked at the beauty of the Hemakuta Hill a little longer, I would have seen only a column of dust!😅 And the…
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From time to time, sellers of tea, coffee and all kinds of Indian food and sweets pass through the car. And in different dialects, they call you to taste the dishes. I really liked the vegetarian cutlets and fried bananas. I never liked milk tea before, and now I just fell in love with masala tea!😍 Tea on trains is sold in paper cups with the emblem of the Indian Railways, and on some trip I got a "lucky" cup that was painted with different animals. Now in my houme lives a…
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And so we arrived at the Thivim station. Our tickets were purchased to Margao, but we left the train earlier, as it is more convenient to get to our place in North Goa from Thivim. There has already been a daily magical Indian event "sunset" , but I have only heard about it and am looking forward to see it. The heat had subsided, but the air was warm and scented with spices, incense, and some Indian plants. ☀️... There will be a continuation... ☀️ #india
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When we got out on the platform and walked to the train station, the taxi drivers and rickshaws started calling out to us. Suddenly, the student guys we met at the Mumbai railway station appeared from somewhere. What a cool meeting! The guys told the taxi drivers that we were not going anywhere right now and we came together to the nearest cafe. There, one part of our company ordered a dozen bags of pineapple vodka (exotic for us😂). The other part ordered the beer…
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It was late in the evening when we arrived at our friends' home. They rented a floor in a beautiful 2-storey house. I admire the way the Indians decorate their homes, there are all kinds of bright colors: yellow, pink, red, orange, green, salad, blue, purple. On Christmas Eve, the houses are decorated with garlands, wcich increases the feeling of celebration. It seemed to me that in Goa Christmas garlands hang as long as in Russia there are Christmas trees😅. Our absolute…
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The people here are believers❤️. There is a cross near the houses of Christians, and icons and statuettes of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary hang in the house. There are altars near the houses of Hindus. Indians decorate crosses, altars and icons with garlands of flowers🌺🌺🌺. The temples in Goa are also very beautiful and elegant. How wonderful it is when people are able to create a holiday even from the appearance of a house or a temple! ☀️... There will be a…
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So, we came to home of our friends. It was January 7 and the Russian "diaspora"😊 was celebrating Christmas. For the first time, we celebrated this holiday not in our native snows and frosts❄️☃️, but in a southern country, among palm trees🌴🌴🌴. The sensations are indescribable! 🙃 The meeting was warm and welcoming. The newly arrived "palefaces" were joyfully embraced and treated. There was a full house of guests. Almost everyone here lives nearby, but someone came from…
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Good morning, dear friends!🌅 Today I want to share with you wonderful words and photos of Anton Krotov, a Russian traveler, the founder of the Academy of Free Travel: "Poplar fluff fills the ground. It looks like snow. Just think, how many millions of fluff! And there are millions of poplar seeds hidden among them. It seems that the chance to grow a new poplar is very small. Fluff is removed by wipers, hooligans set fire to, seeds dry out, rot, fall into the sewer. But with…
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There is a constant cycle of people in Goa, some friends come, others leave. And we like to visit each other🙂. "Surfing from chillout to chillout on Saturdays, we rush, obeying the cocktail breeze", as my favorite Siberian rock band "Woman with a Beard" sings. Closer to sunset, we put warm clothes in the trunks of motorbikes and started. Life in Goa is so unpredictable that when you leave home in the morning, you can only return the next day. No one knows where he will end…
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North Goa is like an amazing planet, where each village is a small world with its own mood, chips and lifestyle. I wanted to live in every village and absorb its spirit, each of them is interesting and touches some strings in my heart❤️. The first two trips we lived in Calangute - a noisy, tourist, fun noise, especially on weekends and holidays😀 Experienced Goans turn their noses away from Calangute, preferring Arambol with its party life, Anjuna, where old hippies live,…
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Happy moment of life❤ Photo from the first trip to India, Goa, Candolim beach. Such waves start closer to lunch. To find a quiet place for swimming, you need to dive under the first big wave and swim behind it. But you should be careful, there are reverse currents in the Arabian Sea that can carry you into the sea. We once got into such a current, swimming with a company of 4 people. Thank God, we were saved by a European guy who swam with a board. He pushed it towards us,…
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Once I couldn't think of anything better than to buy a ticket to Goa on December 30 with 4 flights: Nsk-Tashkent, Tashkent-Delhi, Delhi-Bangalore and Bangalore-Goa😅 In domestic airport of Delhi, I got into a funny, stupid and unpleasant situation. If the circumstances had been worse, perhaps I would have met the New Year 2014 on the Delhi-Goa train. The fact is that the local airline requires you to show the bank card with which the ticket was paid when checking in for the…
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Today there are no stories about India, but just a photo of my cat. That's what this look is?😂 He is filled with royal contempt for the two-legged creatures assigned to care for and cherish his person😊 And in the second photo, the look reflects all the wisdom of this tribe😼 Good evening to you, my friends!