Recent content by DangerSuit

Hey all, I just wanted to ask about hotels in Madhurai and if anyone had any alternatives to recommend? I have heard amazing things about the Sangam hotel - my aunt stayed there when she toured India last year, but I worry that it is really far from the city centre and temples. She had to ride...

I will be stopping in Uttar Pradesh for a short time and will be visiting Agra and Lucknow, but I also wanted to visit one of the main Buddhist sites in the area. I have been told both Sarnath and Kushinagar are very important sites of significance for Buddhist followers, but I wondered whether...

Thanks Chahal, that's really good to know. I guess it was always going to be prevented as there would inevitably be drivers who would drink when their friends would. That is fascinating that the term means business - I often think wordplay is unique to the English language, but clearly it...

I recently discovered the unique concept of Car O Bar - driving around a city, parking up, having a quick drink (not the driver of course) and jumping out to great small bites from roadside vendors before taking off again and repeating. It is something I had never heard of before and sounds like...

I would agree that it is of no use to anyone to be travelling with a person that panics or moans, but a balance must be struck. When I was just out of school, I went travelling around Europe with a friend who I knew fairly well, but had never spent more than a couple of nights in a row with...

As I have had it explained to me numerous times by people of South Indian descent, the Tamil language is the oldest and forms the base for the majority of the languages on the Indian sub-continent. Whereas some of the North Indian languages were borne out of a mixture of Dravidian and central...