http://thetravelersnotebook.com/notes-from-road/losing-my-travel-virginity-life-and-death-on-the-ganges/ Featuring insider destination guides and how-to articles from the matador travel community. Our focus is sustainable travel, cultural immersion, plus work, study, and volunteer opportunities worldwide. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:51:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://thetravelersnotebook.com/notes-from-road/losing-my-travel-virginity-life-and-death-on-the-ganges/comment-page-1/#comment-2366 Tim Patterson Sun, 17 May 2009 15:19:34 +0000 http://thetravelersnotebook.com/?p=1076#comment-2366 Gorgeous piece. I made a lot of puddles after visiting Varanasi a couple months ago. Gorgeous piece. I made a lot of puddles after visiting Varanasi a couple months ago.

]]> http://thetravelersnotebook.com/notes-from-road/losing-my-travel-virginity-life-and-death-on-the-ganges/comment-page-1/#comment-2360 Carlo Alcos Sun, 17 May 2009 07:20:54 +0000 http://thetravelersnotebook.com/?p=1076#comment-2360 Hear hear...great line: She accepted life. I accepted a glamorous paragraph about a boat ride down the Ganges. Hear hear…great line: She accepted life. I accepted a glamorous paragraph about a boat ride down the Ganges.

]]> http://thetravelersnotebook.com/notes-from-road/losing-my-travel-virginity-life-and-death-on-the-ganges/comment-page-1/#comment-2359 Sarah Sun, 17 May 2009 07:07:35 +0000 http://thetravelersnotebook.com/?p=1076#comment-2359 I agree, beautifully written. It's so hard to create descriptions like this without sounding pompous or cheesy. You really take your reader there without doing either. I agree, beautifully written. It’s so hard to create descriptions like this without sounding pompous or cheesy. You really take your reader there without doing either.

]]> http://thetravelersnotebook.com/notes-from-road/losing-my-travel-virginity-life-and-death-on-the-ganges/comment-page-1/#comment-2354 Julie Sun, 17 May 2009 02:24:11 +0000 http://thetravelersnotebook.com/?p=1076#comment-2354 Wow- incredibly powerful, tight piece. Especially loved this: "That was the difference between me and the woman that continued to scrub her golden sari. She accepted life. I accepted a glamorous paragraph about a boat ride down the Ganges." Wow- incredibly powerful, tight piece. Especially loved this: “That was the difference between me and the woman that continued to scrub her golden sari. She accepted life. I accepted a glamorous paragraph about a boat ride down the Ganges.”

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