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Can yoga help with depression?
A one-hour yoga sequence for mild depression/depressive phases Yoga can heal. Both on the physical and spiritual level. Not without reason there is yoga therapy. [...]Read Mo
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Review Volunteer Year 2009/10 Report No 3
Once again, it’s time for a little review. This report covers the months of December/January, almost exactly 9 years ago. The described trip with my family is by the way the model for my two-week “journey through the heart of India” in Madya Pradeh and is therefore very close to my heart. So, it’s [...]Read Mo
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India is still swinging in me
A wonderful report by Elke, who travelled India with the help of Chalo!Travels. She stayed in a Yoga Ashram in Rishikesh and did a Yoga Trek in the Himalayas. This beautiful writing deserves a place on the Chalo! Travels Blog. Dirty, noisy. I cannot stand the sight of this extreme poverty. These are some of [...]Read Mo
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Review 2009/10 Volunteering in India Report 2
The second report about my time as a volunteer in Delhi and our first trip through the desert state of Rajasthan. Nine years have past and when I read this report myself, I immediately feel transported back to that time. I’m a bit proud of what we were able to achieve for the children in [...]Read Mo
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Review 2009/10: Volunteer Year in a Delhi Slum Report No 1
My life in India began with a year of volunteering in Delhi. I had participated in the program “Weltwärts” and was supported by the German state for a whole year to work with an Indian organization in a slum in Delhi. Even today I often get questions about my volunteering and my first year on [...]Read Mo
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The little man’s business and a Samosa recipe
In India, almost every man is a businessman as well. Be it the vegetable seller, the shoe cleaner or the tailor. Almost everyone runs their own small business. Most of the time, the “business” is set up and dismantled on the street for a day or one owns a small garage with a sliding shutter [...]Read Mo
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Chair Yoga for Senior Citiziens- A Christmas gift for my grandma(s)
A year ago, my grandma was able to take part in the “Yoga for Elderly”. But at above 80 years, it’s not so easy anymore to get on and off the mat. In the table pose, the knees and wrists hurt, balance exercises are hard to hold and uncertainty arises. All this makes the yoga [...]Read Mo
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Giardia Lamblia – the parasite that causes India travellers abdominal pain
When I returned to Germany in 2011 after my one-year voluntary stay, I immediately took a stool test.. For weeks I had stomach cramps, I had a bloating belly and felt filled all the time and several times a day I had to go to the toilet. No symptoms that force you to stay in [...]Read Mo
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MTB Arunachal Hornbill Flight – the slightly different mountain bike stage race
About Arunachal A mountain bike stage race is something special in itself. If it takes place in India, such an event will be quite special. But a seven-day mountain bike race through the far-flung northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh probably tops everything! [...]Read Mo
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Christmas Gift Voucher by Chalo! Travels
The very special Christmas present for and with your loved ones: A Chalo! Travels -Travel voucher for an India trip of your choice or an amount of your choice. This is what the Christmas gift voucher could look like – it can of course be changed with matching pictures as desired. And as a small [...]Read Mo
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India, the land of enchanting traditions
In India there are many different places that are definitely worth a trip. In addition, the country offers many different traditions and festivals, which you should definitely experience once. One of these festivals is called Diwali, which is one of the most important festivals in Hinduism and is also called the Feast of Lights. The [...]Read Mo
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Exoticism and adventure – sporty india
On his Audauerblog.de Thorsten Pretzsch published my guest article “Exoticism and Adventure – Experiencing Sporty India”. In this article I report mainly on worthwhile trekking and cycling trips in India. [...]Read Mo
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Hero MTB Himalaya vs. Sigma Bike Transalp – a comparison
For the third time I took part in the stage race MTB Himalaya through the Indian Himalayas. This time even I got on 3rd position in the women category. On this blog I have already reported extensively about my race participations in 2015 and 2016. The race was quite similar again this year, regarding organization [...]Read Mo
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Yoga Retreat in December at Shri Jasnath Ashram (21.12.2018- 04.01.2019)
I myself probably look at least as much forward to the yoga retreat in the Rajasthan Shri Jasnath Ashram as my guests! After all, I know the ashram and the ashram family so well, that a trip there is like a homecoming. The ashram itself has a wonderful quiet, but also powerful atmosphere and after [...]Read Mo
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Yoga for the heart – Backbends, chanting and Kundalini yoga
My yoga guru Vishva from Rishikesh creates his Yoga classes always around a soecific themeand combines that withphilosophy, mantras, asanas, pranayama, meditation and relaxation within his classes Like this you go into a real deep practise, incooperate all aspects of Yoga and even take something with you out of the classroom For my yoga students [...]Read Mo
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Mountain bike racing and running a business
– The context What do my participations in mountain bike races and the management of my tour company Chalo Travels! in common? Well, much, it seems, if one reads the article “Mountain biking forces you to step outside your defined comfort zone”. Here the journalist Shail D reports about me, my mountain bike life in [...]Read Mo
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About success and failure on the mountain
Thoughts and insights after a (un)successful expedition to the Chandra Bagha 13 peak in India.No, we could not reach the summit of the 6264 m high C.B. 13 on our 11-day expedition and even had to make an early resignation. Not only the sudden snowfall, but above all the symptoms of altitude sickness and a [...]Read Mo
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Chalo! Travels in the Media
A nice interview in the MAZ about me, my life in India and to Chalo! Travels. [...]Read Mo
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My grandma is doing yoga
Yoga for seniors My mom does yoga as long as I can think. When I was 14 years old, she took me to a yoga weekend. I didn’t really understand yoga that time. But I really enjoyed it. I liked doing crazy things with my body, loved the headstand and the beautiful atmosphere. But when [...]Read Mo
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Education in India
October Calendar Sheet No. 10 School education has also been compulsory for Indian children for several years. Prime Minister Modi has been working hard in recent years to ensure that children from rural areas in particular, as well as girls, have a chance for education and finish their 10th grade degree. In order to support [...]Read Mo
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SUP Yoga
Making SUP yoga your own practise, based on your own experiences with tips and hints When I’m in India for a long time, some of the trend just goes by me. So I had never heard of this new “Pokemon Hype” or about these “clown mask stories” until I was back in Germany and it [...]Read Mo
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Mountain biking in India vs. Europe -A comparison
I started mountain biking in India: the Himalayas with their long ascents and descents, bad roads and wonderful mountain trails simply offer the perfect conditions for this sport. A road bike would be out of place here and so I sat down on a mountain bike for the first time eight years ago for a [...]Read Mo
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Post from Gracy- a report of a Solo Traveler
Namaste lovely Chalo! Travels friends, I’ve been in India for five weeks now and I can report a lot. I have experienced many things and have gone through ups and downs. In India, holidays are until July and this is particularly noticeable on the roads in the mountains. The beautiful landscape with the relatively cool [...]Read Mo
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From the Himalayas to the Alps to the Harz mountains- through the mountains of the world by mountain bike
I had survived my Transalp adventure well. After a few nice (and hot) days with the family, it was time for me for a new “mountain bike experience” in Germany. The North German participants of the Transalp all raved about the highest German low mountain range, the Harz. Since the Harz is also only about [...]Read Mo
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Chalo! Travels and Frosch Sportreisen are Partners
For Chalo! Travels it is not only a great opportunity, but above all an honour to work with such an experienced sports tour operator as Frosch Reisen. Since February 2018 we sat together to develop the perfect experience trip for Rajasthan. The result is a multi-active trip with many bike tours and hikes, wildlife safaris, [...]Read Mo
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Bike Transalp 2018- An experience report
Originally, I wanted to report every day from my experiences during the tour. Already during the stages while riding, I formulated whole passages in order to be able to express my experiences later. But no way! This idea was harder to implement than expected. After six to eight hours of mountain biking in the legs, [...]Read Mo
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Why stretching is so important for cyclists
With a 24 minute yoga video “Stretching for cyclists” In the last six months I have not only trained diligently on the bike, but also acquired intensive theoretical knowledge regarding the training teaching etc. I learned that in addition to the actual training on the bike and some strength training, especially regular stretching and the [...]Read Mo
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Training for the Bike Transalp
Now it is only two weeks before the start of the Bike Transalp – a multi-day bike race across the Alps – and I am not only preparing for my annual stay in Germany, but also of course for the race. After all, it is supposed to be the oldest and toughest mountain bike stage [...]Read Mo
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Chalo! Travels Newsletter June 2018 : Preparing for your trip to India
This beautiful Chalo! Travels Newsletter was written this month by Gracy, our new intern, and I thought I’d post it on our blog right away. Have fun reading, Sarah A cheerful hello to the round of India enthusiasts, my name is Gacy, I come from lively Berlin and now live in India for half a [...]Read Mo
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The Indian “Aunt Emma Shop”
In Germany we call small shops which provide alldaily needs ” Aunt Emma shops”. These days they hardly exist anymore next to all these big super markets. But in India you still have them! If you do your daily shopping in India, you go to the so-called “Bazaar”, the Indian market. There are vegetable stalls, [...]Read Mo
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Sarah goes to the Bike Transalp
My first mountain bike race outside India and then it’s the Bike Transalp! Madness. I still can’t believe that my long-cherished wish will now come true in July 2018 thanks to a raffle on Facebook! Here I actually won a team entry througha lottery of Stageraces.com. [...]Read Mo
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Visiting the Indian Border Guard
– My personal mountain bike training camp and retreat. In India, things can happen that actually normally not just happen. And so it happens, that I have been a guest at an SSB base near the Nepalese border for a week now. [...]Read Mo
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Gol Gappa – arguably India’s most peculiar street snack
Gol Gappa (crispy dough ball = gol; food = Gappa) is probably one of the most popular, but also one of the most peculiar Indian snacks ever, especially for the western palate. It is also known as “Pani Puri” – a crispy puri filled with spicy water, the Pani. [...]Read Mo
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About my life in India
As the founder and owner of my own small travel company ” Chalo! Travels” I offer trips in India. But how did this actually happen? What is the connection to India? What is my life like in India? Answers to these questions and some more impressions from my life in India can be found in [...]Read Mo
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Stuffed eggplants
In January and February I was a very frequent guest at Rekha’s and Rishi’s, who offer their Incredible Krishna Cooking Workshop in Jodhpur due to my yoga and Rajasthan trips. I have already written about them in other articles. In fact, everything during a evening at a cooking class at Rekha’s and Rishi’s INCREDIBLE! [...]Read Mo
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Mountain bike workshop at an Indian girls school
I have been living in India for seven years and have been doing mountain biking as a regular hobby, challenging sport and out of deep passion. While a lot has developed in the Indian cycling Industry in the past and there is now a growing mountain bike community, it is unfortunately still the case that [...]Read Mo
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Preparation tips and hints for the Manali – Leh Mountain Biking Tour
Since we have some groups for popular nine-day mountain biking tour on the 470 km long Manali-Leh Highway this Summer, it seems appropriate to give some suggestions for preparation and hints for the tour. [...]Read Mo
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Chalo! Travels is growing
No, we are not expecting a baby, but Gracy from Germany. Gracy – fun-loving, travel-loving and interested in culture – will live, travel and work with us in India/Manali for six months from 15 May. Gracy travelled India with Chalo! Travels already and brings a lot of experience in the travel business through her work [...]Read Mo
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2 weekends – 2 two-day mountain bike races in the Indian Himalayas back to back
The mountain bike season in India has started for me with the Hero MTB Shimla and MTB Nainital race With two intensive mountain bike races in April I was able to test my self for the first time this season. [...]Read Mo
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