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Sun, 1 Mar 2009 | By qui001 | Views [2187]
After a sticky dusty bus journey we arrived at the Kottayam ferry “terminal”, that actually was more like a tuc-tuc graveyard with a “toilet”. The water was obscured by a mass of green water weeds so thick that we wonder if they was any water ... Read more >
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 | By bonnie | Views [682]
12.02.2009 This morning the mountains were like 'fairyland'. We woke to a pristine white landscape and at first light the near full moon dominated the sky as a massive white orb. Yesterday's snowfall was the first for this winter and the villagers rejoiced ... Read more >
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 | By bonnie | Views [628]
11.02.2009 The sky has been brooding black all morning. Last night we had our first rain in weeks, not much but enough to wet the fields and fill the air with wondrous earthy smells. I sent the kids home from school early as some have quite a distance ... Read more >
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 | By bonnie | Views [709]
02.02.2009 I would love to be able to tell tales of five feet of snow, snowball fights, cracking thick ice off the morning water buckets and of tracking wild animal prints in fresh powder snow... alas I have been basking in warm winter sun and having ... Read more >
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 | By zoejoy | Views [611] | Comments [3]
I was walking in an entrance to a restaurant today, and all of this crap came falling down on me. I took me a moment to realize, but someone had been sweeping from above and all the nasty crap fell on me! Ughh. I stood there in the stairwell, wiping ... Read more >
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 | By zoejoy | Views [531]
Cow stories. I have many cow stories. Yesterday, there was a great bunch of monkeys hanging out by one of the ghats. (A ghat is a place where you walk down steps to a body of water to pray). A man was feeding the monkeys vegetables and they were so ... Read more >
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 | By qui001 | Views [759]
The trip to Kumely was quite long because we needed to take the train, 4hours, and the bus through the mountain, 4 hours again. At time the bus was struggling up the hill,when nearing Kumely there was many tea plantation with pepper threes neatly interspersed, ... Read more >
Thu, 26 Feb 2009 | By rickshawalas | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 26 Feb 2009 | By rickshawalas | Views [1118] | Comments [6]
Total land kilometres travelled: 15,000 km + (see the map of where we have been here: View Larger Map
Since we last left you at the end of our trip through the tribal areas of Orissa we have travelled around the bottom half of India! As ... Read more >
Wed, 25 Feb 2009 | By zoejoy | Views [398]
I left Jaipur yesterday, after spending at least half of my alotted budget on jewelry. After the purchse, the jewelry company owner was driving me back to my hotel, and I started crying! Now, honestly, I have cried in India every single day so far, ... Read more >
Wed, 25 Feb 2009 | By qui001 | Views [356]
We arrived by taxi at the ferry terminal in kollam and it was back to reality with a bump. Stepping out of the taxi 5 guys trying to get us into a tuc tuc or their own tourist information office. white person = $$$$! We found a nearby hotel to crash ... Read more >
Tue, 24 Feb 2009 | By itinerant | Views [493]
I couldn’t see the lights of the city when we came below the clouds, but only water, which streaked across the windows and wriggled and fell and formed again, and among those stringy lines some larger bubbles stayed and quivered till they were taken down.... Read more >
Tags: shanghai, walking
Tue, 24 Feb 2009 | By qui001 | Views [325]
We took the train at Kanyakumari, at the end of the railway line. It was a short train journey in "first class" made even better by a lovely local woman who fed us delicious homemade sweets (a mix of ghee, milk, coconut and sugar YUMMY!) ... Read more >
Mon, 23 Feb 2009 | By ani007 | Photo Gallery
honey please go through the photos. Just for you.
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