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Goa'ing Home Again

Tue, 3 Mar 2009 | By deli | Views [288]

I have christened her "Rosemary" and she is a beauty - about the same vintage as me, she wear a gently faded shade of pink and unabashedly sports a banner reading "Miss India"...she is my bike - a big tired, big saddled, basketted ... Read more >

Fort Cochin

Tue, 3 Mar 2009 | By qui001 | Views [797]

                             The trip to Cochin was a quite short, the bus landed us at the gate of Ernakalum, but it was not our final destination, we were going to Fort Cohcin. Fort Cochin it’s a place which was colonised by Dutch and Portuguese ... Read more >

To The North

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 | By tog | Views [399] | Comments [1]

Have been staying hampi. it is a ruined city this very reminiscent of the jungle book. the town is filled with monkeys that swagger around the ruins as if kings. there are also regular sighting of cobras and crocodiles. have been staying in a hut ... Read more >

Perfection

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 | By zoejoy | Views [377] | Comments [1]

I can be a critical person.  I try not to find fault with people, with things, with life. I try not to, and it's hard to try.  But I usually wind up finding fault with most things- I'm just a critical person. I was raised that way, raised to be critical, ... Read more >

Allepey and the backwaters homestay

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 | By qui001 | Views [2152]

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 >

From a white wonderland to a deathly black...

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 | By bonnie | Views [658]

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 >

Snowflakes and quakes

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 | By bonnie | Views [607]

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 >

Glacier melt and the last 'tango'....

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 | By bonnie | Views [669]

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 >

Rose Quartz

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 | By zoejoy | Views [598] | 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 >

Cow stories

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 | By zoejoy | Views [471]

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 >

Kumely

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 | By qui001 | Views [731]

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 >

Gallery: Indien

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 | By karen_backpacking_in_asia | Photo Gallery


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Gallery: South India

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 | By rickshawalas | Photo Gallery


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Circumnavigating the Subcontinent – Mission completed

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 | By rickshawalas | Views [1090] | 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 >

Illness (again) and Fear

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 | By zoejoy | Views [385]

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 >

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