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Thu, 10 Jan 2008 | By markr_mcmahon | Views [1373]
Thursday 10th & Friday 11th January I checked out of the hotel and took a rickshaw to Varkala Station, where I caught the 10.30 train to Trivandrum, and onwards to the airport, getting there at 12.00. My flight was scheduled to leave for Mumbai ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 | By tessafb | Views [3426] | Comments [2]
Ah, so the hugging mother ashram. What a different environment to the last, quiet, spiritual uplifting Sri Aurobindo stay. Not that this was not intense, great and interesting... far from it. The first sight we glimpsed from the boat were soaring ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By tessafb | Views [473]
Well, Trivandrum was a little boring, so I'll spare you the details of our long rambles around the zoo with the Indian bourgeousise (apparently its quite the thing to do on a long hot Sunday!). We left quite rapidly for Kollam to begin our real mission ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ahay | Views [774]
I’m sitting in the dark right now because the power is out. Again. This is a daily battle in the year 2007 in a progressive city of 3 million+. Somehow I survived my Himalayan adventure and have made it back to Jaipur just in time for my finals, three ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ahay | Views [1081]
I have grown so lazy. I have to spend an entire day pumping myself up to write e-mails. There are just so many things to tell and so many ways to fail to explain how incredible and incomprehensible my life in India is. Just know that nothing I do or ... Read more >
Tags: adventures
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ahay | Views [5420] | Comments [1]
Namaste.
Aap kesse hoh? Mein budia hey.
Mira naam Annie Hay hey. Or aap?
Meri mataji ka naam hey Jaquine Hay. Muray pitaji ka naam hey Alan Hay.
Mein Bharat key sanskriti seekany Bharat aaee hoon.
Yahan par dekanay layak kiya heh?
Thoda sa bi ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ahay | Views [1058]
Unfortunately, having waited this long to write anything down, don’t even know where to begin. Things got crazy hectic with hospitalizations, traveling, the end of my travel literature class, and the departure of our American professor, Lyle. I suppose ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ahay | Views [1125]
McIndia
Swollen with head cold and angry with myself for even considering this
place an option, I push in the door. It seems to move on its own,
and I follow, stumbling through gracelessly. I am immediately blasted
with a cold air that smells like ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ahay | Views [941]
I have received complaints about my last few e-mails. I have been told that what I write is depressing and after reading, one feels like 1) having me sent home, or 2) sending me a care package for everyday I am here. Not to worry. While it is definitely ... Read more >
Tags: misadventures
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ahay | Views [562]
Getting Internet here is so complicated. COmputers never work and when they do, they aren't very reliable. So, I finally have the chance again. I am in a cafe in Udaipur where the internet is free, and the nice man that works here just offered me half ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ahay | Views [823]
Getting a little bit frustrated with the fluidity of life here. Everything changes constantly. One word can mean 10 things. 1 hours means anything between 1 and 12 hours. Tuesday means anything in the same week as that Tuesday. And, apparently, doing ... Read more >
Tags: budgets & money
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ahay | Views [827]
When I was getting my vaccinations, the nurse asked me if I thought I would need a rabies vaccination. I remember that I was laughing hysterically and told her that it would the dumbest thing ever for me to get one, there was NO WAY any sane person would ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By markr_mcmahon | Views [1093]
Wednesday 9th January I was gradually feeling better as each day passed but still didn't feel like doing a whole lot. The morning and early afternoon were spent eating, reading and emailing. I met Jamie & Rhonda along the cliff edge path and had ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By joyful_jo | Views [2902] | Comments [2]
My journey here was more like surreal!! I set off into the night from Bodhgaya to catch the late train to Bhubaneswar. Gaya railway station at night was the most unfriendly , chilly place and the train was two hours late, and threatening to be further ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 8 Jan 2008 | By tessafb | Views [515]
Well after a few more days in Maduari experiencing the vareity of sights (the soaring Islamic inspired domes of Sri Meenaski palace and the
bloodstained Dhoti Ghandi was assassinated in were fascinating) we decided to head off into the communist state ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
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