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Wednesday, 23 Jan 2008 | Views [378] | Comments [1]
Waaaaah, Delhi is freezing! It was 9 degrees when we got in last night, and I was
just totally miserable. I am going to live in my thermals for the next
month. I had bought a warm jacket in Goa for nearly $30 and that saved
my skin last night. However, ... Read more >
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Monday, 21 Jan 2008 | Views [367]
Well, Mumbai was a interesting city. It was so good to be in a big city after Goa, there is something about certain cities that live and breath, it's a certain buzz. Bangkok has this energy about it and so does Mumbai. I think its something about the ... Read more >
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Friday, 18 Jan 2008 | Views [504]
Ok, that makes it sound like I hate Goa. full stop. Thats a big call, bc its quite a big place, and we didn't see much of it at all. I would definitely love to come back, and go to another beach of my choosing. I think the problem was that our compromise ... Read more >
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Monday, 14 Jan 2008 | Views [342]
I think I last left you in the Backwaters of Alleppey, cruising along on a houseboat.
After that we headed up to Kochi, the capital of Kerala, and a town built in various suburbs on a number of penninsulas off the mainland. We stayed in the beauiful ... Read more >
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Friday, 11 Jan 2008 | Views [462] | Comments [1]
Ok, so maybe the title is too cynical, but this may have been the most expensive experience we will have in India. Not that that is bad, but I did experience pangs of guilt as our boat swept past old ladies beating washing on the shore, and skinny skinny ... Read more >
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Thursday, 10 Jan 2008 | Views [3275] | 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 >
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Wednesday, 9 Jan 2008 | Views [399]
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 >
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Tuesday, 8 Jan 2008 | Views [367]
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 >
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Monday, 7 Jan 2008 | Views [717] | Comments [1]
Well last time i left you was the bus ride to Madurai. It was a slightly frustrating trip (not the first I'm sure), but in the end provided some beautiful moments as we travelled through feilds of rice paddies and palm trees. At dusk I watched the red ... Read more >
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Saturday, 5 Jan 2008 | Views [381] | Comments [1]
On the next day we tried to get to Madurai. What a balls-up. Because i was feeling a little anal and self-conscious about my pre-planning (the others have done none!), I let aaron figure out how we were going to get there. We ended up travelling the ... Read more >
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Friday, 4 Jan 2008 | Views [386]
We spent the first part of the evening trudging around like turtles with our massive rucksacs, and meeting "sorry , full" signs at every place. Argh, I was ready to sleep on the street, so long as it meant I could put my bag down. Finally, ... Read more >
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Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 | Views [270]
The airport at Chennai was nowhere near as manic as Steph had lead me to be. I think Chennai is a bit more chilled, cause less tourists come here, and so the entry experience was just like any other developing world country. Actually, I've found that ... Read more >
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