Coimbatore
Travel Blogs from Coimbatore, India
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Bike Melt Down
Back on the plains, we woke up feeling confident that today would be fairly straight forward compared to the last week. Although we had 60 miles to do until our destination, flat plains make for speedy riding and we were looking forward to being back at ...
13/01/08 : Dimanche a Coimbatore
Superbe redécouverte des marchés et de l'ambiance quotidienne dans une grande ville ...
Day 1
... of the staff members met me at the airport and took me back to campus. It was about a 45 minute drive to campus through Coimbatore and then through the country. That is when I learned that there are no real driving rules in India. There were many times ...
An Indian Wedding
... we went back to Vishnu's place and he found us accommodation in Ooty (our next destination). Vishnu works in logistics (textile, Coimbatore is the textile capital and often called 'The Manchester of India) but lately he wants to broaden his horizon by ...
retour a Tirupur
Retour en train à tirupur, la gare est bondée du fait du Festival de Pongal. beaucoup de personnes retournent dans leur famille pour les festivités. Certains religieux voyagent ensemble pour se rendre à des cérémonies spéciales liées à ...
Hello everyone for those of you who don't ...
... most of the time, so haven't seen much so far. It is very interesting here, nothing like anywhere else I have ever been before. India is an extremely poor and nasty place. In some places people are sleeping on the side of the roads on the dirt. ...
My first shopping trip
... a man walked around with us and helped pick things out. Whereas in America, a single shirt may come in many colors and sizes, it India, you will find what seems like one of a kind clothing. I did not see duplicates on anything. Also, you can buy clothing ...
Elephant Valley, Vilpatti 20km from Kodaicanal
26th - 30th May Elephant Valley, Vilpatti Got a taxi 20km down to the mountain to a valley village Vilpatti to a jungle farm resort called Elephant Valley (not in guide book www.elephantvalleyhotel.com), which is in the middle of nowhere and has no ...
The Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu
... to see a Malabar giant squirrel frolicking in the jungle on the way. From Mettupalayam we took a different route all the way to the airport byepassing the Coimbatore city traffic. All in all a fantastic holiday, we are going back as soon as ...
Lessons and Rules
... a long time to figure out why the specify that biys must wear shoes, but then I realized that people don't always wear shoes in India. Rule #2: Everything is done with your hands. I eat with my hands and I clean with my hands. I am now very successful at ...
Perspective
... of better words. The place that I went shopping in my first days was very dirty and busy, so I assumed that that was all of Coimbatore. In the last three days, I have seen many more parts of the city. I have seen the residential area, the poor area, and ...
Thrichur/ Thrissur, Kerala
... off by talking about Republic day, which is today. It was on 26th January 1950, 3 years after independence from Britain that India became a republic and is now the 'largest democracy in the world'. But I still felt uncomfortable and made a hasty exit ...
In die Berge / To the mountains
Destination 102: km72'031 In Mysore war mir die Besichtigung des Maharaja Palasts sowie andere Arbeiten ein 3 Tages- Aufenthalt wert. Der Palast war zu prachtvoll um von innen fotografiert zu werden (Verbot). Ansonsten war die Stadt schnell ...
Families for Children
We spent 2.5 weeks in Podanur, near Coimbatore , volunteering with Families for Children (FFC). FFC is a private, not for profit organization, operating homes in Bangladesh and India for destitute women and children. FFC was founded by in 1971 by Sandra ...
Animals in Anamalai
... in under an hour. Sometime after 10pm, Amalan delivers us to our apartment. What an incredible adventure we've had touring southern India. Exhausted from the day's travel, we fall asleep the minute our heads hit the pillows. ...
Lesson #1: You Can't Take Culture Personally
As I said before, there are rules and lessons here. I have now learned the most crucial lesson for any country, you can't culture personally. Since I have been here, I have just taken the cultural changes and rules for what they were: just differences. ...
Car capital
... that well as it was mentioning how some places are steeped full of history or some important event has happened and how Coimbatore is different from that as nothing has really happened here! oh apart from Mohandas Gandhi having visited a couple of times. ...
long hot day
... the drama of the driving when I'm in a taxi. A couple of times today I made myself watch the scenery. In Coimbatore I noticed the most beautiful colored saris. Really spectacular. Tried to get photos but the car was zooming through traffic, so.... ...
small gauge train ride
We are doing a little "oh boy it's so cool here dance" inside. It must be in the 60's here. What relief. Up here the flora reminds me a little of San Francisco. Eucalyptus trees, large agave plants, intense wildflowers. And the tea ...
Ooty Tooty Fruity!!!
... at a time and keep your sense of humour....well until the next time maybe! We arrived in a very hot and bustling Coimbatore and booked into somewhere for a night. Over the last few days Dean hadn't had any luck with shifting his sore mouth with ...
Coimbatore
... as we moved off. We arrived in the village of Mettupalayam more or less on time, and then took our onward train to Coimbatore an hour later, unfortunately having to stand for the 45 minute journey, but at least it made it easier to get off as we ...
The Nilgiri Mountain Railway
... to the bottom of our bags. We had an hours wait when we arrived in Mettupalayam for our connecting train to Coimbatore. Stuffing our faces with cashewnuts and biscuits (standard railway journey food), we waited patiently, trying to shoo away the dogs ...
Welcome to Bollywood
I have added paid movie actor to my resume. How it all went down is beyond me, but I found myself at 6am in front of the mandala with my friend Jessica waiting to be picked up for a half day of shooting. A diesel landcruiser type vehicle pulls up ...
Coimbatore
... friends of mine, Saravanan Uncle and Kavitha Aunty, from Calgary. They are spending a year in India, and have just built a gorgeous house in Coimbatore. We had a very fun day playing with their two girls(extreme cutie pies), doing ...
Rain!
Yes, it has rained! And not only that, I've also been cold for the first time; so much so that I had to pull the blanket over me during the night. The reason for this is that we have traveled up into the mountains to a hill station in the Western Ghats. ...
Coimbatore - A stop near the train station!
... someone without bags. From experience the Indians just generally seem bloody rude! We were eventually thrown out somewhere near the Coimbatore bus station and managed to find our way to some nearby guest houses/hotels. Another Lonely Planet bull-shitter ...
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