Jungle Retreat Ootacamund

... with two more Mohan and Ravi.
All the basic research and road route was analyzed and the plan was to start @ 5pm on 19th, but finally we started our trip on @ 5.30pm from Chennai late by 30 minutes (not bad). Fruits, Snacks and Music CD’s are loaded up in the car (Sreeni). Sreeni our NH driving specialist has headed towards Bangalore – Mysore – Bandipur – Mudhumalai. If anyone likes long drives, these roads were truly amazing and worth all the toll ...

... 1999-2002) and the current head, Mark Noonan, along with the former principals’ wives. We’d been speaking about the school for some time, about the challenges (“There should be more language instruction”) and joys of Hebron (“Our emphasis is on life rather than rigidity and structure”).

Rod’s wife Ruthie used an acronym, “TCK”, that I’d never heard and asked her to explain. “Third Culture Kid,” she ...

... everything from fruit to photos of the gods. I found charcoal burners at a metal tool shop, and haggled for one of stockpot size. In Zambia these are called mbaulas and on a chilly night they are a treat. I paid 150 rupees for the burner, a quarter of what they go for in Bangalore, and I like it too much to actually use it.

But in Ooty the church stole the tour. We arrived at St. Stephen’s just as the guardian was locking the gates, but Joseph pleaded with the man in ...

... let me peek in their modest homes. One home was 2 small rooms, with a simple but very useful kitchen as a baby was sleeping right next on the concrete bed. Then in another home an older lady wanted to make us tea and for us to stay a while but we declined. She had a bigger home with 3 bigger rooms, many pots and pans..she was also a grandmother though, had lived there for 35 lives. Her family lived their with her but they were at work in the fields as she has earned the luxury of ...

... expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world.... Dormant
forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to
be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” - Patanjali, Indian philosophy


This writeup is contributed entirely by Manisha - writer and
active member of Hyderabad Adventure Club www.hyderabad-adventures.com

... which he encourages. We talked philosophy as he showed us around the hills which looked almost indistinguishable from our own Blue Mountains. Gumtrees were everywhere and some magic of the sun passing through the mountain air reproduced the same blue tinge. We had a cup of chai with some of the ethnic villagers who also enjoy an apparently progressive marital lifestyle. Shareef explained that couples were engaged at puberty and allowed to ...

... the place was shut. Great. The security guards were having none of our suggestions of a quick 5 minute visit, oh no. So just when we were thinking what to do next this wooden cart being drawn by 2 Ox appears. The old boy driving it stops for the usual ...

Just a quick entry to let all the family and friends know that we have now eventually uploaded our photo's so far. We have just returned to Allepey after 4 days of complete serenity and relaxation on a houseboat cruising the back waters of beautiful Kerala. We shared the boat with Sam and Nicole with whom we played many games of cards. We had 2 guys punting the boat called Pavthran and Saji and our cook for the 4 days was Thomas whom Liz in one dizzy moment ...