Best Western Hotel Ramanshree Mysore

... The busy market was a cool place to visit, and afterward we went up Chamundi Hill. Chamundi Hill is a hill with a temple at the top and is supposedly the site of a big showdown in Hindu mythology. When we got to the top of the 1000m hill, we realized that it was much too crowded to wait in line today during the festival, as it was not worth it since foreigners were not allowed into the inner sanctum anyway. We started going down and ...

... 75p. That included an on-site 'bar' (a fridge), plus the hammocks. So we went to the hammocks, ordered some chai, and read with a view of the temple and river whilst the room was prepared. The next thing I know i'm be woken up as the room is ready. Back to the hammocks straight away though. Jo's flip flops had unfortunately broken so we decided to go search for some more. As much as she like the idea of being at one with nature and walking ...

... world famous tea train route. We had unanimously decided that we wanted to go walking and we wanted to see a tea plantaion. As was our habit we contemplated the cheapest way to see those things. We decided to take a bus towards a nearby town and to get off when it passed a tea plantation. This we did. The views from the place we got off the bus were incredible. We walked a little way into the plantation and sitting on a rock ate our lunch of bread ...

... best! We kept on entertaining each other! It was definitely the most challenging! I am glad to say that I have reached the 2nd highest mountain in India!

Phase 2 - Building Eco-Sanitation Units

09 March 2009 - When parting is such sweet sorrow...

The Raleigh 09C cohort came, saw and went in a whirlwind this weekend.

The Alpha 1 trekkers returned from the southern State of Kerala after 12 days of hard walking and two of rafting, with all ...

... Only problem was they wouldn't stick on so i did my best and then lined up again with the forms hanging off the package. The desk woman was looking at me strangely as though i were a martian who had just landed my spaceship out front. So, i just handed the parcel over, paid the postage fee, did a little prayer that it would make it to Oz then put the freak out incident out of my mind. I decided to leave Chris and go the next morning to Cannanore on the coast to ...

The highlight experience for me in Mysore was a light show, but I`ll get on to that later. We had a full day to explore Mysore, I choose to go on a 12 hour tour of Mysore and surrounds. The first stop was the Zoo. I normally don`t go to zoos in developing countries as animals are not generally looked after so well. This zoo was no exception. Half of the zoo was marked 'under repair' and the pens were vacant. We visited to Jayachamarajendra Art gallery. Much ...

... tried some of the indian sweets here too - so full of sugar but really good! saw the mysore palace which was a pretty impressive building and wandered around the silk shops - people were spending a fortune on dresses and dressing gowns..... and another overnight train!

... peu de la pollution et on te devisage moins, il fait juste un peu chaud l'apres midi. ca y est je suis d'attaque, plus de courbatures, du moins j'ai plus l'impression de m'etre fait tabassee ou faite roule dessus par un rouleau compresseur (j'aime bien imager mes propos, vous avez remarque). L'Inde change, il faut se depecher d'y venir, maintenant partout ou tu vas, il y a un prix pour les indiens et un prix pour les etrangers,ca reste peu cher mais ...

... again before proceeding with caution," it's more of a "look left, then right, then left, nevermind the cow staring at you in the median, now to the rightish (moped, moped, moped!!!),now back over there kind of to the left (is he turning?!), now a nice move i call "scoot behind the mother and daughter," put your head down, and go, GO, GO!!! (don't look over there. that child has ridden on the back of a bike like that for years, he's not going to fall off now. head DOWN ...

... hour drive! Then we drove to the other side of them, and it was more of what I was expecting. We took a little hike down some stairs to get to the water, and being as graceful as I am, I took a pretty bad fall! In my defense though, I was not the only one, and I was wearing flip flops. But it was pretty embarrassing, I was trying to get around a group of Indians and fell right in the middle of them! One woman actually ...