Buharis Blue Lagoon Resort
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... half an hour later we arrived (praise the lord) at the YWCA guesthouse. A late check in, we hit the hay as we had a long run from Perth to here.
Day one proper, we had a quick taste of an Indian breakfast - its pretty much the same as an Indian lunch or dinner. Then after a well deserved shower we headed off on a half day city tour run by the local tourist office. There were just a few of us on the tour and surprisingly ...
Of cabbages and Kings -(Princes and broccoli soup)
... the young girl who climbed up and down the ladder helping me with my search).
Oh, and I mustn’t forget the cricket. Our driver, who is a sweet young man that we tease mercilessly about his girlfriend/s, drove us there after he’d taken us shopping. He is an excellent driver, and waggled his head comically whenever we shrieked with alarm at the antics of the traffic – as if to say, "What a bunch of strange ...
Temple de Mahabalipuram
... Pour terminer, et ça je crois que c'est le plus grandiose, nous sommes arrivés en barque en pleine nuit pour rejoindre notre Guesthouse!! Avec nos lourdes valises sur la barque...on apercevait les cocotiers, c'était magnifique! Nous voici maintenant à Allepey: ville moyenne du Kerala (pays de la noix de coco) et entourées de canaux qu'on appelle ici Backwaters. Vivement demain qu'on puisse les découvrir de jour!
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One not so fine day
... have also seen bags of, presumably, trash tied up in some trees. There is one type of tree in India that has great vines that hang from the limbs and sometimes reach all the way down to the earth. It is always these vines that I see bags tied to and I could not for the life of me think of a reason to tie excess trash to a tree. Clearly, no one has a problem leaving it on the ground, why go to the effort of tying it up?? Again, after weeks of staring at these trees, I was told ...
First Impressions and Second Thoughts
... last night so I can tell I’m going to be sleepy all day, but I was expecting the jet lag to be more severe so I’ll deal with it.
11:00pm
Suresh picked us up with his private driver around 1pm and we spent the afternoon driving around the city, taking in as much of the chaos as our minds would allow. The streets were filled to the core with trucks, buses, rickshaws, motorbikes, mopeds, bicycles, beggars, the poor pedaling their wares ...
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