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... to be angry. Women here do not exchange rings when marry but are given a gold pendant to wear around their necks. With his mother in hospital Tony was looking after his mothers and it has been stolen.
Indians love theories, drama and black magic and after drinking a bottle of Bacardi, we took to the NH47 to meet a wizard who cut off chickens heads and made things happen.
I will admit being disappointed he looked like a ...

12th January 2009 Chandana Residency, Mariyoor, Kerala, South India Cool Udumalpet - Indira Ghandi Nat Park - Chinoor Nat Park - Mariyoor (50kms 1300 mtrs) We left Udumalpet and cycled the 18kms along a lovely road, which was shaded by trees growing either side of the road, creating a canopy. The sign at the entrance to the Indira Ghandi park which made us hoot said 'Teasing of elephants will not be tolerated ...

... the middle of the day and too hot, it is in the evening they are at their best, like honeysuckle and jasmine and all the other heady, perfumed plants. Laters Reading: Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (still) To date: The Last Grain Race - Eric Newby Cancer Ward - Alexander Solzenhitsyn Utterly Monkey - Nick Laird Atonement - Ian McEwan The Tesseract - Alex Garland Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster

... no wonder; it was on the edge of a cliff with bushes, branches and a very narrow path. If you took the wrong step you were a goner...Thick dense forest, crossing streams, climbing wow what an experience. We were in search of wild elephants, but after tracking them with the guide for 4 hours we couldn't find them. Lots of Elephant dung and tracks. We saw a lot of giant squirrels instead.. they look like giant rats with ...

... mixing, heating, drying, possibly fermenting (I may not have heard that right), more cooking and drying, and finally a serious of shakers that would sort the tea particles according to grade (i.e. size). At many of the steps we were able to hold and smell the developing product. Outside the factory, we spoke to the manager in his office for a few minutes. All the while I wasn't sure if we were supposed ...

... real numbers with me, but I'm guessing that comes to something like a nickel or dime per gallon, which doesn't seem like a lot to me as an American, but fuel is so heavily subsidized by the government here that that's something like a 3.5% increase in fuels prices (again, I'm guessing at some of the conversions) in a country where not everyone has all that much money to begin with. (BTW, I read this morning that an average Indian consumes 1 ...

... a battered fleet slowly trailing each other at two-hundred-yard intervals into, around and back out of the lakes. Critters in Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary are like the cheese in Monty Python's famous Cheese Shop sketch, not much in evidence. The Sanctuary is very clean, in the sense of being largely uncontaminated by visible wildlife. Of course, being on a two-deck excursion boat with no guides to keep order, accompanied by about two ...

... we came a bit out of season as you can see on the pictures... Well at least they didn't charge us for the entry. Apart from all this I also got to see my first natural delivery this weekend. As mentioned before we have had some problems getting the nurses to call us when interesting cases come. This day we got lucky though and meet up with Dr. Shanta (K.M.F hospitals gynacologist) who had us attend a childbirth. What a week...

... end we could buy some coconut juice and different fried bananas. The fried fruit was great. As for the coconut juice . . . the problem is that I really don't like coconuts so the juice did not taste that good to me. Unfortunately, it didn't taste that good to anyone else who tried it either. Oh well. Back to the boat and we returned to the original starting point. We were served an amazing lunch of rice and various other food that tasted ...

... from the conflict in their homeland. To live side by side with another people who know what it is like to be refugees in a world that doesn't want to offer them a home. It has been quite a ride arriving here. Several weeks on the road culminated in yet another overnight bus ride through the mountains to arrive here. Road weariness inspired Alex and I to take a few days off from throwing ourselves headlong into teachings and practice and exploration. We find ourselves loving being ...