Cosmo Hotel Mangalore

Telecom House Road Mangalore, Karnataka, 21000, India

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Mangalore –Serene Beaches and Mad Buses

A travel blog entry by zinzan3

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... what we do to keep you lot up to date astounds me. We enquired at various places about pre-paid packages, but didn't make a lot of headway and then we were directed to Vodafone Customer Service. Here we got excellent service and in a short while marched out with an Indian USB stick and a 3G prepaid package at a fraction (about a twentieth) of the price our thieves at Vodacom, MTN et al. currently offer.Thank you gentlemen, for attempting to keep us in the dark ages ...

Accidents happen

A travel blog entry by 2009balitrip

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... we sat and chatted with him and and his Indian friend.
Soon we were on our way hoping to find a place to eat and make one more stop before heading to Udupi and our hotel. We were both a bit surprised that our driver was doing so fast when we had made it to the temple and were now on a more relaxed pace. It is a windy road back down to the main road, and the road was not as wide as the main road. There is quite a lot of traffic since ...

Blog 36: Cobra Under the Bed & Boys Peeing Part IV

A travel blog entry by shoberg

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... next is almost always the least favorite aspect of a backpacker's journey. Alas, it must be done and this final blog, albeit being hideously long, covers the gambit of having one’s happiness peed on while getting to paradise and back.

We last left off in Mangalore as we were dealing with yet another unruly tuk tuk driver that wanted his way in order to make a commission by disregarding ...

Blog 35: How Do Boys Have So Much Urine? III

A travel blog entry by shoberg

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... br>
He must have thought we had just fallen off of the Indian turnip bus, but rather than argue with him I just pulled out Assertive Mark and told him to shut up and just take us to the train station already. He once again defiantly told me that the train station was closed and that the next train leaving would not do so until 5:50 a.m. the following morning. I responded by telling him that I was not soliciting his advice on Indian train schedules ...

Blog 34: Boys Peeing on Your Happiness II

A travel blog entry by shoberg

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... this is fact. One tuk tuk driver once told Annie and me, “When I see you, I see rich.” Another told me just the other day, “You look like money.” At the time I was wearing shorts that hadn’t been laundered in a week and a t-shirt that could have only matched in the mind of a fifth grader that grew up in the 80s who thought florescent was a color and should be paired with zebra zooba ...