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Hindu Temples
... for us and we were duly taken on a tour of the fine 7th to 11th century Hindu temples for which this city and region is renowned. As always Martin spent more time than our driver had allocated in taking photographs of the fine carvings and checking the detail of the inscriptions against his weighty tome. At one set of temples a music video was being shot. The 2 Bollywood stars had their personal umbrella carriers, make up attendants and ...
The great train journey
... the lower berth for luggage. Our hard wooden berths were therefore partly filled with our luggage giving us cramped space for sleeping. You sleep in your day clothes - there is nowhere to change, although in truth I don't think that either of us slept much on the first night. The nadir was the state of the toilets. My new mission as a senior public servant in India is to renovate all toilet facilities in sleeping carriages. Martin has already dismissed my earlier missions ...
Bhubaneswar Day 2
Imagine a facility where 16,500 tribal children ages 4-18 representing 62 tribal villages each with their own tribal language live and receive an education. Where they have a healthcare facility, are provided 3 meals a day all free of cost. In addition to education, they all receive training in some sort of trade and leave with a job in hand. This is where I spent the last 4 days. This was all founded by one man, Dr. Samanta. He ...
Bhubaneswar Day 1
... is an interesting piece of technology in every hotel room we have stayed on this trip. When you enter a room, one must place their key in a box on the wall that is somehow wired to trigger the ignition of electricity. Therefore, when you leave the room and remove the key, all electricity is shut off. (Dad- if you are reading this, I can picture your smile right now). When I was growing up, it was a big deal not ...
First Night with Hardeep
Good morning
After a long and hot day at the orphanage we were able to get to our room hotel room. After checking in we were walking to the room and Hardeep asked Trudi "Mommy, is this my new home?" So she may be a little disappointed when we get home because this is a very large and beautiful hotel. There was alot of love at the ...