Hotel Spring Valley Kodaikanal

... enjoying the place. We are alone here most of the time. We walk the wooded roads along a jungle river here. They grow all sorts of spices here. You can see coffee plants, cardamom, pepper and pineapple. Lots of strange insects, and spiders. On one morning walk I came back with a bloody sock. I noticed it after I showered. I think I may have had an encounter with a leech. It's always ...

... beautiful birds and wild flowers. When we got off the bus, thankful that we our driver had negotiated the hairpin turns and sheer drops, we saw an asphalt path winding its way up the mountain. Visitors are not allowed to stray from that path. We also immediately saw a tahr placidly munching grass alongside the path. It seems that they have become tame and no longer fear man. As we walked the path up to its end (about 30 minutes) we saw lots of ...

... t particularly feeling peaceful myself as that happens with traveling, with life..i was feeling quite down and lonely which did hinder my experience somewhat but while trying make the most of it at the same time and to get over myself. I somewhat succeeded my second day there. There are quite a few trekking trails and i just did my own wandering through some forests, villages, trails, and took ...

... W. Veli Street near the Meenakshi temple. It was tired, but great value for a very large room with dressing room, walking distance from the temple and market area. Shopping:- Excellent creamy Kodai cheddar cheese available really cheap, at most shops [there is a cheese factory you can visit on Convent Rd which we did not know about while we were there], home made dark roast crunchy peanut butter and local berry / fruit jams are of superb quality and ...

... or not cold enough, or we didn't order this, take it away immediately. I was amazed; I sat there and enjoyed all of the things that had these problems and had a wonderful meal. (I liked these folks as people, they were just rude and high maintenance. They did buy me lunch, for which I was grateful.) And so the ride continued. I did enjoy passing some strange occurrence (one of many) of a man on top of an ambulance driving down the street throwing flowers off the ...

... Ooty, Coonoor and Kotagiri (the 3 towns in this area), but only 30 or so showed up. First part of the meeting was a lecture in neurology followoed by a lecture in cardiology. Second part is food, drinks and socialising. Here we met Dr. Vishwanathan who is a general surgeon working in Coonoor (and occasionately in Kotagiri aswell) and who promised us that if we joined him he would show us how surgery was done. So we ...

What a change of scenery! On Saturday morning we rose just after 6 and got a rickshaw to Ernakulum bus station where we boarded a bus to Munnar. The journey lasted some 4.5 hours and was back breaking but the scenery was amazing and the change in climate was most welcome. The countryside, as you will see from the photos is green and mountainous. It is a huge tea growing region and some areas are tea for as far as the eye can see. We had decided upon a hotel ...

... noch nicht gemacht, aber die Digitale Kamera der KIS liegt hier schon, so dass ihr auch ganz frische Bilder erhaltet. So, Myra hat Hunger und ich muss hier aufhören. Falls es telefonisch heute nicht mehr klappt, wünschen wir Euch nochmals ein schönes Christfest unterm Weihnachtsbaum. Wir werden an Euch denken und auf Euch anstossen! Viele weihnachtliche Grüsse Eure Lars, Ulrike und Myra P.S. Es ist auch noch ein Brief mit Photos unterwegs, der wohl aber noch ein paar Tage dauert.

... hinduistischen Tempel mit verschiedenen Schreinen, vor dessen Pforten ich mich zu Anbruch der Dämmerung plötzlich wiederfand. Da es kein abgesperrter Bezirk war, bin auch ich barfuß über das Areal gewandelt, habe den Priestern beim Vollzug ihrer Puja zugesehen und den Fischern, die vom Dorf nebenan kamen, um ihre Götter anzubeten. Plötzlich jedoch war ich bass erstaunt, denn ganz am äußersten Ende des kleinen Tempelbezirks, dort wo ein wuchtiger Felsbrocken vom tropischen Grün ...

... um zwei friedf**tige und durchaus wohlwollende Zeitgenossen handelte. Dies wurde spätestens auch dem letzten Schulkind klar, als die beiden nach vi**wöchig** Arbeit, den **neu**ten und **weit**ten Spielplatz für die Kind** freigaben. Neben John und G**o haben uns noch etliche weit**e Indienreisende besucht und uns**en Alltag ein wenig aufgefrischt. Doch gab es auch ohne Besuch** imm** wied** besond**e Momente und Eindrücke, die d** Erwähnung w**t sind. Karaikudi zum Beispiel ...