Indus Valley Ayurvedic Centre Mysore

... curry (specialty pork preparation of Coorg) which was completely out of the meal options.

You are almost-literally sleeping by the paddy fields since the nice thatched-roof cottages are elevated (for the sake of it) by nice gunny sheets over clay-flooring. We were a group of 6 and were given a large cottage with 3 tents. One of the tents was conveniently small, for us to add 2 nice mattresses just outside it and ...

... it worked ! phew.. there was no service station near by at all. luckily we made out of that nonsense road.

We stopped in between to take a look @ the silk worm cocoons. amma was mentioning that "kollegal" silk is famous !

Again stopped at kamat upahaar finished so called dinner.. and then left to bangalore. Sriram was getting tired.. the minute we hit the kengeri - bad traffic and tiredness took a toll on sriram. we reached home aroun 9pm ...

... colline a perte de vue. Elle est surmontee par un temple dedie et on ne sait plus quelle divinite, il y en a tellement! cela dit, la vue sur Mysore est belle. Il y a un pelrinage une fois par an qui consiste a gravir a pieds les mille marches jusqu'au sommet.. on a preferer les descendre, c'est moins fatiguant. notre taxi, tres gentil et parlant un anglais comprehensif, nous emmene dans une petite echoppe d'huile ...

... heading to Anaikatti will be sleeping in basha beds and spent much of their preparation time yesterday loading and unloading bamboo. Last night they slept in the Anaikatti community centre and today will build the campsite that will be home for the next three weeks while they repair 5km of elephant-proof solar-powered fencing.
18 February 2009 - Whitewash and Bashas: News from the Projects

Special guest blogger: Dr Andy Gilbert

Hello everybody. Field ...

... drawn the shortest train cabin straw. As soon as the snoring subsided for a couple of minutes, he would start coughing and hawking up horrendous noises from his throat. Once everybody was awake and the train was nearing destination Bangalore, the guy continues to snore. I said the words "that's enough out of you Mr Snore" very loudly and the foreigners in the cabin next to me said "never mind Mr Snore, what about Mr Cough" to which i replied "it's the same guy, he ...

... enough to mention. But a point is to be made. Principle overrules all other considerations. Tourists may be saddened by the conditions of some people in third world countries, but in no way do we help them by teaching them that it's ok to be deceiving and unfair to foreign tourists. Principle should be upheld at whatever cost, as morality itself is more precious than all else. The temple itself was in the traditional Hoysala stule so common in South India ...

... with stained glass windows, doors with inlaid ivory and silver, mosaic floors (was a little garish in some places though). We had to take our shoes off before we were allowed in and had to hop over the hot concrete outside. We weren't allowed to take photos (not that you would have been able to see them anyway grr). Headed for a popular local Indian cafe for lunch where Luke had a massive Thali and Becky was very brave and had a mild curry (which she ate some of). Ambled across the ...

... apprendre... Je suis entrain d'atteindre exactement mon but, ma pratique ashtangar progresse de jour en jour et je realise des postures que je revais de faire depuis 12 ans, pour completer le tout, je fais un panchakarma (Sydney, tu sauras ce que c'est!). Le Panchakarma est un traitement ayur-védique, une thérapie unique en son genre pour le rajeunissement, la prévention et la guérison. Chaque traitement est personnalise selon les besoins, le mien est "royal", j'ai la totale ...

my landlord...one day i will have pictures of this little man, hopefully in his oversized scooter helmet (the kind of helmet you think of when you imagine what the Human Cannonball would wear). he makes sure to nab me either in the mornings after class or in the evening before dinner to...chat. we talk a wide range of things from the differences between the States and India, happiness, the meaning of life, yoga, and the ...

... in Mysore because of Infosys, and yet people are still shocked to see us! They go out of their way to wave and say hi, and take pictures of us all the time. Debbie was talking about making a collage of all the people that take pictures of us, and I think it would end up pretty impressive! Four of us went out to buy sarees for the two weddings next weekend, and it was the most fun I've had shopping in a long time! What is there not to love about looking at ...