Kodai Resort Kodaikanal

... in disbelief, knowing what awaits me. It's not cold but freezing. Up here it's also chilly. That combination does not register well with me, so early in the morning as I stand there shivering with teeth clacking together. I go for it and wash my hair, feeling a brain freeze coming on. Completely unhappy and downright in a foul mood I finish clearing my hair and get the horribly pink towel (which smells like ass), and jump into bed, trying to warm up. I spend over an hour and ...

... and then we head back on our separate roads. We walk down round the lake, I try a public convenience which I run out of immediately, leaving me pale and shocked, determined never to speak of the horrors of which I have witnessed. Dan and I mooch and watch all the Indian tourists look at all the tutt stalls selling bindis and glittery outfits and chocolate. There are queues for the peddleos. As a cultural reference, we suspect it may be Blackpool

... to meet him when I visit again for the full Sesshin.
 
My travel diary 

I am reproducing extracts from the notes I made in my travel diary.
 
01 October 2009, Thursday, 6:30 PM 

After a 45 minutes delay, my flight landed at Coimbatore at 10:10 AM instead of 09:25 AM. The driver from Kannan tours was waiting with my name on a placard. It is a little more that a four hours drive to Bodhi Zendo. You drive south on the highway NH 209 which ...

... Malabar Giant Squirrels playing on a tree branch near the Guna caves. The Guna caves area is full of treacherous bottomless crevasses, many hidden by a thin layer of undergrowth that would never withstand the weight of an adult human. The main "Cave" is actually fenced off by the government due to several fatal accidents, however taxi drivers will lead you in through a gap in the fencing. It is certainly worth visiting. Look down as you walk as the ...

We were running on Indian time. I got up at eight o'clock, to the normal banging on my hotel room door until I opened it from a fellow to let me know that "hot water had come." Our first day at our hotel in Ooty after we had checked in, Alex, Anika and I curiously watched several winter-clothes-clad Indian fellows hauling large loads of wood up the stairs on their backs. Finally, Alex and I followed them up to the roof and asked what the wood was for. As if it was ...

... delegates again as some have become really good friends over the time of our stay in Germany. - For Myra and Julia our stay in Lelm was also of importance as Myra went their to Kindergarten engaging herself so completely that on our return to India she indeed had lost her English and had to regain it; and for Julia as she was baptized there which gave reason for our families to come together and celebrate this important day with her and all of us enjoying the beautiful natural ...

... any phobias to speak off but Mr Leech has made it onto that short list, trying to keep my cool in front of the kids instead of dancing a jig. I found a couple of the slimey beastys heading up between the crack in my toes and managed to give them the flick before they got a drink, Mel found a couple on her leg as did pretty much everyone else before too long. Although all my best intstincts were telling me to leave the kids and run like hell to somewhere ...

... hl und die damit v**bundenen Aufgaben, sind zwar oft anstrengend, ab** die schönen Seiten üb**treffen bei weitem die Erwartungen, die ich zuvor hatte. Mittl**weile ist es für uns kaum noch vorstellbar, wie es ohne sie war. Ihr hört es geht uns gut, wir geniessen das Leben und wir hoffen, dass auch ihr dieses tut. In diesem Sinne, wünschen wir Euch ein fröhliches Weihnachtsfest und Gottes reichen Segen für das kommende Jahr. Frohe Weihnachten aus Indien senden Euch Lars, Ulrike und Myra

... v**wöhnt alle Welt mit ihrem Lächeln. Ich mache mal wied** ein paar Krankheitstage durch von Hexenschuss, üb** Migräne, All**gie und heftige Erkältung ist alles dabei. Irgendwie sind meine Abwehrkräft nicht die besten. Ob das vom Stillen kommt? - ich weiss es nicht. Ich hoffe nur, dass wir die Reise nach Deutschland alle gut üb**stehen und nicht gleich die **sten Tage flach liegen. Uns**e Mary ist wied** im Lande, wenn auch noch nicht ganz wied** h ...

... ist eine kleine, eigentlich typisch südindische Stadt, d**en Charme und Reiz, den meisten Besuch**n v**borgen bleibt. Tatsächlich wird man wohl kaum einen Reiseführ** od** gar Reiseanbiet** finden, d** diesen Ort im Programm hat, und doch lohnt es sich, hi** ein paar Tage zu v**bringen. Warum? In Karaikudi und Umgebung befinden sich die alten Nied**lassungen d** Chettiars, einem indischen Kaufmannsadel, d** b**eits in Vorkolonial** Zeit Handel mit den asiatischen Inselstaaten betrieb ...