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Last Stop in India
... you a discount of 50 rupees for handing in a book. Reading a book a day got quite expensive!
On my final day I visited the zoo. It's the one that inspired the zoo in Life of Pi but for anyone who knows the book there were a few tigers but the zebra enclosure was empty and no hyenas or orangutans. The zoo was really busy with quite a few school parties but I think there were more photos taken of me than the animals - I guess they don't ...
Show me your Dolphin
Following the strike on the Alleppey backwaters and our subsequent marooning on the lake we made our way down to Trivandrum to the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram for a two week stay. We had been advised to arrive at 2 o'clock on the 29th but Femmy had had a little administration nightmare in the morning and had sat on the internet trying to resolve it until 13:20. Whoops! We then decided to be kind to ourselves and get a taxi for the two hour journey. Of course, being ...
Thiruvananthapuram .... oder einfach: Trivandrum
... gefunden - im Materialwert von mehr als 15 Milliarden €. Seitdem ist der Tempel rund um die Uhr unter strenger polizeilicher Bewachung. Unklar ist, was mit dem Tempelschatz passieren wird - zumal noch zwei weitere Kammern existieren die noch ungeöffnet sind und in denen weitere Funde erwartet werden.
Außer uns sind nur eine Handvoll anderer Touristen unterwegs, die den Tempel von außen bestaunen und dann zum Puthen Maliga Palast gehen, ...
Destressing in Southern India
This is a top pick!
... sitting; a complete disregard for the maximum capacity of 50 as listed at front of bus.
Luckily the Indian Railway proved to be a more comfortable ride. I booked a second class A/C sleeper for the journey which included sheets, pillow, blanket and a meal. Aside from the horror of a mess on the ground from the previous passengers who originated in Delhi, it was a
pleasant ride. Ironically sharing the cabin with me was a German couple ...
A few India travel related hints and tips
... Waiting list tickets are inevitable at some stage of the journey but our experience is that as long as you book tickets which have a single digit waiting list number you will get a seat on the train. Basically loads of travel agents block book seats which they may or may not be able to sell and if they cant sell them by the day of the train the seats go back into the system and are filled up from the waiting list. The final lists ...
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