Sagarika Hotel
Travel Blogs from Puri
Puri - Bhubaneswar
... Michael who I met earlier in Kolkata to the iconic Sun temple in nearby Konark. The very detailed stone carvings, some of them in erotic style was very impressive! In addition, it was a nice ride along the beautiful coast of the Bengal Sea and many villages…hmm, I miss my bike which is still stuck in Phnom Penh ;)
To safe some time I was flying off to Bangalore from Bhubaneswar, one and a half hours by train from Puri, where I still had some time for ...
Backwater Bliss
... destroying vast swathes of the north eastern coast of Japan. We sat in stunned silence with the other guests watching the carnage unfold, the pictures just didn't seem real and it is quite hard to get your head around devastation on that kind of scale. After the shock had worn off we emailed Koichi and Shogo, the two Japanese lads we met on the train to Jodhpur to see if they were both safe. They are based in Tokyo from memory so should be OK we think. The ...
Last day in Puri
... do you think?)
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I think we will both be happy to leave Puri behind us, it’s not really a good destination for western people , apart from the Hari Khrisna people that are there, they seem to be having a ball, walking about with their hand in their little bag playing with their ...
Radneesh, Rajneesh and Nitheesh...
... houseboats slowly making there way around the lakes and delta. We had a two cabin houseboat and three crew to ourselves. Captain Radneesh, mate Rajneesh and crew and chef, Nitheesh, saw to our every need and whim. Whims were few as you simply relaxed in a rattan lounger and watched the scenery go by...every now and then requesting a Kingfisher beer. After lunch that afternoon (of feshly grilled local fish and ...
A Day in God's Own Country
... tip, smiled goodbye, and left.
Our tour continued, and eventually we ended up at a traditional house, where we were served breakfast: steamed rice cake (a little dry), a green lentil dish (pretty good) and a duck egg with ground black pepper on top (surprisingly good). Throughout our stay in the backwaters, we were fed in the traditional way: we would by served by a woman of the house, who would hover around us watching us eat and filling ...
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