Saptagiri Hotel Mangalore

... some very interesting things about the behaviour of particular people around me...I'll just wait and see if those come true. After the astrologer we visited the krishna temple which was founded by a hindu saint. I didn't even know there were saints in hinduism. Inside the temple is a statue of krishna which emerged from a single chunk of basalt when this saint tapped it once. The temple was of traditional south Indian architecture, with statues perching all the way up the tall ...

... again, and the cleaners not going to get cracking that early! Why not let us stay until 9 at least?? We decided to pay for the room a second night, even though we have a train, at 11pm, just so we have somewhere to go and don't have to hang about on the streets for 17 hours! Udupi is the home of the rice plate (thali) and masala dosa, and so we'd been looking forward to eating to here. Not only is the food good, but it is inexplicably ...

... reply for th*t. But the next d*y, he pinged me *g*in in gt*lk *nd *sked "Kutty, when *re you going for the r*il trek?" I never thought of going there. I just enquired him whether he is interested in th*t type of trekking. Not sure whether people go there these d*ys. H*d Sree been here, he would h*ve definitely come. Will Vinu come *g*in? I'll *sk him. The p*ssenger tr*ins h*ve not st*rted yet, but the goods tr*ins *re running. Anyw*ys, Unni ett*n's question w ...

... far from Mysore, but the roads were TERRIBLE! We tried to sleep on the way there, and it was nearly impossible, so when we got to the resort we just passed out. When we woke up we were hungry and tried to have lunch but our hotel wasn't serving because it wasn't a meal time... Probably more like 2pm or so. Instead we tried walking either way from our place, but there were absolutely no stores in walking distance! We did find a house that had a huge ...

****** around in Mangalore in fancy hotels (air con!) and in an internet cafe (where the power went - see a few entries back). Not much in Mangalore - hot and dusty and the usual unfinished indian roads with piles of rubble and sand in random places. Its like they start but dont finish. Got the next train we could get to Go Karna. this was our first train journey since the 1sr class a/c sleeper the pprevious week. Now we were going ...

... perfectly stacked gleaming fruit and veg, multicoloured sparkly bangles, and sacks of spices. Even the hardware stalls, selling mundane things like steel buckets and pots and pans wereimpressively glitterey and intriguing. I couldn't resist being magnetically drawn to the huge, perfectly formed piles of pigment colours - powder which is used for paint, forehead tikkas, marking shrines, floor patterns, you name it, Indians will decorate it... We understood how they did such ...

... Subjectively, I have not (**knock wood loudly**) really had any severe digestive problems at all, and my breakfast consists of fruit salad with a bowl of curd which I dump onto the salad. Some like to put honey on it after that, but being a purist and a bit of a tough guy, I just eat it plain. Besides, I am sweet enough already.. . Things that make you sweat more: 1. meat 2. caffiene 3. alcohol 4. hair If you like wiping your forhead all the time, having your waistband be ...

... will find something wrong, and will try to fine you. If it is a legit something wrong, try to bargain your way down. Usually they will drop the "fine" to a hundred or two rupes, and you can be on your way. If all is in place and there is nothing wrong at all, you may want to request that you get a badge number and receipt for the fine. This will put them off of you generally. . This is all secondhand, of course, the best thing to do is to travel in the morning, and wear a crash ...

Hello everyone, i hope things are going well in your neck of the woods....i am holding it down here in mangalore....i love this place...when i think of india, i think of mangalore....tropical, green, and fun..... mangalore is one of the more unique places in india.....the average person here can speak up to 5 languages!!!! some can speak even more....if you are high school educated it could be more...for example, kannada is the ...

... smoker in the rain. I threw salt against them and see happily that they fall off. I do not like to kill animals like that but for leeches I make some exceptions. The one wound is bleeding for a while. The spittle of leeches prevent the blood of congealing, one reason they were hunted for medical means. The waterfall itself is enormous! Not in height but the rains make the amount of water shooting out of the rocks gigantic! We climbed over a fallen tree to get as close ...