Tabernacle Resort Thekkady
Tabernacle Resort Thekkady, Kerala, 685536, India
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Tiger, Tiger where art thou?
... We managed to get our best monkey photos when we pulled up to find a full family of Langur monkey's in an adjacent tree. They were only 5-10 metres away from us which was great for getting a good shot.
Despite all this we still had not seen a tiger but had already resigned ourselves to that fact. After all there were only around 44 in a 940sq km piece of land, chances were never going to be good. The rest of the journey back to ...
Hot, hot, hot
... Danmark igen. Derfor bliver det her nok det sidste blogindlaeg, der kommer fra denne tur. Indien har vaeret et fantastisk land at besoge - jeg har ikke umiddelbart noget onske om at komme tilbage, men jeg ville heller ikke have vaeret oplevelsen foruden. Hvis man gerne vil baade forarges, forundres og fortrylles, saa er Indien et godt bud. Tilbage staar jeg bare med et sporgsmaal, som jeg mangler at faa svar paa. Bliver de aldrig traette af at hore Akon i Asien?
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Busier day in Thekkady followed by a quietish one
... the busy main road avoiding huge colourful trucks, dozens of buzzing rickshaws, red open-aired buses, a growing number of motorbikers and several cyclists joyfully gliding through the mayhem. Wonderful fun. A feast for the senses.
And everywhere you looked there was something unfamiliar to the experiences of our normal lives -aged men carrying huge bags of whatever on their heads or shoulders across from one stall to another, a fieldful of flies ...
Blafferi og markedsdag
I dag er det markedsdag. Vi staar op, pakker planter, goedning og kompost og venter spaendt paa bussen. Bussen kommer og standser, men inden vi faar set os om fortsaetter den mod Rayapaliam. Vi kigger efter bussen med den ene fod loeftet i et forsoeg paa at fortaelle, at vi gerne ville have vaeret med. Folk paa den anden side af gaden kigger lidt maerkeligt paa os. Vi forsoeger at forstaa hvad der skete, men maa se os for langsomme til at foelge med den indiske bustrafik. Der er en time ...
Buela Matric Secondary at Valparai
... to the school. Valparai is a good place for project volunteers, it is a town so there is a lot happening, it is up in the hills so the climate is good and it is small enough to make it a very rural experience. It is great for the volunteers to be living at the school with other people around so that they are not so isolated and although they eat with Dr Henry and his family a lot of the time they also have the freedom to cook for themselves ...



