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Into the wild
... en wat waren we trots!! Ik moet het eerlijk toegeven, ik had niet verwacht dat het ons zou lukken! Na een uurtje van het uitzicht te hebben genoten was het tijd om weer naar beneden af te dalen, en daar begon voor mij de hel. Wat doodeng!! Rollende stenen, slappe knieen, trillende benen en hop, daar ging ik onderuit. Auw. Na een afdaling van dik 2 uur en nog een valpartij heb ik letterlijk de grond gekust toen ik beneden was. ...
Mum & Ped come to visit
My Mum and sister Eleanor came to visit India in July. It was amazing to see them again after almost a year away. We had the best two weeks and I showed them all the sights and people and tastes I'd got to know in Wayanad, North Kerala.
We had a gentle introduction to India in Mysore, bought saris, traveled in an an Ambassador and rickshaws, saw temples, monkeys and tried some curries. ...
Frog hunting
Johnson took me frog hunting last night. The monsoon has just started and apparently for one week the frogs will be out mating, and therefore croaking like sitting ducks.
To hunt a frog you have to go out just after dark into a swamp or paddy field with a torch and a big stick. You listen for the loudest croak, in between the whole bunch of other animal sounds, and then try find it with the ...
Wayanad Road Trip!
... why. But it was all worth it as we arrived at the Honey Valley lodge up in the beautiful, natural forested mountains, just as it was getting dark. Honey Valley itself was more like a youth hostel, but we found out that it was so named because the owner was a reknowned conservationist and bee-keeper, who had one of the largest bee populations and honey collecting operations in India until a virus suddenly decimated the population ...
Olives... wild and evergreen
... nobody there to explain how or why the place got it's name as Edakkal - Prabha's logic was that the Eda-kal (literally meaning the middle stone) that got embedded between the other two stones saved these carvings from erosion. Sounds logical.We were there on a sunday and the crowds enjoying the last weekend before schools re-opened were all jostling for space in the narrow passages and this was more exhausting than the climb itself.We did not bargain for all ...


