Indian Palms

... black majority. The Indian community is insular & self-protecting & disdainful of ordinary black Tanzanians. In the posh 'Alcove' Indian restaurant I have seen a black waiter kicked up the backside by his Indian boss. Alice was treated so unfairly by her ...

... throughout the park - many of which produce dates which the park harvests and sells!  The moon rising between the very tall palms had me bringing my camera outside every evening, along with our after-dinner wine! As they say, "the best laid ...

... Man  clarifying German Man's consequences if he repeated such boorish behavior, and we went out to dinner, having a nice Indian meal (our first since Port Orchard with Sis Cathy) and returned to retire. No further unpleasantness was shared with ...

... hold it throughout the time he spoke to me. He was concise and spoke in a bullet point fashion through a sometimes impenetratable south Indian accent that I had to concentrate hard on to pick out the meanings of all of the words he used. He spoke the ...

... hut and sweating even more in a different room.... Things are fine now though due to some more max strength under-the-counter Indian pharmacy work. Things got strange back there for a while though, for a few hours I was half-awake imagining that some ...

... deep into the Chagres River National Park, we reached a tributary to the Chagres River where three waiting, loin-clothed Embera Indian boys greeted us in a long, wooden piragua (dugout canoe) equipped with an outboard motor.  Ricardo stayed behind ...

... this amount of time, but here in Jaipur I am certain it is the passionate, intense, overwhelming, (and often pretty freaky!), Indian hospitality! My Hindi teacher spent hours trying to find me the perfect bangles to match my sari for a friend's, ...

... what I came here for. The bus took 45 minutes to get the top of the winding hill. Inside the temple is Venkateshwara (a Indian god). This is the god whose picture graces the reception areas of most restaurants and hostels in south India. In the ...

... he was born there, in Uganda, though his family moved to Tanzania before Idi Amin’s infamous exile of the country’s Indian populace. Pleasantries aside it was down to business. I’d arrived on the day the magazine was being “put to ...

... streets and smiled, saying "the girl from the paper"...it was magical. So things just keep getting better...I also took an Indian cooking course and visited the town where the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government are in exile - a fairly western ...

... the honour also. Both were 23 and spoke fluent English so once proceedings died down we enjoyed several nightcaps of the finest cheapest Indian rum into the early hours of the morning! Fort Cochin itself, although only a 20 minute tuk tuk from the hustle ...

... tribe, who were nowhere near as civilised in terms of writing and growing crops etc..This violent people, descendants from the Indian cave dwellers, were great at following their war god installed years before by their priests. They slowly took over in ...

... . We still enjoyed an easy week. Palolem Beach is a mile long wide sandy beach, with a nice curve to it. The dense coconut palms appear to provide support for the non-stop "wall" of ramshackle bamboo huts, cafes and souvenir shops at the back of the ...

... offering me the 'gunge' for a 'good price'.  The major highlight of my time there was being interviewed by an Indian documentary team after I visited the Indo Portugese Museum.  I actually thought the very small museum was a little rubbish - ...

... long. From there it took about three hours to reach Indian Palms Vacation Club in the heart of Indio in the Coachella Valley. Indian Palms sounds exotic, but it is far from it! At first glance the golfing resort seemed fairly exclusive, with its gated ...

... , so you need a few hours. We were there on late night (Thursday) which helped. Friday morning, not too early, we checked out of Indian Palms and made our way to LA. I had heard from an ex-student, Lynda Brendish, who is now working for a film studio ...

... racket. We have had intermittent rain these last five days but lots of periods of sunshine in between. There were a few tourists, Indian and foreigners, braving the surf over the weekend to get some relief from the constant humidity. There are all sorts ...

... the forest paths and rotting boardwalks, were menaced severely by a couple of dogs, but saw no other flycatchers, and only a couple of Indian mynahs. Got our valuables on the way back, and continued on to drop off the bikes before 9am, then back to have ...

... her face and buying a suspect coconut, then walk all the way to the commercial centre to Air Austral, and check out an Indian restaurant before walking all the way along the coast home. After dark, we walked through the dark streets for a reasonable ...

... private. After taking some good photos, we head back to Quatre Bornes, picking up a loaf of bread and a big Coke at the Indian-run supermarket for R18, very reasonable. Back at Takamaka, we find a parking spot and a nice, shaded beach, where DP ...