Jyothi Hotel Coimbatore

... rental companies in coimbatore and found very good reviews about them too. So we decided to email them on the mail id provided in their website and got a response pronto. They were reasonable and sounded very professional so we decided to hire the minivan from them and they suggested that we be put up in the jenny club and do a local sightseeing trip for a day. Jenny club again was such revelation. It is one of the best clubs that i have ...

... But I also now know that these rules are here because people in the past have made mistakes, we just get the fun of dealing with them now. I have also learned that the way I feel is the same way that most of the students here feel. They hate the rules and try to find every way around them (which they are very good at).<br><br>So, I guess it isn't because I am a girl, or white, or American. It is just culture. And it isn't personal.<br><br>

... for spontaniety! the overnight was grand - bit strange as it was just go to bedand wake up at the end and leave. the Nigiri express from Chennai (we started in katpadi) had arrived in Mettupalayam for the start of the next adventure on Tuesday morning. After a bit of looking we eventually found the place to get the tickets for the steam train. Missed the early train (booked out) so we had to wait for a couple of hours to even just buy the tickets. Asking ...

... all served in silver, with silver. We ordered a bottle of wine too (a treat, we haven't been able to find alcohol everywhere). The red wine tastes very young (indeed, the label says March 2006) and keeps us up all night. Which is perfect, so that we can really hear all the noises going on outside. At one point, we think that a coconut has fallen onto our roof, but when we think about it, we realize that the coconut must be rolling up the roof, for it to follow that trajectory, so we ...

... the garden or go for another short hike before dinner of delicious organic vegetables from the garden, fresh chapati, curries, rice and some sort of sweet. On the second day we decided to try to climb the highest mountain around (only 1700m, nothing compared to the Himalayas, but a nice climb nonetheless). As it turned out, the climbing was the easy part; pulling leeches off of our boots while our guide cut his way through the jungle with his machete (i ...

... like that here in south India. Elephants, on the other hand, now that is a different story. As the road wound up the mountainside, not full switchback mode yet, I did see a couple of elephants, including a mother and her baby. The baby was at least a yearling, not so small anymore, but was still having a go at mama's teat for nursing nourishment. I stopped, the pachyderms only perhaps 20 feet away, and Mama looked at me with wise and semi-intelligent eyes, before shooing junior away ...

Monday 6th February 2006 After a rather interesting curry breakfast I caught a rickshaw to Coimbatore V.O.C. Mini Zoo. It turned out that it was very little distance away from my hotel. I was due to meet the zoo director Dr. S.Thirukumaran and Marimuthu from the Zoo Outreach Organisation at 10 a.m. Just three Rupees to get in. As I was a little early it gave me five minutes to assess the entrance to the zoo. First impressions were good. It looked clean, neat and tidy and ...

... government. This government is far more pro-farmer (and is trying to do the right thing) than the former government, and thus far it looks as though the farmers will win their case. The BMIC would be a toll road (100 rupees, no matter how far you plan on travelling on it, which is an astronomical amount for the farmers who will be the main users), however it has been revealed that even with the projected usages, the project will not pay for itself, as most Megaprojects are ...

... worthwhile for the bank, plus oodles of other issues that are too lengthy to go into here). Hmm, what else ... we had a really interesting guest lecturer and panel discussion the other day about the IMF and the World Bank and other such global organisations ... very interesting and something I will be reading more about when I get back home. Last night Alexis and I also had mehndi, or henna, done on our hands in these beautiful patterns. I took photographs (which hopefully I will be able ...

The holiday got off to a mixed start. After being told Air India had given our seats away since we never reconfirmed our flights, they changed their minds and decided to upgrade us to business class instead. So there we were, cruising across the middle-east in complete luxury... The flight was perfect. My father and myself were both in the highest of spirits - we weren't heading to anywhere familiar. We were heading to the other side of the world. We were heading ...