Kk Residency Hotel Coimbatore

<br>When we decided to zero in on ooty and kodai for our very recent tour,we did some mapping and found that coimbatore was the ideal location to start our tour since it was in middle of ooty and kodai. We were about 8 of us and we needed a minivan for tour so we again started hunting on google for a suitable car rental company, who had a good airconditioned tempo traveller. We found Kannan Tours &amp; Travels Pvt Ltd as one of the leading ...

... About two and a half hours in, while passing through a narrow cutting, we ground to a halt, and all the people in the carriage became very excited, shouting "hathi, hathi", which, as anyone who has seen The Jungle Book will know, means "elephant". Sure enough, we looked out of the window and there was a huge elephant just standing on the line looking at the train. The train staff and the guards went up to him ...

... did and I was here to learn more about it, and India in general. But it was the way he said it and then looked at me, like I'd made a grave error travelling as a lone female to a culture I didn't understand. I felt like he could read my mind about how much of a culture shock I've found India. I fobbed him off by talking about Republic day, which is today. It was on 26th January 1950, 3 years after independence from Britain that India became a republic and is now the 'largest ...

... for tickets, but we just need to get back to our hotel, by boat. An entirely separate boat. We ask the man at the counter who is serving this huge line how we can get back to Lake Palace. We'd already gone up to the reception desk at Aranya Nivas, our affiliated hotel on the mainland and they told us to go buy an entrance ticket and go right down to the jetty to our boat. We walk back down to the tourism office. Well, that's when the fun starts. The man behind the counter stops serving ...

So now im in Mysore. Headed here from Hampi on the good old sleeper train arriving yesterday afternoon after stopping briefly in Bangalore. We had arrived there at 7 in the morning and decided to find a coffee shop whilst we waited for a train. Stumbling on opur favourite, Barrista, we saw something crazy inside. After intially being ...

... nobody complains or nobody bothers to write it down. Anyway, if you want to stay in Hotel Saat, you have been warned. We checked out, got to the station and tried to find a bus to Coimbatore. Again we were not lucky, because the bus never showed up. But there was another one going to Salem (100 km further) so we jumped on that, settled in the back with reclining seats and put in our earplugs when the Bollywood movie started playing on the DVD player ...

... our tour looking inside the ancient Hindu temples and watching the locals take rides on the resident elephant in the grounds. Which, by the way escaped the other morning while it was having a bath. It made its way into the city but soon got bored after ...

... surprised because I found it to be a much cleaner place than many. I managed to post out ZooNews Digest and then back to my hotel for a hot bucket bath. Dinner was good but spoilt by some other species of insect, resembling carpet beetles, which decided to invade my body. Whereas they didn't bite, they got everywhere, tickled and were a bloody itchy nuisance. I couldn't wait to get back to my room and take my clothes off.

... coming up). I ate my dinner sitting on a porch next to a goat, which is an experience that will be hard to duplicate. The night sky was also the most beautiful I have ever seen; you literally felt as though you were under a dome of the night sky, which was perfectly black and carpeted with stars. I have never seen so many stars in my life; Cape Cod nights have nothing on rural India. Granted, this experience was tempered somewhat by the fact that I was accompanying my ...

... and just as I thought, the head yogi greeted us as we arrived. He ran through the basic principles of yoga with us and then took us to a dome shaped structure to meditate. I can't say anything special happened to me at that point, but I did seem to become completely relaxed. It was a nice touch. When we got back to the house, we were invited to take some rest, and then were served a veritable feast of Suchee's mother's home cooking. After stuffing our faces ...