TravelStream™ news feed for member mayli on TravelPod's free travel blogs service http://www.travelpod.com/syndication/rss/mayli en-us Copyright ©2010 TravelPod.com Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:35:11 -0500 http://www.travelpod.com http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/mayli/8/1230114720/tpod.html http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/mayli/8/1230114720/tpod.html#comments Travel Blogs http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/mayli/8/1230114720/tpod.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:35:11 -0500 My yoga-workshop in mumbai

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Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India

a unique yoga workshop...simple to follow, can do it yourself postures ,will learn basic yoga course .
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Rome, Lazio, Italy

the day we arrived in rome we had shocking news about our room not confirmed and after 2 houurs of headache and paper searching and phone-calls by the hotel desk ,finally we were alloted tiny rooms and later echanged with larger ones...
next day was raining and we were too eager to sit in the rooms so we ventured out the hotel was near termini the main train station of rome and very convenient location but not upto our satisfaction.3 nights in rome.we went for the city tour the famous colosseum,st.peter basilica,capital ruins,trevy fountain,spanish steps, pantheon, republica, and next day we went for the famous vatican museums and chaple sistine tour and
last day we were on own so we romed around in rome went to a local zoo and local markets and had local food -pizza.
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Near goa, India

i will write later
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Mangalore, India

after much awaited we boarded the flight to mangalore,my friends picked us up to go to temple visit directly from the air-port.it was a goddess temple.a shakti-peeth and then we visited a beach and then our host tok us to their home .they didnot want us to miss out on anything....
we visited lots of temples and old structures of shri madhavacharya.his birth place etc..
udipi temple was the biggest of all.there was rath-yatra at nite. next morn, we went out for breakfast..and ye lo....there were cows walking in for breakfast and getting out on their own...when the first one arrived i nearly jumped on my seat...the cow would walk up to the open kitchen have a few idlis and walk out from the exit ...this can happen only in india.







next day we went to thousand pillar jain temple and there was a festival of lightening 1 lac lamps after offering prayers to the deity.






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Pune, India

we satrted n my car at 6.15 a.m to pune on the way we visited our bonsai master sujay and rupa s farm at panvel. and collectively went to prajaktas farm near pune.
first we went to surrup farm at panvel and from there our masters.rudy sir and sujay sir joined together.
we 60 of us att the event
we learnt new techniques of bonsai arrangement as visible in the pics
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Gaunzhou, China

after the trade fair got over we started to look aroun gaunzhou we didnot want to take guided tour so opted for discovery onour own ...oh it was a lot of effort when you dont knoew a word of chinese.the bus guy would just refuse to help us and the locals were also impossible ,so i would show them the map and ask them how to go there by local transport....it was a hell of a job.
i wanted to describe the gardens of china..but some technical problems.
when we visited the gardens a good 150 acre spread...included a lake,few large gardens,a huge playing area and lots of other landscapes.
people were up early..senior citizens with their green tea thermos and walking gears or dancing shoes,even playing around the tabletennis,or kicking the shuttle cock.
there were salsa dance sessions in progresss daily.even at nite.
people had huge music system and group dancing till late.
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Gaunzhou, China

it has been a long time since i have travelled to china..few months.it was my first tour to gaunzhou for visiting a trade fair which was quite boring to me. so i spent lot of time surfing the streets of gaunzhou and irritating the chinese traders.
i visited lots of wholesale international markets for leather,jeans,accesories.
they are jam packed with local chinese shop keepers and european traders.
they were not willing to entertain a client like me for a single piece or two.still i would pose as a wholesale buyer and take a few samples.i had few business cards of people i met in the indian restaurant who had beeen dealing with the chinese people,so they had their card in both the languages.that was my advantage .as i was zero at chinese language..the hotel taste of india had their business card specially designed for tourists.bread,butter, main street names,veg-,non-veg,airport etc.few basic words translated in chinese so we only had to show them the chinese word .otherwise you are like lost on planet earth with only chinese around.
after visiting the trade fair we ventured out to see gaunzhou by night,it has a very beautiful river..u can see it in the photos we booked premium seats for the luxury boat ride on the upper deck..but it was of no use all the locals from the local deck also came up to enjoy the view and sip the green chinese tea which was served continuously.the boats were lit very beautifully and the commercial biuildings and the hotels were also a sight to look at.if we are fond of chinese nonveg you could dine on the boat..but we were veg, and they dont understand the concept of veg meals as they eat all kinds living creatures.
what all i ate on my tour was few meals at indian restaurant which was quite far off.
and in the room we just boiled noodles with lots of veggies and salt and pepper,
chunks of pineapple,boiled corn,sweet -potato i managed at the shopping mall,and slices of water-melon...after few days i didnt want to look at noodles,i would rather remain hungry...but then again out of no choice eat the same.
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Manali, India

we also had solang valley as a tourist attraction one more money extracting point..
but it was worth it! only little reasonable it should be.
there was paragliding and ball-rolling.
for parag. we had to climb steep heights for an hour and while descending in the parachute it was beautiful to see the valley from top.

there was a huge ball, people sit inside and they are tied and rolled down a slope.
solang valley was quite an entertainment ,though very expensive in rupees.
Behind this scene there was a small trek going somewhere ..on inquiry we trekked 5 kms. to Anjni mahadev.It is a LORD SHIV temple with a natural waterfall falling on the shivling from a great height and temperature is minus zero. It was clad with ice even in the summer...the way was made with ice cleaned from the steps.it was a picturesque sight,it was difficult to reach the lingam as it was very very slippery and ice cold water in the feet as well as falling from top.

out of the world sight.see the photos on a large screen to enjoy the beauty...
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Langkawi, Malaysia

we landed at langkawi in the night.

hotel awana was too good ..

located beautifully..

and a large corridor to walk to the rooms they were 5 corridoors to walk..




as my room was in the 52 series with a beautiful balcony and lovely view




...it was my first time to actually experience the beauty of a place like langkawi..
the most exciting part we had planned was the air-trekking in our itinery..




thanks to my dear friend...that she surfed up the net and the travel agents head for the booking of air-trekking...the unforgettable experience . we didnt see the danger of insect-bites in our enthusiasm.
and soon next morn we had our air-trekking tour.we were just taking it very lightly...having leisurely breakfast...until the german guy came to fetch us at our table ..actually made me put down my dish and rush to the van for jungle take-off..again we were talking so much that he stooped the van to listen to our inquiries and made us feel( ....these ladies........ooooph.}







there are certain practical jokes during the air-trekking, i was the most nervous one but did well except for the last long trek which was pretty tough, the most confident friend friend"D"was totally disqualified and till today we laugh at her,poor thing .
and yes friend "a" was bitten by the insect and yuregan had to suck the bite with some sucking instrument and had to spray some medicine for her....she was the one who was wearing full clothes to avoid the insects....and later after we reached back after 2 hours suddenly she noticed her thigh was bleeding profusely .she started screaming
but i saw something black fallen down in the bathroom...and immedately knew the cause of the bleeding .it was a leech.it had been sucking her blood since 2-3 hours nand detached itself..so the pumped up blood was oozing out for 10-15 minutes creating panic.
and she had also fallen in the jungles ..so lot of minute particles hurting her palms which we kept removing with our safety pins for days......
and yaa!!! back to the final air trek my friend " J"was the first one to start the other two were disqualified,.. she screamed from the other end for them to not to come as we had to pull our selves up for the next 4 meters...i was shivereing ..uregan made me repeat the instructions so many times...but what about the last 4 meters...
i started and got stuck i am inthe air hanging on to a rope trying to pull my self up but i am not a bicep person ... stefan was shouting for me to pull myself i tried but the sun shine was hurting in my eyes i could not keep my eyes open ..i was hanging like with my both hands and legs on the cable fighting with the gravitational pull and then first my neck gave up it refused to stay still , next it was my back who gave up i was 40 metre high on top of the tress..i said i cant make it ..then stephan said, all the vultures will feed on you..and he threw me a plastic box with a cable to attach to myself that was also difficult as i was hanging since few minutes and i was completely drained out with the gravity pull..u can understand it only with experience.he pulled me up {that cable air-trek was a broad u shape... so full chances to go back to the middle of the cable .. dont know how i would have been pulled if i slided back}..but finally i reaches stephan and "J" on the tree-top. there was no place to move it was like a tarzan tree.we could just stand there without moving ...{even writing this has increased my heart beats }..the beauty is waiting for me now...
stephan explained me how to climb down the tree-top ,he tied us with the rappling gear..and told me to go extreme slow ..enjoy every step wait in the middle of the downing process and enjoy the top of those deep jungles..and slowly rapple down...it was life tme memory ,,,every one who has an interest and ability must experience.that was stright fall alng with the thick stem of that large tree..


reading this entry ,i recd . a mail from a journalist from delhi,india .she took my interview , and it came in the week-end paper in delhi financial express.on 7 october 2007.
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Manali, India

there were lot of opinions on the time to depart for rohtang...we chose the as early as possible.
we started at dawn ..as our jeep was reaching the height..i was soaking into the beautiful himachal.
photos are best visible in full screen mode...
we reached a commercial point where all general public would stop take a few rides and go back ...i was disappointed at the sight of it?on inquiry they told me the vehicles of the taxi-drivers will take us to the actual rohtang pass and if our drivers dare go they either damge the vehicle or if vehicle is stuck in the water nobody would help.i knew it was a tourist gimmick to get more money out of us
.since we didnt have a choice in with the unions we boarded in the sumo with few more thousands and reached rohtang .it was a memorable drive.the same road goes to ladakh...
400 kms. more.several treks also begin from here a month later..all ice melts and the mountains are covered with flowers.
any way after we reached we had to extract few more thusands ..for those picturesque ride
to see the faroff chandrataal and vashshtha peak .the peak was covered with ice and there were ice scooters imported from newzealand giving us 20 min.ride adventurously.
the cost was one way mumbai-delhi by flight.
after we reached evry penny was worth spending ,
i even sent my children to experience the zero population-pollution beauty of the himachal.it seemed that was the border of the himachal pradesh.
on our way back we saw heavy traffic jam..people would never reach the peak before closing time
we thanked our stars for starting early.
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