Travel Blog Photos from Shimoga (17)
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... . I went and sat, and all the men crowded round me, perhaps expecting me to do some magic or some such. Many people here in India only know a few words of english, and most of them consist of "where from," or "married," or "what you work?" and the old ...
... quick nod of acknoledgement. Combine both yes and no, and, well, you get the idea. Riding an Enfield through small towns in India gets you waves and hollers from the people you pass. You are some kind of celebrity, a big white man on a big black ...
... real India, a place where people work hard and value family and community, and are open, not the packaged, westerner-jaded India of the tourist places. After being video-ed for posterity on the man's ultra-modern cell phone, watching some indian video on ...
... to go further south this evening, and keeping an eye on my soggy rucksack with the last dry/clean clothes, I bought a 'My India' brand umbrella, took a deep breath and booked into a room with a view of Kannur station's platform one - the wonderful 150Rs " ...
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When You Come to India...
Posted on Feb 26, 2009, 01:16:16
... FROM BANGALORE TO KARWAR-hmm its very unfortunate tat there is no direct TRAIN FROM BANGALORE TO KARWAR.U can take a train upto shimoga n then by road u can reach karwar... HOW DO I REACH KARWAR THEN?????-Well by road...there r many buses from BANGALORE ...
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