Between Periyar and Munnar here in Kerala there are 70 kilometres of winding mountain road and 30 kilometres of bone-jarring, bladder-stretching, gut wrenching, vomit inducing moonscape that passes for tarmac and results in a 4-hour journey time between the two. We spent last night, our first in the hill country, in Periyar which The [...]
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The long and winding road to Munnar
Posted in India, Kerala, travel on 2 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Cruising down the river
Posted in Cruise, India, Kerala, Vembanad on 1 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As we float down the river this morning past a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Rama, a woman’s voice blares out over a loudspeaker filling the air with the exotic echoes of Hindu incantation and tropical south Asia. The morning monsoonal showers that came upon us so quickly after our short walk on [...]
As far away from home as you can get
Posted in India, Kerala on 29 July, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The most common question we get asked here is, “Where are you from.” It’s something people even with the most rudimentary command of English seem to be able to say and it’s a pretty good conversation starter. We especially get it when we go to some pilgrimage site where Indian tourists go as we did [...]
