Mysore, Maharaja’s and Marsala Dosas

Posted by on Oct 26, 2012 in India | 0 comments After our restful stop in the cool highlands of Wayanad, it was time to continue inland to Mysore.  As trains do not operate over the Western Ghats, it meant another bus ride to Mysore, and once through the wildlife reserve the paved road gave way to dirt and what was already bad, rapidly got worse!  I am surprised the bus didn’t shake apart going over the corrugations. As we passed...
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India continued… Week 2 – DIPS in the Arabian Sea and Highland activities

Posted by on Oct 21, 2012 in India | 6 comments Before leaving Fort Kochi we did quite a bit of research into domestic flights so we could end our southern Indian odyssey at a point where we could fly up to Rajasthan in the north. Swimming pools were still being either elusive or only attached to the most expensive hotels, so we also wanted to be able to have a swim in the Arabian Sea before heading to a highland area to escape the heat and...
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Not all who wander are lost… J R R Tolkien

Posted by on Oct 15, 2012 in India | 1 comment   We really had no plans about where we were heading in India, other than to have approximately three weeks in the South before heading to Rajasthan in the North for another three weeks.  Where exactly in the south we had no idea, nor had had any time to plan before arriving.  Hence it got rather confusing and exasperating due in part to the transport options – train or bus, distances...
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Our first week in India… the Malabar coast.

Posted by on Oct 11, 2012 in India | 1 comment Our flight to India was via Kuala Lumpur with AirAsia, the low cost carrier we have flown with several times over the last few years.  Leaving Vientiane we had an eight hour daytime layover at Kuala Lumpur airport before our night flight into Cochin (Kochi) and we spent the majority of the time sitting in the airports McDonald’s restaurant. Now, for those who know us well, this...
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Farewell Laos…

Posted by on Oct 5, 2012 in Laos | 1 comment Instead of just continuing to Vientiane by bus, we had organised to do a kayaking trip on the Nam Lik River which involved an hour and a half drive south of Vang Vieng, kayaking downriver approximately 10km and then continue  a further hour and a half drive to the nations capital, thus combining a necessary journey with a fun one. We were the only customers for this particular trip as most...
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