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permalink written by  rkj25696 on October 18, 2008 from Bangalore, India
from the travel blog: India

Sun, sand and Swedes

Back to the beach. Hooray. After winding our way inland since Goa, we've returned to the Arabian Sea and Varkala, a rather pleasant, albeit tourist-heavy clifftop resort near the southern tip of India. But a nice place to spend a couple of days - had breakfast this morning watching dolphins...

permalink written by  phileasdogg on October 16, 2008 from Kovalam, India
from the travel blog: Planes, Trains & Taxiwallahs

On the water

Kerala feels a bit like another country from the rest of India - altogether a bit more relaxed. Which is very welcome. Still rubbish roads and driving, but a bit less chaos, litter, spitting, and the smell of sewers is not so prominent, or maybe my nose has just got used to it. Anyway, our...

permalink written by  phileasdogg on October 14, 2008 from Alleppey, India
from the travel blog: Planes, Trains & Taxiwallahs

Driving and stuff

Hooray. Kerala. Another island of tranquility in a sea of chaos. And no need to get back on the truck for 4 days. By which time it will hopefully be fixed and we'll be reunited with our other driver. In his absence I've been riding up front with Dan for the past few days and so have had a...

permalink written by  phileasdogg on October 10, 2008 from Cochin, India
from the travel blog: Planes, Trains & Taxiwallahs

The long and grinding road

OK, so I was wrong about 250km being too much in a day. Yesterday we set off at 7am, and 16 hours and 540km later arrived in Coimbatore. Then spent the next hour wandering around the ghost town trying to find anywhere open to get food, or beer, or soft drinks, or even water. Finally managed to...

permalink written by  phileasdogg on October 9, 2008 from Coimbatore, India
from the travel blog: Planes, Trains & Taxiwallahs

Day of rest

Plan was to go on to Mysore for some temple viewing today but apparently there's a 10-day festival on there and as we all remember from our nativity plays, if you don't book in advance, you don't get accommodation. And Mysore has no mangers. So we've driven to Hassan, about 40km from Mysore and...

permalink written by  phileasdogg on October 7, 2008 from Hassan, India
from the travel blog: Planes, Trains & Taxiwallahs

Back on the road

So after 6 days on this overland truck trip I finally get a ride on the truck. And in spite of it being 25 years old with dodgy suspension and the roads being like Swiss cheese (except it's tarmac instead of cheese and craters instead of holes) it was actually quite a comfortable 180km ride to...

permalink written by  phileasdogg on October 5, 2008 from Sagar, India
from the travel blog: Planes, Trains & Taxiwallahs

You're gonna need a bigger boat

There I was, just innocently frolicking in the surf at Goa, when I stepped down and something moved beneath my foot. And then bit it. Hard. It damn well hurt. Having got back to shore there was a reasonably steady flow of blood spouting forth from the wound, so after a splendid spot of bandaging...

permalink written by  phileasdogg on October 4, 2008 from Goa, India
from the travel blog: Planes, Trains & Taxiwallahs

Peace at last

Ah, this is more like it. Empty beach, warm sea, cold beer and fresh seafood. After another snail ride on public transport (320 Miles in 14 hours) we docked in Goa, and managed to find a quiet resort away from the main tourist areas. It's right at the start of the season anyway so fairly quiet...

permalink written by  phileasdogg on October 3, 2008 from Goa, India
from the travel blog: Planes, Trains & Taxiwallahs

The old colony

Remind me NEVER to take a sleeper bus in India again. 16 hours from Udaipur to Mumbai on the top bunk of an aging Volvo bus on bumpy roads with the driver either sounding the horn or braking sharply (more often both) every 5 minutes. Anyway, Mumbai is positively space age compared to most of...

permalink written by  phileasdogg on September 30, 2008 from Mumbai, India
from the travel blog: Planes, Trains & Taxiwallahs

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