Hi folks, this post was actually written weeks ago but we had no internet at our last stop so it had to wait until now for upload. Sorry about the wait, but these things happen… The old post: We arrived in Kadapa today to begin the volunteering portion of our journey. We’re hoping we can be useful so wish us luck. More about that next time. In the last week we have gone houseboating, explored a 600 year old trading…
We left the peaceful tea fields of Munnar and started our harrowing journey along the tiny (one and 1/2 lane) roads but in a bus this time. As we hurtled down the little roads, with a short honk as we turned blind corners, in hopes of alerting on comers that there was a giant, slightly out of control, bus coming. My friend Claudine had told me many years ago about a bus journey that she was on in India –…
After leaving the laziness of the beaches of Gokarna, we took the local bus and headed south into the state of Kerala (pronounced Carol-a). After a night in the beach town of Kannur, where everything was closed due to a government official having died, we made our way up into the Western Ghats. The Western Ghats are a mountain range that extend along the west coast of India. Per Wikipedia : “The area is one of the world’s ten “Hottest…