Category: Travel
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Thursday 30 April 2015 Highlights: Watching the many uses of coconuts. A home cooked meal to start our longest travel day. Today there is a general strike in India which is supposed to stop transport but travel to the airport is allowed so that’s what our car stated. A short canoe ride with our bags saw…
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Wednesday 29 April 2015 Highlights: Canoeing in the backwaters under the stars. On our way to Alleppey we briefly stopped off the road to watch locals sorting coconut shells. This is the start of a process that eventually gets made into rope. However every part of the coconut is used either for food, water or rope.…
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Tuesday 28 April 2015 Highlights: Tripunithura Hill Palace, boat ride down the backwaters of Kumarakom, photos with the locals. I tried some toast this morning, hopefully this means I’m getting better but I still can barely eat. I’ve missed several of the included breakfasts so far and my energy levels aren’t great but hopefully that is changing.
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Monday 27 April 2015 Highlights: Exploring Kochi, Kathakali performance. High humidity (90+) and not eating for 30+ hours does not make for a lot of energy but I still managed to undertake all the included activities for today.
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Sunday 26 April 2015 Highlights: Kochi Beach with locals showing off! Today was the start of the second part of the Highlights of India tour which is also offered separately as South India – Kerala Dreaming 7 day tour. To get there this meant being in the hotel lobby at 3.15 am for the trip…
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Saturday 25 April 2015 Highlights: Final group dinner. With sadness we left Sawarda around 8.30 am for the long trip back to Delhi. My stomachs was now enough of a problem to qualify as ‘Delhi Belly’ but on the mild side. Only having a very small breakfast (some corn flakes) and no lunch at all…
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Friday 24 April 2015 Highlights: Playing cricket with the locals, tractor ride, drinking under the stars. A late start today leaving our hotel at 10.30 am ulitising the hotel facilities one last time before heading to the rural village of Sawarda. The drive gave me a chance to see more of the countryside as we got deeper into…
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Thursday 23 April 2015 Highlights: Amber Fort, local merchants, fine dinning under the stars. Another incredible day made possible by our pro active tour leader / CEO Manu who added several optional events into today’s crowded events calendar.
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Wednesday 22 April 2015 Highlights: Fathpur Sikri (abandon city) , Abhaneri (stunning ancient water tank) and Bollywood! Today originally looked like a positioning day with a long trip to Jaipur but was it turned out that under played today’s stops in Fathpur Sikri and the Abhaner. We left Agra at 8.30 am with the knowledge we wouldn’t…
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Tuesday 21 April 2015 Highlights: Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Baby Taj and visit to the Marble Emporium. A massive day, probably the most impressive I’ve done on a tour excluding the Antartica trip. The city of Agra is an amazing place that the Moghuls, at that time led by Akbar the Great, settled in the late 16th century and…
