Category Archives: 2007 Vacation

Wed. Jan 17 – Mysore

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 17, 2007

Child labor in the flower market…. The main attraction in Mysore for us was the palace and the market. The last time that Amy and I went to Mysore, we didn’t get a chance to visit the palace, and from what everyone had told us, it was something that we had to see at some [...]

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Tues. Jan 16 – Floating Some More & Driving to Mysore

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 16, 2007

The houseboat was a nice contrast to the busyness that seems to go on everywhere else, but these good things must come to an end, right? After we made our way back to our starting point, we said goodbye to the staff of the houseboat, and said hello to our driver who would be taking [...]

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Mon. Jan 15 – Floating Around (on a Houseboat in Kerala)

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 15, 2007

Pretty much, a houseboat experience is something like this: you get up in the morning, have breakfast, lay around waiting for breakfast to digest (they bring coffee to help with this), have lunch, lay around waiting for lunch to digest (in between, you get tea or coffee and biscuits to help you with that), watch [...]

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Sun. Jan 14 – Madurai to Allepy & Houseboat

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 14, 2007

This was, again, another car ride. Not as long as our first, and surprisingly on schedule. We got to cross the mountains, so again, we had a chance to see some more varied scenery and vegetation on the way—tea plantations, rubber plantations, forests, and so on….

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Sat. Jan 13 – Madurai

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 13, 2007

This was mostly “temple day” for us in Madurai, with a few extras thrown in. We got started really late (people were still recovering from our bumpy ride I guess…) so we decided to be a little more limited in our adventures. We started by going to the tailors/the temple market so that they could [...]

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Fri. Jan 12 – Chennai to Madurai

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 12, 2007

Most of Friday was spent in transit to Madurai. The drive, for some reason, took a lot longer than it should have. We left at around 8AM and didn’t get in until the late afternoon… well, more like early evening…. Despite being tiring, the drive was really cool—lots of cows, varied agriculture, varied landscape…. If [...]

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Thurs. Jan 11 – Chennai

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 11, 2007

Because of jetlag, they were all up pretty early. Technically, we had reserved the morning to unpack their bags and repack them seriously. As could be expected, despite their efforts to travel light, they still came with much much more than they should have. Axle at least had an excuse for her extra bag—it was [...]

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Wed. Jan 10 – Chennai

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 10, 2007

Amy and I decided that the first part of the business plan was to get the foreigners some decent clothes. I mean, we knew that there was no way to prevent us from sticking out like sore thumbs, but at least wearing kurtis and Indian-looking clothes would reduce the number of full-on stares that we [...]

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