Embun Pagi (Morning Dew)

<!– @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –> We are currently staying at a place called Embun Pagi, which is a Permaculture garden near Kuala Lumper. This is where our PDC (permaculture Design Course) is being taught. Embun Pagi is run by a young Malaysian named Sabina. She [...]

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Kuala Lumpur City Centre

Today we got up early and walked downtown.  We wanted to go get tickets to see the view from the Twin Towers (KLCC), and apparently you have to be there early.  We weren’t the only ones with this idea as there was a huge line up, but we got tickets for the 2 pm ride [...]

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Kuala Lumpur – ChinaTown

We arrived early in Kuala Lumpur to pouring rain. Chinatown is the area of town with the budget accommodations so we thought we’d head there. I didn’t have very high hopes for a decent place (just based on Chinatown in Edmonton). However the neightborhood was much nicer than I though and we found a good [...]

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Sleepless in Singapore

We left the new modern (and hard to get to) Bangalore airport at 11:30 in the evening. We decided to go on the budget airline Tiger Airways. Tiger Airways takes budget to a whole new level. When we went to sit down in our seats, there was not much room. My knees were touching and [...]

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Best of India

During our mulit-hour wait to catch the bus to Mysore, we came up with a list of some of the “Best Of” our trip: Best Riding Day: Cochi to Alleppy Best Dal: Hotel Raya’s in Kumbakonam Best Temple: Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Trichy Best Pizza: New Creation Pizzaria in Auroville Best TV show: No Reservations [...]

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Last Day in India

Well, almost 5 fantastic months later, we’ve made it to our last day in India. We ended up going on a bit of a roadtrip with a friend from yoga, Viola from Vancouver, and her friend Prashanth from Mysore/Bangalore. All of us feeling like we needed a break from the city, we hopped in a [...]

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Royal Enfield

A couple of Months ago I had this idea. Stop cycling, send them home, buy a Royal Enfield and ride the Enfield up to Nepal, renew our visa and then tour northern India. Tanya didn’t like the idea much, and for good reason: I had never driven a motorcycle; and India is a hard place [...]

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Kelly and Tanya vs. India Post

I thought I’d post about our experiences and time spent on the simple task of mailing home some from stuff from India: Day 1 – Because of our new plans for the remainder of our trip, we decide it wouldn’t be feasable to continue to hall our bikes around with us and thought “hey – [...]

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Parotta

Greasy, Greasy Porotta A couple of months back we had our first parotta. It was in Kerela, and from that point on we ordered them at any chance. A truly amazing taste, something that is hard to explain, if you know you Indian food, is kind of like butter naan, but smaller, thicker and more [...]

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The Dog Days of Mysore

Like everything we’ve done on this trip, we didn’t really know what we were getting ourselves into when signing up for a month of yoga in Mysore. But, also like every other unknown thing on this trip, it has turned out great! Based on the recommendation of a previous yoga student, we decided to do [...]

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