T is for Thailand, but it is also for Tropics. As our time here in Thailand end, so does our trip. For the past 10 months we have spent all of our time in the tropic, from the northern Thailand, northern Vietnam and middle of India. We have also been in the far south, in [...]
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After viewing the deserts we went to a place called Fairy Stream. Although the internet will tell you about a small waterfall, we didn’t walk far enough. We we did see was a small stream slowly eroding the heck out of giant sand dune. The result was a canyon, about 25m deep. To make things [...]
Mui Ne has some pretty spectacular sights. One being the sand dunes, there are two of them, one close to town (the yellow dunes) that sees a lot of tourists and another over an hour out of town (the white dunes). We signed up to go to the yellow ones early in the morning, early [...]
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
Best [...]
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 delicious. [...]
Once in while you come across something truly amazing. The other day it was literally outside our front door. It was these berries growing off of this tree. The name of the tree escapes me. But the taste of the berries will never leave my memory. Tanya describes the taste like cotton candy jelly bellies. [...]
Distance: 58km
Roads: 50% the best roads ever, 40% good and 10% awful.
Traffic: very light
Today was one of the best days yet. Amazing, because last night was the worst sleep we had thus far. This all changed as soon as we left the guest house.
Fort Kochin doesn’t really have a lot a traffic at the busiest [...]