After spending too much time in Siem Reap we were off to Phnom Penh. The bus ride was about six hours long, the roads were bumpy and they bus wasn’t as nice as the buses in Malaysia (oh, how we miss the buses from Malaysia). A while back we found the best way to kill [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tamil Nadu’
Bus trip to Phnom Penh
Posted in Cycling, tagged Food, SE Asia, Tamil Nadu, Travel on Jun 07, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Best of India
Posted in Cycling, tagged best, Cycling, Food, India, Sadhana Forest, Tamil Nadu, temples, Travel on Apr 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Parotta
Posted in Cycling, tagged best, Food, India, Tamil Nadu, Travel on Apr 07, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Sadhana Forest – Tanya’s Perspective
Posted in Cycling, tagged India, Sadhana Forest, Tamil Nadu, Travel, volunteer on Mar 03, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I thought I’d write another post about our time at Sadhana Forest. Kelly, as you’ve read, was busy everyday working on a specialized project because of his mad Forestry skills. I, on the other hand, got to learn and do a wide variety of different tasks: Developing an irrigation system in preparation for the upcoming [...]
Making a Map
Posted in Cycling, tagged forest, India, Sadhana Forest, Tamil Nadu, Travel, volunteer on Feb 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In forestry, I couldn’t imagine working without a map. For the past five years, Sadhana forest has had no detailed map, it has all been pretty much all in Aviram’s head. Which is amazing, and it really shows you don’t need a map if you know the land really well. That however didn’t stop me [...]
Surveying the forest
Posted in Cycling, tagged forest, India, Sadhana Forest, Tamil Nadu, Travel, volunteer on Feb 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
After one shift of work at the forest I heard of someone who needed some help getting GPS points of the forest. My head perked right up and I met up with a guy named Yoav. Yoav is an American who got a scholarship from the US gov’t to make a book on landmark trees [...]
Sadhana Forest
Posted in Cycling, tagged forest, India, Sadhana Forest, Tamil Nadu, Travel, volunteer on Feb 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I realize that the sound of going to forest in which you work for you room and the food you get is vegan doesn’t sound like the most popular tourist destination. That is because it is not a tourist destination. The minimum stay here is two weeks, and everyone works for 4-5 hours in the [...]
Pondycherry
Posted in Cycling, tagged Cycling, India, Tamil Nadu, Travel on Feb 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tanya and I are rolling over our boated belly’s reminiscing about the dinner we just had. We splurged (we have been doing that a lot lately) on dinner. A buffet, and it was very tasty (and only Rs400 each). Pondycherry has been good. The four days we have been here have passed quickly, which is [...]
To Chidambaram and Pondicherry
Posted in Cycling, tagged Cycling, India, Tamil Nadu, Travel on Feb 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
To Chidambaram Distance: 79km Roads: great Traffic: Light (except for the last 7km) The day started as any other day, asking for directions out of town. Having thought ahead, I had our route writen out in Tamil so it was smooth sailing. Except for one thing, our Rough Guides map blows. Often incorrect and not [...]
Kumbakonam
Posted in Cycling, tagged Cycling, India, Tamil Nadu, temples, Travel on Feb 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday we took a rest day. We found a nice business hotel with room and checked out of our overpriced bad hotel and moved down the road to the nice AC room. The rest day was needed, as we were very tired after having two days of intense temple trekking (life’s rough eh?). Distance: 43km [...]