Category: South India
-
At a Coffee Estate Home Stay – Madikeri, Coorg
I would like to write in detail of my thoughts about home-stays, coffee estates and Madikeri, as this was my first encounter with all three! This post however is about what is most vivid about the place in my experience…. BIRDS! I have a little past in ornithology. I have done a few bird watches,…
-
The Bylakuppe Adventure – Tibetan Settlement, Coorg
I was quite excited to go to the tibetan settlement at Bylakuppe in Coorg since I found out about it sometime back. I visited it about 10 days back. The Golden Temple is a tourist attraction and a very extravagant tibetan temple! My adventure however started as an uncle dropped me at the gates of…
-
The Errant Cow – Travel Animal Stories
While surfing I came across Ailsa’s travel blog, where she has weekly theme posts! This week’s theme is animals. I remembered one incident with an errant cow in Mysore that I thought I can make part of her theme. Its actually quite funny. Generally domestic animals are afraid of human contact but the cows on…
-
Where the laundry guy disappears – Crazy Travel Tales
This trip of mine to Cbe-Mysore-Shravanbelagola-Bangalore was filled with some crazy encounters! One of the prominent ones being my laundry clothes debacle. Well it started with me, I was rushing off somewhere on Saturday morning and needed to drop off some clothes at a laundry. The big ones at that time were all closed so…
-
Auroville and Matri Mandir, Pondicherry
15km from the city is the Auroville. This is also where the Matri Mandir – an intriguing meditation complex made by the Mother and Aurobindo is located. My first view of this center was a sense of lot of ‘disjoint’ communities working together. It probably felt disjoint because the different building complexes are some distance…
-
One month on the Road
I finally uploaded my trip photos, it is a tricky task because I have not yet figured out which photo platform to opt for longer use. Travel photographs is a topic for another blog post 🙂 Currently I want to write more about my 1 month road trip, I never got down to writing about…
-
Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
The term ‘Aurobindo Ashram’ commonly refers to the many different units within Pondicherry that are affiliated to the organisation set up by Aurobindo and Mother. Auroville is another distinct settlement which also houses the Matri Mandir – a unique meditation temple. Like mentioned earlierPondicherry city is integrated with the Aurobindo Ashram. Typically painted grey and…
-
Pondicherry
Once I booked my tickets to Pondicherry, everyone that I told I was going to this city would inevitably say ‘Wow I always wanted to go to Pondicherry’! Well, I am here and its a pretty lovely place! Its a quaint town as I had pictured with a mix of people. There are foreigners, some…