A Pause Amidst the Cardamom
Elizabeth Soule
Part of the adventure of travel is how the best laid plans can be thwarted by an unexpected twist. In our case, the twist was a nasty round of norovirus.…
Elizabeth Soule
Alappuzha Houseboat Tour
The waterways of Alappuzha (also known as Alleppey) are a series of canals, backwaters, and lagoons that stretch from the Arabian Sea inland toward Kottayam. These waterways are central to…
Fort Kochi
With jet lag still waking us up in the early morning hours, our 5am trip to the airport to catch our flight to Kerala didn’t even seem that early. The…
Bidri Art and Best Briyani in Bangalore
Mervin’s brother Mike came to visit for two days. Since we had no other plans, we decided in the afternoon to go visit some handicraft shops and look at the…
Settling In
While arriving at four in the morning sounds awkward, it does seem to be a good way to get over jet lag quickly. After about four hours of sleep we…
Halfway around the world in 24 hours
Long distance flights feel like a kind of teleportation to me. Once you are up in the air and the window shades close, time seems to bend. There is the…
Bandipur Tiger Reserve
July 30 – August 2 Bandipur Tiger Reserve was once a private hunting reserve for the Maharajas of Mysore. Today, it is a national park protecting many species of Indian…
Scenes Along the Road – Part One
As we travelled, I tried to capture bits and pieces of life in India that I saw along the drive. Many of these pictures were taken through a car window…
Mysore Palace
Sunday, July 30 Mysore Palace was only about a half hour drive from the bird sanctuary, and although we encountered some traffic coming into Mysore we reached it fairly quickly.…
Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary
Saturday, July 30 The first leg of our car trip took us from Bangalore (Bangaluru on the map) to Bandipur Tiger Reserve, a distance of about 150 miles. Along the…