Ok. Here's a shocker. I'm typing today (Susan). After a restless night of deciding where to travel to today, we started back toward Kochin with Ravi (our rickshaw driver and tour guide) to find out that during the night there had been a landslide and the road was closed. That helped to confirm our decision to travel to Madurai, where we heard it wasn't raining and it was warmer. After discussing it with Ravi, we hired Babu, a taxi driver, that would drive us to Madurai. After deciding to go with Babu, Ravi asked if he could go home and get his son, Sreeram 8 years old, who needed to go to the village medicine doctor along the way to have his broken arm checked. We agreed to let them ride with us, and he was our tour guide for the trip. Tonight we are in Tamil Nadu, another state of India, that we had not thought we would visit. Tomorrow night we head further east to Chennai on a train, which neither of us has ever ridden, then on to Mamalapuram. We have left Kerala all together and GLAD FOR THE HEAT AND SUN. Our trip here was wonderful and we took lots of pictures over the mountain pass of the Western Ghats with some pretty awesome views of waterfalls. We had a wonderful rooftop dinner overlooking Madurai. Stay tuned.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Throw Away The Maps
Ok. Here's a shocker. I'm typing today (Susan). After a restless night of deciding where to travel to today, we started back toward Kochin with Ravi (our rickshaw driver and tour guide) to find out that during the night there had been a landslide and the road was closed. That helped to confirm our decision to travel to Madurai, where we heard it wasn't raining and it was warmer. After discussing it with Ravi, we hired Babu, a taxi driver, that would drive us to Madurai. After deciding to go with Babu, Ravi asked if he could go home and get his son, Sreeram 8 years old, who needed to go to the village medicine doctor along the way to have his broken arm checked. We agreed to let them ride with us, and he was our tour guide for the trip. Tonight we are in Tamil Nadu, another state of India, that we had not thought we would visit. Tomorrow night we head further east to Chennai on a train, which neither of us has ever ridden, then on to Mamalapuram. We have left Kerala all together and GLAD FOR THE HEAT AND SUN. Our trip here was wonderful and we took lots of pictures over the mountain pass of the Western Ghats with some pretty awesome views of waterfalls. We had a wonderful rooftop dinner overlooking Madurai. Stay tuned.
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working hard to comment :) hope this one finally goes through. thanks for keeping us updated, ladies. fascinating and glad to hear you're enjoying it, susan!
Girl, this is too cool. Sure hope you take a few pictures.
I looked up "dhotis" at wiki. Reminds me of a saggy diaper. Certainly nothing attractive about a man wearing one of THOSE things!
Enjoy your adventure!
Janet (Newberry Gralen)
Dear Maggi and Susan:
I am soooo envious!!! I wish I was with you on this adventure as I would love to be in India again. Since that is out not happening I'll live vicariously. I wish you both well and enjoy your precious time.
Hugs
Tina
Hey Ya'll.
Just trying to see if this goes through.
Holly and Dianne
Dear Maggin and Susan,
I am really happy to see your blog as Dr.Thomas is a common friend of us. I would suggest you to visit Trivandrum and Thrissur also on your next turn as each districts of Kerala has its-own uniqueness. Pls let me know your schedule so that we can plan the locations to visit. Enjoy your safari...
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