Archives for January 2009
A little bit of France in India
17 January 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Hello all,
Anjali and I decided to blow straight through Chennai, which we
figure we will return to, and on to Pondicherry. The city was
officially renamed Puducherry, but even the official tourism guides
say “Pondicherry” in their bus tours. Pondicherry is the largest city
in what was formerly the French colony also named Pondicherry. It is
on the coast [...]
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Culture Shock to the Extreme
8 January 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Hello all,
Yesterday Anjali and I experienced the most intense culture shock of our trip. We arrived in the village of Hampi in Karnataka yesterday morning, which was the heart of the sixteenth century Vijayanagar empire which dominated Southern India. Now it is a town surrounded by ruins set amidst an evocative boulder-strewn landscape of rice paddies, banana plantations, and coconut palms. [...]