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Wrapping up India: Varkala and Trivandrum
By the time we left, I had become a little attached to Munnar despite it’s general lack of charm. I also felt like Velu (the guesthouse’s manager) and I had formed some sort of friendship. As Marisa mentioned, he let me help him make dinner a couple nights and we talked about his kids and…
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Drinking Tea in Munnar
I love tea. I really don’t know much about tea, despite loving to drink it so much, so Munnar was the perfect place to go to learn more about this wonderful drink. As our bus winded its way up and around the many hills on our 8 hour journey to Munnar (which included a minor…
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Relaxing in Kerala: Kochi and Kumarakom
Desperate to escape the chaos of the north, we decided to fly from Jaipur to Kochi, one of the biggest cities in Kerala. Kerala is a State in India that runs along the lower Southwestern coast of India, and is a place we had really wanted to visit when we were in India four years…
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Ranthambore/Jaipur Part II: Land of the Monkeys
It was kind of nice to return to a city after our wildlife outing in Ranthambore. Jaipur, I think, was maybe the best choice for that return. It felt cleaner, quieter, and more manageable than the others we had visited. Part of that might be due to the fact that despite being founded in 1727,…
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Ranthambore/Jaipur Part I: Land of the Tigers
The next two places we visited, Ranthambore and Jaipur, are almost perfect opposites. One is a rural town that abutts a national park full of wildlife and natural beauty. The other is one-third of India’s Golden Triangle, the three main cities that bring tourists to the northern part of the country (Agra and New Delhi…
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Adventures in Agra
Our next destination following Bodhgaya was Agra. We had heard Agra was not a great city and that people basically only traveled there for the Taj Mahal. This did not make us terribly excited to go there, but I had been really disappointed to miss seeing the Taj Mahal when we were in India four…
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A Tale of Two (Holy) Cities: Varanasi and Bodhgaya
Fear not! We have not been silent on the blog because Delhi has sucked out our souls and slipped us into a deep despair, but because we have been busy traveling throughout North India. The quality of our internet has also dramatically decreased since arriving on this continent, which makes it harder to upload pictures…
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Delhi Sucks, or Why We Haven’t Posted in a Bit
So, we’re in India. We flew from Rome to Delhi thinking that we could take a few days to relax and catch up the blog, on which we’re very behind (though it is our first time so maybe we can be forgiven). It turns out that choosing Delhi as a place of rest and rejuvenation,…