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Reflections on My Visit to Goa, India
After more than a month of nonstop travel around India Carrie and I came upon the beach town of Arambol, Goa, ready to relax.
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I Poo Where?! A Guide to Indian Squatty Potties
Going to the bathroom in India can be a daunting experience for those unfamiliar with the Squatty Potty. Basically, it’s a hole in the ground that you hover over and do your business. Read about how I overcame my fear of these toilets and see photos of the most ridiculous ones.
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Tepees, Drum Circles & Full Moons in India
Carrie and I spent a week living at the Arba Mistika guesthouse in Hampi, India, next to a giant teepee that some travelers slept in. On the night of the full moon, a giant drum circle and bonfire happened just outside it.
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India’s Havelock Island: Sun, Moon, Waves, Transportation and Tranquility
Fine art photo essay on backpacking featuring 15 photos and a video from Havelock Island, one of India’s Andaman Islands. Boats, Tuk Tuks, sunsets, moonrises, waves, animals and tranquility round out this story.
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Hustle & Bustle at a New Delhi Fish Market
Photographic highlights from a visit to the Chittaranjan Park Fish Market in New Delhi, India plus details on the market and its history. We visited the market with Amit, the New Delhi native who graciously offered up his spare room and toured us around the city.
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A Study of Food in India: Flatbread, Meat, Tandoori, Vegetables and the Thali
I thought I knew what good Indian food was before backpacking through the Sub-Continent. Boy was I wrong! To bring you up to speed, I have crafted a summary of all of my favorite Indian foods complete with photos and videos of thalis, flatbreads, mutton, chicken, chickpeas and more.
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Nurturing a Rice Paddy in Hampi, India
During my backpacking adventure across India, I was fortunate enough to stay on a rice field on the island side of Hampi. While walking to the communal squatty potty just after sunrise, I came across this local Indian man spreading grains across a rice paddy to get a jump on the day’s fierce sun.
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Small Islands and Big Cities: A Farewell to India
As much as we fought it and considered not doing it, the time finally came to leave India. Right now Carrie and I are in the hill station of Kandy in Sri Lanka and will be traveling around this amazing undiscovered country for the next few weeks. Then we hop …
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Paradise on the Andaman Islands
The Andaman Islands are a series of un and barely-touched islands off the east coast of India that Carrie and I have been talking about since arriving. So, after our two weeks of manual labor in Sadhana Forest we packed our bags and headed to paradise. The plane from Chennai …
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Aren’t We Supposed to be Relaxing Here? Then Why Are We Doing So Much Stuff!
Despite being in paradise, we managed to keep ourselves busy. We went scuba diving twice and saw some of the most amazing corals either of us have ever laid eyes on and more fish than I have seen on any other dive in my life. At one point we encountered …
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Sending One Final Package Turns into an Ordeal in Chennai
After landing in Chennai from the Andaman Islands, our first priority was to send a package home from the main post office. We hopped on a local train and made it with what we thought was plenty of time to get a box and wrap up the parcel. When we …
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It Takes Two Days in Chennai to Buy a Plane Ticket
With our pacakge off in the mail, it was time to find an Internet cafe to book a ticket to Sri Lanka for 7:30am the next morning. However, we quickly learned that you couldn’t book an e-ticket less than 24 hours before the flight. Next we tried to call the …
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Small Islands and Big Cities: This and That
During one day of scuba diving we swam through seas of jellyfish. No joke, hundreds of them at the surface. The craziest part was coming up from below and seeing a wall of pink ahead of us and knowing that we had to swim through it to get back onto …
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Small Islands and Big Cities: Photos and Videos
Havelock Island and Port Blair Photos: Chennai Photos: Videos:
Small Islands and Big Cities This and That
• During one day of scuba diving we swam through seas of jellyfish. No joke, hundreds of them at the surface. The craziest part was coming up from below and seeing a wall of pink ahead of us and knowing that we had to swim through it to get back onto …
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Two Weeks of Manual Labor, Communal Living and Reforestation at Sadhana Forest
For two weeks, Carrie and I put traveling aside to live and volunteer at Sadhana Forest. We had no idea what to expect but were told that we would be planting trees and staying in a communal living environment. When we arrived we found that no description, no email, could …
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Auroville: A Community of Harmony and Peace
Sadhana Forest is located in the community of Auroville, which has a long history of being a place for harmonious living between the roughly 2,000 permanent residents from more than 40 countries. In addition to the permanent Aurovillians, countless day-trippers, long-term guests and volunteers call the area home. Though these …
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A Day in the Life of a Sadhana Volunteer
Wake up as close to it as you want, but at 6:30am the first jobs are given out and the day begins. Referred to as first work, these tasks are day’s most labor-intensive work, as the air is still cool and the sun is low. Jobs range from planting trees …
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What I Did For Work. And Work I Did!
I know, I know. The idea of me doing any kind of manual labor is funny to you. Heck, it’s funny to me! I’ll be honest; the idea of coming to Sadhana Forest was all Carrie’s. She did the research, put in the time and decided that it was the …
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Communal Living and Reforestation in Sadhana Forest
Everything at Sadhana Forest is geared around the community. All meals are eaten together, sleeping is dorm style in thatch huts, volunteers put on workshops to share their knowledge, Wednesday is hummus night and everyone says something about their week during the Sunday meeting. Even the work is community based, …
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