After the closure of airports in the north-west of the country we had to make last minute changes to our plans, adding days in Goa and cancelling our visit to Chandigarth and Amristsar. But we were very relived when we were able to juggle dates and flights so we could still get to Nagpur for our much-anticipated visit to Tadoba-Andhari […]
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Relaxing at the beach – North and South Goa
This would be our third visit to the west-coast state of Goa. Karma has four resorts along the coast of the smallest Indian state. Previously we had stayed a week at the southernmost property, Haathi Matal, and then another at Monterio in the north of the state. On this trip, we had booked a week back at Monterio at Baga […]
Puducherry – A Touch of France
Our Indian travels continue, moving southwards from Chennai to the lovely former French colony of Puducherry. Following almost 300 years of French rule, Puducherry was only transferred back to Indian control in the mid-20th century. Today, it retains much of its European heritage. This is being strengthened due to a great deal of restoration work underway in the French Quarter. […]
A Short Visit to Chennai
Chennai, the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu, lies a few hundred kilometres to the south of Kolkata. After the mayhem of the three days we spent there, we hoped for a more relaxed time. We found that the Chennai is still a quintessentially Indian metropolis, but quite as chaotic as its northern neighbour. Click on the photo to […]
Three Days in Kolkata, the City of Joy
The next stage of our journey after the Himalayas was in the old British Colonial capital of Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta. We expected one of the big capital cities in India to present a different experience to that of the previous week, but we weren’t quite prepared for just how different. We had visited Delhi and Mumbai on previous […]
A week in the Himalayas
This is the first post from our current trip to India. We left home in Cairns to travel to Darjeeling in the Himalayas, where we spent a couple of days. We then completed a six-day trek along Singalila Ridge on the India-Nepal border. The ridge gave us views across Nepal to the highest peaks in the world. The weather wasn’t […]
Christmas in Bali
This post is the belated story of our family trip to Bali, where we were joined by some of our family to celebrate Christmas and New Year. Travelling from Cairns, Melbourne, and Darwin, we shared 10 days together in Jimbaran. Jimbaran is in the southeast corner of the Indonesian island of Bali. December and January is monsoon season in Bali, […]