Blogs from Kundapura, Karnataka, India, Asia

Well, it’s nearly the end of our fantastic journey around Karnataka. I think I can safely say for most of us that there’s still so much more to see here, we’d like to stay a little longer; some would stay a lot longer. Yesterday we arrived in Kundapur, and are staying a hotel called Blue waters. The hotel is fantastic, very clean, and very beautiful. After we were checked in and shown around we were given a couple of hours to settle in and use the pool etc, needless to say we jumped on the wifi! A little later, myself and Emily decided to go for a walk along the river and found a small boat yard where some men were making boats by stitching them together, sounds strange, and I couldn’t tell what they used ... read more

Wednesday 30 – Thursday 31 January 2013 I’m keeping this one short and sweet too as we are on the last leg of the trip and taking a little bit of time to relax and reflect on our time in India. We have arrived in Kundapur and we are staying in a hotel, Blue Waters, owned by Abhinandan Shetty. Abhi has recognised that we are exhausted so we have a more relaxing itinerary for the next two days. This also gives us a chance to enjoy this beautiful resort, right next to the place where five rivers meet the Arabian Sea, and to catch up on some sleep. Abhi has taken us on a boat trip to an island where we can see various wildlife, and also to his floriculture farm, his family temple and to ... read more

As other team members have already mentioned, we had a big audience for our presentation at the District Conference in Mangalore last weekend. Thanks go to Val and Terry Leivers from Nottingham for the picture of us up on stage not looking at all nervous. We have done so many formal and informal (unexpected) presentations now that nothing seems to faze us! After the long build-up to our conference presentation, it was great to spend an evening winding down, even if it did mean I had to sing in the karaoke bar, which you would never see me doing at home! We knew we would have the opportunity at the conference to catch up with many of the Rotarians we have spent time with throughout our trip but this time we were saying goodbye for much ... read more

It was my long cherished dream to visit Kudajaadri, even I visited Kollur more than a couple of time and My “Vidyarambha” was at Kollur Mookambika Temple, But I never got a chance to visit Kudajaadri.After waiting for a long time I got an opportunity to visit Kollur again. This time Vijayettan also accompanied us, Vijayettan was an experienced traveler, and had visited different parts of Himalayas too. He was always became an inspiration to me, he shown me a path by giving a book titled”Thapobhoomi Utharghand” written by Mr. Ramachandran, That book changed me a lot in personally as well as spiritually. Even my thoughts and approach towards life also changed dramatically. That book made me to read more and more books, After my 10th class I stopped reading books, Vijayettan was a photographer too ... read more