http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/garvey/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from garvey en-us Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:55:26 +0000 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:55:26 +0000 We arrived at Poovar Island Resort on the 7th and had booked in for 2 nights at this overly luxurious resort after all this backpacking i think i more then deserved a treat We were so excited about coming here and we were not let down in the slightest As our taxi dropped us off we were nicely suprised as we were left at a boat port and found out that we needed to catch a boat to bring us thro http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/Varkala/blog-119380.html Hello all Well i cant actually believe it theres only 11 days left until i leave Where has the time goneWell since my last blog new years eve came and went Marianne my sister had arrived by this time and we spent the evening at a few beach bars in Palolem and then on to my usual haunt of Cafe Del Mar. This was totally transformed for the evening i have never seen anything like it there w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/Trivandrum-/blog-117775.html Well Merry Christmas everyone I am LOVING spending the day in the 32 degree sunshine here and took pleasure in finding out that its only 5 degrees back in London ho ho hoThe last week here has been a bit up and down had a wicked few days on my own met some very funny people and actually vetured out on my own to get drunk. Glad I was so brave as had such a good night. Lauras flight out was http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Goa/Palolem/blog-113489.html I must apologise yet again at the huge delay in updating my blog... I just don't know where the time has goneSince Jo's departure I must have experienced every emotion possible while being on my own with the majority being self pity On Weds afternoon I got a flight up to Hyderabad to stay with the people we met here in Goa. I was a little nervous as obviously I didn't know these people very w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Pondicherry/blog-113482.html hello again after a while We arrived here in Goa two weeks ago now. Initially intending on only staying a week and then heading down to Kerala the sun cocktails and AT LAST fellow English speakers kept us totally hypnotised here Not too much to report in the last two weeks Im quite happy to say that all energy and urge to be productive vanished upon arrival We are staying in a bamboo hut on http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Goa/Palolem/blog-107957.html Well I think I can finally say that I have had ENOUGH of the buses here Our journey to the orphanage took a whopping 31 hours and only 1 and a half of those was spent waiting for connections Our first leg of the journey was a bus from Udaipur to Mumbai we were the only white people on the bus which although we're used to being stared at now is quite intimidating in suchg a confined space. W http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Maharashtra/blog-105371.html Udaipur is known as the romantic city of Rajasthan so me and Jo were just a little out of place We spent our time here just really relaxing. We didnt managae to book a hotel before arriving so when we stepped off the bus we took our chances and let a tuk tuk driver take us to one he knew. By coincidence it was next door to the hotel we'd been trying to stay at and we ended up moving there the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-105354.html Its Monday afternoon as i start typing this. And please quote me on this one..... I NEVER WANT TO GET ON ANOTHER CAMEL AS LONG AS I LIVEJokes aside we've had a really funny 3 days on our camel safari let me start from the beginning...We got picked up by Jeep on Saturday morning and drove for about an hour into the desert til we met Daniel our camel guide and desert resident who was accompanie http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jaisalmer/blog-102905.html Namaste everyone for those uneducated few that's 'Hello in HindiWell where do I start I've done so much since I last wrote am backdating this entry as there is too much to all fit into one Since my last note we have been moving non stop all around Rajasthan. Still no sign of Fern Britton on her bicycle Babs ask your contact at 'This Morning' to find out her route for me although we only http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jodhpur/blog-102572.html Hello all Moved to Agra yesterday thank god Delhi was awful and i would stronglay recommend anyone interested not to go thereWe stayed in a different hotel on our second night there which was worse in every way then our first one more noisy dirty basic etc etc and neither of us could sleep properly as we were so excited about catching our 6am train out of there I think that was the most http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Uttar-Pradesh/Agra/blog-100450.html We woke early today to move hotels as we took an instant dislike to the men running the one we were staying in. We moved our rucksacks getting heavier by the day to our new hotel the Soma didnt think it couldve got any worse then the Mohan International boy was i wrong.We then went back to original hotel to meet taxi driver for our Delhi tour. As we were waiting in reception we met a woman http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/New-Delhi/blog-100445.html Greetings all from a crazy hectic noisy DelhiJo and I arrived here at our hotel at apprx 1pm this afternoon we are 5 and a half hours ahead here after the most white knuckle taxi journey. Noone can put my driving down ever again We decided to shower and have 2 hours sleep before hading out but we woke up at 5pm jet lag.. its a killer lolThe plane journey was an experience for all the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capital-Territory/New-Delhi/blog-99808.html Well there is under two days left til I go and Ive said my goodbyes to most of you all now everytime involving disgusting amounts of alcohol Thanks for all your advice and best wishes.I am really excited and cant actually wait Wednesday cant come quick enoughI will send my Indian mobile number once i get there so please all stay in touch even if it is just the normal abusive messages i rece http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-99023.html