Blogs from Panaji, Goa, India, Asia - page 3

Oh man... I just experienced some true India. I decided to take a train up north to the state Goa. It was those night trains that take 14 hours to get to the place. I spoiled myself by buying some 'first class' tickets on the train. I was half expecting the rooms to be like clean and have a nice window. Hahaha, so wrong, Vic, so wrong. The only space I had was the size of an upper bunk bed with a curtain! Such a cramped space for such a long ride. Then it started pouring so hard (finally) and it created a huge flood, blocking our path halfway. So we waited for an hour, then 2 hours... then 3 hours then 5 hours, then 7 hours!! I am so happy I'm not claustrophobic (fear of ... read more

We had to make a stop in Mumbai on our way south to Goa. We just spent one night here before heading off as we fly home from Mumbai so will be returning to do some sightseeing. We had some problems finding affordable accomodation, one place we looked had about 30 beds crammed into a dark grubby room with half naked, sweaty Indian men lying on them. No thanks! We did eventually find somewhere that was acceptable. The area we were staying in reminded us a lot of London. Many of the bulidings here were built by the British during their rule and the wonderful architecture of the old train station, the busiest in Asia, particularly reminded us of home. We spent our day just wandering around and we found a Macdonalds which we just couldn't ... read more

The night before we left Palolem Beach, we decided to treat ourselves to an ayurvedic massage. Not really knowing much about it, we just ordered the full body massage, that focuses on our back, neck and legs, or so we thought. Joe started first while I ran to our hut to change into my bikini, when I came back, all I could see was Joe, lying on his front with his bare ass being massaged by a big fat Indian man and Joe's face of horror!!!! I nearly died of laughter but it was my turn to begin. Good thing I had a woman doing my massage. So a full body really means FULL BODY!!! It felt really good afterwards!! The next day we headed to Panaji, the capitol of Goa, for some more R & ... read more

Well we finally made it out of Baga, but not before we were harrassed mercilessly on the beach, in the bar, in the street and some guy even hovered outside our hotel (we think he was exposing himself in the bushes). Generally we didnt do much there and couldnt face the prospect of going to teh seedy bars and just ended up staying in for the two nights we were there. Unfortunately i woke up to find i had been abised by mosquitos in the night and had 39 bites all over my body but in practically a full sleeve up my arm which swelled up in red welts. Not pretty. That was pretty much the last straw for us as we had been having a shit time in Baga. The beaches are dirty, the sea ... read more

Namaste! 53 hours, 4 flights, 4 different airlines and one broken plane later Holly and I made it to Bombay! Unfortunately...our bags weren't so lucky... Having been in 4 different countries over the past 2 days our bags could be literally anywhere! We filled out a lost baggage form with Sri lankan Airways and set off bewildered into the Jungle of taxi wallah's where we started the never-ending game of no thankyou. Despite promises to call us and keep us informed of any updates we heard nothing for the next few days untill saturday morning we recieved a phone call informing us that the bags had in fact arrived in Chenni and when would we be collecting them! I explained AGAIN that we were in Mumbai not Chenni. (32hrs train ride away) We were promised that ... read more