Out of India, Into Africa (via the Middle East)

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June 4th 2009

Published: June 4th 2009

Believe it or not, this flighting America has successfully made her way out of Asia and into Africa. And as I sat in the Abu Dhabi airport on June the 1st waiting for 14 hours to make my way to Joburg, already I found it difficult to contemplate the place I had just come from. The land of camels and saris was already fading with the Dolce and Gabana everything, and US$4 Burger King French fries. ... Read Full Entry

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Hilary J. Caldis

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I write to you in retrospect from the travels documented in this blog. I no longer contribute here, as the majority of my time is now spent working on a much grander project of expression spanning far beyond myself. Nevertheless it is nice, every so often, to revisit these times of great personal expansion--times that have made my present undertakings all possible. These journeys of transcendence in my younger years have paved the way for the grander elements of the journey that I always felt but could never quite fathom in their entirety until now :) www.thefemalevoice.org... full info

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overlooking the beach in Varkala

beautiful greens leading to the ocean (Varkala)

we spent a night on a smaller houseboat like this riding through the backwaters of kerela.

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coconut groves

delicious meal on the houseboat

swimming in the backwaters

church spotting

with the highest percentage of Christians of any state in India, there is definately a unique feeling that comes with staying in Kerela.

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Interesting grafiti

the fishing boats of Kochi

Cell phone retreival

Who would've ever thought it was possible to retreive a lost cell phone in the land of 1 billion people?

Communisms in Kerela

In addition to being the most Christain state in India, Kerela, believe it or not, was the first state to be governed under a communist run government. It is just as much communist as it is christain....something I found to be extremely fascinating.

Jack Fruit is indeed humungous!

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