The Falaknuma Palace is the perfect place to end our trip together. A space to catch our breath in an iconic Indian setting before we fly home. A place to meditate on what we have seen.
Hyderabad is another 'small' Indian city with a population of 6.5 million. It's also called Cyberabad, with 45% of new job creation for the youth of the city being in IT. Google and Microsoft both have their headquarters in India here and there are many call centres....
It's very early on Friday morning. I've made myself a cup of Indian Earl Grey tea, and I'm sitting at the desk in our quietly elegant room at the Falaknuma Palace. This is the central courtyard garden. Our room is half way down on the left.
It’s an easy drive from Mysore to the Orange County resort on the Kabini River from where we’re going to visit Nagarhole National Park. More fertile farming land with paddocks of small crops. We’ll stay at the Orange County Resort which is on the shores of a m...
John took these bird photos yesterday. Two Brahminy kite chicks. When we return after our tour today at 5pm, we worry that they have come to grief. There are no parents to be seen, and no little fluffy heads sticking up. Nothing for 15 mins. John says that at this...
We're playing hookey this afternoon and skipping a temple so I can catch up a little. The internet here is still a problem, so I’m sitting in the lobby again. John is upstairs taking photos. Outside our second floor bedroom window there are two brahminy kites with a...
We wake in Cochin to the sight of a busy waterway below our hotel window.
The city is on a huge lake, 90 kilometres long and 8 kilometres at its widest. Built near the outlet to the Arabian Sea, it's a thriving seaport. The waterway reminds me a little of Istanbul, w...
We are early at breakfast this morning. John is looking forward to bacon. The boys in the dining room have told him that it's one day bacon, the next day sausage. Yesterday was sausage.
He says to our waiter, 'So, is it sausage or bacon today?'...
It’s spice heaven today. The latitude, altitude, rainfall and soil make this the perfect place for them. Most are not native to India but were brought here during European exploration. There are two monsoons on the top of the western ghats, and 3.5 metres of rain....
