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Travel Info Where would you like to holiday in India ? Travel Tips I'd love to go to Rajasthan. I've only seen pictures of that place. There is something very enchanting about it. Also the fact that the sand keeps shifting making a new dune each time, changing the whole scenery within a short span. The thought that out in the desert there can be no land marks, enthralls me. I love the colours and music of that place. I'd love to travel with a caravan, and camp out in a tent at night. There is something haunting about the pictures I've seen of the forts of Rajasthan. There is something there that beckons me. It really sets my pulse racing. It's something I can never explain in words. Rajasthan is on top of my must visit list and I'll like to spend maybe like a month there sometime soon. Others Last year at this time I was in Munnar up in the Western Ghatts of India. We went up into the tea station area to escape the humidity and heat of Cochin and Kerala. It is monsoon season but I loved it up there so much. I loved Munnar. It is just a rickety little village carved into the mountains in the middle of the tea plantations. However, it is somehow an elegant little place despite the usual litter and muck on the ground. I just loved the town, it was not the shops or anything,just I felt completely safe there. I was the only white woman in India I am sure at the time and that is no small thing. There was the best street food area ... in the mornings the tea and hot baked goods right off the griddle.. Munnar is where the air is purer than can be... from our hotel room I could see the mosque, the church and the temple all quite close... I am still enjoying the fire honey we bought from a little tribesman at the side of the road. My companion bought all 4 bottles of it and barely bargained, just enough to put on a moment's show. The honey was in old liquor bottles sealed tight by duct tape. The hill people gather it from wild hives, strain it, then sell it for whatever they can. It is like no honey I have ever had, coming from an area as lush as that one. This honey came from flowers of cardamom, cinnamon and sandalwood trees. I am still slowly savouring my bottle. He tells me his mother has already used up her three bottles. I love the rain and the clouds. I loved the greenness of that area of the world. I loved the dangerous driving and tricky roads. We alternated his very traditional India music and my traditional rock as we drove on hideous roads through mile after mile of sculpted tea planations... Anyhow... that is where I would LOVE to be tonight. I enjoyed that little village. LOL I have to agree with Trixx. We went to Munnar after a few weeks in Cochin and up through Kerala where we rented a rice boat for a few days private paddling through the backwaters. Our boat came equipped with the usual chef, owner and the "extra" who just helped at whaever. Kerala has the most amazing greens... 100% humidity and these flash monsoons that only make the place more of a steambath. I think air conditioning is what kept me alive. Our rooms and our car. This from me, who never ever ever uses it elsewhere! But in Munnar we used neither. The food was great and the frit beyond belief. People leave these HUGE jackfruit along the side of the road. just take it .. miles of vendors sitting besides millions of mangoes... yep.. I liked it there. u should visit god's own country-kerala...itz a beautiful place... Madhya Pradesh |
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