tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24451021470968659972024-03-19T09:04:41.717-04:00Konni & Matt - Perpetual TravellersKonni and Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05660132741257344016noreply@blogger.comBlogger677125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445102147096865997.post-880740959451556632015-10-01T23:30:00.000-04:002018-03-22T21:12:12.086-04:0002 Apr - 01 Oct 2015 Barrie (...on and on)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Enjoying</span></b><span style="color: black;"> in Central Ontario the first signs of the ongoing global warming, aestivating during a very mild Canadian summer together with our awesome grandkids Raoni, Tien and Ronja in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Barrie" target="_blank">Barrie</a>, one of Canada's fastest growing and dynamic cities, and up in Bruce County, on Chris & Ulrike's farm, and finding the time to watch Europe's interesting demographic changes from a distance.</span></span></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">"You can only predict things after they've happened."</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Reflecting</span></b><span style="color: black;"> about congruency and topicality of our travel blog <a href="http://www.konniandmatt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Konni & Matt - Perpetual Travellers</a> (2000 - 2015) and about the fact that our individual priorities, interests and identities have tremendously changed over the past 15 years of retirement (Konni: from a travelling dive-master to a diving sun-seeker and story-telling ouma; Matt: from a travelling yacht-master to a psychologising portrait-photographer and story-generating oupa), and deciding to change both content and format of our online presence (Konni about scuba diving and u/w photography: <a href="http://konnihahnewaldscuba.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Konni's Diving</a>; Matt about ethnic portrait photography: <a href="http://matthahnewaldphoto.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Facing the World</a> and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/matthahnewald/albums" target="_blank">Flickr Albums</a>); many thanks to all our readers and supporters, until now and from now on.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Angsana New";">Vorn, gleich hinter den Ohren des Elefanten, sitzt der Elefantenfuehrer, der <i>mahut</i>, und lenkt den dicken Elefanten mit seinen nackten Fuessen und durch laute Befehle in der Elefantensprache. Der <i>mahut</i> und sein Elefant leben viele Jahre zusammen, wie eine kleine Familie, und beide verstehen sich recht gut. Vor der Safari wird ein Sattel fuer die Passagiere auf den Ruecken des Elefanten gebunden und los geht es im schaukelnden Elefantentrott. Die Landratten unter den Passagieren werden dabei manchmal sogar seekrank…</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">From <a href="http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Nepal" target="_blank">Nepal</a>, with Love!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><b><a href="http://www.konniandmatt.blogspot.ca/2015/03/23-feb-02-mar-2015-jodhpur.html" target="_blank">23 Feb - 02 Mar 2015 Jodhpur</a></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><b><a href="http://www.konniandmatt.blogspot.ca/2011/05/12-may-18-may-2011-hampi.html" target="_blank">12 May - 18 May 2011 Hampi</a></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Spending </b>the night in the recommendable Hotel Raju Gurung +97761690690 GPS: <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=28.300156,83.858704%28Matt+in+Dhampus,%20Hotel%20Raju%20Gurung)" target="_blank">N 28° 18.01' E 083° 51.52'</a> (clean twin room with north-facing balcony, attached bathroom, hot solar shower and stunning mountain views for NPR 300.- or US$ 3.- per night for the room), situated right on top of the Dhampus ridge.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Growing</b> my trekking legs and hiking together with energetic Lis for 5 ½ hours from Dhampus (c. 1,650 m altitude) via the spread-out settlement of Tolka (c. 1,700 m altitude) through forests that are alive with birds, ferns and orchids to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurung_people" target="_blank">Gurung</a> village of Landruk (c. 1,565 m altitude).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Spending</b> the night at Landruk (c. 1,565 m altitude) in the recommendable Super View Guest House +9779846362753 GPS: <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=28.366108,83.824865%28Matt+in+Landruk,%20Super%20View%20Guest%20House)" target="_blank">N 28° 21.97' E 083° 16.50'</a> (clean twin room with attached bathroom, hot solar shower and nice views of the traditional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurung_people" target="_blank">Gurung</a> village of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Ghandruk" target="_blank">Ghandruk</a> on the opposite side of the Modi Khola valley, for NPR 200.- or US$ 2.- per night for the room).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt (3rd trekking day: 24 Apr 2015): <b>Hiking</b> for 3 ½ hours from Landruk (c. 1,565 m altitude) along the Modi Khola valley through dense mixed forest to Jhinudanda (c. 1,780 m), saying goodbye to Lis, who was going to trek the Ghandruk-Ghorepani loop, and climbing for another 1 ½ hours from Jhinudanda (c. 1,780 m altitude) a very steep trail with many stone steps via Taulung (c. 2,150 m altitude) to the scenic mountain village of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Chomrong" target="_blank">Chhomrong</a> (c. 2,190 m altitude), the last permanent settlement in the Modi Khola valley.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt (4th trekking day: 25 Apr 2015): <b>Taking</b> a day of rest and spending two consecutive nights at <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Chomrong" target="_blank">Chhomrong</a> (c. 2,190 m altitude) in the well-managed and recommendable Hotel Heaven View +9779816645203 GPS: <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=28.414221,83.818486%28Matt+in+Chhomrong,%20Hotel%20Heaven%20View)" target="_blank">N 28° 24.85' E 083° 49.11'</a> (clean and basic twin room with shared bathroom and hot solar shower for NPR 200.- or US$ 2.- per night for the room).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt (5th trekking day: 26 Apr 2015): <b>Taking</b> a decision to continue with my trek, against all the odds, descending for ½ hour on a set of stone steps through the village of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Chomrong" target="_blank">Chhomrong</a> to the new suspension bridge over the braided Chhomrong Khola and ascending immediately afterwards for 3 ½ hours on a rocky contour path along the upper Modi Khola valley through oak and spectacular rhododendron forests, with great clusters of pink and red flowers, via Sinuwa (c. 2,360 m altitude) all the way to remote Bamboo (c. 2,310 m altitude), a collection of five lodges crammed into the narrow valley.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Spending</b> the night at Bamboo in the cosy Bamboo Lodge +9779846257488 GPS: <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=28.456998,83.856840%28Matt+in+Bamboo,%20Bamboo%20Lodge)" target="_blank">N 28° 27.42' E 083° 51.41'</a> (clean and basic twin room with shared bathroom for NPR 200.- or US$ 2.- per night for the room; hot gas shower for NPR 150.- or US$ 1.50) and meeting quite a few shell-shocked guides, porters and trekkers who are breaking off any further ascend to the South Annapurna Base Camp due to the still ongoing risk of fresh avalanches caused by the earthquake's major aftershocks.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt (6th trekking day: 27 Apr 2015): <b>Trekking</b> for 4 ½ hours from Bamboo (c. 2,310 m altitude) on a leech-free contour path along the steep Modi Khola gorge over several avalanche chutes (first snow at c. 3,100 m altitude) via Dobhan (c. 2,520 m altitude) to Deurali (c. 3,230 m altitude), thus surpassing the altitude of Germany's highest mountain, Ze Zugspitze (fritzactly 2,962 m altitude).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt (8th trekking day: 29 Apr 2015): <b>Getting</b> off early so as to take advantage of the hardness of the snow after the night frost, descending for 5 ¼ hours from the South Annapurna Base Camp (c. 4,130 m altitude), first following my Korean friend Kim's descending tracks through fresh snow, later climbing over rocks and hiking through lovely rhododendron forests, their gnarled pinkish limbs festooned with epiphytic ferns and orchids, back to Dobhan (c. 2,520 m altitude) and enjoying the Himalayas' lonely hiking trails almost for me alone since most trekkers, especially those uncouth and obnoxious Chinese tour groups, had fled the mountains immediately after the earthquake and many lodges were closed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt (9th trekking day: 30 Apr 2015): <b>Hiking</b> uneventfully for 5 hours from Dobhan (c. 2,520 m altitude) back to <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Chomrong" target="_blank">Chhomrong</a> (c. 2,140 m altitude).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt (10th trekking day: 01 May 2015): <b>Descending</b> for 1 ¼ hours the steep trail from <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Chomrong" target="_blank">Chhomrong</a> (c. 2,250 m altitude) to Jhinudanda (c. 1,780 m altitude).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt (11th trekking day: 02 May 2015): <b>Climbing</b> for 3 ½ hours from Jhinudanda (c. 1,780 m altitude) via remote <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magars" target="_blank">Magar</a> dwellings to the traditional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurung_people" target="_blank">Gurung</a> village of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Ghandruk" target="_blank">Ghandruk</a> (c. 1,940 m altitude), located only c. 1 ½ hours north of the end of the dirt road at Kimche, but already with the usual attributes of modern tourism: (i) begging children (<i>"…chocolate, chocolate…"</i>), (ii) adipose village beauties, (iii) two-tier pricing system, (iv) young balderdash-and-bubble volunteers as the latest livestock, and (v) at least five "German Bakeries".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt (12th trekking day: 03 May 2015): <b>Ascending</b> for 3 ½ hours from <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Ghandruk" target="_blank">Ghandruk</a> (c. 1,940 m altitude) to Tadapani (c. 2,630 m altitude).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt (13th trekking day: 04 May 2015): <b>Hiking</b> for 4 ¾ hours from Tadapani (c. 2,630 m altitude) over the Deurali Pass (c. 3,210 m altitude) to upper Ghorepani (c. 2,860 m altitude).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Spending</b> the night at Ghorepani (c. 2,860 m altitude), a rather ubertouristed and uberpriced shanty town on the trekking highway, in the old-fashioned and friendly Annapurna View Lodge GPS: <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=28.402496,83.699684%28Matt+in+Ghorepani,%20Annapurna%20View%20Lodge)" target="_blank">N 28° 24.15' E 083° 41.98'</a> (clean and basic double room with shared bathroom for NPR 100.- or US$ 1.- per night for the room).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt (14th trekking day: 05 May 2015): <b>"Attacking"</b> Poon Hill (c. 3,210 m altitude, ¾ hour uphill and ½ hour downhill, compulsory entrance donation: NPR 50.- per person) before sunrise and watching the golden dawn light inch down the frozen panorama of peaks from Dhaulagiri I (8,167 m) and Tukuche (6,920 m) to Nilgiri (6,940 m), Annapurna South (7,219 m), Annapurna I (8,091 m), Hiunchuli (6,434 m), Tarke Kang (7,193 m) and on to Machhapuchhare (6,997 m).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Descending</b> for 4 ¾ hours from Ghorepani (c. 2,860 m altitude) via the steep, knee-cracking stone steps below the large <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magars" target="_blank">Magar</a> village of Ulleri (c. 2,020 m altitude) to Tikhedungga (c. 1,520 m altitude), dodging the occasional mule/pony train and overhearing quite accidentally an interesting dialogue between a villager and a female Russian tourist: <i>"Do you need pony service?" - "No, I'm married."</i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Spending</b> the night at Tikhedungga (c. 1,520 m altitude) in Laxmi's pleasant and welcoming but empty Tikhedungga Guest House +9779746019199 GPS: <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=28.350967,83.742230%28Matt+in+Tikhedungga,%20Tikhedungga%20Guest%20House)" target="_blank">N 28° 21.06' E 083° 44.53'</a> (clean enough and basic twin room with rugged shared bathroom for NPR 100.- or US$ 1.- per night for the room; excellent food).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Licking </b>my wounds, relaxing in the highly recommendable, tried and tested New Summit Guest House +97761461421 GPS: <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=28.205361,83.967820%28Matt+in+Pokhara,%20New%20Summit%20Guest%20House)" target="_blank">N 28° 12.32' E 083° 58.07'</a>, making time for the latest news about the aftermath of the huge 7.8-magnitude <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2015_Nepal_earthquake" target="_blank">April 2015 Nepal Earthquake</a>, exchanging emails with family, friends and foes, catching up with overdue admin work and discovering at <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Pokhara" target="_blank">Pokhara</a>'s almost totally deserted Lakeside ghost-town an interesting drop in the beer prices: 650-ml bottles of Nepali San Miguel Pale Pilsen (5 % alc./vol.) for only NPR 170.- or US$ 1.70 per bottle from the helpful <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=28.205119,83.965410%28Sadish%20Cold%20Store)" target="_blank">Sadish Cold Store</a>; <i>cheers, I am back!</i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Als Mittagessen hatte ich mir im Berghotel "Heaven View" einen Teller mit leckeren vegetarischem Momos fuer 300 Rupies bestellt und wollte sie gerade verputzen, da begann ploetzlich das ganze Haus wie verrueckt zu wackeln und zu schwanken, so als waere es ein Schiff auf hoher See. Der Fussboden unter mir tanzte Rock'n Roll und ich spuerte es am ganzen Koerper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beim Aufstehen habe ich noch schnell einen Blick auf meine Armbanduhr geworfen und festgestellt, dass es genau 12:00 Uhr war; </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">high noon</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Mein erster Gedanke: Die Natur kennt keine Uhrzeit und sie weiss auch nicht, dass es in Nepal jetzt genau 12:00 Uhr ist, also muss das Ereignis irgendwie durch die Menschen verursacht sein. Dieser Gedanke war zum Glueck falsch und seitdem glaube ich zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben an Zufaelle…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Als ich spaeter in mein Hotelzimmer ging, war ich dann noch einmal erstaunt: Ein Teil der Zimmerdecke war heruntergekommen und auf meinem Bett lag allerhand Bauschutt. Waere das Erdbeben etwas spaeter, waehrend meines Mittagsschlafes, passiert, dann haette ich bestimmt mindestens eine fette Beule abbekommen…</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">‘What knowest thou of this wilderness?’</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt:<b> Checking</b> in at the highly </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">recommendable budget hotel <a href="http://www.smyleinn.com/" target="_blank">Smyle Inn</a> +911123584076 </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">in </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paharganj" target="_blank">Paharganj</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>(see also our previous stays there: [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2011/05/20-may-22-may-2011-delhi.html" target="_blank">1</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2011/06/26-jun-29-jun-2011-delhi.html" target="_blank">2</a>]), setting up camp for the final week of my just finished 5-month tour of Incredible India (from the filthy <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Plains_%28India%29" target="_blank">Cow Belt</a> [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2014/12/20-nov-06-dec-2014-varanasi.html" target="_blank">1</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2014/12/07-dec-14-dec-2014-khajuraho.html" target="_blank">2</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2014/12/14-dec-19-dec-2014-orchha.html" target="_blank">3</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2014/12/19-dec-22-dec-2014-gwalior.html" target="_blank">4</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2014/12/22-dec-31-dec-2014-agra.html" target="_blank">5</a>] via liberal <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Goa" target="_blank">Goa</a> [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2015/02/14-feb-2015-panjim.html" target="_blank">1</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2015/02/05-jan-22-feb-2015-benaulim.html" target="_blank">2</a>] to colourful <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Rajasthan" target="_blank">Rajasthan</a> [<a href="http://www.konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2015/03/23-feb-02-mar-2015-jodhpur.html" target="_blank">1</a>], [<a href="http://www.konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2015/03/02-mar-14-mar-2015-jaisalmer.html" target="_blank">2</a>], [<a href="http://www.konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2015/03/14-mar-24-mar-2015-pushkar.html" target="_blank">3</a>], [<a href="http://www.konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2015/03/24-mar-31-mar-2015-bikaner.html" target="_blank">4</a>]), meeting up with old and new friends, catching up on tons of overdue admin work (emails, <a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2012/07/03-jul-31-jul-2012-beijing.html" target="_blank">travel blog</a> and on-line <a href="https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=58F00FB57E06889C&id=58F00FB57E06889C%2110340&sc=photos" target="_blank">photo albums</a>) and preparing my upcoming second trip to <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Nepal" target="_blank">Nepal</a> which has eight of the world's ten <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_mountains#List" target="_blank" title="List of tallest mountains">tallest mountains</a>, including the highest point on Earth, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest" target="_blank" title="Mount Everest">Mount Everest</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">For <a href="http://themahahnewalds.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Raoni, Tien and Ronja</a>:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Die letzte Woche meiner Indienreise habe ich in der Riesenstadt Delhi verbracht. Hier leben viele Millionen Menschen auf engstem Raum unter sehr schlimmen Umweltverhaeltnissen: Luft und Wasser sind extrem schmutzig, zum Atmen und Trinken kaum mehr geeignet, und der Erdboden ist meistens zubetoniert oder voellig vermuellt, so dass Pflanzen kaum noch wachsen. Von Natur kann schon lange nicht mehr die Rede sein…</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Es liegt in der Verantwortung eines jeden einzelnen, unsere Umwelt zu erhalten: <i>"Es gibt nichts Gutes, ausser man tut es…"</i> (Erich Kaestner). Und es gibt viel zu tun. - Was, ganz konkret, tut Ihr auf Eurer Farm in Ontario, um (i) die Luft und das Wasser sauber und frisch zu halten, (ii) den Boden gesund und natuerlich zu erhalten und (iii) die Artenvielfalt der Tiere und Pflanzen zu behueten?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">From <a href="http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/India" target="_blank">India</a>, with Love!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Click below for more blog posts about Delhi</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><b><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2011/06/26-jun-29-jun-2011-delhi.html" target="_blank">26 Jun - 29 Jun 2011 New Delhi</a></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Getting </b>lost (without losing my bearings) inbetween the markets, temples and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haveli" target="_blank">havelis</a></i> of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Bikaner" target="_blank">Bikaner</a>'s labyrinthine old city, enjoying chance encounters with highly gifted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh" target="_blank">Sikh</a> street dentists, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Rajasthani horse shoers and </span></span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchability" target="_blank">untouchable</a> gold panners, and visiting patriotic brown <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel" target="_blank">camels</a> (<i>Camelus dromedarius</i>) and religious black <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat" target="_blank">rats</a> (<i>Rattus rattus</i>) in their touristified breeding centres out-of-town. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Exploring</b> the narrow alleyways in the immediate neighbourhood of my convenient quarters, the recommendable <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=28.012422,73.308118%28Matt+in+Bikaner,%20Shanti%20House)" target="_blank">Shanti House</a> +919461159796, located in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Bikaner" target="_blank">Bikaner</a>'s atmospheric but crumbling old city which is dotted with a rich array of quirky, early twentieth-century <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haveli" target="_blank">havelis</a></i> whose idiosyncratic architecture demonstrates <i>"…a fusion of indigenous sandstone carving with Art Nouveau and red-brick British municipal style…"</i>, enjoying innumerous<span style="color: black;"> very hot tasting sessions at <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Bikaner" target="_blank">Bikaner</a>'s exotic spice-and-pickles market and many similarly hot conversations with the beautiful local ladies at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sari" target="_blank"><i>sari</i></a> bazaar about my attitude towards crossdressing.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Learning</b> in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Bikaner" target="_blank">Bikaner</a> about some peculiar but interesting professions who still contribute to the contemporary Indian economy: (i) having my hiking sandals stitched up with a sewing awl and twine by a roadside <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoemaking" target="_blank">cobbler</a>, (ii) watching how a roadside <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrier" target="_blank">farrier</a> places pre-loved horseshoes on the hooves of a shaggy carthorse, (iii) asking an unlicensed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_dentistry" target="_blank">street dentist</a> who works his magic under the open sky for a fair quote, (iv) haggling with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchability" target="_blank">untouchable</a> gold/silver panners who pan for lost bits of jewellery in the old city's open sewer drains in exactly the same way as the treasure-seekers of the legendary Californian gold rush of the 1850s, and (v) turning my back on the innumerous roadside ear cleaners aka <i>kaan maeliye</i> who scrape out dirt and gunk from clogged Indian ears with a very, very long needle…</span></span></span><br />
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</style> <![endif]--><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<span style="color: black;">You who wish to conquer pain,</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">you must learn what makes me kind;</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">the crumbs of love that you offer me,</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">they're the crumbs I've left behind.</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Your pain is no credential here,</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">it's just the shadow, shadow of my wound.</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I have begun to long for you,</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I who have no greed;</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I have begun to ask for you,</span></span></span></b></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I who have no need.</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">You say you've gone away from me,</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Circumnavigating</b> barefooted the polluted Pushkar Lake, supposedly one of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/India" target="_blank">India</a>'s most sacred sites, surrounded by decaying temples and fifty-two holy but filthy bathing <i>ghats</i> (one for each of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Rajasthan" target="_blank">Rajasthan</a>'s <i>maharajas</i>), watching interesting encounters between eagerly worshipping devotees and eagerly skimming <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin" target="_blank">Brahmin</a> priests and enjoying spectacular sunsets from the <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=26.487415,74.556033%28Jaipur%20Ghat)" target="_blank">Jaipur Ghat</a>.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Exploring</b> only a few of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Pushkar" target="_blank">Pushkar</a>'s c. five hundred Hindu temples and shrines, visiting even less of </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Pushkar" target="_blank">Pushkar</a>'s </span></span></span></span></span>c. five hundred wholesale and retail outlets for the discerned wannabe hippie, listening to the Hebrew, Italian, French, Spanish and Slavic babel on the street and sticking out like a sore thumb: no funky dreadlocks, no visible tattoos, no sexy piercings, no homespun garments and no sweet potbelly; <i>darn it, I am still too young. </i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Falling</b> in love with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchability" target="_blank">untouchable</a> Camille, a charming <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit" target="_blank">Dalit</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalbelia" target="_blank">Kalbelya</a>) snake charmer with green eyes, buying her many strong <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_chai" target="_blank">masala chais</a></i> at a late hour but resisting the almost irresistible invitation into her home, sharing travel tales and destination tips with fellow senior-citizen vagabonds Varvara & Paul from Owen Sound in Central Ontario and learning about the subtleties of fine jewellery making from my friendly room neighbour Anna from France. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Celebrating</b> the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_calendar" target="_blank">Hindu New Year</a> 2072 at the sacred <i>ghats</i> together with the beautiful ladies from Guru Padma Charan Dehury's Ommkar Kalashram Dance School and listening to Kshiti Prakash Mahopatra's classical Indian <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga" target="_blank">ragas</a></i>.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Ignoring </b>the overpriced food in my otherwise recommendable quarters, the <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=26.489380,74.554075%28Matt+in+Pushkar,%20Hotel%20Lake%20View)" target="_blank">Hotel Lake View</a> +911452772106, with stunning views over the Pushkar Lake and its <i>ghats</i>, and becoming a regular at (i) the down-to-earth <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=26.487517,74.558382%28Sanskaar%20Restaurant)" target="_blank">Sanskaar Restaurant</a> (excellent unlimited vegetarian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thali" target="_blank"><i>thali</i></a> with unlimited <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapati" target="_blank"><i>chapattis</i></a> for INR 50.- or US$ 0.80 per meal), (ii) the friendly, hole-in-the-wall <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=26.490015,74.556401%28Shiva%20Caf%C3%A9)" target="_blank">Shiva Café</a> (strongest filter coffee in town for INR 30.- or US$ 0.50 per large glass) and (iii) the only <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=26.481209,74.552419%28Beer)" target="_blank">English Wine & Beer Shop</a> in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Pushkar" target="_blank">Pushkar</a> whose nonpartisan owner doesn't give a dam about the teetotalling holiness of the place (650-ml bottles of ice-cold Kingfisher Premium Lager Beer with 4.8 % alc./vol. and the usual glycerine flavour for the stiff premium price of INR 130.- or US$ 2.10 per large bottle).</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Getting </b>out of this holy hole and taking a jam-packed R.S.R.T.C. government bus (Rajasthan State Road Transport Company) from the unmarked <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=26.492110,74.552493%28bus%20stop)" target="_blank">bus stop</a> opposite Pushkar's busy and filthy government <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=26.492499,74.552460%28bus%20stand)" target="_blank">bus stand</a> to my friends Tara & Gouri's highly recommendable homestay <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=28.012422,73.308118%28Matt+in+Bikaner,%20Shanti%20House)" target="_blank">Shanti House</a> +9115125443306 in the centre of bustling and rather un-touristy <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Bikaner" target="_blank">Bikaner</a> (260 km, 6 ¼ hours, INR 208.- or US$ 3.30 per person), a city which is famous for its thoroughbred camels and rats...</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">For <a href="http://themahahnewalds.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Raoni, Tien and Ronja</a>:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Die kleine indische Stadt Pushkar liegt an einem trueben See, dessen Wasser heilig sein soll; was auch immer das bedeuten mag. Ich habe mit meinen eigenen Augen bloss sehen koennen, dass das Wasser sehr schmutzig war. Trotzdem haben viele Inder verzueckt darin gebadet und beim Eintauchen etwas fuer sich oder fuer ihre Familien gewuenscht: Viel Geld, viel Glueck, viele Kinder, noch mehr Kinder… Beim Wuenschen bzw. Beten wurden sie von Priestern unterstuetzt, meistens schmierige Typen, die fuer ihren Hokospokus viel Geld nehmen. Zusaetzlich gibt es in Pushkar noch an jeder Ecke grosse Stahlkassen (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">donation boxes</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), in welche die Pilger ihre letzten Rupien fuer die Goetter einwerfen. Meine Frage, wie denn das Geld von den Priestern zu den Goettern gelangt, wollte mir niemand konkret beantworten.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Beim Umherwandern in Pushkar habe ich haeufig an eines meiner Lieblingsmaerchen gedacht, an <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Kaisers_neue_Kleider" target="_blank">Des Kaisers Neue Kleider</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes" target="_blank">The Emperor's New Clothes</a>). Lasst es Euch bitte von Konni erzaehlen. - Weshalb wohl war es ein kleines Kind, das zu rufen gewagt hat <i>"...aber er hat ja nichts an!"</i>, und weshalb kein Erwachsener?</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Click below for more blog posts about interesting encounters with snakes</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2013/02/01-feb-17-feb-2013-batu-ferringhi.html" target="_blank">01 Feb - 17 Feb 2013 Batu Ferringhi</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2009/07/bako-07-jul-10-jul-2009.html" target="_blank">07 Jul - 10 Jul 2009 Bako</a></b></span></span><br />
<b><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2009/03/saigon-27-feb-05-mar-2009.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">27 Feb - 05 Mar 2009 Saigon</span></span></a></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2008/03/ihavandhippolhu-atoll-15-mar-16-mar.html" target="_blank">15 Mar - 16 Mar 2008 Uligamu</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2007/12/fujairah-02-dec-31-dec-2007.html" target="_blank">02 Dec - 31 Dec 2007 Fujairah</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">The Golden City in the Desert…</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt:<b> Celebrating</b> the boisterous Festival of Colour aka <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi" target="_blank">Holi</a> in the crumbling old city of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Jaisalmer" target="_blank">Jaisalmer</a>, the quintessential desert town whose medieval sandstone <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaisalmer_Fort" target="_blank">fort</a> rises out of the arid <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Thar_Desert" target="_blank">Thar Desert</a> like a scene from the Arabian Nights, and working thereafter on my camel-riding skills during a 2-day camel trek into the wasteland.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Satisfying</b> my masochistic needs, hiring the experienced camel driver Ali and his formidable beasts from the nearby village Chhatrel (INR 1,500.- or US$ 24.- for the 2-day/1-night trek, return and all inclusive), climbing into the stirrupless saddle of my 6-year old good-natured camel bull Bublu, exploring on camel back the wasteland-turned-windfarm in the vicinity of the <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Thar_Desert" target="_blank">Thar Desert</a>'s Makhaniya Sanddunes, located c. 30 km northwest of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Jaisalmer" target="_blank">Jaisalmer</a>, and counting at night the stars on the clear sky over the desert. </span></span><br />
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</style> <![endif]--><b><i><span style="color: black;">“On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music;</span></i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.”</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Im Lande Rajasthan liegt die grosse Thar-Wueste und wie in den meisten Wuesten sind auch hier Kamele das bevorzugte Transportmittel. Diese haben breite Fuesse, so dass sie im Sand nur wenig einsinken, und sie brauchen auch ueber laengere Zeit kein Wasser.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Als Vorbereitung bin ich mit meinem treuen Kameltreiber Ali auf den Markt gegangen, habe Gemuese, Mehl, Reis, Salz und Trinkwasser fuer uns eingekauft; Ali's Soehne haben die Wuestenschiffe gesattelt und dann ging es los, immer der Nase nach in Richtung untergehender Sonne. Ali ritt vornweg, danach kam ich auf meinem Kamelhengst Bublu and hinter mir ritt Ali's aeltester Sohn auf seinem eigenen Kamel.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Am Abend hat Ali Gemuese und Reis fuer uns alle gekocht und Fladenbrote (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapati" target="_blank">chapattis</a></i>) dazu gebacken. Anschliessend hat sich jeder in eine Decke gewickelt und in den Wuestensand zum Schlafen hingelegt. Ich habe noch lange wachgelegen und den klaren Sternhimmel ueber mir beobachtet. Zwischen Sonnenuntergang und Sonnenaufgang gab es viel zu sehen. Beim Zaehlen der Sterne sind mir zuerst solche Sternbilder (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation" target="_blank">constellations</a>) aufgefallen, die sich die ganze Nacht hindurch sehr, sehr langsam um den kleinen <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarstern" target="_blank">Polarstern</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_star" target="_blank">Polar Star</a> aka North Star) herumdrehen: der <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fer_B%C3%A4r" target="_blank">Grosse Wagen</a> (Ursa Major), der <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiner_B%C3%A4r" target="_blank">Kleine Wagen</a> (Ursa Minor) und der <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drache_%28Sternbild%29" target="_blank">Drache</a> (Draco) zwischen beiden. Der Polarstern zeigte dabei unveraendert an, wo sich Norden befindet. Frueher bei Nachtwanderungen beim Militaer und spaeter mit Konni auf dem Segelschiff hat mir der Polarstern haeufig gute Dienste geleistet. Auch das Sternbild des Orion mit seinem geraden Guertel war sehr gut zu erkennen.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Am naechsten Tag sind wir auf unseren Kamelen durch die Wueste zurueck in Ali's Dorf geritten. - Auf welchen Tieren, ausser auf Kamelen, kann man auch noch reiten?</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank"><span id="goog_720966549"></span>Jodhpur<span id="goog_720966550"></span></a> Blue: Skies, Houses, Royals...</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Exploring</b> <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Jodhpur" target="_blank">Jodhpur</a>, <span style="color: black;">the Blue City of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Rajasthan" target="_blank">Rajasthan</a>, which is centred on a labyrinthine old walled town, whose sky-blue mass of dilapidated cubic houses is overlooked by <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/India" target="_blank">India</a>'s most imposing hilltop citadel, the mighty 120-m high, 15th-century <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrangarh_Fort" target="_blank">Mehrangarh Fort</a> with several brilliantly crafted and decorated palaces inside its boundaries.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Entering</b> through an elaborate system of seven defensive gates the mighty <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrangarh_Fort" target="_blank">Mehrangarh Fort</a> (dodged admission: INR 400.- or US$ 6.50 per foreigner), whose soaring windowless walls appear to have grown directly out of the enormous rock outcrop on which it stands, passing the sharp iron spikes which hinder the ascent of charging enemy elephants, noticing the handprints of Maharaja Man Singh's ill-fated widows, placed on the wall in 1843 CE as they left the palace to commit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_%28practice%29" target="_blank"><i>sati</i></a> on the maharaja's funeral pyre, admiring the fantastic lattice work aka <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jali" target="_blank"><i>jali</i></a> that almost entirely covers the surrounding sandstone walls and enjoying stunning views of the Blue City with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umaid_Bhawan_Palace" target="_blank">Umaid Bhawan Palace</a> on the horizon, the Maharaja of Palaces, one of the world's largest private residences.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Leaving</b> the cosy <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=26.297446,73.013269%28Matt+in+Jodhpur,%20Cosy%20Guesthouse)" target="_blank">Cosy Guesthouse</a> +912912612066 (clean double room with private bathroom for INR 650.- or US$ 10.50 per night, great views of the fort from the overpriced rooftop restaurant which mainly caters for innocent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Pancake_Trail" target="_blank">Nutella-banana-pancake eaters</a> abroad), <span style="color: black;">flagging down an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_rickshaw" target="_blank">auto rickshaw</a> aka <i>bajaj</i> aka tuk-tuk from my guesthouse to <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Jodhpur" target="_blank">Jodhpur</a>'s <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=26.291822,73.039363%28Roadways%20Bus%20Stand%29" target="_blank">Roadways Bus Stand</a> aka Raika Bagh (3 km, ¼ hour, INR 70.- for the uneventful ride) and taking thereafter a comfortable enough and seemingly undestroyable R.S.R.T.C. government bus (Rajasthan State Road Transport Company) to <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Jaisalmer" target="_blank">Jaisalmer</a> (285 km through steppe and semidesert, 5 ¾ hours, INR 221.- or US$ 3.60 per senior citizen), situated in the remote westernmost corner of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Rajasthan" target="_blank">Rajasthan</a> and close to the <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Pakistan" target="_blank" title="Pakistan">Pakistani</a> border.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">For <a href="http://themahahnewalds.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Raoni, Tien and Ronja</a>:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Hier im Lande <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Rajasthan" target="_blank">Rajasthan</a> gibt es viele alte Burgen, Forts, Festungen, Zitadellen und Palaeste. Die meisten von ihnen sind mehrere hundert Jahre alt und wurden fuer die jeweiligen Landesherren (<i>maharajas, maharawals, maharanas</i>) recht solide und komfortabel gebaut. Einige davon schaue ich mir dieser Tage in Ruhe an, von aussen und von innen, natuerlich nicht alle. Im Grunde aehneln diese trutzigen Bauwerke irgendwie auch denen in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Scotland" target="_blank">Schottland</a>, <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/France" target="_blank">Frankreich</a> oder <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Germany" target="_blank">Deutschland</a>: Burg ist Burg, Festung ist Festung und Palast ist Palast - in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Europe" target="_blank">Europa</a> wie in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/India" target="_blank">Indien</a>. Die Durchdachtheit der Architektur und die Gruendlichkeit der Bauausfuehrung waren vor 300 - 500 Jahren in beiden Kulturkreisen durchaus vergleichbar.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Jetzt kommt's aber: Ueberhaupt nicht vergleichbar dagegen ist, wie die Mehrheit der normalen Leute in Europa und in Indien jetzt zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts leben. Da gibt es riesige Unterschiede zwischen Europa und Indien: In Europa (so aehnlich wie in Kanada) lebt die Masse der Bevoelkerung in gut gebauten, ordentlichen und sauberen Wohnhaeusern, groesseren oder kleineren, mit mehr oder weniger solider Installation (Elektro, Wasser und Abwasser, Heizung, Gas, Toilette, Kueche usw.); in Indien dagegen haust die grosse Mehrheit der Bevoelkerung in eher primitiven und verdreckten Haeusern und Huetten.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Was ist hier in Indien in den vergangenen 300 Jahren anders gelaufen als in Europa (oder in Kanada)? Welche kulturellen Unterschiede haben dazu gefuehrt, dass das vorhandene bautechnologische Niveau der Burgen und Schloesser spaeter in so unterschiedlicher Weise fuer die Behausungen der Normalbevoelkerung genutzt wurde? Ich kann da auch nur spekulieren, vermute aber, dass es mit der Arbeitsmotivation und Leistungsethik der Menschen zu tun haben koennte, die nach meinen Erfahrungen weltweit mit der geographischen Breite (<i>latitude</i>) korrelieren. Was Ordnungssinn, Initiativefaehigkeit, Fleiss, Zuverlaessigkeit und Verantwortungsuebernahme betreffen, so setzten die meisten Menschen in Indien eben doch ganz andere Prioritaeten; Ausnahmen bestaetigen wie immer die Regel. - Welche technischen Merkmale Eures Hauses in Ontario sind fuer Euch am wichtigsten?</span></span></span></div>
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Konni and Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05660132741257344016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445102147096865997.post-76606374295409299192015-02-26T02:03:00.000-05:002015-08-30T07:51:07.536-04:0023 Feb - 26 Feb 2015 Apo Island<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">The Sea Turtles of Apo Island…</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">DM Konni:</span><span style="color: black;"> <b>Frolicking</b> </span><span style="color: black;">with sea turtles in the shallow, tepid waters of remote <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Apo_Island" target="_blank">Apo Island</a>, a perfect foraging ground for all five endangered species (</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_sea_turtle" target="_blank">green sea turtle</a><i>, </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawksbill_sea_turtle" target="_blank">hawksbill sea turtle</a><i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></i>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_ridley_sea_turtle" target="_blank">olive ridley sea turtle</a><i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></i>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherback_sea_turtle" target="_blank">leatherback sea turtle</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggerhead_sea_turtle" target="_blank">loggerhead sea turtle</a><i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></i>), and <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Diving_in_the_Philippines" target="_blank">scuba diving</a> into a fantastic underwater world of colourful soft corals on the island's vibrant fringing reefs.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">"It's turtles all the way down."</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/The-Magicians-Land-A-Novel/dp/0670015679/ref=as_sl_pd_tf_sw?&linkCode=wsw&tag=konnandmatt0c-20" target="_blank">Lev Grossman</a>)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">DM Konni: </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Playing</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"> with a bale of friendly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_sea_turtle" target="_blank">green sea turtles</a></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(<i>Chelonia mydas</i>)</span><span style="color: black;"> <span lang="EN-GB">and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawksbill_sea_turtle" target="_blank">hawksbill sea turtles</a> (</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Eretmochelys imbricata</span></i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">) all the live-long day </span>next to the boat landing at Apo Village and watching how they </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB">feed absolutely undisturbed </span></span></span></span></span></span>on their salty favourite dish: fresh sea grass and juicy algae - once a raw-food eater, always a raw-food eater.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">“People have been on earth in our present form for only about 100,000 years, and in so many ways we’re still ironing out our kinks. These turtles we’ve been traveling with, they outrank us in longevity, having earned three more zeros than we. They’ve got one hundred million years of success on their resume, and they’ve learned something about how to survive in the world. And this, I think, is part of it: they have settled upon peaceful career paths, with a stable rhythm. If humans could survive another one hundred million years, I expect we would no longer find ourselves riding bulls. It’s not so much that I think animals have rights; it’s more that I believe humans have hearts and minds - though I’ve yet to see consistent, convincing proof of either. Turtles may seem to lack sense, but they don’t do senseless things. They’re not terribly energetic, yet they do not waste energy… Turtles cannot consider what might happen yet nothing turtles do threatens anyone’s future. Turtles don’t think about the next generation, but they risk and provide all they can to ensure that there will be one. Meanwhile, we profess to love our own offspring above all else, yet above all else it is they from whom we daily steal. We cannot learn to be more like turtles, but from turtles we could learn to be more human. That is the wisdom carried within one hundred million years of survival. What turtles could learn from us, I can’t quite imagine.”</span></i></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Voyage-Turtle-Pursuit-Earths-Dinosaur/dp/0805083189/ref=as_sl_pd_tf_sw?&linkCode=wsw&tag=konnandmatt0c-20" target="_blank">Carl Safina</a>)</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">DM Konni: <b>Supporting</b> the island's frail economy and scuba diving with locally run <a href="http://mariosscubadivinghomestay.com/" target="_blank">Mario’s Scuba Diving</a> +63</span><span style="color: black;">9063617254 </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">in their protected and well preserved marine environment, filled to bursting point with marvellous soft corals and colourful reef fish, and noticing at the same time that the u/w visibility in the Visayas is at its best during the months of November and December.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Konni: <b>Saving</b> the island's precious and scarce drinking water as much as possible since the village's storage tanks are already empty and the only sources of fresh water in the dry season are the island's few deep wells, and remembering how we saved drinking water on our sailing ship "SY Kamu II" when we sailed down the Red Sea in 2007 CE (e.g. [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2007/06/fury-shoal-24-jun-29-jun-2007.html" target="_blank">1</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2007/07/shab-abu-fendera-03-jul-05-jul-2007.html" target="_blank">2</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2007/07/07-jul-09-jul-2007.html" target="_blank">3</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2007/07/sanganeb-reef-20-jul-21-jul-2007.html" target="_blank">4</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2007/08/difnein-island-08-aug-10-aug-2007.html" target="_blank">5</a>]): (i) showering with seawater, (ii) cooking potatoes, rice and pasta with half <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater" target="_blank">seawater</a> from a bucket and half <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_water" target="_blank">fresh water</a> from our ship's 1,000-litre tank and, of course, (iii) drinking as much beer as sustainable.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Vor ein paar Tagen fuhr ich auf eine kleine Insel, die ich monatelang jeden Abend beim Sonnenuntergang am fernen Horizont gesehen hatte. Ich war neugierig geworden, wie die Menschen wohl dort leben.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Von meiner Insel Siquijor fuhr ich mit einer Faehre auf die grosse Insel Negros und von dort mit einem Fischerboot auf die kleine Insel Apo. Dort leben weniger als eintausend Menschen. Im Inneren der Insel gibt es sanfte Huegel mit einem weissen Leuchtturm, aber keine einzige Quelle und keinen Bach mit frischem klaren Wasser. Wenn es regnet, dann fangen die Menschen das Regenwasser mit den Dachrinnen und sammeln es in grossen Wassertanks, um es abgekocht als Trinkwasser zu benutzen und um damit ihren taeglichen Reis zu kochen. Als ich dort war, hatte es sehr lange nicht geregnet und die Wassertanks waren leer. Zum Glueck hatten bereits die Vorfahren der heutigen Inselbewohner tiefe Brunnen gegraben, aus denen wir nun unsere Wasserkanister fuellen konnten. Den ganzen Tag ueber waren Maenner, Frauen und auch Kinder unterwegs, um aus diesen Brunnen das kostbare Nass zu schoepfen. Einige junge Maenner ueben den Beruf eines Wassertransporteurs aus. Sie besitzen einen selbstgebauten Schubkarren mit Holzraedern, auf den ca. zehn grosse Plastikkanister passen. Am Tiefbrunnen schoepfen sie solange Wasser, bis alle Kanister voll sind und danach fahren sie zu den Familien, die das Wasser bestellt haben. Diese Karren sind uebrigens die einzigsten “Fahrzeuge” auf der Insel Apo; es gibt keine Fahrraeder, keine Mopeds und schon gar keine Autos. - Woher stammt das Wasser bei Euch im Farmhaus, wenn ihr in der Kueche den Wasserhahn aufdreht?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="MS"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><b><i>“My day is done,</i></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><b><i>listening to the music of the tide in the evening.”</i></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Bringing</b> myself to explore <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Benaulim" target="_blank">Benaulim</a>'s hinterland, recceing the streets of nearby <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Margao" target="_blank">Margao</a>, a friendly one-horse town littered with Portuguese-era mansions, churches and seminaries, and diving into the hectic and labyrinthine covered market and its relaxed shebeens.</span></span></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> "Come with me ... to the carnival.<br />
You will see, you will see,<br />
What you want to see, exactly what you want to be,<br />
At the carnival, at the carnival, at the carnival."</span></span></b></i><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Clapton-The-Autobiography-Eric/dp/076792536X/ref=as_sl_pd_tf_sw?&linkCode=wsw&tag=konnandmatt0c-20" target="_blank">Eric Clapton</a>) </span></span><br />
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</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Riding</b> on a motley ragbag of cheap local buses from <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Benaulim" target="_blank">Benaulim Beach</a> to <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Margao" target="_blank">Margao</a> (c. 5 km, ¼ hour, INR 10.- per person) and from <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Margao" target="_blank">Margao</a> on to <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Panaji" target="_blank">Panjim</a> aka Panaji (30 km, 1 hour, INR 25.- person) in order to join the wild and inebriated Goan Christians for their annual riotous carnival celebrations, a tradition which dates back almost 500 years to the good old days when <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Goa" target="_blank">Goa</a> was ruled lock, stock and barrel by the Portuguese.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For </span><a href="http://themahahnewalds.wordpress.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Raoni, Tien and Ronja</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Im Grunde ist es nirgendwo in Indien so richtig noetig, einen speziellen Karneval zu feiern, ausser vielleicht in Goa! Da hatte ich einmal wieder Glueck gehabt...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Der beruehmte und recht lebhafte Karneval in Goa hat viel mit Goa's christlicher Kultur und Geschichte zu tun. Goa gehoerte bis 1961 zum katholischen Portugal, viele Goaner haben deshalb auch einen portugisischen, also europaeischen Zweit-Reisepass und pflegen unsere abendlaendischen Traditionen. Goa ist wahrscheinlich auch eine der unindischsten Gegenden von ganz Indien: Es ist atemberaubend sauber, die Maenner trinken gern ihren selbstgebrannten Schnaps und die Frauen gehen sonntags fein angezogen zur Messe in die Kirche.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Einmal im Jahr aber lassen auch die zuverlaessigen Goaner die Sau raus, naemlich zum Karneval. Da wird dann drei Tage lang gefeiert, getanzt, getrunken, gegessen, geliebt … und sich verkleidet: Aus Engeln werden Teufel (und umgekehrt), aus Maennern werden Frauen (und umgekehrt), aus Heiligen werden Suender (und umgekehrt). Alle verkleiden sich zum Spass, tragen eine Maske und schluepfen in eine andere Rolle - fuer drei tolle Tage und Naechte.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Da es im Februar in Ontario doch recht kalt ist, wird der jaehrliche Karneval in Toronto, die </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribana" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Caribana</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, auch besser am ersten Wochenende im August gefeiert, wenn es in Kanada fast so warm ist wie in Goa im Februar. - In welche Rollen schluepft Ihr demnaechst; welche Masken und Kostueme bereiten Euch den meisten Spass?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From </span><a href="http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/India" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">India</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, with Love!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click below for more blog posts about masks, masking and masquerades</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2014/02/20-feb-2014-moalboal.html" target="_blank">11 Feb - 20 Feb 2014 Moalboal</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2014/01/06-jan-2014-kaohsiung.html" target="_blank">06 Jan 2014 Kaohsiung</a> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2013/11/30-oct-06-nov-2013-surakarta.html" target="_blank">30 Oct - 06 Nov 2013 Surakarta</a> </b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2013/06/10-jun-13-jun-2013-andong.html" target="_blank">10 Jun - 13 Jun 2013 Andong</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2006/11/taba-heights-marina-16-nov-19-nov-2006.html" target="_blank">16 Nov - 19 Nov 2006 Taba Heights</a></span></span></b> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">DM Konni: <b>Discovering</b> great dive sites </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">off <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Siquijor" target="_blank">Siquijor Island</a> with the professional support from PADI instructors Jay and Barry from <a href="http://www.seapearldivers.com/" target="_blank">Sea Pearl Divers</a> San Juan +639176952985: (i) very impressive u/w mountains with plenty of colourful fish, big and small, (ii) steep u/w walls with an abundance of corals, soft and hard, and (iii) unspoilt fringing reefs, preserved in well-managed <a href="http://www.marineconservationphilippines.org/marine-sanctuaries" target="_blank">Marine Sanctuaries</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">DM Konni: <b>Chillaxing</b> on the picture-perfect, palm-tree fringed tropical beach of The Bruce Holiday Resort +639286011856 at Solangon on <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Siquijor" target="_blank">Siquijor Island</a> for the second time this year (see: <a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.in/2014/05/26-feb-06-may-2014-siquijor.html" target="_blank">26 Feb - 06 May 2014 Siquijor</a>), working on my tan, swimming in the crystal-clear water of the luke-warm Mindanao Sea (…or the resort’s sparkling pool), entertaining </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">my friend Silvia from Germany and dodging successfully two wild typhoons (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Hagupit_%282014%29" target="_blank">Hagupit</a> and <a href="http://www.weather.com/storms/typhoon/news/tropical-storm-seniang-philippines-jangmi-flooding" target="_blank">Jangmi</a></span><span style="color: black;">) which hit </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">the <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Visayas" target="_blank">Visayas</a> just in time. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">It's about learning to dance in the rain.”</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Genau so ein Taifun bildete sich gleich nach Weihnachten ueber dem Pazifik und sein Auge sollte genau ueber die kleine Insel Siquijor hinwegziehen, da wo ich meinen Winter verbringe. Anfangs war von dem Taifun noch nichts zu spueren, er war noch ueber dem Ozean, weit im Osten von mir. Es wurde aber bereits im Dorf gemunkelt, dass bald keine Schiffe mehr von Siquijor auf die Nachbarinseln fahren wuerden.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Holding</b> my breath in front of the world's most beautiful building, the stunning <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal" target="_blank">Taj Mahal</a>, a monument to romantic love, <i>"...a teardrop on the face of eternity..."</i> (according to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Essential-Tagore-Rabindranath/dp/0674417046/ref=as_sl_pd_tf_sw?&linkCode=wsw&tag=konnandmattpe-20" target="_blank">Rabindranath Tagore</a>) and a <a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/252" target="_blank">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a> under threat from pollution, and hyperventilating in the narrow streets of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Agra" target="_blank">Agra</a>'s Kinari Bazaar, a fascinating warren crammed full with shops and stalls.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>"<span style="color: black;">Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.”</span></b></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Shelling</b> out the pricey </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Angsana New";">admission of INR 750.- or US$ 12.20 only per person for non-Indian nationals only (INR 10.- or US$ 0.20 only per person for Indians only), reverting back into the 17th century CE only and</span></span></span> admiring: (i) the famous <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=13&t=m&q=27.174999,78.042137%28Taj%20Mahal%29" target="_blank">Taj Mahal</a>'s distinctly Islamic layout which represents the Koreanic hallucinations of paradise, where rivers allegedly flow with water, milk, wine and honey, (ii) its expensive building materials, such as marble from Rajasthan, semi-precious stones (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx" target="_blank">onyx</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amethyst" target="_blank">amethyst</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli" target="_blank">lapis lazuli</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise" target="_blank">turquoise</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade" target="_blank">jade</a>) from Persia, Russia, Afghanistan, Tibet and China, and corals and mother-of-pearl from the Indian Ocean, and (iii) its sophisticated blueprint where the minarets were deliberately constructed leaning slightly outwards in order to counteract an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion" target="_blank">optical illusion</a> which would have made them appear to lean inwards when seen from ground level if they were exactly vertical.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">Hot air for a cool breeze?</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Doing </b>the needful, exploring the crowded, chaotic and noisy streets of Kinari Bazaar around the base of the soaring red-sandstone <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=13&t=m&q=27.182148,78.016238%28Friday%20Mosque%29" target="_blank">Friday Mosque</a> aka Jama Masjid, feasting on seasonal Indian fruits (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manilkara_zapota" target="_blank">chiku</a> for INR 40.- per kg, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guava" target="_blank">guavas</a> for INR 50.- per kg, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalis" target="_blank">ground cherries</a> aka <i>ras bhari</i> for INR 10.- per bundle; all introduced from the Americas many, many years ago) and having many truly refreshing encounters with local noisemakers of all sorts.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Taking</b> one of Agra's many ecologically sustainable cycle rickshaws from my hotel, the recommendable <a href="http://www.dontworrychickencurry.com/" target="_blank">Tourists Rest House</a> +915622463961, through thick winter smog to the city's busy but well-organised <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=27.157799,77.989925%28Cantonment%20Railway%20Station%29" target="_blank">Cantonment Railway Station</a> (c. 4 km, ½ hour, INR 40.- or US$ 0.45 for the ride), hereafter the delayed Goa Express train no. 12,780 in sleeper class to South Goa's <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=15.267569,73.971044%28Margao%20Railway%20Station%29" target="_blank">Margao aka Madgaon Railway Station</a> (1,986 km, 41 hours, INR 470.- or US$ 7.40 per senior citizen), thus crossing more than 10 parallels and moving from Northern India's brass monkey weather <i>("kashl, kashl") </i><span style="color: black;">into <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Goa" target="_blank">Goa</a></span>'s pleasant warmth <i>("yippee")</i>, taking hereafter a city bus from the <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=m&q=15.267569,73.971044%28Margao%20Railway%20Station%29" target="_blank">Margao aka Madgaon Railway Station</a> to Margao's <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=15&t=m&q=15.287486,73.956171%28Kadamba%20Bus%20Stand%29" target="_blank">Kadamba Bus Stand</a> (c. 5 km, ½ hour, INR 10.- per person) and a regional bus from Margao's <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=15&t=m&q=15.287486,73.956171%28Kadamba%20Bus%20Stand%29" target="_blank">Kadamba Bus Stand</a> to <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=15&t=m&q=15.260949,73.930218%28Maria%20Hall%29" target="_blank">Maria Hall</a> corner (c. 5 km, ½ hour, INR 10.-), a 5min-walk away from <span style="color: black;">my fully furnished one-bedroom apartment at Sandra & John's comfortable </span><a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=15&t=m&q=15.261177,73.927084%28Flavia%27s%20Nest%29" target="_blank">Flavia's Nest</a> in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Benaulim" target="_blank">Benaulim</a>: warm sunshine, sinning Catholics and cheap booze; <i>hurray!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Exploring </b>India's second-largest hilltop fort, which sprawls over a 3km-long impressive outcrop of sandstone, and peering down from the edge of a sheer-sided plateau onto the crowded streets of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Gwalior" target="_blank">Gwalior</a>, the third-most air-polluted city in the world, according to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" target="_blank">WHO</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Entering</b> the mighty 15th-century fort, nicknamed "the pearl in the necklace of the castles of Hind", through its <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=16&t=h&q=26.233817,%2078.171553%28Gwalior%20Gate%29" target="_blank">Gwalior Gate</a> without meeting any resistance, marvelling at the ornate blue tilework of the <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=16&t=h&q=26.233817,%2078.171553%28Man%20Singh%20Palace%29" target="_blank">Man Singh Palace</a> (admission: INR 250.- or US$ 3.90 per person for non-Indian nationals, INR 10.- or US$ 0.20 per person for Indians), and empathising with the rock-cut <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism" target="_blank">Jain</a> sculptures of "crossing makers" aka <i>tirthankaras</i> many of whom lost their faces and private parts when the iconoclastic Muslim invaders descended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" target="_blank">ISIL</a>-like on <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Gwalior" target="_blank">Gwalior</a> in 1527 CE.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Waehrend viele Touristen eilig und hektisch von einer Sehenswuerdigkeit zur anderen hetzen, geniesse ich es, mich fuer laengere Zeit in einem bequemen Gaestehaus oder Hotel in irgendeinem interessanten Stadtviertel einer groesseren Stadt einzuquartieren, um dort die bunten Maerkte, lauten Kneipen und anderen sinnesfreudigen Etablissements ueber mehrere Tage und Wochen mehr oder weniger tiefgruendig zu erforschen. Manchmal besuche ich sogar ein ernsthaftes Museum, aber doch eher selten. Bildung bildet, <i>so what?</i> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Beim Reisen kann ich es mir natuerlich nicht verkneifen, generalisierende Vergleiche zwischen den einzelnen Kulturen anzustellen: Vorurteile sind immerhin nuetzliche Vor-Urteile. Vor genau einem Jahr habe ich mehrere Monate in Kaohsiung auf Taiwan verbracht und jetzt schaue ich mir einige Staedte in Nordindien naeher an. Ganz klar, da gibt es viele interessante voelkerpsychologische Unterschiede:</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">(i) Wenn mir beispielsweise in Taiwan ein bestimmtes Essen in einem Gasthaus gut geschmeckt hat, bin ich ich manchmal am naechsten Tag gleich wieder hingegangen und habe dasselbe noch einmal bestellt, weil es doch so gut geschmeckt hatte, ohne jedoch vorher nach dem Preis zu fragen. Die obergescheiten Taiwanesen haben mir dann beim Bezahlen meistens einen viel guenstigeren Preis als am Vortag berechnet und mir haeufig einen <i>discount</i> von 10 - 20 % gewaehrt.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">(ii) Hier in Indien ist es aber anders. Ich gehe in ein <i>dhaba</i>, bestelle etwas zu essen und es gelingt mir sogar, dem ewig klugscheissernden indischen Kellner klarzumachen, dass ich es nicht <i>not spicy</i> haben will. Das <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thali" target="_blank"><i>thali</i></a> mit Reis und vier <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapati" target="_blank"><i>chapati</i></a> schmeckt dann wirklich ganz hervorragend und kostet auch nur 50 Rupees. Also gehe ich am naechsten Tag wieder dorthin und bestelle dasselbe, ohne vorher nach dem Preis zu fragen. Bumms aus, was passiert? Der <i>chara</i> hat mich doch genau wiedererkannt, aber verlangt heute nun 90 Rupees von mir fuer ganz genau dasselbe Essen. Nach einigem hin und her gibt er schliesslich klein bei und ist mit 50 Rupees zufrieden: <i>"Tank you, come again, Seirrr!"</i> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Soweit zu den kulturellen Unterschieden zwischen Chinesen und Indern. - Lernt andere Menschen zu verstehen: Mit welcher Absicht haben mir wohl die Taiwanesen einen <i>discount</i> gewaehrt und was denken die Inder von mir, wenn ich am naechsten Tag bereits wieder zu ihnen ins selbe Gasthaus komme?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-language: TH;">For <a href="http://themahahnewalds.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Raoni, Tien and Ronja</a>:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Rocky Sex Education…</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Racking </b>my brains about the purpose of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Khajuraho" target="_blank">Khajuraho</a>'s stunningly explicit sexual sculptures: (i) a representation of the marriage party of Shiva and Parvathi, or (ii) a link with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra" target="_blank">Tantric</a> cults, which use sex as a pivotal part of worship, or (iii) a manual on proper sex for goat-loving country boys?</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><i><span style="color: black;">“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation.</span></i></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">The other eight are unimportant.”</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sexus-Harper-Perennial-Modern-Classics/dp/0007241291/ref=as_sl_pd_tf_sw?&linkCode=wsw&tag=konnandmatt03-21" target="_blank">Henry Miller</a>)</span></span></span></span><br />
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</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">"Give me back my broken night</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">my mirrored room, my secret life</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">it's lonely here,</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">there's no one left to torture.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">Give me absolute control</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">over every living soul.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">And lie beside me, baby,</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">that's an order!</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">Give me crack and anal sex.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">Take the only tree that's left</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">and stuff it up the hole</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">in your culture.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">Give me back the Berlin Wall</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">give me Stalin and St. Paul.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">I've seen the future, brother:</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">it is murder."</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Future-Leonard-Cohen/dp/B000025SIU/ref=as_sl_pd_tf_sw?&linkCode=wsw&tag=konnandmatt03-21" target="_blank">Leonard Cohen</a>)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">For <a href="http://themahahnewalds.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Raoni, Tien and Ronja</a>:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Ein Leben lang habe ich mich sehr dafuer interessiert, wie sich Menschen miteinander verstaendigen. Neben der Sprache verziehen die Menschen beim Reden auch mehr oder weniger ihr Gesicht, sie benutzen ihre Haende zum wilden oder doch eher schaumgebremsten Gestikulieren und druecken durch eine Unzahl von Koerperbewegungen bewusst oder unbewusst ihre Gefuehle und Absichten aus. Manchmal geschieht so etwas durch eine winzige Bewegung viel schneller und genauer als durch die gewaehlten Worte. Zeichen- und Koerpersprache spielen einen grosse Rolle im Zusammenleben der Menschen, denn die inneren Haltungen und Einstellungen eines Menschen kommen in der Haltung und Einstellung seines Koerpers stets irgendwie auch zum Ausdruck.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">In der darstellenden Kunst kommen Taenzer und Pantomimen in den meisten Faellen ohne ein einziges gesprochenes Wort aus. Situationen und Charaktere werden hauptsaechlich durch Gestik und Mimik, also durch Koerpersprache, verstaendlich gemacht, wobei auch Masken (oder Schminkmasken) Verwendung finden koennen.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Deshalb schaue ich mir Taenze jeder Art unterwegs beim Reisen sehr gern an, "lese" sowohl die bewusst-gewollten als auch die unbeabsichtigt gesendeten Ausdrucksbewegungen der Taenzerinnen und Taenzer und verstehe ihre dargestellten Gefuehle und Absichten ebenso wie ihre wirklichen Gefuehle und Absichten hinter den dargestellten Gefuehlen und Absichten. Mit etwas Uebung kann man lernen, sehr feine Unterschiede in der Koerpersprache zu erkennen und die Mimik und Gestik der Menschen so zu interpretieren, als wuerden sie direkt zu einem sprechen. Am interessantesten und spannendsten war das fuer mich immer, wenn diese Menschen noch dazu aus verschiedenen Kulturen stammten…</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Welche Koerper- und Zeichensprache benutzt Ihr untereinander und welche Koerper- und Zeichensprache benutzen Eure Eltern untereinander?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">From <a href="http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/India" target="_blank">India</a>, with Love!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.ca/2013/06/22-may-04-jun-2013-seoul.html" target="_blank">22 May - 04 Jun 2013 Seoul (Sajo Dance)</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Hinduism's Holiest City…</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Marvelling</b> at the strangeness of the most alien of Indian cities, <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Varanasi" target="_blank">Varanasi</a> aka Benares aka Kashi, with its tight mesh of ramshackle alleys, religious accoutrements, the host of deities (…and the proximity of death) and hanging out with sadhus and pilgrims who come for their daily ritual ablutions to the hundred 18th- and 19th-century stone <i>ghats</i> on the west bank of the sacred River Ganges.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Watching</b> the sun rise over the east bank of the filthy and heavily polluted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges">River Ganges</a> (polluted with visible human/animal body parts and with invisible heavy metals and chemicals), rambling along the famous but crumbled <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghat" target="_blank">ghats</a>, </i>great riverbanks with stone steps, built high with pavilions and palaces, temples and terraces, dodging multitudes of shady drug dealers, tarted-up commercial sex workers and shaggy boat touts, discussing with pot-bellied beggars the health benefits of a sugar-free pure-vegetarian diet and sipping unsweetened <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_chai" target="_blank">masala chai</a></i> (INR 5.- or US$ 0.10 per small cup) with bold early-morning bathers taking a dip in the river, shrewd <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin" target="_blank">Brahmin</a> priests offering <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puja_%28Hinduism%29" target="_blank">puja</a></i> and ethno-homespun clad Western neurotics practising meditation.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Meeting</b> and listening to the laundrymen aka <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhobi" target="_blank">dhobi</a> wallahs</i> which operate their threshing family businesses along the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghat" target="_blank">ghats</a>,</i> pulverise rhythmically my clothes in pursuit of purity and form an interesting and very distinct Indian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste" target="_blank" title="Caste">caste</a> bound by rules of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogamy" target="_blank" title="Endogamy">endogamy</a>.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Visiting</b> both the <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=25.298091,83.007298%28Harishchandra%20Ghat%29" target="_blank">Harishchandra Ghat</a> and the <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=25.311156,83.014465%28Manikarnika%20Ghat%29" target="_blank">Manikarnika Ghat</a>, the two major "burning ghats" (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghat" target="_blank">ghats</a></i> used for cremation, easily recognisable from the smoke of their funeral pyres) on the west bank of the filthy river, which both run 24/7, burning hundreds of bodies a day in plain sight, and asking for a no-obligation quote for my own cremation: (i) a minimum of 300 kg of dry firewood (preferably hard wood from the Himalayan forests) for a price of c. INR 20.-/kg, (ii) a few bags with quality saw dust from sandalwood (c. INR 250.- per bag, negotiable) and (iii) some cheap ghee anointment for my skinny body, plus, of course, all the expenses for the spiritual hocus-pocus, which couldn't be specified since <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Varanasi" target="_blank">Varanasi</a> is the undisputed number-one crossing place for the souls to their final liberation and money shouldn't matter at as such an important location...</span></span></span></span><br />
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<![endif]--><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">"Benares has had a tumultuous history, both
materially and spiritually. It started Brahminically, many ages ago; then by
and by Buddha came in recent times 2,500 years ago, and after that it was
Buddhist during many centuries - twelve, perhaps - but the Brahmins got the
upper hand again, then, and have held it ever since. It is unspeakably sacred
in Hindoo eyes, and is as unsanitary as it is sacred, and smells like the rind
of the dorian. It is the headquarters of the Brahmin faith, and one-eighth of
the population are priests of that church. But it is not an overstock, for they
have all India as a prey. All India flocks thither on pilgrimage, and pours its
savings into the pockets of the priests in a generous stream, which never
fails. A priest with a good stand on the shore of the Ganges is much better off
than the sweeper of the best crossing in London. A good stand is worth a world
of money. The holy proprietor of it sits under his grand spectacular umbrella
and blesses people all his life, and collects his commission, and grows fat and
rich; and the stand passes from father to son, down and down and down through
the ages, and remains a permanent and lucrative estate in the family."</span></span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Following-Equator-Journey-Around-World/dp/1619492369/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_sw?&linkCode=wsw&tag=konnandmattpe-20" target="_blank">Mark Twain</a>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Matt: <b>Re-entering</b> this mortal and material world and enjoying the rather kitschy and contrived tourist show (so-called River Worship Ceremony aka Main Ganga Aarti) every evening at <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=25.306331,83.010226%28Dashaswamedh%20Ghat%29" target="_blank">Dashaswamedh Ghat</a>, Varanasi's most popular bathing ghat and ground zero for tourists, newly-weds, beggars, scammers, artists, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandit" target="_blank">pundits</a></i> and pilgrims from all walks of life and after-life, in short: a street photographer's paradise.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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</style> <![endif]--><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">"Here comes the sun, here comes the sun.</span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">And I say it's all right.</span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter.</span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here.</span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">Here comes the sun, here comes the sun.</span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">And I say it's all right.</span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces.</span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here.</span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">Here comes the sun, here comes the sun.</span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">And I say it's all right."</span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Sun-Spiritual-Harrison/dp/0470127805/ref=as_sl_pd_tf_sw?&linkCode=wsw&tag=konnandmattpe-20" target="_blank">George Harrison</a>)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Dragging</b> myself away from entertaining <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Varanasi" target="_blank">Varanasi</a>, flagging down a no-pollution cycle-rickshaw from Shivala Ghat (</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Singh Guest House <span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">+915426457150) </span></span></span>to Varanasi's surprisingly well-managed Cantonment Railway Station (c. 5 km, ½ hour, for a non-subsidised INR 80.- or US$ 1.30 per person), leaving incredibly air-polluted Varanasi and taking the night train no. 21108 in the filthy sleeper class with barred windows from Varanasi to <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Khajuraho" target="_blank">Khajuraho</a> (453 km, 12 ¾, for a subsidised INR 194.49 or US$ 3.10 per senior citizen), booked one week before with reliable <a href="http://www.makemytrip.com/" target="_blank">MakeMyTrip</a> on the internet, thus crossing from <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Uttar_Pradesh" target="_blank">Uttar Pradesh</a> (<i>"Amazing Heritage - Grand Experiences"</i>) to <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Madhya_Pradesh" target="_blank">Madhya Pradesh</a> (<i>"The Heart of Incredible India"</i>), and sharing a taxi from <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Khajuraho" target="_blank">Khajuraho</a>'s train station straight to the recommendable</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.hotelzenkhajuraho.co.in/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span>Hotel Zen</a> +917686274228</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">(8 km, ¼ hours, INR 30.- per person).</span></span></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Love is in the air. Love and pollution."</span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Arriving</b> safe and sound in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/India" target="_blank">India</a>, the world's biggest democrazy (despite all of these statistics, visibly not a developing nation, rather an overegoed dump), putting heart and soul into it, and having innumerable re-encounters with the subcontinent's very distinctive, cud chewing city dwellers.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">And flee from any stick they throw;</span></i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">But I’m a timid town bred child,</span></i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">And all the cattle seem to know.”</span></i></b></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Angsana New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">For </span><a href="http://themahahnewalds.wordpress.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Raoni, Tien and Ronja</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was haben Kuehe in Indien und Fussgaenger in Kanada gemeinsam? Beide haben weitgehendes Vorfahrtsrecht im Strassenverkehr (<i>right of way</i>).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Einer Kuh in Indien mit der Fahrradrikscha (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_rickshaw" target="_blank">cycle rickshaw</a></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) ueber den Schwanz zu fahren, das hat fuer den Rikschakuli (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rickshaw wallah</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) vermutlich aehnliche Folgen wie in Kanada fuer Fahrradfahrer, die ruecksichtslos einen Fussgaenger anfahren, und umgekehrt. Waehrend aber die Rechte der Fussgaenger und Fahrradfahrer in Kanada durch Gesetze geregelt werden, uebernimmt den Schutz der Kuehe in Indien die allgegenwaertige Religion - Kuehe sind hier </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_in_religion" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">heilig</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Matt: <b>Straying</b> from the oh-so-balanced and noble <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Way" target="_blank">middle path</a> and landing smack bang in two-tier <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Lumbini" target="_blank">Lumbini</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" target="_blank">Buddha</a>'s alleged birthplace, where the so-called Buddhist nations have constructed extravagant temples and shiny monasteries amidst crumbling and neglected houses in a region of extreme poverty and dust.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us."</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">In den Speisehaeusern in Lumbini ist mir aufgefallen, dass diese Touristen und Pilger auch ihre unterschiedlichen Essgewohnheiten und manchmal sogar Esswerkzeuge mitgebracht haben. Viele essen natuerlich ganz einfach und voellig geraetefrei mit den Fingerspitzen der rechten Hand.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">“Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.”</span></i></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Diving</b> into the backstreets of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Bhaktapur" target="_blank">Bhaktapur</a> and improving my knowledge of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Nepal" target="_blank">languages of Nepal</a> in the city's friendly and tourist-free shebeens thus learning very quickly the local words <span style="color: black;">for </span>Nepal's traditional home-brews: (i) for the mildly alcoholic, milky white concoction made from fermented rice, barley or millet </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepali_language" target="_blank">Nepali</a>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhaang" target="_blank"><i>chhaang</i></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newar_language" target="_blank">Newar</a>: <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thwon" target="_blank">thwon</a></i>)</span></span></span></span></span> and (ii) for the distilled potent rice spirit that "…runs the gamut from smooth-sipping schnapps to headache-inducing paint stripper..." </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepali_language" target="_blank">Nepali</a>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raksi" target="_blank"><i>raksi</i></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newar_language" target="_blank">Newar</a>: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aila_%28liquor%29" target="_blank">aylā</a></i>)</span></span></span></span></span>; <i>Cheers and Happy Bowel Movement!</i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Konni and Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05660132741257344016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445102147096865997.post-31560755546151546262014-11-05T23:28:00.000-05:002015-08-30T08:03:24.608-04:0004 Nov - 06 Nov 2014 Kathmandu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Matt:<b> Joining </b>once more both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" target="_blank">Buddhist</a> pilgrims and especially <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" target="_blank">Hindu</a> devotees, meeting more innocent travellers in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Thamel" target="_blank">Thamel</a>'s backpacker Disneyland and even more clever locals in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Kathmandu" target="_blank">Kathmandu</a>'s dusty suburbs and taking some R&R after my previous independent multi-day trek through the mighty Himalayas.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Changing</b> from a filthy mountain vagabond back into a spick-and-span city slicker: (i) laundering a 3-kg load of dirty linen for NPR 50.- or US$ 0.50 per kg (washed and dried, but you get what you pay for) at one of the many nondescript <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=27.71157,85.312869%28Tourist%20Laundry%29" target="_blank">tourist laundries</a> in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Thamel" target="_blank">Thamel</a>, (ii) visiting a genial <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=17&t=h&q=27.711043,85.312241%28Barber%29" target="_blank">Indian barber</a> opposite my hotel (crew cut, clean shave and relaxing head-and-shoulder massage for overpriced NPR 250.- or US$ 2.50, souvenir photos included), and (iii) meeting lovely fellow traveller Csilla from Budapest...</span></span></span></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">"Baby, I've been waiting, <br />
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I waited half my life away..."</span></span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Matt: </span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Trekking</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> for one week under crystal-clear Himalayan skies almost alone through the incredible mountain scenery of Nepal's <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Trekking_in_Nepal" target="_blank">Langtang</a> region, which borders Tibet, climbing to the 4,850-m high Kyanjin Ri and gazing at awesome glaciers and towering 7,000 m snow peaks.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt (1st trekking day: 28 Oct 2014): <b>Leaving</b> Syabrubesi in the morning, </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">applying an old trick to prevent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_sickness" target="_blank">acute mountain sickness</a> and thinning my blood with a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> </span>daily dose of 2 x 500 mg of Aspirin, r</span></span></span></span>egistering the independent trek at the local tourist-police post (neither guide nor porter are necessary for the Langtang Trek) and hiking hereafter for 6 ½ hours along the deep gorge of the Langtang Khola from Syabrubesi (c. 1,450 m altitude) to Changdam (c. 2,460 m altitude) through densely wooded terrain where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_langur" target="_blank">grey langur monkeys</a> (<i>Semnopithecus entellus</i>) frolic.</span></span></span></span><br />
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</style> <![endif]--><span style="color: black;">Matt: <b>Riding</b> shotgun in the local bus from Syabrubesi back to Kathmandu's <a href="https://maps.google.com/?z=15&t=m&q=27.735299,85.305833%28Macha%20Pokhori%20Bus%20Stop%29" target="_blank">Macha Pokhori</a> bus stop (145 km, 8 ½ hours, NPR 340.- or US$ 3.40 per person) and seeing first-hand the leftovers of a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/25/14-dead-in-nepal-bus-crash" target="_blank">recent deadly bus crash</a> where a similar bus packed with nearly 100 people including tourists and locals heading home for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali" target="_blank">Deepavali</a> had veered off the mountain highway only a few days ago.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">For <a href="http://themahahnewalds.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Raoni, Tien and Ronja</a>:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Vom (i) amerikanischen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot" target="_blank">Bigfoot</a> aka "Sasquatch", vom (ii) schottischen Ungeheuer im Loch Ness ("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster" target="_blank">Nessie</a>") und vom (iii) atlantischen Riesenkraken (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantic_octopus" target="_blank">gigantic octopus</a></i>) habt Ihr ja bestimmt schon vieles gehoert. Falls nicht, fragt Konni. Auf meinen frueheren Land- und Seereisen, als ich noch juenger war, hatte ich bereits versucht, diese aufzuspueren und zu fotografieren, was mir aber leider nur teilweise gelungen war.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Dieses Mal, in den Himalaja-Bergen, im abgelegenen und nur spaerlich besiedelten Grenzland zwischen Nepal und Tibet, ging es mir darum, den abscheulichen Schneemenschen (<i>abominable snowman</i>) "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti" target="_blank">Yeti</a>" zu finden, ein geheimnisvolles zottiges Wesen, halb Tier und halb Mensch. Auf meine entsprechenden Fragen bestaetigte mir eine ueber 90 Jahre alte Sherpafrau bei Langtang, dass dieser Yeti ca. zwei bis drei Meter gross und ueber 200 Kilogramm schwer sei und dass ihr zweibeinige Fußabdruecke von bis zu 45 Zentimetern Laenge bekannt seien.</span> <span style="color: black;">Diese Fußspuren im Schnee wurden ausserdem mehrmals und von unterschiedlichen Expeditionen in 5,000 – 7,000 Metern Hoehe gefunden und ueber laengere Strecken nachverfolgt. Die Antworten dieser Sherpafrau habe ich persoenlich ganz genau aufgeschrieben.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Als ich nach einem anstrengenden Aufstieg auf den Gipfel Kyanjin Ri in einer Hoehe von nahezu 5,000 Metern angekommen war, habe ich mich sehr aufmerksam nach dem Yeti bzw. nach seinen Spuren umgeschaut - und habe genau am gegenueberliegenden, leider voellig unzugaenglichem Berghang deutliche Spuren gesehen, die auf den Yeti hinweisen.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Als weiteren Beweis habe ich inmitten einer Yak-Weide ein Stueckchen dickes, braunes Yetifell gefunden und dieses in meinem Rucksack auch gut aufgehoben. Falls es nach meiner Landung in Toronto nicht durch die <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Border_Services_Agency" target="_blank">CBSA</a> eingezogen wird (bestimmte Tierprodukte, u.a. auch Felle, sind aus Artenschutzgruenden von der Einfuhr ausgeschlossen), kann ich es vielleicht sogar vorzeigen.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Am ueberzeugendsten jedoch war ein unheimliches Geraeusch, das ich nachts in der Berghuette mit meinen eigenen Ohren gehoert habe. Am Steilhang gegenueber heulte und jaulte es so fuerchterlich, dass ich mir mit den Bettzipfeln lieber ganz schnell beide Ohren zustopfte. - Welche geheimnisvollen Wesen kennt Ihr?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">From <a href="http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Nepal" target="_blank">Nepal</a>, with Love!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Matt: </span><b><span style="color: black;">Exploring</span></b><span style="color: black;"> the warren-like old town of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Kathmandu" target="_blank">Kathmandu</a>, the largest city and capital of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Nepal" target="_blank" title="Nepal">Nepal</a>, which is stuffed with ancient stupas and sculptures at every crossroad, taking many walks through her labyrinthine backstreets and discovering half-hidden temples overflowing with marigolds, courtyards full of museumlike wood carvings and busy traditional markets where friendly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Nepal" target="_blank">Nepali people</a> sell and buy everything imaginable; <i>namaste! </i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><i>"Kathmandu was a place of mystery and magic, almost unimaginably exotic. Palaces shaped like elaborate wedding cakes lined the maze of narrow alleys. Ornate Hindu and Buddhist temples were at every turn. There were religious sculptures everywhere - goddesses with many arms, buddhas in many guises, amazing erotic carvings on the corners of buildings, prayer flags strung like festive telephone wires from house to house. Open-air bazaars with color, in sharp contrast to the stone gray, two-storey and four-storey buildings that squeezed into every available space."</i></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Life-Edge-Memoirs-Everest-Beyond/dp/1594856664/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_sw?&linkCode=wsw&tag=konnandmattpe-20" target="_blank">Jim Whittaker</a>)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: black;"><i>I’ll be marching through the morning,</i></span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-language: TH;">Von Kathmandu bis an den Fuss der Himalaja-Berge nach Syabrubesi bin ich mit einem Bus gefahren, aber mit was fuer einem!</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: TH; mso-fareast-language: TH;">Die Fahrt ueber 150 km dauerte nahezu einen ganzen Tag und kostete genauso viel bzw. genauso wenig wie eine Fahrt um drei Ecken mit dem Stadtbus in Toronto. Dafuer war mein Bus in Nepal mindestens halb so alt wie ich, sah aber bereits doppelt so alt aus! Das mit Abstand modernste Bauteil war eine lautstarke Digitalhupe ("Made in China"), die der Fahrer vor allem in den Bergen und vor engen Kurven viel lieber als die Bremsen benutzte. Ich vermute deshalb, weil die chinesische Hupe viel zuverlaessiger funktionierte als die indischen Bremsen und ihm auch viel mehr Freude bereitete.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Da es weder Sicherheitsgurte noch einen <i>air bag</i> gab, hat der Fahrer sicherheitshalber zu Beginn der Fahrt schnell noch ein paar Raeucherstaebchen ("Made in Nepal") angezuendet und mit dem Rauch die unfallverursachenden boesen Geister im Bus vertrieben. Ob sich nun die vielen Mitreisenden wegen dieses Rauches, wegen ihres eigenen Koerpergeruchs oder wegen der steilen Abhaenge am Strassenrand staendig erbrechen mussten, ist im Nachhinein nur noch schwer zu entscheiden. Den vielen lebenden Huehnern im Bus hat die Kotzerei jedenfalls nicht geschadet; sie haben bis zum Schluss gegackert. Ebenso wie dem Dutzend junger Maenner, die es sich zwischen dem Gepaeck oben auf dem Dach mehr oder weniger gemuetlich gemacht hatten, da alle Stehplaetze im Inneren des Busses bereits besetzt waren. Ihr haettet sehen sollen, wie der Schaffner waehrend der Fahrt vom Businneren aus die Fahrscheine auf dem Dach kontrolliert hat; Ordnung muss sein.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">S̄wạs̄dī or Saluton Bangkok…</span> </span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Crossing</span></b><span style="color: black;"> the Pacific east to west, re-adjusting</span><span style="color: black;"> to Southeast Asia's time zone, temperature, humidity, food and beer and exploring the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indians_in_Thailand" target="_blank">Thai Indian</a> side of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Bangkok" target="_blank">Bangkok</a>'s cultural diversity at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phahurat" target="_blank">Phahurat</a>, often known as <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Thailand" target="_blank">Thailand</a>'s Little India, where Sikhs, Tamils, Hindus, Muslims and Thais live together and die alone.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><i><b>For myself, alone.”</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Siddhartha-Hermann-Hesse/dp/0553208845/ref=as_sl_pd_tf_sw?&linkCode=wsw&tag=konnandmatt0c-20" target="_blank">Hermann Hesse</a>)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Adding </span></b><span style="color: black;">another lazy month to the good practice of our tried and trusted "Aiya Routine" (e.g. coping with trans-Pacific jet lag and trying to understand the mysteries of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line" target="_blank">international date line</a>, keeping physically fit with semi-daily laps in our sport club’s sparkling swimming pool, feasting on <i>lekker</i> vegan <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_food" target="_blank">Thai food</a>, washed down responsibly with ice-cold <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Thailand" target="_blank">Thai beer</a>, socialising with like-minded travellers from the East and from the West, and exploring a few unknown corners of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Bangkok" target="_blank">Bangkok</a>, which never ceases to amaze us; see also our previous visits [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2010/05/bangkok-01-mar-01-may-2010.html" target="_blank">1</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2012/03/08-feb-06-mar-2012-bangkok.html" target="_blank">2</a>], [<a href="http://www.konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2012/12/19-dec-31-dec-2012-bangkok.html" target="_blank">3</a>], [<a href="http://www.konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2013/01/01-jan-22-jan-2013-bangkok.html" target="_blank">4</a>], [<a href="http://konniandmatt.blogspot.com/2013/04/13-mar-18-apr-2013-bangkok.html" target="_blank">5</a>] to the <a href="http://www.aiyaresidence.com/index.php" target="_blank">Aiya Residence & Sport Club</a>, our Thai home-away-from-home for many years) and fine-tuning our travel plans for this year's segregated overwintering in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Asia" target="_blank">Asia</a>: (i) Konni's relaxing beach-and-dive dream in the <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Philipines" target="_blank">Philippines</a> and (ii) Matt's challenging hike-and-photo <i>schlepp</i> in <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Nepal" target="_blank">Nepal</a> and <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/India" target="_blank">India</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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