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March 21st, 2007
Here is an interesting travel tale from Kerala. A well written blog entry on Kerala experience!
They paint their huge work trucks in this fantastic detailed way. Isn’t that the coolest?! I love it. The trucks are owned by individuals. Having one is a great source of livlihood for the family. I don’t know if you [...]
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March 19th, 2007
Air-India Express (Air-India’s budget airline) opens its online booking for its Doha services today. You can access it here.
All passengers who had purchased tickets for travel on Air-India from March 25 onwards can visit Air-India office to transfer their bookings to the budget carrier and reissue their regular tickets as e-tickets.
Currently Air India Express flies [...]
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March 11th, 2007
Here is a trailer on Stevie’s 5 day trek in Kerala. Here is my summary of the trailer - autos, coconuts, snake charmer, monkey, elephants and more coconuts!
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March 9th, 2007
Here is a brilliant photo taken by christine in Idukki.
While taking a scenic drive around the hills and valleys of Munnar, we caught in the corners of our eyes a family of wild elephants crossing a large valley down below. Given that finding wild elephants is a rare sight for us, we begged to pull [...]
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March 8th, 2007
World’s largest luxury ship, Queen Mary 2 docked at the Cochin port yesterday. Started from New York, this ship is headed to Malaysia. The ticket price for the journey is over 1 crore rupees(!) and this time it carries 2650 passengers. The total tour duration is 80 days.
Built in 2003, Queen Mary 2 is the [...]
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February 22nd, 2007
Ramyanaresh captures Silent valley in photos.
Visiting here is not as simple as we think! We need to get prior permission from the forest department in Mukali on paying entry fee Rs 20/- per visitor. Private jeeps from Mukkali to Silent valley and back cost Rs 450/-. You can also take your own vehicle with permission [...]
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February 22nd, 2007
Nariyal Chutney has written an interesting post on the guy he met on the Delhi train.
He started with the story on how he started a factory in his village and how union leaders harassed him . He had to resort to gun fire when an angry mob attacked him and he killed two of his [...]
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February 13th, 2007
MC Road is the main road (state highway) in Kerala which connects major cities. This is a two lane road and is being converted to a four lane road as part of KSTP project. This lane conversion contract was given to the Pati-bel company. But the “road mafia” was disturbed when they saw that [...]
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February 8th, 2007
Thiruvananthapuram Railway Division has installed a passenger call centre at Thycaud. The call centre number is 1331 (BSNL). The call centre is state of the art(?) and is setup at a cost of 60 lakhs. All your railway enquiries will be patiently answered, unlike the guys who pick up calls at the stations.
Railways has also [...]
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February 8th, 2007
Interesting photo (Lost in translation!) by Maco,
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February 6th, 2007
Kerala sports team which went to this year’s national games at Assam had to endure a lot of hardships. Remember that the train journey from Kerala to Assam almost takes three days! Here is summary,
A single compartment which can accommodate 72 people were arranged for a team of 110.
The compartment was sealed from main train. [...]
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February 6th, 2007
It happened again on the national highway near Attingal. An old woman was first knocked down by a speeding vehicle on the national highway (NH 47). Vehicles which came behind also went over her. This continued for hours and as you can imagine she was nothing more than a pile of flesh by the time [...]
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February 6th, 2007
DYFI did a “rail roko” dharna at Palakkad railway station yesterday. They were protesting against the creation new Salem railway division. It is feared that creation of Salem division will affect Palakkad division and will also affect Rail infrastructure in Kerala.
Now, who suffered due to the agitation? DYFI managed to block trains from 7:30 to [...]
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February 2nd, 2007
This guy tries his hand at elephant bathing
Other visitors soon joined in the elephant bathing. I’m sure we didn’t clean the elephants all that well, that the mahouts were doing most of the actual work, that we were just tourists play-bathing the elephants. But I didn’t care. I was standing ankle-deep in [...]
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February 1st, 2007
Idukki arch dam is supported by two other smaller dams - one at cheruthoni and the other one at kulamavu. Ansari captures Kulamavu dam on a sunny day…
Linked via Flickr.
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