Travel
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Ajanta to Jaipur to Delhi to Oblivion
(Journey North Begins, Paris to Bangalore to Dharwad, Dharwad to Belguam to Panchgani, Panchgani to Mahableshwar to Pune to Ajanta) Like a kid in a candy store. After the monks ran out of ideas they started to build the same thing in different sizes. The above two photos should make an optical illusion that is blowing your mind…
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Dharwad to Belguam to Panchgani
*Note the above post title only lists our destinations, one must pass through innumerable places on the way. Overnight buses and trains are a great way to both save money on hotels and to develop funky personal odours while travelling in India. For me, the single thing that I had been anticipating the most about Anis’s visit…
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India kicked our behinds
Or more accurately – India kicked us in the stomachs. That’s what happens when two scrawny Canadians try to take on the biggest country in the world. When I say big, I mean it in a since sliced bread sort of way. Paris to Bangalore to Dharwad The railway office thirty-something stories up in Bangalore where…
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Merry Diwali
Just when you were thinking that it was really time this blog stopped milking a trip I went on weeks ago now, here is one more set of photos from Panchgani! There are some odds and ends from the trip and plenty of cool ones of the wild Diwali fireworks.
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Return to NEDI – oops, I mean NETTC
The third and last stop of my personal pilgrimage through Panchgani was to my parent’s workplace and the buildings my father helped to build when we were there. In the summer of 1996, an old friend, Sherif Rushdy saw that my father was inbetween project management jobs and asked him to bring us over to…
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Return to old house
1997 2007 After hitting my old school during the first day of my visit to Panchgani, next stop along the road was my family’s old house. The plan was to walk up to it, knock on the door and language barrier or no – invite myself in for a self-guided tour.
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Return to New Era High School
The last three posts on my return to Panchgani have manged to generate some interest in my humble blog, bringing many first time visitors and mention on couple other websites, including Baha’i Views and WordPress.com. If you haven’t checked out the Sureka Trilogy, here it is in order with a couple of new photos added courtesy…
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The Search for Sureka III
[This is the third part of a three-part story. Click here to start from the beginning.] Where we left off in the last installment, I had somehow been found by Sureka when I was just about to find her. She called my hotel while I was out and said she would meet me there in morning. …
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The Search for Sureka II
[This the second of a three-part story. Click here to read the first part.] I arrived in Panchgani yesterday morning and took the full self guided Benoit-James Historical Panchgani Tour. That will all be elaborated on later. This post will be about today, which was reserved for the Sureka Search. Read the last post before this one…
Samuel Benoit 