Monthly Archives: November 2010

Elephant Beach Trek

Today we decided to drag ourselves away from the heavenly beach No 7 to do a bit of jungle trekking (and sweating) and also to see some more accessible sea life. Elephant Beach is on the north coast of Havelock … Continue reading

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Havelock Island – Beach No 7 (Radha Nagar Beach)

We saved the best location until last during our stay on Havelock Island, for the last 3 nights we moved across the island

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Snorkeling Trip to South Button Island and Tamarind Cove

While we were staying at beach No 3 we thought it would be a good idea to get out and see a few more of the islands and their marine life – or else what was the point of

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Havelock Island – Beach No 3

For the first 3 nights on Havelock Island we stayed on the eastern side of the island at beach number 3. All the beaches are numbered rather than named here, as are the villages. We stayed at Barefoot Scuba Resort … Continue reading

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Getting to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

We left our friends early on Sunday morning and got a taxi the shortish distance across south Delhi to Indira Gandhi International for our flight to Chennai. We got to fly out of the new T3, just few

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Last day in Delhi

On our final day in Delhi the driver wanted to get a photo with us so we stopped at a Kodak store to get a portrait taken (a rather funny experience!). We then went to pick up Mark’s tailor made … Continue reading

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Delhi – The Red Fort and a Late Night Food Tour

After another amazing and very filling home cooked breakfast we headed up to the Red Fort in Old Delhi. As it was a Friday and the main day at the Jama Mosjid, the largest Mosque in India, we were dropped … Continue reading

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Arriving in Delhi

We arrived on the overnight train from Udaipur at around 6.30am. We had arranged to stay with Manmeet and Sanmeet, some local Delhi-ites that Andrea knew through work. They had arranged to have a driver meet us at the train

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Cooking with Shashi in Udaipur

One thing on we were hoping to do on our travels around India was to do a cooking class. The Lonely Planet recommended a lady in Udaipur who ran ‘enthusiastic’ lessons from her small kitchen below a local restaurant. At … Continue reading

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Udaipur

An early start for what turned into a long days travel. We caught our ‘deluxe’ bus at 8am, (leaves at 7:30 be there for 7:15) luckily we got on quick enough to grab the last seats in the row of … Continue reading

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