Today has just been one of those days. I was woken up at 6.30am by the hotel staff shouting to one another, the sound of furniture being dragged around and very loud banging. Since I was paying a kings ransom of Rs800 per night, at least double what I normally pay, I was not impressed. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘elephants’
Happy? Holi from Jaipur
Posted in Gap year, India, Solo travel, Travel, Woman Travelling alone, tagged "24 hour check-out" Pushkar, "colour festival", "Hindu festival", "holi festival", elephant, elephants, festival, Holi, India, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Richshaw on March 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Heffalumps and Birthdays
Posted in Gap year, India, Solo travel, Travel, Woman Travelling alone, tagged "elephant bath", "orphan elephant", "tea plantation", "wash an elephant", "waterfalls", elephant, elephants, Gap year, India, Kerala, Munnar, Planatation on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
20th november For Michelle’s birthday we got up at the crack of dawn for a very special treat. We were going to wash elephants. At an elephant orphanage on the way to Munnar, which is where we were headed. Every morning at 8.00am the five or so elephants come down the muddy path to the [...]
Elephants and Other Animals
Posted in Gap year, India, Solo travel, Travel, Woman Travelling alone, tagged backpack, backpacking, Bombay, elephant, elephants, Gap year, Goa, India, jellyfish, Mumbai, Planatation on October 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
After four days in Anjuna, I was itching to get back on the road again. Not just because despite taking my vitamin B1 religiously, smothering myself in 50% deet every evening and lighting enough mosquito coils to stop malaria in its tracks, I am still getting bitten. Especially my feet, the irritating red bumps clashing [...]



