Buying a fresh baked loaf of bread for 22 rupees ($0.36).
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
"Burgers" in India
I ate at the British expat pub last night. You know, this one...
Well, I decided to try a "single beef burger" just to see what it was like. To my surprise, this is what I got.
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That's a fried egg on top of a hamburger and onion strings on the top half of the bun.
No ketchup, no mustard, just amazingly delicious.
Well, I decided to try a "single beef burger" just to see what it was like. To my surprise, this is what I got.
That's a fried egg on top of a hamburger and onion strings on the top half of the bun.
No ketchup, no mustard, just amazingly delicious.
My next 10 weeks are going to be Epic!!!
I've finally gotten a chance to sit down and open up a calendar and start figuring things out. One thing I wanted to do while I was here was try to do some exploring. India is such a vast country, there is too much to see and not enough time. Especially since I have to do it basically only on the weekends.
Go big or go home.
Weekend 1: Jan 25- Jan 26 - Mysore
Weekend 2: Feb 1- Feb 2 - Sri Lanka
Weekend 3: Feb 8- Feb 9 - Kerala
Weekend 4: Feb 15- Feb 16 - Have a work event that I have to attend.
Weekend 5: Feb 22- Feb 23 - TBD (Goa or Mumbai maybe?)
Weekend 6: Mar 1- Mar 2 - Delhi/Jaipur/Agra
Weekend 7: Mar 8- Mar 9 - Nepal
Weekend 8: Mar 15- Mar 16 - Return Home
Weekend 9: Mar 22- Mar 23 - Home
Weekend 10: Mar 29- Mar 30 - Iceland
Go big or go home.
Weekend 1: Jan 25- Jan 26 - Mysore
Weekend 2: Feb 1- Feb 2 - Sri Lanka
Weekend 3: Feb 8- Feb 9 - Kerala
Weekend 4: Feb 15- Feb 16 - Have a work event that I have to attend.
Weekend 5: Feb 22- Feb 23 - TBD (Goa or Mumbai maybe?)
Weekend 6: Mar 1- Mar 2 - Delhi/Jaipur/Agra
Weekend 7: Mar 8- Mar 9 - Nepal
Weekend 8: Mar 15- Mar 16 - Return Home
Weekend 9: Mar 22- Mar 23 - Home
Weekend 10: Mar 29- Mar 30 - Iceland
Monday, January 20, 2014
18 Kilometers
Eminem can take his 8 Mile and stuff it. He's got nothing on my 18 kilometers.
18 kilometers. That's 11.18 miles.
18 kilometers. It takes me an hour to cover those 18 kilometers TO work and an hour and a half to cover those 18 kilometers FROM work.
18 kilometers. On the most dangerous roads in the world.
I'm trying to relish in this experience now since I might be changing residences due to the previously posted about calamity (which if you're keeping track was #2 in 2 days). Honestly, the driving and traffic here are so unbelievable that one just has to smile at the insanity.
- My driver today might have driven on the wrong side of a concrete divided road to get ahead of a traffic jam (he did).
- We might have been forced off the road because the cars going in the other direction decided that a 1 lane road was going to be a 4 lane road even if it meant encroaching onto our side so we basically were left to drive on the sidewalk.
- We had a truck pull out straight across us. We just looked at each other and laughed.
- Number of cows walking in the road that we had to avoid: 3
- Number of cows lying down in the road that we had to avoid: 1
- Number of bicyclists we ran off the road into a ditch: 1
- Number of schoolgirls we almost ran over before my driver finally conceded that they were going to keep walking in front of us so we stopped: 4
- Number of cars driving the wrong way on a 1 way expressway: Too many to count.
18 kilometers. That's 11.18 miles.
18 kilometers. It takes me an hour to cover those 18 kilometers TO work and an hour and a half to cover those 18 kilometers FROM work.
18 kilometers. On the most dangerous roads in the world.
I'm trying to relish in this experience now since I might be changing residences due to the previously posted about calamity (which if you're keeping track was #2 in 2 days). Honestly, the driving and traffic here are so unbelievable that one just has to smile at the insanity.
- My driver today might have driven on the wrong side of a concrete divided road to get ahead of a traffic jam (he did).
- We might have been forced off the road because the cars going in the other direction decided that a 1 lane road was going to be a 4 lane road even if it meant encroaching onto our side so we basically were left to drive on the sidewalk.
- We had a truck pull out straight across us. We just looked at each other and laughed.
- Number of cows walking in the road that we had to avoid: 3
- Number of cows lying down in the road that we had to avoid: 1
- Number of bicyclists we ran off the road into a ditch: 1
- Number of schoolgirls we almost ran over before my driver finally conceded that they were going to keep walking in front of us so we stopped: 4
- Number of cars driving the wrong way on a 1 way expressway: Too many to count.
It ain't Africa, but it'll do
This wild animal park had some animals that I haven't seen close up and some I had never seen so I was excited for the opportunity to see some. I broke out my 300mm lens and gave it a go.
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| This is a white Bengal Tiger. Beautiful. |
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Orange Bengal Tiger. Their stripes are so incredible. |
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| Anyone who knows me knows I love elephants. These are Asian elephants which are WAY smaller than African elephants. |
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| It's a brown bear in India!!! It's actually some vegetarian bear from India and it's more black than brown... |
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| I think I've gotten pretty good at taking pictures of lions. |
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