India Traveling through India with a tuk-tuk as a white person means a lot of stunned faces and attention. But who would have guessed that we would end up in a freaking newspaper?! Read more ““Germans take an auto ride across Bharat””
India Alleppey, also known by its original name Alappuzha, is not only famous for its beautiful beaches and chilled back atmosphere but even more so for the Alleppey backwaters. One of the tours along those little canals seemed worth a visit to us and so we stayed here for two days. Read more “Alleppey backwaters tour”
India Our motor broke in Varkala, a few hundred meters in front of the hotel. We feared that our tuk tuk adventure would end before it had even begun… Read more “The end of the tuk-tuk adventure?”
India Imagine two young Germans, who have actually no idea how to really drive a tuk-tuk, but want to go thousands of kilometers throughout India with it. Congratulations… you just imagined us on the first day of our tuk-tuk adventure throughout India! Read more “The tuk-tuk adventure begins!”
India The only goal we had to accomplish while waiting for the tuk-tuk to get ready was withdrawing the money from the bank accounts and guess what happened: We had some serious trouble to get the cash at all. In the end, we gave up and booked a train ticket, but was that the end? See for yourself… Read more “Quest for a tuk-tuk”
India Following an invitation to a wedding from a complete stranger, we met a day earlier, we hopped on a bus in Pondicherry and left towards Chennai, hoping to experience our next adventure. Read more “Attending an Indian wedding in Chennai”
India On our way to Pondicherry, where we wanted to meet Lee, from Sri Lanka, we got invited to an Indian wedding. At first it shocked us but then we got more and more intrigued to actually go there. But first let me say a word about Auroville and the closeby Sadhana Forest Read more “A day around Pondicherry”
India Attention: There might be a little bit of madness ahead! Hint: We were planning on buying a tuk tuk, while writing this! Read more “An absolutely crazy idea!”
India After four weeks in Sri Lanka we moved on to Chennai, India. You need to know that Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is the fourth biggest city in India with over 15 Million inhabitants and that there is hardly any tourism at all. For us it was a jump into the cold water, directly into the heart of Indias crazy culture. Read more “India… finally!”
Sri Lanka Feeling like we could have travelled Sri Lanka for another four weeks, we took the train from our last stop Hatton back to Colombo to continue to India. So we spent our last day in a train basically. Luckily I had a nice jam session once more. Read more “Our last stop (in Sri Lanka)”