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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:03 PM

Day 67: Machu Picchu or the Taj Mahal? Who got your vote?

I already know the answer to that question. In last year´s frenzied email polling, you voted for the Taj Mahal as the seventh wonder of the world. Why? Well, because it was Indian of course. India is great. The Taj is amazing. India´s best monuments are...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:52 PM

Day 58/59: Walking on treetops in a tropical storm

Apart from watching the volcano -- in awe and, yes, I admit, in fear -- we had a lot of time to walk and explore the lush meadows and tropical rain forests around us and watch how people go about their lives. The natural wonders of this country are without...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:13 PM

Day 57: Rumblings and ramblings

( Photo: The husband became a hummingbird stalker in Arenal, but this picture made my day ) We awoke to the sound of birds. Half a dozen hummingbirds were buzzing in the flowering bushes outside our window. A Mumbai taxi-coloured Toucan sat in the tree...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 6:28 AM

Day 55: Bye bye Puerto Viejo

6am, last morning, Puerto Viejo Puerto Viejo was relaxing as can be. We´re happy we discarded our original plan of zipping through the entire country and settled down in this little town on the Caribbean or Talamanca coast. Though we spent a LOT of time...
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Friday, June 06, 2008 4:43 AM

Day 54: Snorkelling, "a laang way fram home"

Today, I had one of my best meals on this holiday. Today, I struggled to have a conversation in English. The meal was two large red snappers in a Caribbean coconut curry, flavoured with rosemary, whole pepper, Jamaican allspice, a light-green local chilly...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:48 AM

Day 53: Pursuits of a vacant mind

Just one pursuit actually. Today I went for a walk on the beach and encountered these flat bleached shells that looked like parts of a broken necklace swept ashore. They turned out to be sand dollars ( Photo: My gift for my niece Tara ). Here´s what Wiki...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 4:43 PM

Day 52: Riding waves, riding horses

The last time I clambered onto a horse was nearly 28 years ago in the Kashmir valley. So, I was a little more than tentative when I tried to mount Houdini -- a calm, easygoing horse kept aside precisely for beginners like me -- on a ranch inside a Costa...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:38 PM

Day 50 addendum: And the samosa read my blog post

Today--day 51 or day 52--i got samosas as part of my plated dinner. I shrugged the chip off my shoulder and gobbled them--they were baked and yummy. I ate them with Costa Rican salsa picante. The host showed up at our table later to ask how dinner was...
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Monday, June 02, 2008 7:12 PM

Day 50: The samosa´s taking over the world

It´s official, the samosa is the new Genghis Khan. Today, when we reluctantly wandered into town for dinner because the chef at Banana Azul, where we are staying, had her weekly off, we saw an all-you-can-eat meal lead starring The Samosa. Samosas have...
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Sunday, June 01, 2008 6:33 PM

Day godknowswhat: Me Jane, everyone else Tarzan

( Photo: Husband launches himself into the great green, about 80 m above the ground ) My stomach muscles still hurt after yesterday´s activity. Canopying, they call it in Costa Rica. It´s not supposed to make your stomach muscles hurt, but maybe I was...
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Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:20 PM

Day 48: The joys of nothing, Puerto Viejo

Take a look at the gentlemen in the photo below. They reminded us of the joy of doing, well, nothing. If it sounds to you like that´s what we´re doing through this 90-day journey, you couldn´t be more wrong. We´ve been on the move: travel, packing, transport...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:34 AM

Day 46: PHOTOS! Cows and the Indian hand

The pole-dancing cow in downtown San Jose -- a lively but decidedly edgy town -- is just one of many sculptures of cows across the capital of Costa Rica. Don´t miss the lipstick and the red fishnet stockings. There are outrageously painted cows doing...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 11:57 PM

Day 42: Into the great unknown

It's nearing 11 at night on an unseasonably chill California evening, and we are preparing for the most uncertain part of our journey. In just over four hours, we're going to have to shake our groggy selves awake and stuff our baggage into my...
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