andaman island

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Sunday 11 February 2007 - Wednesday 14 February 2007 5 °C

Andaman Islands,

Okay, so its been a while since i really wrote any thing. The Andaman islands. long story....

Basicly i camped under Shiva's sign on full moon beaches for 10days. Almost crashed my bike into a bus, Snorkeled in the depths of post tsunami coral reefs recovering huge pieces of red coral and to wadded through mangrove swamps at 1am knowing there are cordials. It was brilliantly fun, but very expensive if you eat any thing other then fish thail onces a day.

Mmm... Went from Calcutta to Silguri. then into Bhutan (another country) for a whole of 10secs because i didn't have the 200$Us/day visa to really look around. Hear i meet some true Nepalis bartender his Scandinavian girl. Invited to use theres for my 5day stay over in Nepal, really nice people. The people in West Bengal are a breath of fresh air. The Andaman islands was like 1960's Goa but with the price tag of 2010. Only place in India where I've felt a true tourist because the local islanders all know each other you can't blended in with a month long tan.

I'm currently resting up in a hill station called Darjeeling in the Himalayas. Morning sunrise views onto the third highest peak in the world (can't remember its proper name). Relishing in my last days of being in India by eating Thia and China's food.

Tomorrow i head into Nepal for 5days before leaving for Thailand. I return home the 1st of March (not Feb as i probably told people... but then i have no idea what day it is let alone year) I have frozen river trek planed but we found out that the rivers not as frozen as we hoped.

Oaky, i'll catcha laters

Posted by zahkaria Wednesday 7 February 2007 10:55 Archived in India