Karvala Beach, Goa

I have been staying at the Ramada Karvala Beach Resort in Goa which is owned by Prahlad's family. Prahlad is a friend of Nala's who he met at the ashram in Ganeshpuri.

We had a very warm welcome to the hotel

This is our fancy room which they call a villa.

Goa has a lot of Christian people.

It was very windy but not cold at all.

New flowers are put in this bowl outside my room every morning.

Nala and me

Me, Nala and Prahlad

This cat was sitting on our porch and is very friendly.

So nice to have friends to eat lunch with!

Hampi, Karnataka

Hampi is a world heritage site because of this statue. It was carved out of one solid piece of rock.

We had sugar cane juice from this vendor.

We took the train to Bangalore and then Goa.

cute family on the train.

Mysore Karnataka

All the cows in Mysore are yellow because of a recent festival there.

Flower garlands

We rode in one of these horse drawn rickshaws

There were many people standing on the street eating food from these carts which looked really good.

The only Maha Raj palace left in India

Kochi Kerala

Men preparing their boats for the day of fishing.

We baught spices from this man

A temple festival.

We went on a back waters boat tour

A ceramic pot is put over the palm flowers to collect juice from them. If the juice sits for 6 hours or more it becomes fermented. We drank it when it had just been collected. It tasted like sweet yeast.

Men collecting sand from the river.

These women are making rope out of coconut fibers.

This man climbed this palm tree and cut down cocnuts for us.

Chinese fishing nets

A sadu

There are a lot of cats in Kochi

This is Kerala style south Indian Tali on a palm leaf

There were so many nice things to look at in the shops in Jew Town.

Christian baught an antique camer

On the train leaving Kochi