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27 November 2018
Going to Longwa I had booked my sumo for 0730 to Longwa for an overnight stay. Last night Aman, who runs the homestay, mentioned the possibility of taking me there instead. He was meant to confirm it to me before bed but it didn’t happen. At 0600, I didn’t have much time for breakfast and […]
26 November 2018
How to get from Dibrugarh to Mon Today is possibly my hardest day, in terms of uncertain and long road travel arrangements and uncertain accommodation at my destination. I wanted to get from Dibrugarh to Mon: My guidebook and internet research suggested that I need to get from Dibrugarh to Sibsagar, change and get to […]
25 November 2018
My flight from Kolkata to Dibrugarh departs at 1230 today. With all that heavy food over the past days, I thought I’d skip breakfast and go to the airport lounge and eat lightly until departure. Checking out around 0815, the hotel bill was INR1000 more than the INR7000 I had expected. At first I was […]
24 November 2018
Flower market & Howrah I Uber’ed to Mallick Ghat after breakfast for its flower market, located next to Howrah Bridge. Supposedly, photography of the bridge isn’t permitted but I stealthily took photos there (and got more brazen as I moved further away). The flower market was pretty colourful but the predominant colour was marigold. There […]
23 November 2018
Arrival We landed on time around 0100. Seated close to the front (because I paid, because I had been auto-assigned a bad seat), I was through immigration promptly. One stands high up on steps at immigration perhaps in order to access the fingerprint scanners that may have been introduced after the desks were made. A […]
22 November 2018
Wat Arun, Take 2 Today, I was determined to visit Wat Arun. I have a midday check-out and a midnight light to Kolkata. I was on my way to Wat Arun soon after breakfast. It was a lot more impressive than what I must have thought in April, to turnaround and leave even without entering […]
21 November 2018
Wat Arun was on my agenda today because I didn’t make it there in April. Again, I took the Chao Phraya Express from my pier Phra Arthit to Wat Arun pier, several stops away. Pulling in there, I had the distinct sense of déjà vu. Yes, I had been hopped off there before … and […]
20 November 2018
Because I had an unexpected trip to Bangkok in April, I had already done all I had wanted. But the time I had allocated for Bangkok now remains, because that April trip was booked after this one. I thought it would be a good idea to visit the Royal Barges Museum, a place I have […]
7 November 2018
We arrived into Kuala Lumpur at 0245, some 25 minutes ahead of schedule. The first bus into the city goes at 0430. There was one at 0330 from Terminal 1 but I wouldn’t have been able to get there in time. I debated waiting vs catching a Grab car. I opted for the latter at […]
3 October 2018
After yoga and a light lunch of Vietnamese sandwiches, we rested before starting a cooking class at a nearby restaurant. We were taught to make things the old fashioned way with a cobek (grinding stone) and lesong (mortar/pestle – stone mortar and long wooden pestle used standing up, as opposed to the Malaysian one used […]