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28 January 2011
Naughty Ticketing Tricks After a leisurely breakfast I teamed up with Merja from Finland who was my dive buddy yesterday. We thought we’d go to Radha Nagar beach near Village No 7, which is supposedly the best beach around. I opted for a detour into town to buy my ferry ticket back to Port Blair one […]
27 January 2011
Above: It is possible to scuba dive with an elephant. In the Andaman they have one of the last swimming elephants. You can snorkel or dive with the elephant … if you pay … it is about INR10,000 (NZD300) for one snorkel or dive. That’s like 3x the going rate for two normal dives. I couldn’t […]
27 January 2011
Above: It is possible to scuba dive with an elephant. In the Andaman they have one of the last swimming elephants. You can snorkel or dive with the elephant … if you pay … it is about INR10,000 (NZD300) for one snorkel or dive. That’s like 3x the going rate for two normal dives. I couldn’t […]
26 January 2011
Above: Flying into the Andaman Islands. Uncharted Territory I’m flying off into uncharted territory today … uncharted by me, anyway. Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands is 2 hours from Chennai. It’s also accessible from Kolkata … but really, it is closer to Banda Aceh (Indonesia) and Phuket (Thailand)! For some […]
25 January 2011
Above: Dinner near my hotel and railway station. I said goodbye to Ammi, Salome and Jackson Pollock in the morning. I was bound for Chennai at 1235 flying Oman Air. With the time difference flying eastwards, it was surprisingly and pleasantly cool when I landed at Chennai at 1730. It was neither hot nor humid. […]
24 January 2011
Upon landing in Muscat at 2325 I made my own way to Ammi and Salome’s place. They had kindly done some of my laundry during my few days away. Unfortunately I must have left a piece of tissue in one of the pockets and it left bits through the load, but Salome tidied it all […]
24 January 2011
Job’s Tomb I picked up a rental car from Avis at the airport last night … it was the first time I had driven a left-hand drive and on the right side of the road. John, April and I set off to Job’s tomb about half hour’s drive from Salalah. Job is a prophet to […]
23 January 2011
Chris, a friend of Vicky and Steve’s took us out for a big outing today. John and April (Vicky’s uncle and aunt) and I were lucky enough to experience Chris’ knowledge of the area and bird life. We travelled east of Salalah in his 4WD to several springs (yes, in the desert) where birdlife was […]
22 January 2011
The bus arrived early in Salalah by about an hour … despite a holdup due to another bus catching fire on the road. The fire service were there to put out the fire … impressive considering it was in the middle of nowhere. Vicky collected me from the bus station before going to work. Vicky […]
21 January 2011
We had an early start to catch Nizwa’s Friday markets in action … and to save ourself parking woes when it gets into full swing. It felt a bit strange for the livestock market to be in the relatively restored town centre. Other products like vegetables, meat are sold in permanent buildings (much like Melbourne’s […]