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Goa and Mumbai, India

2012-03-20T23:09:00.000-07:00

Nice to find this (definitely lethal) spider sleeping in Jakes swimming shorts

All aboard our sleeper train to Mumbai

Taj Palace hotel and the Gateway to India, Mumbai

Game of Cricket?

View from our window at Hotel Lawrence

Shiva and Parvati wedding day (Elephanta Caves)

Sophie in the cave

Famous Kulfi Icecream seller

Last Indian Sunset over Chowpatty Beach

Tasty Kati Rolls at Bademiya

With love from Sophie and Jake x

Karnataka, India

2012-03-10T23:03:00.002-08:00

Sweet selection at Indra Cafe

Spicy Mysore Dosa Masala

Devaraja Flower Market

Free Flower Bracelet

Mysore coloured powder

Tiger statue

Statuesque tiger

Albino Peacock at Mysore Zoo

Chubby bird

Om Beach, Gokarna

Om Sunset

Hampi

Hampi Holy Men

Hampi Bazaar

Ancient temple ruins

Getting ready.....

Night of the full moon dancing

Demon Effigy with fruit genitals

Burning of the demon

Happy Holi

Festival of Colour boy

.....that's enough now!

Kerala, India

2012-02-27T00:00:00.000-08:00

Kerala - God (& Lenin's) Own Country

Varkala Beach

Evening promenading

Kali Hibiscus

All aboard on our Houseboat

Backwater canals

Watch out, Sophie's steering

Egrets returning to roost

Backwater Lake Sunset

Chinese fishing nets at Fort Cochi

New friends

Kichaka applies his make-up

Finishing touches

Kichaka tries to seduce Malini during Kathakali performance

Pondicherry, India

2012-02-24T03:55:00.000-08:00

French/Tamil street sign

A much needed haircut

Respect women, women is life (well said)

Street Art

Flower market

Garlands, garlands, garlands for sale

Waiting for the train that never comes at an abandoned station

Myanmar (Burma)

2012-02-14T04:09:00.000-08:00

Baby and granny on Inle Lake

Some of the vivid orange blossom found on our cycles

Inle lake at 6:30am

Early morning fisherman

Giving us a demonstration of leg rowing

Bit of bean business

Sophie buys a Shan tribal necklace

Young monks taking a break

Schoolgirl showing us her traditional Burmese makeup

Floating village

Floating garden

Monk-taught jumping cats perform in their monastery

Sophie on the boat

Our guide for the day

Well-dressed children at the gates to Old Bagan

Big Buddha, little buddha

Bagan plain (1000s of temples and pagodas)

Very old fresco inside a temple

All this food - for 1.50 each!

Bagan at 6am from an abandoned pagoda

Sunrise ballooning overhead

Up, up and away

Downtown in ex-colonial Yangon

Green Goblin

Shwedagon Pagoda - covered in gold leaf

Sunflowers and friends

Life in the Monastery

Jake and Myo, the Arsenal-supporting monk

65m long reclining Buddha

Northern Laos

2012-01-27T01:33:00.000-08:00

Savannakhet. Don't go there

Entering the eerie Kong Lo Caves

Stalagmite

Stalagtite

7.5km and a 30 min breakdown wait later...

Sunset from our very late 4x4

Happy to be in Vientiane

Fat Buddha

Many Buddhas

Jake dons a sarong

Silk weaving workshop, Vientiane

Weave Detail

Special looms with pre designed templates

Lush Luang Prabang

Fresh food market

Enjoying a beer Laos

Spirit House near Buddhas footprint

French Architecture and a British Breton-clad tourist

Laos flag and star

Sophie's Wat

Monks recieving alms

Southern Laos

2012-01-19T01:02:00.000-08:00

An X-ray found on the streets of Paske

Sunset over the Mekong

Visiting a coffee plantation in the Bolaven Plateau

Animist tribal village Spirit House

Local Animist classroom

Naughtiest boy in class

An UXO from 1976 'Secret War' now used as doorstop

Waterpipe woman and her children

Chick chick chick chicken

Tat Lo Waterfall

End of the road, where Laos meets Cambodia on the 4000 Islands

Koh Phangan, Thailand

2012-01-14T21:07:00.000-08:00

Cards and Chang

Palms over Koh Phangan

NYE 2011/12

Lanterns at Ton Nai Pan

Catching a boat at Thon Sala

More Chang

Interesting food at the night market

Late night Swinging fun

Krabbi, Thailand

2012-01-06T00:53:00.000-08:00

Ton Sai Beach

A Thai Christmas day and Indian decorations

Rock climbers doing their thing

Scaling new heights

Tropical leaf

Tropical sheep

Krabi town night market

Georgetown, Malaysia

2011-12-22T00:31:00.000-08:00

Georgetown Tri-rickshaw

Malay prawn curry from Teksen

Chew Jetty, UNESCO site

Jetty signage

Cafe culture

Parade with huge flag balancing

Hello dragon

Inside secret clan house

Plant-pot men

Three lions

Kolkata, India

2011-12-17T01:41:00.000-08:00

Victoria Memorial in the Maidan

Temple offerings for Kali

Spiritual Jake

Enlightened Sophie

Temple back alley

Ducks and Chickens outside Hogg Meat Market

Inside Hogg Meat Market

Andaman Islands, India

2011-12-13T01:52:00.000-08:00

Sunrise at Sunrise Beach Resort

A hut, a hammock, a husband (and bikes) - all that's needed on Havelock

Fishing boat in the Mangroves

Fishing boats on the beach

Sophie in the shade

Cyril the Crab

Jake climbs a tree

Boat port-hole from Havelock

Cellular Jail, Port Blair

5am Sunrise

Sophie in the sea at Sunrise

Puri, India

2011-11-29T03:04:00.000-08:00

Butterfly at our hotel the former Maharajah's home

Busy street by the Jaganath Temple

Inside the 1920's Library

Pretty Flower

Our Chilika Lake boat

Bashing Oysters

...and the results

Seaside cycling

Taekwondo at the Puri Beach Festival

No Smoking sand sculpture

Contraband drinking

Darjeeling, India

2011-11-28T21:47:00.000-08:00

5am sunrise over Kangchendzonga

View from our roof at Aliment Hotel

Darjeeling fruit and veg market

Pre-School dance work out

Prayer Flags at Observation Hill

Inter-School sports day

His and Hers Orchids in the Botanical Gardens

Soul occupant at the Darjeeling Zoo Aquarium

View down the Valley

Bit of tea business

Tea at Happy Tea Plantation

Mama Kuzum's Tea - Best in the world

Varanasi, India

2011-11-14T01:28:00.000-08:00

Sunrise on the Ganges

Crowded alleys of the (very) old city

Samosa frying at our favourite restaurant

Sophie enjoys her dosa

Puja celebations with incense

Puja celebration with fire

Ganges graffitti/poster

Spraying away the monsoon mud

Indian classical music at the Ashram

Ganges at sunset

Maharishi Ashram, India

2011-11-04T02:46:00.000-07:00

Maharishi Ashram entrance

Beatles graffitti (in Harrison's room, supposedly)

Overgrown tree blossom

Decaying doorways

Sophie in the old yoga hall

Tree posture plus tree

Meditation eggs being swallowed by forest

Med Egg

Spiders as big as your hand

Overgrown path

Sophie silhouette

Ashram lecture theatre

Rishikesh, India

2011-10-31T02:20:00.000-07:00

Lakshman Jhula Bridge

Sophie's Shakra coloring-in

Astrology poster

Wedding at Swarg Ashram

Neer Garh Waterfall

Diwali firework kids

Diwali sunset at Parmath Niketan Ashram

Festive offerings

Laksman Jhula Shiva

Happy Melons

The Holy River Ganges

Agra, India

2011-10-28T00:06:00.000-07:00

Taj Mahal

Sophie as Diana

Marble detail inside the TM

Jake in covered shoes

Sophie makes a Taj friend

Fatehpur Sikri pillared pavilion

Jake and his temple

School trip

Pushkar, India

2011-10-25T23:58:00.000-07:00

Flowers and the temple hill

Pushkar Holy Lake

Temple offerings to Brahma

Pot plants at Milkman

Workers on the roof with bamboo scaffolding

Jodhpur, India

2011-10-19T04:23:00.000-07:00

Inside the fort

Jodhpur kids playing

Baby Elvis street sign

Bahroopiya actors (masters of disguise)

Bahroopiya Monkeys

Real Monkey

Night performance at the fort

Fort view from Heaven

Udaipur, India

2011-10-13T02:59:00.000-07:00

Street view of Udaipur during local festival

Lake by day

Palace by night

Jake and Shelly the Tortoise, before the bite

Indian tree blossom

Mumbai, India

2011-10-08T22:26:00.000-07:00

View from Hotel Lawrence, Mumbai

Stroll along Chowpatty Beach

Mumbai Sunset

London, UK

2011-10-02T04:53:00.001-07:00

We are all packed and ready to go.

A quick update on progress - Jakes cash card has already gone missing and Sophie's sandals have already broke, and we are still debating which teddy to take but other than that we are sorted!

Our next update will be from India!