India 2.0-Arrival, Delhi.

 

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If you ask someone who’s traveled to India how they felt about it, they are likely to have strong feelings, one way or the other. I’ve never met someone who said, “I went to India, yeah, it was alright I suppose.” You tend to get “I LOVED it!” Or, “You couldn’t pay me to go back.” And part of this is up to chance, India is a fickle place, humanity smacks you fully in the face and no amount of planning can shield you entirely. Not that you’d want that, a big reason to visit India is to be enveloped by the complete overwhelming nature of it all. But, you walk a fine line, and one too many infuriating experiences can leave even the most intrepid traveler weary.

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Galle + Colombo

It’s the end of our trip. Two weeks gone nearly instantaneously. We’re all a bit tired, and the heat and humidity is wearing. Personalities clash a bit as we all show signs of fatigue. The ride to Galle, an upmarket, fortress-village is quite. Once we arrive we find  a burger restaurant, desperate to avoid any more rice. We spend the afternoon wandering the Dutch-colonial town in a bit of a heat-stupor. We later watched a sunset with moods lifting as heat dissipated.


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Bandarawela + Mirissa


Flanking our hiking trip we stayed in a few non-descript towns with little in them aside from a smattering of shops and a grocery store. One such town was Bandarawela. There is little point to visiting here, other than as a jumping off point for hiking. Luckily, our tour included a cooking class in a private home just outside of town.

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Tea Plantation Hiking


The mist flowed in mid-day, as promised by our guides. We sat around a long wooden table in the aptly named Misty Mountain Lodge, exchanging glances of mild concern. The lodge, in the middle of tea plantation country had little to do, and the mist brought with it further sense of isolation. The more adventurous of our group decides to venture out anyway to explore as much as we could with low visibility.

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