I left Alleppey and spent most of the day on the bus. I took the local bus and had to change in Kottayam, but it went smoothly with just enough time to have a late lunch in between. When it got dark I could feel the cool mountain air through the open window of the bus as we got closer to Munnar and higher up in the mountains. The roads were constantly winding like a snake up the mountain and it got pretty scary in the dark with the sharp corners. But Indians ha...

I decided to leave Amma's Ashram after one week there. I took a boat to Alleppey and saw some o the backwaters that Kerala's famous for. The backwaters are like rivers and kanals weaving their pattern along the coastline of Kerala with just a thin stretch of land dividing it from the sea. The boat trip was really beautiful and I was watching the people living just by the riverfront. They were going about their everyday life, women washing clothes in the river, b...

I went on a spontaneous weekend trip to a beach called Varkala. It was just one hours train ride from the ashram so it was perfect. I left my big backpack in my room at the ashram and brought only my small rucksack with me. It was so liberating not having my big backpack weighing me down and making everything complicated. I went with a Indian guy from the ashram, he has known Amma for his whole life and has now been living at the ashram for the last six months. I...

Namaste! I am now staying at an Ashram in Kerala. After almost two weeks on the sandy beaches of Goa I decided to go on new adventures. I tried to buy a train ticket for the journey, but it turned out to be a lot of hassle with no luck at all.So last Monday I packed my backpack once again and checked out of my little room. It turned out that Leon and a couple of his friends were going to Hampi the same day, so we all shared a taxi to the nearest town, Mapsa. We s...

Hi, I'm enjoying some sun, sea breeze and sandy beaches in Goa! It feels so good to be able to take a deep breath and smell the saltiness in the air after spending weeks in the pollution of big cities. I arrived a few days ago after a bumpy 20 hour long bus ride. It was a sleeper bus, so I got a little bed to lie down on. It took us hours to just get out of the busy Mumbai traffic. It was dark by then so I lay down to get some sleep. I'm surprised I managed to g...