A visitor rests by a genuine US Army helicopter in the War Remnants Museum. The sights here were truly jarring with real artifacts from the war and a picture gallery. A wax recreation of a prisoner of war. There were some more like these in the museum, but this one was particularly haunting with its...
These ‘cyclos’ as they are called is one of the common means of transportation in the city. Mostly for tired foreigners that is. The cyclo drivers exploit the foreigners to the max by asking them for higher fares and by promising them a quick tour of the city. One driver drove me insane by trailing...
A man rests in the shade of his cart loaded with things ranging from plastics to cleanly shaved tender coconuts. I found this sight very similar to our India too except that he had neatly stacked up those coconuts too in his cart! Carts selling street food like our chaat are not an uncommon sight....
My Vietnam trip was in Feb 2009 and I couldn’t update this blog everyday then. But now I thought why not just chronicle it through the numerous miscellaneous photos that I have taken. So let me begin with my first stop in Vietnam, which was Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) or Saigon. This was a...
I absolutely loved the food. Pictured above is one of their staples known as Pho (pronounced as ‘fa’), a noodle soup with vegetables and meat for the non-vegetarians. The leaves that they give alongside are very aromatic and I was seeing them for the first time and the last. A different version of the pho...
After all my thoughts on Devbagh, here is some info on how to get there. I know there are tons of sites already detailing the same, but here’s my two pence anyway. I took the VRL bus, booked through Redbus, starting at 8.15 pm from Majestic and scheduled to reach Karwar by 7.00 am or...
The temple pillar with the mosque in the background My next day began early at 6.30 with a nature walk around the island, arranged by the resort. The first stop of the walk is at the beach to catch the sunrise and then onward inside the woods where Anil shows us a lot of...
Sunset in Devbagh Devbagh requires only a weekend. Start on a Friday and come back by Monday morning. But time stops still in this place. For me it stopped on Saturday morning when I entered my cottage on this peaceful island. Devbagh, literally means “God’s Garden” and I am wont to think that I...
The woods are lovely… Devbagh happened for the first time in February last year, when my friends and I went there for the first time. To put it simply we fell in love. Its truly a “paradise” as one of my friends described it, with wooded expanse dotted with cottages giving way to the...
