tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15754695923527900922024-03-13T03:58:50.814-07:00DREAMWORKSA place to empty all my mind before i move to a new study , new worlds . new dreams. Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-81112364590091471202023-05-22T11:36:00.091-07:002023-05-24T22:32:21.053-07:00Thailand 2023 <p><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Our flight time was delayed by an hour, we had </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a burger (</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">350 rs.)</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span color="windowtext" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">at the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Chennai airport while waiting for the flight.</span></p><p><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Anyways we reached Bangkok at the expected time. <br /><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br />Departure from Chennai at 23:25 </span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Friday (</span></span></span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Feb 24</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">)</span><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> and</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> arrival in Bangkok at 04:25 <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Saturday (Feb 25).</span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikuCHiBiPIEDZsKZgGRnfk6jjNxuzm-0xNy98gpB4uro0_HoQqmVguaByplLIUsOZvABRJW5hJx29abMRN2PM33YKUYT0rtgV3NwcJN_3pHP0A0hr8bAwzuvw4viNH_Npt5vpX-daTw8oB2CU1p0RYIpu0_k2w-7HPoED-QKfOozlbwiIJCUmHL2bEFA/s1507/IMG_4743_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1507" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikuCHiBiPIEDZsKZgGRnfk6jjNxuzm-0xNy98gpB4uro0_HoQqmVguaByplLIUsOZvABRJW5hJx29abMRN2PM33YKUYT0rtgV3NwcJN_3pHP0A0hr8bAwzuvw4viNH_Npt5vpX-daTw8oB2CU1p0RYIpu0_k2w-7HPoED-QKfOozlbwiIJCUmHL2bEFA/w400-h300/IMG_4743_00.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">me (Mathi) & Nisreen</div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fce5cd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">On arrival visa</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (for two) <b>= 4400 baht (10,357 Rs</b></span><span class="SpellingError SCXO180499240 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQAEAJECAP////8AAAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAFAAQAAAIIlGAXCCHrTCgAOw=="); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">)</span></span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Travel tip: </span><span style="background-color: white;">The e visa which is applied online (E-VOA) costs 2500 baht per person and the normal visa on arrival applied at the airport costs 2000 baht. T</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">here is a fast/express line with an additional fee of 200 baht i</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">n case of a longue queue at the immigration counter.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b>Feb 25</b></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We made use of the</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> free wifi at the Bangkok airport</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> to book a "</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fcff01; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Grab taxi"</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> (</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">280 baht</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">) </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">to "BB house" in <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Khaosan road.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">The hotel </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">(580 baht for a </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">night)</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> is located in </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #ffe599; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Phra Athit road</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> which is very close to the Khaosan road and Rambuttri alley. I</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">t has all the basic amenities.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><u>Travel tip</u>: it is not possible to sleep through the loud music in Khaosan road or Rambutrri alley at nights, so Phra Athit road or Phra Sumen road can be the smart choice.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We entered the nearest </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">7-eleven store</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> and bought a True move H </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Sim card</span> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">(699</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> baht)</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">, it has 15 days validity with unlimited internet and an international calling credit of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">100 baht</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">. The usage directions to <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">activate the sim</span> are mentioned on the package. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_eBbtB6Xj2i0GZSOnsWnDE3NU3BagD5zZNre_NqrdSj3yuaXf1IhtIs05OmZYgBUa8KtALq6ybRp3QMty4gYEznWFTkohRQUNF1-rhIXjX5rqs6mcnxBfzMxkqxp17diNF_O__knHbiknn41vNH4cgU6b5lKTHgrCWCYm-iN_LHtmf1kGlR8oMkNHQA/s1898/_MG_4302.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1898" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_eBbtB6Xj2i0GZSOnsWnDE3NU3BagD5zZNre_NqrdSj3yuaXf1IhtIs05OmZYgBUa8KtALq6ybRp3QMty4gYEznWFTkohRQUNF1-rhIXjX5rqs6mcnxBfzMxkqxp17diNF_O__knHbiknn41vNH4cgU6b5lKTHgrCWCYm-iN_LHtmf1kGlR8oMkNHQA/w640-h382/_MG_4302.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN">(The Phra Sumen Fort)</p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><u>The Phra sumen fort</u> was just <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">5 mins</span> away by walk and its a good place to relax (if you're not into photography). We had </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Breakfast (</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">105 baht) </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">with tea (</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">20 baht</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">) at one of the many coffee shops in the very lively Banglamphu neighbourhood. <br /><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">I </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">decided we should spend more time along the banks of the </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Chao phraya river</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> so that</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> we can enjoy the old traditional side of Bangkok. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIzYAyXlLzbzq3bHnVQxYfZzdYzuATu9A0-YrcYz_I9-ymKP_qHBn9FuKvbiXWcnpHcmwIYUGe7jJKrX6kihdMpFrrSSvTYRZbGqlJCE1gvEVIIb2hTDpv7IuIEQQd1RFm1TklmhgC2rEE76XU0h7lmb-KVvjmbCBTxyx5vfwFpdZ8tT5NSyDw69C-lA/s4032/IMG_4750_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIzYAyXlLzbzq3bHnVQxYfZzdYzuATu9A0-YrcYz_I9-ymKP_qHBn9FuKvbiXWcnpHcmwIYUGe7jJKrX6kihdMpFrrSSvTYRZbGqlJCE1gvEVIIb2hTDpv7IuIEQQd1RFm1TklmhgC2rEE76XU0h7lmb-KVvjmbCBTxyx5vfwFpdZ8tT5NSyDw69C-lA/w480-h640/IMG_4750_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span color="windowtext">(the royal cat of </span><span color="windowtext" style="text-align: left;">Wat Chana Songkram</span><span color="windowtext">)</span></span></div><p></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><u>Wat Chana Songkram</u> is a </span><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">10 mins</span><span><span style="background-color: white;"> walk from Phra Sumen. It is one among the many (over 400) Buddhist temples of Bangkok, it was close by and deserved a visit.<br /><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjuslyWkbaYHy0fsbT9HmJHiHNVoT1vZiO7usXjFVaPBEH1lWhxG54bjkZWwWrYFkXc2mdlOwFP-wfGBGAMCR6FJOTbHqggtv7UWScWg5RFEoC6ROWdacKKtsvWlbNxEi8dJ55f6wFd8-3nPxOcH0nbDPwOPe9ZQzMvG53xCdH4kr9vPoNnlwi6hpt7A/s4032/IMG_4756_00.jpeg" style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjuslyWkbaYHy0fsbT9HmJHiHNVoT1vZiO7usXjFVaPBEH1lWhxG54bjkZWwWrYFkXc2mdlOwFP-wfGBGAMCR6FJOTbHqggtv7UWScWg5RFEoC6ROWdacKKtsvWlbNxEi8dJ55f6wFd8-3nPxOcH0nbDPwOPe9ZQzMvG53xCdH4kr9vPoNnlwi6hpt7A/w640-h480/IMG_4756_00.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span><span><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We had decided to skip the over touristy places like the Grand palace, Wat Pho etc in this trip. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span><span><span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span><span><span><span style="background-color: white;">We also had a </span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Thai milk tea</span><span style="background-color: white;"> in one of the street shops, the usual kick you expect from an average tea can be missing because it was not hot enough and they use grounded tamarind seeds, orange rind and condensed milk which gives it the unique </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Thai</span><span style="background-color: white;"> flavour. </span></span></span></span></span></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMwjaVGAJHZG1HOvUGnS88JMLeQc7Pdd1Yk6CB5DjA9bEQuWBiiPwAOyleRNRdampDNfqr49R7qYahVVWYexctNQU3xk4eh851hqVjroA-uluhN0Q7jwD5GHc2S4hBm2zy7s_Mm6DLOwOS8Rxac7gJR9SN4pZfkV4qM8CuOFA7HtfD5ZdHxrAOdhG9bQ/s2160/_MG_4430.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">In the afternoon we walked to the Phra Arthit ferry terminal to catch a ferry to Icon Siam (32 baht</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">)</span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Travel tip</span>: Orange line tickets are cheaper and the <span style="background-color: #ffd966;">Orange flagged boats</span> are also frequent (every 10-20 mins),</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> the local Thai people use this ferry service regularly,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> so there is no reason to choose the other blue flagged (blue line) tourist boats. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We reached the <b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Icon Siam</b> which is probably the most luxurious mall of Bangkok. We had lunch at the food court in the ground floor, the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Crab meat (100 baht) </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Egg noodles (80 baht) was satisfying.</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1698" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23hwBltXtnDdjG2chF44uVPXKU14YYwha7-nHTLJts0lz4Bo6ptNiXk_ngiVnaLvMh7jfhrCFWB-bg489aoSzvH2KfAYVZ5_cHHkipgaRjzKZdEBu2HXyv63R77o9SYdmx-f624UvfkeXRpD91nNb-GH6yYZHiHzHVvmS7ohy1xfhcf_lE28mhpegtA/w640-h426/_MG_4453.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">(view from the Starbucks coffee shop at the 7th floor of Icon Siam)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">From Icon Siam we moved to the <b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Wang Lang market</b> by ferry (32 baht) where we had the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Sugarcane juice (30 baht) and the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Passion fruit juice (35</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;"> baht). This market was a nice place to interact with the local people but we got tired walking through the numerous stalls. </span></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Around 6pm in the evening we left from Wang Lang to Phra Athit by ferry (32 baht)</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none;"> to have some rest in our hotel room. Later we got a foot massage at Rambuttri alley on the way to checking out the parties at the Khaosan road.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Travel tip</span> - an average foot massage costs 120 baht, the foot and shoulder massage will cost 150 baht.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Khaosan road was crazy as expected, the road was not very long but maneuvering through the Khaosan parties can be exhausting, (here </span><span>the number of foreign tourists surpasses the local crowd)</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I tried tasting the <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Jelly fish stick</span> (20</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht) and the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Mushroom stick</span> (20</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht) </span></span><span>i</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">n an attempt to mingle with the craziest backpackers crowd, t</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">he relaxation we experienced in the foot massage was starting to wear off. </span>We reached the end of the Khaosan road and tried to find an alternate route to our hotel room but there was no energy to explore new routes due to sleep deprivation and we walked back through the same crazy crowd of Khaosan road because it was the shortest route back. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></div><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></span><p></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5vt76EmZKy8" width="320" youtube-src-id="5vt76EmZKy8"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We ordered a <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Pad Thai prawn</span> (40 baht) </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none;">at the Rambuttri alley</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none;"> and e</span><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none;">ven though we were</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-ligatures: none;"> absolutely tired it was not easy to call it a night, we had a hot tea </span><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-ligatures: none;">(</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">45 baht)</span><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-ligatures: none;"> on our way to the hotel just to spend more time in the vibrant nightlife of what they call the backpacker's paradise or the backpacker's mecca.. </span></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Travel tip</span> : </span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The food at Icon Siam ground floor is better than the street food of </span><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-ligatures: none;">Khaosan.</span></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Never forget to buy a water bottle (</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">10</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht) </span><span color="windowtext" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-ligatures: none;">before going to the hotel at night.</span></span></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Feb 26</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Departed from B</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">angkok at 11 am to arrive in <b>Krabi </b>at 12:30 pm by flight.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We had Pancake for breakfast at the Bangkok airport (79</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht) with </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Tea (65</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht). On reaching Krabi, our plan was to immediately book a taxi to Ao nang beach but the Grab taxi service was not available at the airport due to a political issue between Local transport agencies and the Grab taxi company. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A lady from a local transport company saw us and asked where we wanted to go, we said </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Railay beach</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and w</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">e asked for two tickets to the Ao nang beach. <span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">I thought reaching Railay is easier from the "</span></span><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9; font-size: 14.6667px;">Ao nang long tail boat service club"</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;"> but anyways she marked us as "Railey" and showed our way to a minibus.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Krabi is characterised by </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">limestone cliffs</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and a very peaceful environment, the bus was going to Ao Nang beach but we were dropped at the</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Ao Nam Mao pier</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (30 mins from Krabi airport & 10 mins from Ao Nang beach) from where we can get longtail boats (200 baht for two) to Railay. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Travel tip</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">: don't sit on the rear end of the longtail boats, the sound of the diesel engine can leave a lasting impact in our ears. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRjcMIeHy9VNlK8Y28ui9CghuCWwQaeJsUkJSS1KfPwHOy2h0XdQb9zbAptAc-jeMdaxEvjs2E6TqRCtqeZQ-CeXnmOXwykaLfVgMap9I5VoTKfzBkE36DhA8DEE_wtdcPwwwFA0slnddrZx4n8q7v1oCxK4J4xX9dxtW-vEk5-htS8GfJS2SSEhVWQ/s1747/east%20railey.JPG" style="font-size: 12px; 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font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span>the<span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span><b><span style="background-color: #0b5394; color: #d9ead3;">"Diamond cave Resort"</span></b><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span>(3420</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht for 2 nights) by walk. There was an </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">Englishman who plays ukulele staying in the same resort and </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">he was nice, he likes to speak his heart out. <br /><br /></span><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxYMX7ZLKwjzgfThChbImutx7DyOqYEeYfTRYaT8MtbthcVugifeeRlM4U3QvK3hXJLzZ4e5xlpQUsMkx_E45Lb-xlrDDDTdmrPmUUdYFa7tGabN4JW8kvnzI3tVaekK1btCKUjQR0EFDRaGIjmK7iLd4ULTohbzyFKRvBmObCfRgsd5gDnSttZnaV7w/s4030/IMG_E4782.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2045" data-original-width="4030" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxYMX7ZLKwjzgfThChbImutx7DyOqYEeYfTRYaT8MtbthcVugifeeRlM4U3QvK3hXJLzZ4e5xlpQUsMkx_E45Lb-xlrDDDTdmrPmUUdYFa7tGabN4JW8kvnzI3tVaekK1btCKUjQR0EFDRaGIjmK7iLd4ULTohbzyFKRvBmObCfRgsd5gDnSttZnaV7w/w640-h324/IMG_E4782.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We had Prawn Tempura and seafood red curry rice (300</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht) in a nearby restaurant, This part of Krabi is secluded from the mainland, there is no direct road route. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: white;">T</span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">he wind was strong, the people walking along the promenade were having a hard time.</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXVNFzwxqv7aBkT1T_hmSld7g7CrtCMtkcxWGQ7WlZPibyEuUzHpGuRU5qH0qu3MkxmqWx-s5iHoAW1k8ANgszeobe4PWTlR8-TMSJe-CKbkyuWQL0xtTmNdFTK1NX7zSVGN-O90AEarCj_x6B8NN8P6AZSzbTHzWnGakwgTl-XcKlwwkpIgu3Mlj_8w/s1509/IMG_4806_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1509" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXVNFzwxqv7aBkT1T_hmSld7g7CrtCMtkcxWGQ7WlZPibyEuUzHpGuRU5qH0qu3MkxmqWx-s5iHoAW1k8ANgszeobe4PWTlR8-TMSJe-CKbkyuWQL0xtTmNdFTK1NX7zSVGN-O90AEarCj_x6B8NN8P6AZSzbTHzWnGakwgTl-XcKlwwkpIgu3Mlj_8w/w640-h480/IMG_4806_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(a monitor lizard crossing the beach in West Railay)<br /><br /></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;">W</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">e were just strolling that evening not looking for anything in particular and w</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;">e walked to the south end the beach to an area pinned on G maps as the </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 14.6667px;">East Railay bay.</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;"> We tried to click some pics and i</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">t was difficult to get the pictures in sharp focus because of the wind and the low light </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">(besides I only had an</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">18-55 mm kit lens)</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ddc2vTHJJF76rq1CVni2uf7DkD55g0XDpCwIMgtHczvhRovp2BZ__9TpeafCXiiukyAueX9p2hYsf_SU72Dm8ioskEzbSD8tlGpm3iB_-vPbS5pBxsdzKiuhVUpj0zaLvc-f56vez6q1JzMfEXKQn9J3TELbUEr8nZawv-bWbQ90hGszXPOtfq109w/s1698/_MG_4497.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The resort was located on a Tsunami evacuation zone, it was very close to a limestone mountain and the view from the outdoor sitting area was very pleasant b</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ut</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px;"> the</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;"> steep walking it takes to reach the room </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">every time we came back from the beach or a restaurant </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;">was time consuming.<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDwVISXjw1plim6_2U85FJURWc5ZDD9YpMCZpdXgrjA42LOBWCNVkA86GOVjpywiR42fTbwt1xiwMTSq5E9ihwUyKpnPAadxuMhJmgHPpvCtHDRjvmV0axyqLHxmKRYLUhBqo7ujWUlvFWFLO2wbR5eoYzMIe5NP0SDywtfdUmTJr9sZ7jVGRqHh6v6Q/s2700/IMG_4899_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDwVISXjw1plim6_2U85FJURWc5ZDD9YpMCZpdXgrjA42LOBWCNVkA86GOVjpywiR42fTbwt1xiwMTSq5E9ihwUyKpnPAadxuMhJmgHPpvCtHDRjvmV0axyqLHxmKRYLUhBqo7ujWUlvFWFLO2wbR5eoYzMIe5NP0SDywtfdUmTJr9sZ7jVGRqHh6v6Q/w512-h640/IMG_4899_00.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">For dinner we had</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> Rice with </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Massaman curry</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">, </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Blue crab and clams</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> (350 baht) at some place</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;">half way through the <b>walking street</b>. <br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgms36xBKcec57VoqvGlRl3IkMBKImdegt8egaKAnvzP9PWMMH83YGRTEbjrX_HY3sENOEW3p97vU27aXl5fHfULXCe0nk7wt3h_hIg8FsLFA0IRrEpFosYWQa7bBa4a4EX3F97nMTVPdTDVPXuVz04mOj6AJcY5gEMQKaTETbrGiadgYh4b_HiYqLfww/s4032/IMG_4817_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgms36xBKcec57VoqvGlRl3IkMBKImdegt8egaKAnvzP9PWMMH83YGRTEbjrX_HY3sENOEW3p97vU27aXl5fHfULXCe0nk7wt3h_hIg8FsLFA0IRrEpFosYWQa7bBa4a4EX3F97nMTVPdTDVPXuVz04mOj6AJcY5gEMQKaTETbrGiadgYh4b_HiYqLfww/w480-h640/IMG_4817_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">(fun at the walking street)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_rcfcJLwlYv2H9MbKnnjWkpaTZuW3v0RbDUtgNW9Y3q8AmZ3adH3ScdKufV4_4vQxqwAQtIE-3OqKsjheI1KsdFuRf4ZNZ9YwLUkdPLl9X2LS_La4WkZZ0OKNeJlUxBZRgpRO193yQdgCApQIizEp4Iig9Zwv9Us8VGk5Ux67U6TDsI9wY439GA3Og/s4032/IMG_4818_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_rcfcJLwlYv2H9MbKnnjWkpaTZuW3v0RbDUtgNW9Y3q8AmZ3adH3ScdKufV4_4vQxqwAQtIE-3OqKsjheI1KsdFuRf4ZNZ9YwLUkdPLl9X2LS_La4WkZZ0OKNeJlUxBZRgpRO193yQdgCApQIizEp4Iig9Zwv9Us8VGk5Ux67U6TDsI9wY439GA3Og/w480-h640/IMG_4818_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">The <b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">West Railay beach</b> was really very mellow at night as the tall limestone cliff nearby was illuminated by the moonlight. We tried to identify the sounds around us with our eyes closed and it was difficult to even distinguish more than five different sounds, the beach was mesmerisingly calm.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt;">Travel tip</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;">: Blue crab turns red when cooked, don't doubt the restaurant staffs. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><b>Feb 27 </b></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We started the day with C</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">roissant, guava juice and b</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">read toast with scrambled egg (220</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht).<br /></span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br />From the East Railay bay starts a beautiful path under the interesting cliffs to the </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #cc0000; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><b style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Phra Nang beach and the princess cave</b></span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. There was also a trail that leads to a viewpoint and a lagoon but we were not in the mood for it. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; 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font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">After an unprepared dip in the sea, we walked back to our resort under the shade of an umbrella brought all the way from Chennai. We also bumped into the Englishman and his other English friend who wanted to know about Calcutta. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">They were in Thailand to eat Tofu and they had very good regards for the veg </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">khao soi</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> they had in Chiang Mai (northern part of Thailand), they were targeting on India's Paneer dishes as their next adventure (there are cheap flights to Calcutta from Thailand).</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In the afternoon we grabbed a </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Watermelon juice (50 baht) while on our way to the Tonsai beach, <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">juices in Thailand</span> are mostly served in disposable takeaway cups or small pet bottles. It gets complicated when you ask them to make a juice without ice. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Travel tip:</span> The ice used for the beverages in Thailand are quality checked.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">During the low tide it is possible to walk from Railey west to the<span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span><b><span style="background-color: #38761d; color: #fcff01;">Tonsai beach</span></b><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span>but otherwise we have to hike through a forest to reach the other side of a<span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">rock </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">cliff that separates the two beaches.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTBtA4o5ESV1NrS5WwovMY73NRUd02hF34SPDlkX_7t_va3Fc7WDRgqUweFlu-RQ2Y0HYkvf-Cgf2byNjaeakYVZCfDIT_6HOOU8dfgkI99t5Q-Qw_W33E6B7_17xPOkYJeJRw5q7wu_sEhGa3F8NvV9Vtz77Rp6qjspVUoteRgCtHsQ47clr2IVu7NQ/s2700/tosiss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1501" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTBtA4o5ESV1NrS5WwovMY73NRUd02hF34SPDlkX_7t_va3Fc7WDRgqUweFlu-RQ2Y0HYkvf-Cgf2byNjaeakYVZCfDIT_6HOOU8dfgkI99t5Q-Qw_W33E6B7_17xPOkYJeJRw5q7wu_sEhGa3F8NvV9Vtz77Rp6qjspVUoteRgCtHsQ47clr2IVu7NQ/w356-h640/tosiss.jpg" width="356" /></a><br /><br /></div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh79toSSSbHC_RQv9wzzHLqLXyB1BFQXhI1yDYwGhAR739GSWzr46CdfgzK4lVD9wVScs--1KRA_DvowdyYv2XWlFzR4ppydiIe_4Poxpmam6Dcg13bMDqSGBQJumjOyTZKgY1TyMS55TSh9tFV09CExukhT_GM0HtinOEKXC-u_Rn6hANQuk6AQ-5XjQ/s1740/tonsai%20beach.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1740" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh79toSSSbHC_RQv9wzzHLqLXyB1BFQXhI1yDYwGhAR739GSWzr46CdfgzK4lVD9wVScs--1KRA_DvowdyYv2XWlFzR4ppydiIe_4Poxpmam6Dcg13bMDqSGBQJumjOyTZKgY1TyMS55TSh9tFV09CExukhT_GM0HtinOEKXC-u_Rn6hANQuk6AQ-5XjQ/w640-h358/tonsai%20beach.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">TONSAI BEACH</span></b><br /><br /></div><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">For the second time, we were unprepared for a swim and the sea was very inviting. Anyways the sun was not giving us an option and we jumped into the waves. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbmaqnkIAJluSemldqsZS8_xVLrQ-r1TlgGC1flPM82G2in01Scel1aP2U_YXDXYn4LknrKPNV8ESpy5X9kwMCgJikr--CftS8TRaAhvfpWiD0WrZ93khPOxF4vm6oJmz8fqGuqinJFjNox4dFUiVJI60QMzIkYDuKHvH_sd9rcucs-AQD8ePko2T3Q/s4032/IMG_4905_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbmaqnkIAJluSemldqsZS8_xVLrQ-r1TlgGC1flPM82G2in01Scel1aP2U_YXDXYn4LknrKPNV8ESpy5X9kwMCgJikr--CftS8TRaAhvfpWiD0WrZ93khPOxF4vm6oJmz8fqGuqinJFjNox4dFUiVJI60QMzIkYDuKHvH_sd9rcucs-AQD8ePko2T3Q/w640-h480/IMG_4905_00.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">(enjoying the sea)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Travel tip</span>: It is safer to visit the Tonsai beach in the afternoon because after sunset it could be difficult to return back. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtTb3bwS83J3InhZnp6bl1D5tfqgVGOJzhPKdb3SGctX8yV0nJAejYW58NpHLLuTghTmRiMBPz1mgzoOQKKHWjz6LLReZNSnK7yq9SlzFpOEhlrsmk8KwT67L7Oat8h7yy9GWXlBDG8WDWUjwXZPIyBoofJomKnWP-GpMMuMs0vaWtx8Oa4pEzQXsSqA/s2160/_MG_4954.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The plan was to have lunch at Tonsai but we dint see enough options there and so we returned to the walking street; we ordered the Panang</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> curry, some rice and some </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">sticky rice as well with a fried egg (260</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht). <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">The Panang curry</span> was delicious but it came in a plate instead of a bowl and the quantity was not enough. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In the evening (after buying a Mango juice (50</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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It was an amazing evening graced with a golden yellow light. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-qSmB_xJzbizkuEyECkVP6x-MFrqjMe3pNZ_dla3S9jPXDuYYZHh4AzybVYco3RoSfsqpWHxfZ9_e_qtuVJlIo7N9hujmDKZfNLFz_iw7VYYAJiBYtKBJalCiL0cU_hz7vcbLNYJa_UD5NIsr7vDxl9592J-3n2S3JeTQpOyDzf35hyFznqpsAooTLw/s3456/_MG_5049.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">For a change we skipped the walking street and moved to the northern side of the East Railay beach for dinner. </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The last bar</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was located near a perfect mangrove bush, we even walked further north till the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Tew lay bar</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> where they wanted us to have a seat but we left the place saying we will come in the morning for breakfast </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">instead</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">There was a pet Macaw walking on the bar counter which was very intriguing but </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"the last bar" seemed to be a more happening place, the nearby bar area had a open mic night and they also conduct <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Muay Thai</span> fights. We ordered a <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Tom yum goong</span> veg soup with rice and a </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Shrimp omelette</span> (</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">240</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht). The soup had a very refreshing </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">lemongrass flavour</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Travel tip</span>: Tom Yum Goong is a soup but it can also be ordered with rice like a curry.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We went to the West Railay beach again and felt that astonishment again. it was so beautiful, just like the previous night. We also entered a few shops looking for some essentials on our way back to the Diamond cave resort.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></p></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b>Feb 28</b></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b><br /></b></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">This is our last morning in Railay and so we were determined to start early and spend more time in the Phra Nang beach. We reached before the crowds and there was a great place to swim near the <b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">cave shrine</b>. <br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA81qT8lw218LPxqa1mklavX_FwVlj-R_eaNI72vfuhOJa4uEdz1Vn4pn--iL5-Pjavr721p7GybnAXTOo2s8cntpcwhALyuVJkP7bAoESXSMgE5JYMtzLUy_XcRMHbfMX0Mf69KkSScwoP3cqZQxxo86HjrUNEhlij22U4afAWJX_zejKsGYuHIMIAw/s1698/_MG_4793.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1698" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA81qT8lw218LPxqa1mklavX_FwVlj-R_eaNI72vfuhOJa4uEdz1Vn4pn--iL5-Pjavr721p7GybnAXTOo2s8cntpcwhALyuVJkP7bAoESXSMgE5JYMtzLUy_XcRMHbfMX0Mf69KkSScwoP3cqZQxxo86HjrUNEhlij22U4afAWJX_zejKsGYuHIMIAw/w640-h426/_MG_4793.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">When the sun was a little higher up, we walked along the beach till the Grotto restaurant and walked across the sea to the nearby island which has a very small beach (</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Ko Rang beach) </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">with clear shimmering water.<br /><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br />The long boats to Ao nang are parked in the West Railay beach, </span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">) and an </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">A</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">cai berry bowl</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> for brunch. We also got an orange mint shake and a mixed shake </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">(</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">passion fruit, mango and pineapple)</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> (</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">350 </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">baht)<br /><br /></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> dropped us at the <b style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Ao Nang beach</b> (in knee deep water) </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">within half an hour.</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> We walked to the nearest bike rental shop</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> and hired a "Honda Click" </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">scooter for two days (600 baht). Our stay was at the Nemo 2 resort </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">(</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">800 </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">baht for a nigh</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">t)</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> near the </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Noppharat Thara beach.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Travel tip</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> : </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">It might be difficult to sleep when you stay at Ao Nang beach because the music from the clubs and other parties don't stop till 3 am especially in the beach front resorts and hostels. It is sensible to stay around </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Noppharat Thara beach which is just ten minutes away and the prices are also comparatively cheaper.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We explored the Lotus supermarket in Ao Nang for various things and came out with a pack of </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">I was surfing through the tv channels, trying to understand the Thai sensibilities a</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nd in the late afternoon we were heading towards the <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>KhaoThong hill restaurant</b></span> in the scooter. There was some petrol already in the vehicle but we filled some more (50 baht). There was a little bit of rain during the <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">one hour drive</span> to Khaothong which made us stop for a while near the <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">cliff of love bench</span>.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; 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line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Salmon with garlic rice and fried clams (600</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">baht).</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">It drizzled again while driving down to Ao Nang and luckily we reached the hotel room before the rain got heavier. The rain had a slight impact on the night life of Ao Nang but most of the places were open. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: windowtext; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVAq_p5qwm1FIv1M8rUFgCa0dT8Y7SttvONSvehLnb0dEHQjsr19ZXsRnwY8tlLEmhAqnL6L6wX7GhG8qF66TzyPRpPJs0ZUzQP0zs1xUxshrrSJr6SwEXLr-a5VgygNuapaeR2_VPeGhz0EOReuFpentUrdY56antfTs1IT72XsWOOp2gOJRKIjJGQ/s1503/IMG_20230228_223120009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1503" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVAq_p5qwm1FIv1M8rUFgCa0dT8Y7SttvONSvehLnb0dEHQjsr19ZXsRnwY8tlLEmhAqnL6L6wX7GhG8qF66TzyPRpPJs0ZUzQP0zs1xUxshrrSJr6SwEXLr-a5VgygNuapaeR2_VPeGhz0EOReuFpentUrdY56antfTs1IT72XsWOOp2gOJRKIjJGQ/w640-h482/IMG_20230228_223120009.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">(An Art gallery in the<span style="color: #38761d;"> <b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Ao-nang beach walk night market</b></span>.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: windowtext; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-JJWtXI42AWByJtem_lijr4DAoiSGQ7Dr4NelZn6KZAF5KvoF_3bF-P6wVF88VwWzKuhvV1w5g99oRsWlLPVjQhvT1hpZhh1NFCjSs-DZQ-cnc94O8D3KpcT5LeoBk92S6Kxg9xTGZclk_8xzCMPiC5GOwAZ5QZkf0mujXPV9GCpJNLvoZubMjg7cA/s4080/IMG_20230228_221210311.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-JJWtXI42AWByJtem_lijr4DAoiSGQ7Dr4NelZn6KZAF5KvoF_3bF-P6wVF88VwWzKuhvV1w5g99oRsWlLPVjQhvT1hpZhh1NFCjSs-DZQ-cnc94O8D3KpcT5LeoBk92S6Kxg9xTGZclk_8xzCMPiC5GOwAZ5QZkf0mujXPV9GCpJNLvoZubMjg7cA/w482-h640/IMG_20230228_221210311.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: windowtext; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: windowtext; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYpXA27rDsLljnyQcyXGDAPdcyqO4Z5oxA1gavpiLV3CR76INGwFFokGeo2mdv5s0mZlQOXJLK6SfiPtcihIlPi_nPG_-dS668MywRrAy7k2F7LcxEbvC5Hvm2gobDaIid8VK0zcCn4cYe3JyjJi-J6sCKxz7q0ug8LpM-Yqgz8ehklyQLz5zC4mA4SQ/s1509/IMG_5040_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1509" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYpXA27rDsLljnyQcyXGDAPdcyqO4Z5oxA1gavpiLV3CR76INGwFFokGeo2mdv5s0mZlQOXJLK6SfiPtcihIlPi_nPG_-dS668MywRrAy7k2F7LcxEbvC5Hvm2gobDaIid8VK0zcCn4cYe3JyjJi-J6sCKxz7q0ug8LpM-Yqgz8ehklyQLz5zC4mA4SQ/w640-h480/IMG_5040_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We did not buy anything at both <span><span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #45818e;">the Ao Nang Landmark night market </b><span style="background-color: white;">and</span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #45818e;"> the Ao-nang beach walk market</b></span></span> but it was nice to walk through the stalls which were back in business after a good rain. We checked out a few parties happening at the</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">Centerpoint complex</b></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span>(smile bar, upbeat bar and the blue dragon cabaret) and also the parties in the<span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span><b style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="color: #990000;">RCA entertainment</span></b><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span>area which was just 5 mins away. </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">There were other places too like the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">tribe beach bar" and "boogie bar" but a single night was not enough to indulge and discover the night life of Ao Nang beach. </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We had a </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Mango chocolate Roti</span> (40 baht) for dinner and</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I also bought a water bottle </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">(14</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht)</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> at the 7/11 store (just opposite to our hotel) before going to bed.</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><b>Mar 01</b></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></p></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">The morning sun was a little harsh on us while we had our </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Vegan breakfast with English tea (in a pot) </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">(418</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht)</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">, </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">sitting in the corner table of </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">cafe 8.98 in Ao Nang. Then we set off to the Krabi town (45 mins away) where we checked into the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Baan samrarn hotel (826</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht for one night). </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; 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font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Immediately we started exploring the town, we went to the road which was along the krabi river and stopped for a few photos near the Crabs sculpture and the eagle sculpture before we decided to have a mixed shake (</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Passion fruit +pineapple) (50</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Krabi town was interesting, it looked like a nice place to live but w</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">e filled more Petrol (50 baht)</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We ordered the</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Kaeng Tai pla</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">(fried egg plant curry) and</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Pla Sai Tod Kamin</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> (</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Sand fish deep fried</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> in turmeric)</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> with rice (540 baht). We dint know "</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Tai pla" means fermented fish entrails, we thought it was just a very spicy eggplant curry</span></i><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvgvbjqvNcNsUfVl6ce0M0OCb4lSU5IoPSZzDIw04lJQygb9F2RVZCxCJtPtNFG-FD5_KJ1L4Ah9irJMkN5_1_6Gpchu5gFhm3XyqOsmoV2dRWROt9VyDh92Oik_V0pq2bKr4ETtMYAW8i9BMoU9wmAwpMcFz1DzGPa8wEgWqN2etuxe2e5BRP7NepXw/s4032/IMG_5064_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvgvbjqvNcNsUfVl6ce0M0OCb4lSU5IoPSZzDIw04lJQygb9F2RVZCxCJtPtNFG-FD5_KJ1L4Ah9irJMkN5_1_6Gpchu5gFhm3XyqOsmoV2dRWROt9VyDh92Oik_V0pq2bKr4ETtMYAW8i9BMoU9wmAwpMcFz1DzGPa8wEgWqN2etuxe2e5BRP7NepXw/w640-h480/IMG_5064_00.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtUpldqmd-50uhsinbQFWbWcpydHjrFzXOBZvJFOD5hcIrIVITWZ9LAwewViHsvSqRmcr0HupKhw41lMfivkQd7TVkwqThtWL-uRBHOc9-_JrDyXa4J228fGWFqc8b5n6q3AEMfxRQqGXYIfwW-LAPDWA_jdipnf-AuU6rYWJAutSjHD4wFyZwD6uUHQ/s4032/IMG_5067_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtUpldqmd-50uhsinbQFWbWcpydHjrFzXOBZvJFOD5hcIrIVITWZ9LAwewViHsvSqRmcr0HupKhw41lMfivkQd7TVkwqThtWL-uRBHOc9-_JrDyXa4J228fGWFqc8b5n6q3AEMfxRQqGXYIfwW-LAPDWA_jdipnf-AuU6rYWJAutSjHD4wFyZwD6uUHQ/w480-h640/IMG_5067_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(we packed the left over sand fish)</div></span><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">We were in no hurry, so we stopped again at the <b style="background-color: white;">M</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><b style="background-color: white;">ountain view Restaurant</b><span style="background-color: white;"> which was surrounded by beautiful cliffs, a lot of greenery and a mini waterfall. We had an </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Ice honey lemon tea and a cappuccino (</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">190 baht</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">) just to spend some time there, we also took some close-ups of the parrots</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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We took a left turn somewhere in the highway which lead us on an alternate route to Ao nang through the beautiful palm and rubber plantations. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We left our scooter in the vast parking space at the south east end of Ao nang beach near "the Last Fisherman bar" and took the <b style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">monkey trail</b> route (20 mins) to reach the <span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">Pai Plong beach</span>. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This beach is a private property of the Centara Grand beach resort but public access </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">is allowed</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. We walked back to the<b style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"> Last FIsherman bar</b> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">which was busy but also very relaxing due to the location. It was under the trees, right on the beach</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. 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We explored the <span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">krabi town night market</span> which was no different from the Ao nang night markets. We had a relaxing time in the Pak Nam pier on the Krabi river along with many local people who were sitting there, eating the food from the night market stalls. While walking back, we ordered a </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Morning glory rice</span> (60 baht) to takeaway </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">to the hotel. So far so good!</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><b>Mar 02</b></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We were waiting for the transport service (2400 Baht for two) that we had booked to <span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><b>Koh</b><b> Lipe</b></span> in the early morning. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We were picked up at our hotel in Krabi town by 6 am, we got a </span></span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Lemon tea, chicken sandwich and chips (120</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> baht) when the van stopped for a break at a coffee shop around 10 am and they dropped us at the </span><b style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Pak Bara Pier</b><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> in Satun province. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw06tHkZro-UUw_p7kK5piew-NIn21rjPETAdj417c3TyRSTF8JQxuhpme2G2qSwArEyICIZLRaY8ilxte62k2mfWBGxtCXjKhhqOYQ95bgWuB8_Apxc9usk0gH6sbFdMMUforGXTEuVfvf7reb4S5B1QT0VnQmE4WXK3XNRS3MCKIXFvBVP8K1wkPdQ/s1503/IMG_20230302_083021168.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">There was a 7-11 store near the pier, we bought a </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">coconut cream cake and gummy bears (120 baht). T</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">hen we were sent to a speed boat that dropped us at the island by around 1:30 pm. We had to pay a "</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Tarutao national park</b></span></span>" entry fee (40</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="TA-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="TA-IN">0 baht for two) on entering the island and</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> w</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">e reached the "</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Sang chan</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> hostel" by walk (1898</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht for 2 nights).</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 11pt;">Travel tip</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;">: D</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">on't remove the shoes on reaching Koh Lipe because we</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> wont be jumping from the speed boat right into the knee deep water on the beach like in some places, instead </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">there's a floating pier for the tourists to walk on</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> to </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">the island (the same as in East Railay).</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: red;">Warning</span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">: The floating piers are made of plastic which can get terribly hot in the afternoons. Don't try to walk on with barefoot.</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><div><br /></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">The hostel room reminded me of the hotel room in Khaosan road, everything neatly arranged in a small space. The lounge area was indeed great with water and coffee available all the time. </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Koh Lipe also has an official walking street and many other roads intersecting at interesting junctions.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Travel tip</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">: <i><u>Average cost of things in Koh Lipe.<br /></u></i><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Sugus jumbo chewy candy (42 baht)</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="background-color: white;">Eucalyptus pain balm costs 65 baht.</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Bike taxis are available at a standard charge of 100 baht</span> from anywhere to anywhere on the island.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Half an hour neck and shoulder massage (in Leelawadee) costs 260</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none;">Beach slippers + Tee shirt will cost 330 baht</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We had a Seafood rice with </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">yellow curry</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">and</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> a black pepper </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">chicken rice</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">(250</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht) for lunch somewhere in the walking street, The evening was spent on the <b style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">Sunset beach</b><b style="background-color: white;"> </b></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">(Hat Pramong), a gorgeous beach with a spectacular sunset. We walked into the sea water on the northern end of the beach where there was nobody else, just us and the fishes. It was quality time in the beach but some of the rocks are sharp and one has to be careful. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3axXJRikypk9H_yOUuUtcTrywQ5pLISW45fznRH6R5fGUsd4HJm6F3rJXuQzmAkePmbstBJ5XoLYiGV2t2mbkumTYH3ZwHNvH2V_BAX5qgxeUQqX5jvb1FkeXDbYYPTTP3qe45w1Vd13hxdfGp_ueQH465W9Pr6pAQZQQ6_hK4wZaKEklAc2lSAMgxw/s1698/_MG_5632.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Travel tip</span> : the "sunset beach" gets invaded by mosquitoes </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">after sunset,</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;"> So move out soon. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; 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line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">sweet n sour seafood soup</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">, stir fried veg noodles, </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Steam rice and plain omelette (</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">300 baht</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">)</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">in </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Tonkow bar.</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> We walked again to the other end of the walking street, to the</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> </span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">P</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">attaya beach</span></b><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> </span></span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">(not to be confused with Pattaya city) where a fire show was performed.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b>Mar 03</b></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br />In the morning we visited the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #9fc5e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b>Daya beach</b></span><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> and spent sometime on the beach lounge chairs, we also visited the<b> </b></span><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #ffe599; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b>Han Talay monastery</b></span><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; 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text-align: center;">(its a brahma statue but mostly worshipped outside the hindu context. It represents the ancestors ( guardian spirits) of the natives of Koh Lipe in the Thai folk religious context).</div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Travel tip</span>: Its nice to donate some money to the monastery while visiting.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We brunched at the <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">E</span></span></span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">lephant bar</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;"> on the walking street, we had s</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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T</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">he captain of the boat came with a watermelon and we were ready to go. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1A2Uj98i14vF7iROprE-1RZxgT7wLvjp0GIJWnR3JxSuMqTsPUPNguZ7CH2Jv05lQl89lHtor9tUueBNf5kjr0vr45-j-MdPIT-gnp3JcdLuzezsyCn4s7XPx-4XrALvN8gG1Fv0o_LoBMM3n1SU59trUOIVTbxSlrnhTPKWqyshdSBhdjsvtqHqzDg/s2700/_MG_5884.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1A2Uj98i14vF7iROprE-1RZxgT7wLvjp0GIJWnR3JxSuMqTsPUPNguZ7CH2Jv05lQl89lHtor9tUueBNf5kjr0vr45-j-MdPIT-gnp3JcdLuzezsyCn4s7XPx-4XrALvN8gG1Fv0o_LoBMM3n1SU59trUOIVTbxSlrnhTPKWqyshdSBhdjsvtqHqzDg/w426-h640/_MG_5884.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(leaving the island for a little while)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6uYIbq21w4pPVWBhCFxL2wPjxrsL_Ppc6r3ANsvsLzkEtzZXNwdrto0cXfJ8aY6DMrV4xaMRJzjbEh24bR08UDaiXKY3ECNRwjWxf7MaVBS2cCNPMY5N0TDsUgO01cZ0LKD8SnRBzvT0rVGPctPevBykGxd-AVN8IV-e-1Ah0ZP4LfGxeP-HUUl5Ayg/s1698/_MG_5897.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1698" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6uYIbq21w4pPVWBhCFxL2wPjxrsL_Ppc6r3ANsvsLzkEtzZXNwdrto0cXfJ8aY6DMrV4xaMRJzjbEh24bR08UDaiXKY3ECNRwjWxf7MaVBS2cCNPMY5N0TDsUgO01cZ0LKD8SnRBzvT0rVGPctPevBykGxd-AVN8IV-e-1Ah0ZP4LfGxeP-HUUl5Ayg/w640-h426/_MG_5897.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(the beautiful Koh Lipe island with the Koh Adang mountain in the background) </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;">We were the only ones who had booked for a sunset trip (2:30 pm to 6:30 pm), so the boat was all ours. We were taken to the Jabang dive site, </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">Koh Yang, </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;">Koh Hin Ngam and </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">Koh Adang. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSeEq-redQT_8vQQD4fSWWXRcM71n3D1xefd_UfnSwIZtXATbb5mT98QTLsAIdijb34Stm_xvPL5hwqUy9IAOwuwXGlgG_JMyVL1Yogn0TPWs8vJhYovYm-bi77ZsH5pZyefdGOlY-BGbfWuYHrqPUJTXpIMGQCCbPdaY6Lra2lVgJrVY_nKeTvaqbVg/s2700/IMG_5286_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2025" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSeEq-redQT_8vQQD4fSWWXRcM71n3D1xefd_UfnSwIZtXATbb5mT98QTLsAIdijb34Stm_xvPL5hwqUy9IAOwuwXGlgG_JMyVL1Yogn0TPWs8vJhYovYm-bi77ZsH5pZyefdGOlY-BGbfWuYHrqPUJTXpIMGQCCbPdaY6Lra2lVgJrVY_nKeTvaqbVg/w480-h640/IMG_5286_00.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">At <b>Jabang</b>, </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">I was not comfortable with the Snorkeling mask yet and the place </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">had too many tourist boats but</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"> we were thrilled to</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"> see the colourful corals, seeing through the snorkel mask was like watching an underwater video on wide screen projection.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO30AEJmTXveK4rzuqEk-rnJ2Bkxo1MBKCAU2pYpogZ-RTLzeUeT8vjoXQxMqtq08--UXUi8hvKiibGi94BnQX3cFd_XF4JB4L5i3Hjpisj5MfcWZ8d9uXr0_41Pp8CwsoWIKovAN-18_OS3YofnbJtLVphSlHCJWVi4Ad3A3BRadCMs04-OvFPDGpEA/s2700/IMG_5221_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2025" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO30AEJmTXveK4rzuqEk-rnJ2Bkxo1MBKCAU2pYpogZ-RTLzeUeT8vjoXQxMqtq08--UXUi8hvKiibGi94BnQX3cFd_XF4JB4L5i3Hjpisj5MfcWZ8d9uXr0_41Pp8CwsoWIKovAN-18_OS3YofnbJtLVphSlHCJWVi4Ad3A3BRadCMs04-OvFPDGpEA/w480-h640/IMG_5221_00.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">Snorkeling at <b>Koh Yang</b> was also a lovely experience, there were a variety of fishes and sea creatures. There's a whole other world in the sea, these fishes and other creatures of the ocean had distinctive characters and it seemed like they were interconnected as a co-existing community, their social life was very visible. It was spectacular whenever a school of fish passed by and Nisreen accidentally stepped on a Sea urchin, the sting left several spines on her feet. The boatman assured it is not dangerous through the google translator. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">The third stop was at </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"><b>Koh Hin Ngam</b>, this island is naturally filled with beautiful smooth black stones.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBtF89VvQrui0Ztbs9QUA6cS_k0Gj88N5JtGN9464mPKYMQJ3H8XxFOb4MYWVPkSLi8J45ahC-KO3HMC1r2igQJRCoweK-sFni3Bh5hO_DwMEW9WijPfEAePGOkY0L3c9Niuydn0H3-e2JeHU3ljhagwgC04mm2bmWcsrREUlyNCEOMq2-Ewg56M_qgA/s1509/IMG_5253_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Travel tip</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">: Don't forget to tip the boatman, a small amount will do. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">The sunset was beautiful, there were tourists from all countries and "Madam Yoo hoo" was selling Samosas (she runs a Thai restaurant in the walking street). </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We walked back to our hostel sharing our thoughts about the snorkeling experience and we were also getting to understand how the island operates. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We bought 2 lemons (20 baht)</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> at a nearby store as an antibiotic for the urchin sting</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We took some money from the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Krungsri ATM</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> using a forex card with a transaction charge (120</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht)</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Travel tip</span>: Keep half of the money in cash and the other half deposited in some credit card or forex card whichever is comfortable. Don't take money from the ATM too many times. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We had Seafood </span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Pad Thai</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">and </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">fish </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">soup noodles for dinner at the </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Nee papaya restaurant</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> (170 baht)</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; 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font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">The "Rainforest bar", "Time to chill bar" and the "Corner bar" </span><span style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">on the walking street</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> were active until late night</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">. </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">The other happening places were the "Maya bar", "Home bar" and the "OMG sports bar" which are <span style="background-color: #01ffff;">not on the walking street</span>. </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">T</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">he "Monkey bar" and the "Art beach club" on the </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Pattaya beach</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">try to create the Koh Phangan vibe with electronic music and fire shows, but it is not the reason why tourists come to Koh Lipe. T</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">he </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">sunrise beach</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> has the "Zodiac bar" and the "Sea La vie bar."</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><b>Mar 04</b></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We checked out from the "Sang Chan hostel" and hired a Bike taxi to the "Lipe beach resort" located on the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fcff01; color: #674ea7; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b>sunrise beach</b></span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> (Hat Chao Ley). We checked in at the resort (</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">3520</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht for two nights)</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">, the wind was heavy but the beach had a nice tropical feel. The resort also has a very good spa at the top floor overlooking the sea, offering very good massages. The rooms were hut styled wooden cottages, very airy and refreshing.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9a3wGRbqiml7weOoQeEVjAjdlx6ZG3PLZSMq_qCcbrSS7KBd49xbw2EDF2iJ8V5CJAET9f1asiiJNdYGNk1ns9YFEZq0Uxz2wx2he9Yqle_icYvuGuTJgfOG4X-shnXvvszHKwT8LGj6MuygE7i1wpttmZoaU_pm-R5Xn2DE1sHSf9RYCG1WAPn11Ng/s1698/_MG_6348.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Thai oil massage (1 Hour) in the Lipe beach resort costs 500 baht</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> <br /><br /></span></span><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">A</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> few mins walk on the beach took us to </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We had a granola bowl with seasonal fruits and coconut milk + a </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">mango salad with tofu and lime soy vinaigrette</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> + a ginger lemonade </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">(400</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">After returning to the resort, I was lazily </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">checking the photos in my camera while lying down in the balcony area</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">. 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We had an umbrella that could protect us from the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">the afternoon sun</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">, so we started walking, hoping for a Bike taxi to come by but we kept walking all the way to the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9d2e9; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Forever restaurant</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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We' seen the whole island now but was it worth it to walk this far for a restaurant?</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiDBGA1WA_-MU3ezGBHo_h8nn6x_6rno0_yzSKYUhutatOWGV7Riyr-l2Jdpp6JAnOtCdJOgQhOrAs875hImIYgaDOSAb9gm3D735uqG6DvgJKGK9a_bDpUoixUpj2D6pcYIn5NltMqP9COKKjSHcv0X3QdNVZwvUETlvTA8XRUI6vpGlY_OWdhNTpFg/s4032/IMG_5490_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiDBGA1WA_-MU3ezGBHo_h8nn6x_6rno0_yzSKYUhutatOWGV7Riyr-l2Jdpp6JAnOtCdJOgQhOrAs875hImIYgaDOSAb9gm3D735uqG6DvgJKGK9a_bDpUoixUpj2D6pcYIn5NltMqP9COKKjSHcv0X3QdNVZwvUETlvTA8XRUI6vpGlY_OWdhNTpFg/w640-h480/IMG_5490_00.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">It was a small homestyle restaurant managed by a simple family, we were the only customers but some more people came later on. </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We had the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">P</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">umpkin with coconut milk curry, Tea leaf salad and potato curry with rice</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">in <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">forever restaurant</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> </span>(400 baht). </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">We were hungry because of the long walk and the smell/taste of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">pumpkin curry </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">was truly satisfying. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">(happy mojito, sunset beach)<br /><br /></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">After relaxing there for sometime, we saw a Bike taxi dropping off some tourists, </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">luckily</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">we managed to hop into the bike taxi for a joyful ride to the Lipe beach resort (100</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht).</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span>In the evening we visited the <span><b style="background-color: #fcff01;">North point beach</b></span> (where the boatman dropped us the previous evening) again because it was the </span><b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #990000;">best beach on the island to watch the sunset</span></b><span style="background-color: transparent;"> without a doubt. </span></span></p><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; text-align: center;">I left the DSLR in the resort and shot some pics in iPhone</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Photography tip</span> : DSLR cameras are not very good in low light conditions unless you are equipped with a tripod, wide aperture lens, full frame sensor, better autofocus accuracy etc. An iPhone comes handy while photographing at </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">low light</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;"> but </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">never use "zoom" while clicking photos in "iPhone".</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKw6_stXhXuR9MxqIwlEhZcaJGuSYZJxbi2BsxDGECq3kTCEMZ4YlNKCzXCS2sKpy0ZDS6BOml-DinfQvbQ1S7ewsww1N9A4ck93E7ztIvFiHXWHN3OiKWFSEZk4u-Tr_fZVS5ZJYOB_L2eVbB7xVKczKxjgldKCdjA0LMBCPkJa4Qo7R6j1wHYZ7QKg/s4032/IMG_5622_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKw6_stXhXuR9MxqIwlEhZcaJGuSYZJxbi2BsxDGECq3kTCEMZ4YlNKCzXCS2sKpy0ZDS6BOml-DinfQvbQ1S7ewsww1N9A4ck93E7ztIvFiHXWHN3OiKWFSEZk4u-Tr_fZVS5ZJYOB_L2eVbB7xVKczKxjgldKCdjA0LMBCPkJa4Qo7R6j1wHYZ7QKg/w640-h480/IMG_5622_00.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcIbkexOD9EqggJW5gNPHPk7OqqW7FxZNEPSuTtiTV6Wcvb5Df515Uc9Vyfea9VNioJJPHCKIUs9QPuX0n7qvjTqfGYaRLAk-zIE8ljV1bXuv6r_2uc-3S6ZVjlTpdDUafRlmY_BJw-8ht9Bta04RRSjb3e9oA4WWCPjVSYduwUru4jDNBX_NENr_KZw/s4032/IMG_5623_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcIbkexOD9EqggJW5gNPHPk7OqqW7FxZNEPSuTtiTV6Wcvb5Df515Uc9Vyfea9VNioJJPHCKIUs9QPuX0n7qvjTqfGYaRLAk-zIE8ljV1bXuv6r_2uc-3S6ZVjlTpdDUafRlmY_BJw-8ht9Bta04RRSjb3e9oA4WWCPjVSYduwUru4jDNBX_NENr_KZw/w640-h480/IMG_5623_00.jpeg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Before the dinner we explored the Souvenir shop and bought a T-shirt (299 baht), a fridge magnet (59 baht) and a notebook (95 baht). </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">We decided to skip the walking street ever since </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">we moved to our </span><i style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">resort stay</i><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> in the Sunrise beach</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">. Besides there were other paths to explore like the road</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> to the Maya bar which was on a slope.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Maya bar looked interesting from the outside but it was too secluded and didn't have many guests while we checked. <span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">So we decided to walk down to the Baracuda restaurant for dinner where we tried some </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Calamari Tempura</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> with rice and </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Kang Tam soup</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> (460</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht).</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">We reached back to the resort, passing by the "Hideaway coffee house", then passing through the "Satun dive resort" premises to the sunrise beach and then walking on the beach past the "sea la vie bar." </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; 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text-align: center;">(The Hideaway coffee house at night)</div><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br />On reaching the Sunrise beach we saw some people looking at the waves, we were intrigued and we noticed <b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">bioluminescent planktons</i></b> getting washed up ashore on the beach. It was not like the entire shoreline was glowing but we saw planktons twinkling on the shore in bright blue colour.</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> <br /></span><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3YeCGwPaabWW5QH2gj2YUruZ3C355RNF4v8qxe_HMKDOcIDWYSRaDph91gJqzIfitcH8xwwFft2I5SiIhl5BQXFFaVwhuKc66OYMc5jrydrq1GR5H8xjskBBROFPWKQ7GeJF_EdTpmLBIRPIHCurat819PogblZi0gw70tiIBtNrq7CtRDgKi68BqNA/s2700/IMG_5823_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3YeCGwPaabWW5QH2gj2YUruZ3C355RNF4v8qxe_HMKDOcIDWYSRaDph91gJqzIfitcH8xwwFft2I5SiIhl5BQXFFaVwhuKc66OYMc5jrydrq1GR5H8xjskBBROFPWKQ7GeJF_EdTpmLBIRPIHCurat819PogblZi0gw70tiIBtNrq7CtRDgKi68BqNA/w320-h400/IMG_5823_00.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigGZs14zi6EEql9RDlux4RZOCnjRsxt3rapSF0qe_8BGp105GYK-gqGD3gp7TbHBsALoRLtJu-2QTuRFkZIne_25zy7L93eUSzzmudLids1qbtGn5903CVarp8wML6wJwJdDDxtyGyZ2WL19fp0iQ_j4-0_yQoyqCqpsq3LmDtTa46-kK4wvE1rcOfUg/s1509/IMG_5836_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1509" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigGZs14zi6EEql9RDlux4RZOCnjRsxt3rapSF0qe_8BGp105GYK-gqGD3gp7TbHBsALoRLtJu-2QTuRFkZIne_25zy7L93eUSzzmudLids1qbtGn5903CVarp8wML6wJwJdDDxtyGyZ2WL19fp0iQ_j4-0_yQoyqCqpsq3LmDtTa46-kK4wvE1rcOfUg/w400-h300/IMG_5836_00.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">They are smaller than a sand grain and will glow only when disturbed by the waves or when you pour water over them. We might have spent almost an hour there on the beach with the planktons before reaching our resort.</span><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><b>Mar 05 </b></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We had the complimentary breakfast in the Lipe beach resort at "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Elephant beach bar"</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">.</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwoZo2dptDDtqjdK01GJnTsHfUUqdtV4KnqJSo-JTOMPypsi1vEzY5IAvBPqL-8UIiJck1iWM07Y7ik437RwHWCtkpdigvzA6TBYMQ_m1ByJxOiTdnvxIg4_5qXudJyDWbjPJhT9XI7YbaEftuprVCLfp_CLJrWq5M4DWf5sWybUH6Ulty8oqe9j_ZaQ/s4032/IMG_5749_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwoZo2dptDDtqjdK01GJnTsHfUUqdtV4KnqJSo-JTOMPypsi1vEzY5IAvBPqL-8UIiJck1iWM07Y7ik437RwHWCtkpdigvzA6TBYMQ_m1ByJxOiTdnvxIg4_5qXudJyDWbjPJhT9XI7YbaEftuprVCLfp_CLJrWq5M4DWf5sWybUH6Ulty8oqe9j_ZaQ/w480-h640/IMG_5749_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Then we were heading towards the place marked in the G maps as "best view point of Lipe".</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaPXAe9abOTKe2pG3bfIL6KEG6Sa8Nk8IpyrqkusBAXXaBVJM3jaz6T5vaWEYMsY6HVKZb0gA822c_kt0tWxOxpr7SySFUgGvjckLb_CX8Da9yGoSOnmnWxm-u3zhvPmfgYgJtuvFUvd1FSU00Al9KJxPYQvmc7--Ky4I2UUByYcdl_Drp02OK27r5A/s2700/_MG_6224.jpg" style="font-size: 12px; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;">We planned to walk by the beach but the shortest route was through road and by trespassing through the </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">premises</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"> of the </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">"Ten moons resorts" we entered the <b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Maricilla beach</b> very close to the "On the rocks restaurant" owned by the serendipity resorts. </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">It was a wonderful beach, just what we expect from an island in the Andaman sea. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">We decided to have lunch at the same Elephant beach bar where we had our breakfast. We ordered </span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Stir fried silk squash with eggs, </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Thai </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">veg</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">green curry with rice and a tender coconut</span> (410</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht).</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">The T shirt I bought at the souvenir shop was not for my size, so I exchanged it to the next size and also bought another fridge magnet (59</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht). </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">The last night in Koh Lipe has to be well spent but it should also not include a long walk to somewhere in the dark, so we visited the </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">OMG sports bar (10 to 15 mins walk from the resort). Our table had a <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Mookata</span> grill pan,</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> used for self cooking the pork slices or other types of sashimi on a charcoal stove. The other Mookata tables were put to good use, quickly turned into mini kitchens by the guests. Anyways we ordered a </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">stir fried </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">chicken</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">with rice, a c</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">hicken sandwich a</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">nd a Pina colada (750</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht).</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqY2-WjcH5L7e9OwYngBmHYlB1WGaJieYSwquH-VXa9DzypV6CJ8-2s7kviQOAGJkP_xvTwdICHy8XRj3a9qTIr-WKfoOpPMn8ZVpz96SFiGEaNxecAXKBkzmX9ZCSSa-0iBQxn7mo9DaZcIy-w9RcvXLd-EpFMCLSKeiOgK_lNbGsWRCaimYSU_gFYw/s1509/IMG_5806_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1509" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqY2-WjcH5L7e9OwYngBmHYlB1WGaJieYSwquH-VXa9DzypV6CJ8-2s7kviQOAGJkP_xvTwdICHy8XRj3a9qTIr-WKfoOpPMn8ZVpz96SFiGEaNxecAXKBkzmX9ZCSSa-0iBQxn7mo9DaZcIy-w9RcvXLd-EpFMCLSKeiOgK_lNbGsWRCaimYSU_gFYw/w640-h480/IMG_5806_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVaqhSRDY9EDRsM7QE6yq9y3Olq8iO5JMTYdDo_jofoAY8iA9lD4KVKujKbb7aL4wFtYrVYxBZUZhGFKro-bOOVD-njT4-fkMSGq96C33xtPXbKg1Ehr0IXkMLx1e2g2-KK4pGncHgf5MK8EgWr_227JE-n2iIyruyymqleyMxAONNE5hGD9qSIejKaw/s2700/IMG_5792_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVaqhSRDY9EDRsM7QE6yq9y3Olq8iO5JMTYdDo_jofoAY8iA9lD4KVKujKbb7aL4wFtYrVYxBZUZhGFKro-bOOVD-njT4-fkMSGq96C33xtPXbKg1Ehr0IXkMLx1e2g2-KK4pGncHgf5MK8EgWr_227JE-n2iIyruyymqleyMxAONNE5hGD9qSIejKaw/w512-h640/IMG_5792_00.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">There was also live music, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">I usually prefer house/techno music at the Cafe/restaurants especially when it is mellow and melodic but <span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #f4cccc;"><b>"<span>Live music</span>"</b></span> (of any genre) is</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">even better, it elevates the mood with ease</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">. The singer/guitarist at the bar said "Khap Khun Krap" (Thank you in Thai) every time he received an applause after each song he performed.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvUEMQgAAiAPmGmVz88Ets6IAUhEBALcpvpk7SHXtZp4V4jkSerSvYBamCTenZ9bCzlz66tMGgR1WPG0mUhKgZLeQghIp4xKY74lyQD0Pu-hYY7cPGPsfF-HdqrwCi_F3fDj2hc54gXPd--Bl9yYLrs3vE5GI4CgRHbUM4h6OurHq3SvES9XLnBDOH7A/s1509/IMG_5812_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1509" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvUEMQgAAiAPmGmVz88Ets6IAUhEBALcpvpk7SHXtZp4V4jkSerSvYBamCTenZ9bCzlz66tMGgR1WPG0mUhKgZLeQghIp4xKY74lyQD0Pu-hYY7cPGPsfF-HdqrwCi_F3fDj2hc54gXPd--Bl9yYLrs3vE5GI4CgRHbUM4h6OurHq3SvES9XLnBDOH7A/w640-h480/IMG_5812_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">The walk back to the resort was similar to the previous night, again passing by the very elegant "Hideaway coffee house", but passing through the premises of a different resort to reach the sunrise beach. The shore was again decorated by the glowing planktons. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYGZz2NtIXXJ8C2GqMYkmPZwvqC-FTFm54JKTzWQjhB1Igq0bhU4d1NGGqtuGQPbNpGPa8k2PJxRdA-qilxFJRlErpRvUWSHB_pusxDeyeEgl92J8f6ehA1e5TDgJHio1YNM9gZKmXecmDruBXbM5-JamwogRbHJQSxYMrzlkdXboF52r_EJybA6DV5A/s1509/IMG_5833_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1509" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYGZz2NtIXXJ8C2GqMYkmPZwvqC-FTFm54JKTzWQjhB1Igq0bhU4d1NGGqtuGQPbNpGPa8k2PJxRdA-qilxFJRlErpRvUWSHB_pusxDeyeEgl92J8f6ehA1e5TDgJHio1YNM9gZKmXecmDruBXbM5-JamwogRbHJQSxYMrzlkdXboF52r_EJybA6DV5A/w400-h300/IMG_5833_00.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Travel tips</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">: To thank someone, a male should say </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Khap Khun Krap</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> while a female should say '</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Khap Khun Kha</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">" and likewise to welcome someone with a hello, a male should say "</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Sawadee krap</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">" while a female should say </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #ffe599; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Sawadee Ka</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">". </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Krap and ka are used at the end of every sentence to speak in a polite manner and we hear it a lot during our time in Thailand. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">(Krap is pronounced as Kap)<br /><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b style="background-color: white;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Mar 06</span></span></b></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">It bothered us that we haven't yet bothered to see a sunrise despite staying in the sunrise beach, so we woke up early to see the sunrise on our last morning at Koh Lipe and</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> we had our second complimentary breakfast in the "Elephant beach bar".</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">The staff at the reception office booked a bike taxi (</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">120 baht</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">) </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">for us to the Pattaya beach where the speed boats are available at the ferry terminal. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br />The speed boat picked us at Koh Lipe by 9:30am and a van dropped us at the <span style="background-color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: white;"><b>"</b></span><b><span style="color: white;">Hat Yai airport"</span></b></span> by 1:30 pm</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">(1800 baht), </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I bought some freshly cut </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">Mango and guava</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> (60 baht) somewhere on the road. </span></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I bought a Mushroom puff and a <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Chinese </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">c</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">ustard bun</span> (</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">36 baht) </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">in the "ko Ka cafe" inside the airport and also a </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Cappuccino in the departure Gate (70</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht) before w</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">e took off in Hat yai at </span><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">5 : 50 pm and landed in Bangkok at 7: 20 pm. </span></p></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We booked a Grab taxi </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">(300</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht) </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">from the Airport to the "La Locanda hotel" </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">(1620 baht for two nights)</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">in</span><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #ea9999; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b>Chinatown</b></span></span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> We had planned </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">to visit the Yaowarat road in Chinatown but it was late by the time we reached and we were in no mood to explore. The hotel room was well equipped and well designed but we had to climb too many stairs, we chose it because it had a hostel vibe, it was close to Yaowarat road and also close to the MRT blue line subway station.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiKdqHLC0Wgv64YKPAPo2NGq3JTd1xyNU48yHMk0mgf-xdQwQwbg2XJPZiXWKYiz2YVCLoLX0vjWQNf9ILLTQSAwlOKArPN7yGBfmQyIwFLTuEC7ESJglaABkq4W7h4GCaH4QX6dm1Q-iZYaoI4MXgYnzby17OyxLwhh1ub6zYiKolOhjftMLZ4G2YiQ/s4080/IMG_20230307_075856810_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">(the world map and the globe are a nice touch, hotels in Bangkok receive travellers from all countries).</div><p></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We dint have the appetite for dinner so I went alone for a late night walk trying to buy some apples and Vinegar at the 7-eleven store but it was not available. </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">I got a </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">grilled sweet corn</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> (</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">30 </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">baht) </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">near the "<span style="background-color: white;">22 July roundabout park</span>" where some boys were playing <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Sepak Takraw</span> (Foot volleyball) in the park. </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">The garbage trucks were busy, the homeless people were sleeping on cardboard sheets and some freelance sex workers were </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">lingering in the dark </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">looking for customers. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">I was checking the photos in my camera before going to sleep and t</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">here was this English movie (dubbed in Thai language) on tv.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b>Mar 07</b></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO226712 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We had our breakfast </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">(210 baht) </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">in the outdoor lobby </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">of the La Locanda hotel.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Travel tip</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">:</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> <u>average costs in the China town side of the Bangkok city.<br /><br /></u></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">A water bottle in a grocery store costs14</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht,</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">A Paracetamol strip costs 1</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="TA-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="TA-IN">5</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht, <br /></span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A freshly cut tender </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Coconut costs 40</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht .<br /><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It was a slow day, we wanted to see some temples in the late afternoon and for lunch we tried the </span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">V</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">alhomas curry</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">(smoked tuna) </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">with</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> s</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">teamed rice and roshi (maldivian roti) (200 baht) in Zara Café, Chinatown. It was a pursuit for the Maldivian taste but we should have chosen vegetarian instead of tuna. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimsoxg6_FQW6RbomuPGfQmAEeRUrRYUhrz93vjLmOS5azjhOrL29c21PddP--gBoO8IVp0hemxPqv6vBS3wv4pxgM-wlLa5mvzCbivUdXicjSB2ES6HTS9XA15LcIvdcXOPkdFcoH_RKiplu1orSarUODirKVEWc_YK2BR95TnJbtJWoqQJqkthxMacg/s3024/IMG_5877_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimsoxg6_FQW6RbomuPGfQmAEeRUrRYUhrz93vjLmOS5azjhOrL29c21PddP--gBoO8IVp0hemxPqv6vBS3wv4pxgM-wlLa5mvzCbivUdXicjSB2ES6HTS9XA15LcIvdcXOPkdFcoH_RKiplu1orSarUODirKVEWc_YK2BR95TnJbtJWoqQJqkthxMacg/w640-h640/IMG_5877_00.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(navigating through the streets of china town)</div><br /><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnlg_nU_ReEKW_w2TeED8J0ak_Bbz92umuI-UaGCraW0EGA_jY-g-jsZhcPkLkDJAzqHwHep4wI3ljEIe92aWZtvYjvXyerv16DyhjDp2JY6xv1mR_YeZOqAoyMTW29kryWIus4GQB5-t-BiW413prlMMxiMD5H6uK3gesLjB1IMpqaJx3BfDbDHc-nQ/s2160/IMG_5892_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnlg_nU_ReEKW_w2TeED8J0ak_Bbz92umuI-UaGCraW0EGA_jY-g-jsZhcPkLkDJAzqHwHep4wI3ljEIe92aWZtvYjvXyerv16DyhjDp2JY6xv1mR_YeZOqAoyMTW29kryWIus4GQB5-t-BiW413prlMMxiMD5H6uK3gesLjB1IMpqaJx3BfDbDHc-nQ/w640-h640/IMG_5892_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Zara Maldivian café and restaurant"</div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We booked a Grab taxi to "Wat Benchamophit" aka the <span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>marble temple</b></span> (150 baht). We dint have the exact change so the driver had to drive us around the streets to help us get change, we gave an additional 20</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht as a tip for his hospitality.</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">The day was meant for resting but we couldn't also miss these temples, the marble temple was really beautiful. I had a feeling that I couldn't photograph the temple properly even after spending </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">considerably enough </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">time in it but i managed to click a few good frames.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; 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font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Travel tip</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">: Try using </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">only a wide lens</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> for the entire trip (</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">or only a telephoto lens or a lens of a particular focal length), It can reduce your luggage.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We had to be at either Wat Arun or Wat Saket during the sunset. We tried booking a grab taxi but taxis were really not available from Wat Benchamophit. So we hired a Tuk tuk to Wat Saket (160</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht), tuk tuk drivers are hard to bargain with but very friendly in their service.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Travel tip</span> : tuk tuk rides are not cheap but</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span> </span></span><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span>they're partially </span></span><span color="windowtext" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">open air with comfortable seats, a lot of fun.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br />Wat Saket (golden mount temple) was beautiful but the important parts of it were closed for maintenance, it was so disappointing to us and the many other tourists as well. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">It was almost dusk and we booked a Grab taxi to<span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span><b><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; color: #990000;">Wat Arun</span></b><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span>(200</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">baht), it was the closing time of Wat Arun temple complex and we luckily got through the gates even without a ticket. </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Many people were leaving as the security staffs were trying to get the people out. </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">We quickly climbed the temple, scrambling with the leftover crowd. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; 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We wished we had more time at Wat Arun. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We hopped into a ferry from Wat Arun to the marine department (32</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht) but by mistake we got down at </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">the Rajini pier. Then we had to catch another ferry from there to the marine department (32</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht) after which we walked to the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><b><span style="background-color: #e06666; color: white;">Hong Sieng Kong café</span></b><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">to have a</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Blueberry Tart and hot chocolate</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> (300</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht).</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIi2wAN3A11UN6-92opAoDD3WxLyn1j8l_VzJUR21R-nt9hJH4wfVSAWyeGpKbox9LZvHc-fgpkN7UX60ao-c0CmuuSLpSZu6BqBPnV8aRbQJkYSWrYrr8qt__zp_mA2UTkJO8ifuLqa8ydpthHXEdQwB2nnUzldbDnTowJd3FQAH3S3-DqTPTffrQ7g/s1509/IMG_6032_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We found Vinegar (15 baht) available in a 7/11 store on the way back to our hotel room. Nisreen soaked her feet in a bucket of warm water mixed with vinegar to soften the sea urchin spines. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I went alone to see the <span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: white;"><b>C</b></span><b><span style="color: white;">hinatown's </span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><b style="background-color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: white;">Yaowarat road</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>while she had some rest. The road was not very congested like the Khaosan road, there was a sense of adventure due to the variety of street food. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRATtRRJRKeXdmTgCGI-QVwS-lmJYhV2aXvknr76GM-sOusqRYWxpsd8_ksg4az0EEykU6X0SB9tLd8sjABsdCiBvMsxvCSS3Ics09_yMYKl_GJf9KWbpGbzN3ynZocSEsujaPBP-13AcdGhzD_TBG9spZf8_fNMmBs5hmGyMX5gkiYIuP56_jy3Rjkg/s2700/IMG_20230307_222055636.jpg" style="clear: left; 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text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2033" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZ8GLJQA5yyXcZnT_b1VNAwJZf18WvK2craQH3pCI460IRuHjFs0OHZ-93_SRsPZj3qnEGpv_JSOfR7cBMxnif7H7Cceq6sKk3SCTODdCGckOizW4_UOrT_0rvZddCFevEP4ehjZwdambJOcU6rLV4_MgOgnfsAtebsWiNTOhPHEZwc8zMBtF7RFk6w/w301-h400/IMG_20230307_224757687_HDR.jpg" width="301" /><br /><span style="color: black;">(this hotel has the "sky view 360" revolving restaurant at the 25th floor) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">I tried the<span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Red bird's nest soup</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> 4th class (</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">200 baht) </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; 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font-variant-ligatures: none;">and also the apple trees </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">don't grow well in Thailand due to the climatic condition. <span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I also bought some Jack fruit (</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">30</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht) and a </span><span>Pomogrenade juice</span><span> (</span><span>50 baht) </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;">to takeaway to the hotel room. </span><br /><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxHyhWoG-64zazXf2aWSKsaBRwj4rKxaczDbr0XUX2RvU5-Sr_OjkAVPSDQSuZaUEs9KjPz2hS-EqqaQ06QojIXBaP98r0mh8Ih5tSqEfHfNw7XPvTbu-nUyRjkNspud3zeddJd3eyp0SqFtKraaJmliuumdJTnV3gAz3K3trNvWMu50Vg-w5ltd8Sw/s2700/IMG_20230307_231653959.jpg" style="font-size: 12px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">In the morning, we paid a casual visit to the Wat Mangkon Kamalawat which was decorated with hundreds of Chinese lanterns. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">At this point in the trip, my curiosity about Thai food may have dropped a bit from high to mild and f</span><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: white;">or a change we were heading towards a hamburger restaurant called "The Fat Cow". But we came across the "</span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Starbucks @ I'm Chinatown</span></span></span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">" and decided to check it out. We were</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;"> comfortably sitting by the large windows in the very spacious hall of the coffee shop, munching the A</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">lmond cream croissant and the toaster pancake with a </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">tall cup of C</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">affe Americano and earl grey tea (530 baht).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; 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font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">After again relaxing for sometime at our hotel Lounge, we vacated our hotel room and walked to the MRT station nearby. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDr75_bCPRmQcMxxdYmsO3UtV33-uIAs3LKgj08lg_z3vWCnuN_03R5WOTTAVfKBn8J3pBV3Q0sgBXFxb2HjACwaAQmMSBBYvyFWfr0bSnKtYNdOxgPm8bSBQwodRLLmMXEbd9e-csh59Lo3hh8ZeHVG5kPkpb8jXt0gI4oMzjaTvtYHbk_ZhAzEX7Q/s4032/IMG_6069_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDr75_bCPRmQcMxxdYmsO3UtV33-uIAs3LKgj08lg_z3vWCnuN_03R5WOTTAVfKBn8J3pBV3Q0sgBXFxb2HjACwaAQmMSBBYvyFWfr0bSnKtYNdOxgPm8bSBQwodRLLmMXEbd9e-csh59Lo3hh8ZeHVG5kPkpb8jXt0gI4oMzjaTvtYHbk_ZhAzEX7Q/w480-h640/IMG_6069_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">(Graffiti culture in Bangkok)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikynBxFpxOGipzRkEbpFeLWwwKVlB4OOq90sKmrvQX9sO3EYj8_-zxh-ywN-GstAZWMakas5GguzEXjSA7tCw7GGj0U9P_wiJSb19IX7jWFrcYMrRw7QdfeODXxxwQXDeGKKrV7ttVv1ORn7lbuXXIyHuyoWf1dQ9SfP8XfblrFjpUh4R5LkPFpj9j9g/s4032/IMG_6071_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikynBxFpxOGipzRkEbpFeLWwwKVlB4OOq90sKmrvQX9sO3EYj8_-zxh-ywN-GstAZWMakas5GguzEXjSA7tCw7GGj0U9P_wiJSb19IX7jWFrcYMrRw7QdfeODXxxwQXDeGKKrV7ttVv1ORn7lbuXXIyHuyoWf1dQ9SfP8XfblrFjpUh4R5LkPFpj9j9g/w480-h640/IMG_6071_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">(a coffin shop amidst the coffee shops)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">We were in a drowsy state and we lazily passed the time on our last day in Thailand.</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;"> </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCf_rnEFWyD5xmv8-gByn5OK3Mg_6BWQJljvr1iAIxEx8TUgfT6blhCXd5CfjfcbZaXIjakoPjxYlv8s2B-gm_xHdsbwiQmiGo8evj1SFCalQjpWWM56sno-jgLqY4mdB24GOB47IB_YRa6_aWD7BOIbPlMtukBngkM2TYK1aGUUB0bg3qx-tZvRIrEQ/s3024/IMG_6077_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCf_rnEFWyD5xmv8-gByn5OK3Mg_6BWQJljvr1iAIxEx8TUgfT6blhCXd5CfjfcbZaXIjakoPjxYlv8s2B-gm_xHdsbwiQmiGo8evj1SFCalQjpWWM56sno-jgLqY4mdB24GOB47IB_YRa6_aWD7BOIbPlMtukBngkM2TYK1aGUUB0bg3qx-tZvRIrEQ/s320/IMG_6077_00.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">The MRT Wat Mangkon is easy to miss, it was hidden in plain sight. MRT subway stations in Bangkok are </span><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Web, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">inconspicuous.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJyi0yZT1iH8fjbs2Pf0MQanySopoI5U892tNFwKm9heaLhdyTrqaTgqQOARev1ZZb_j-amAR_66cMfzNXRkJYkY0GnLfNGsxXiaSugF1yWVqzx3aTkaKktQZRB0qAWHZej7rK1hR5j9KCLOYqgWp--lss0XQhiHeJw7dqQRKz3RS-C39tqsjMu1UGVA/s4032/IMG_6081_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJyi0yZT1iH8fjbs2Pf0MQanySopoI5U892tNFwKm9heaLhdyTrqaTgqQOARev1ZZb_j-amAR_66cMfzNXRkJYkY0GnLfNGsxXiaSugF1yWVqzx3aTkaKktQZRB0qAWHZej7rK1hR5j9KCLOYqgWp--lss0XQhiHeJw7dqQRKz3RS-C39tqsjMu1UGVA/w480-h640/IMG_6081_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">(This is the Wat Mangkon MRT (blue line) subway station)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV9zHmCklV93lSWV9ViAQp2cbBweJQtTCHcK0tiU-Ec-1CSagpFRrBRmy5ren_nIBpY4sxqYlMAMnQ7QU7peMq7YXcB1TmhSR7qWZE7LuCEsNZp_Mka5aj8Qde4wOPdwhkiBd1w10cqEqhGod9LWeATCkPuH6fTV91MhF8J1x3Vmx2oBPkkYhvYKnerQ/s4032/IMG_6083_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV9zHmCklV93lSWV9ViAQp2cbBweJQtTCHcK0tiU-Ec-1CSagpFRrBRmy5ren_nIBpY4sxqYlMAMnQ7QU7peMq7YXcB1TmhSR7qWZE7LuCEsNZp_Mka5aj8Qde4wOPdwhkiBd1w10cqEqhGod9LWeATCkPuH6fTV91MhF8J1x3Vmx2oBPkkYhvYKnerQ/w300-h400/IMG_6083_00.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">The Metro train system in Bangkok is very clean and orderly.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgudvHFcpO0hXyyFSxCnw8xaukgC6K6pWqQ3HUyspxIGsXsQVf5xLq9yYBQrDNv_7NlOm9cWywYj5x2VATMXLBL5XD4yAsA1D8ZPpjiAvwb52NjMkJtMbkEq3xf7xSKuOUiYzrnQLQLlkNm4rODWqyBRjKfy2V0oTAUVuNHABykVO0d4cQ0-UwciSHuPQ/s4032/IMG_6085_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgudvHFcpO0hXyyFSxCnw8xaukgC6K6pWqQ3HUyspxIGsXsQVf5xLq9yYBQrDNv_7NlOm9cWywYj5x2VATMXLBL5XD4yAsA1D8ZPpjiAvwb52NjMkJtMbkEq3xf7xSKuOUiYzrnQLQLlkNm4rODWqyBRjKfy2V0oTAUVuNHABykVO0d4cQ0-UwciSHuPQ/w480-h640/IMG_6085_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">We travelled from </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #ead1dc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">MRT M</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">angkon</span> to <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">MRT Silom</span> (50</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;"> baht) where we interchanged the line to the </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;">Sala Daeng BTS skytrain</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;">.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrHfzesEVaRRmvusShGkzxwstdczvdqeIDaTsEgLyw5-LNz4_3EL2ucmvub4sfOPAlAoL7euty0qTfLIhxd1G4QzoNWa3ZyJa2zBLq6MfEwXuOcdpZlP8RTbjzMyYoHCVJvaQ9Xel33qTuAk4_WfOUGOXv7uH1YhuJAntK5pgjVFu3r9E5M-Nf4A_Gwg/s4032/IMG_6087_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrHfzesEVaRRmvusShGkzxwstdczvdqeIDaTsEgLyw5-LNz4_3EL2ucmvub4sfOPAlAoL7euty0qTfLIhxd1G4QzoNWa3ZyJa2zBLq6MfEwXuOcdpZlP8RTbjzMyYoHCVJvaQ9Xel33qTuAk4_WfOUGOXv7uH1YhuJAntK5pgjVFu3r9E5M-Nf4A_Gwg/w300-h400/IMG_6087_00.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>Both the MRT and BTS in Bangkok are well maintained and very comfortable.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWHcsBW1MbeTwIdhCRpXp_nnNn4LJTzg_emK0eM5WTZgKn9op9V2p2AbMBr347CRo6U8Zkd1NbeWUHY4yK6asAG_FgOlPl1axysM8chx_Uf18CnvJOvcfXljCtJWimvWpcIkucH0JFul3I40dadXJVv1byYbAH8EaWoYuOx1esREUCA597IUUmUTnDg/s4032/IMG_6090_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWHcsBW1MbeTwIdhCRpXp_nnNn4LJTzg_emK0eM5WTZgKn9op9V2p2AbMBr347CRo6U8Zkd1NbeWUHY4yK6asAG_FgOlPl1axysM8chx_Uf18CnvJOvcfXljCtJWimvWpcIkucH0JFul3I40dadXJVv1byYbAH8EaWoYuOx1esREUCA597IUUmUTnDg/w480-h640/IMG_6090_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmcbb7y0L5K2icibGPTOXGgbj8u503QxCi1vrUATkgEk1BZTOxPxM4VGT8l573IXkNxdg_IR2_GOBLzIFtELQJFl7W5TOQKU64V5XnTt0iS1H2akSd2wF5Ype7x3w7DSuu5bR4TGEBaIH8N9p1OYUryGNgRzCSLE2lvq7hP53M8u0qdkDdrTb6JDA10A/s2160/IMG_6089_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmcbb7y0L5K2icibGPTOXGgbj8u503QxCi1vrUATkgEk1BZTOxPxM4VGT8l573IXkNxdg_IR2_GOBLzIFtELQJFl7W5TOQKU64V5XnTt0iS1H2akSd2wF5Ype7x3w7DSuu5bR4TGEBaIH8N9p1OYUryGNgRzCSLE2lvq7hP53M8u0qdkDdrTb6JDA10A/w640-h640/IMG_6089_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(The BTS skytrain)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSEe201wqEM2tSklTCs9Jju54jIbKY6CpqHHfpKVri849kUNtXgyBuBsPo2p7I09A5E_GroS4PNtNpdGoJ6wpgpuIRxFmKoudkchXKTq2dbAe9SCI3liKUrx3AYTGiR3zPD5YCFgNBxbkSZQDdb2IJUpokt_7bgYeFD2dYDTjN-G0q09LL1aEWvrSyEA/s2160/IMG_6109_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSEe201wqEM2tSklTCs9Jju54jIbKY6CpqHHfpKVri849kUNtXgyBuBsPo2p7I09A5E_GroS4PNtNpdGoJ6wpgpuIRxFmKoudkchXKTq2dbAe9SCI3liKUrx3AYTGiR3zPD5YCFgNBxbkSZQDdb2IJUpokt_7bgYeFD2dYDTjN-G0q09LL1aEWvrSyEA/w640-h640/IMG_6109_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Soon we reached the </span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9d2e9; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">BTS Siam station</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (42 baht) which is very close to the "<b>Siam Paragon mall</b>". </span><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Travel tip</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> : Remember to save the coins through the trip, we will need it for these train journeys because some of the ticket machines will only accept coins while some machines accept notes too. Also try to spend all the coins before leaving Thailand, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;">afterwards </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">it might get difficult to exchange these coins to our native currency.</span></p></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBBJQmZV_mdEHVbSUk10iz5QStwPTLKPPq84_uEQxlcCRJb1W20ynUgF9l0H5T0QfreaZHgY9qjnAw2GfB5pj6hDpehnNTwF3JlsP50E_j7Tg1BnOsvs3QtILo7W0W3eaNng-O-WEB5mnNPv-LgrEpcwHtDA6LosB3xuRiQ08sR9yv90DdEwkvuWqIQ/s4032/IMG_6097_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBBJQmZV_mdEHVbSUk10iz5QStwPTLKPPq84_uEQxlcCRJb1W20ynUgF9l0H5T0QfreaZHgY9qjnAw2GfB5pj6hDpehnNTwF3JlsP50E_j7Tg1BnOsvs3QtILo7W0W3eaNng-O-WEB5mnNPv-LgrEpcwHtDA6LosB3xuRiQ08sR9yv90DdEwkvuWqIQ/w480-h640/IMG_6097_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">(a ticket vending machine)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">The <b>Siam paragon mall</b> is connected to the central world mall through a skywalk and we wanted to explore the central world first. We reached the <b>Central world mall</b> by early afternoon and kept our luggage in the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Central world <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">luggage storage</span> (80 baht)</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Travel tip</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> : <u>Average cost of various things in the </u></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-line: underline;">central world mall.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #4c1130;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Orange juice in café Amazon costs 55</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht,</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; 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margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2033" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzzc0hI0Uo8o9o_lYpCySbtzHIkwHrd1wem5wKXH79_HLukxpV4-WgF9D0NUMCLzz2srCTlLGnZXmsql5qHol4O2tlPgzgMnYh9asYi0vnVa1sG--7XsCBgMkEPeZBEZQg91ntssMZQDWMImheUpjsVYVi0pSuB30_MsikxSnzd455pmAJJ6bQmMN-9A/w482-h640/IMG_20230308_131228513.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: white; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #45818e; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Small mix of Fried shrimp cake, squid cake and fish cake costs 60</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;"> baht</span></span></span></div><span style="color: white;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghz3lF4KhdBf1w8lK7TVmN5AEFE_NJbKGq2RS4dGPI1Z5ILRd2MSK1EjXC56L52x6vdz7cV8mJ0LoxFJ3X6uWuVzeIuG0s2c8PqCQaODhTMfFiVItPlzzGgSxbx94m7GTenlkG_-sg1NTNq4WDrKqdnTlxlx5cfdDFmm6dhwc9WNYJMsrezAipmN8RvA/s1503/IMG_20230308_153638276_HDR.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1503" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghz3lF4KhdBf1w8lK7TVmN5AEFE_NJbKGq2RS4dGPI1Z5ILRd2MSK1EjXC56L52x6vdz7cV8mJ0LoxFJ3X6uWuVzeIuG0s2c8PqCQaODhTMfFiVItPlzzGgSxbx94m7GTenlkG_-sg1NTNq4WDrKqdnTlxlx5cfdDFmm6dhwc9WNYJMsrezAipmN8RvA/w640-h482/IMG_20230308_153638276_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #45818e;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Two hand bags in Naraya costs 655</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;"> baht,</span></span></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></p></span><span style="background-color: #45818e;"><span style="color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiElcoQJ4r8-qkYO7awNSL-xe0RzAkrcERN5aqidsb24cHnh9rXg4f9NWqQJJ-ULfmGq8RQrN5scZw1TXR9raIeM9han7dBjxFdo5yyscOjDQsfbG1F7Qqu2g7Ir7ryoS6Fyma3C1AyagfTH1K6ZHwnIzx38LO1rzYzU9MHzyWaMtwGHOD1DX4-wt_cuA/s2700/IMG_20230308_170536287_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2033" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiElcoQJ4r8-qkYO7awNSL-xe0RzAkrcERN5aqidsb24cHnh9rXg4f9NWqQJJ-ULfmGq8RQrN5scZw1TXR9raIeM9han7dBjxFdo5yyscOjDQsfbG1F7Qqu2g7Ir7ryoS6Fyma3C1AyagfTH1K6ZHwnIzx38LO1rzYzU9MHzyWaMtwGHOD1DX4-wt_cuA/w301-h400/IMG_20230308_170536287_HDR.jpg" width="301" /></a></div></span></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #45818e;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; color: #660000;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Cheese cake tart (Sweet bite) in D'ARK café costs 80</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht,</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #45818e;"><span style="color: white;"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Pomelo ruched detail shirt (yellow) costs 1301 baht,</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: red;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Danea button down knit top (almond) In editors market costs 990</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht,</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: red; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Shirt and shorts in guy laroche costs 1335 baht,</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9; color: #660000;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Hoegaarden (small) in love sick bar costs 283</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht.</span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1kOku6A-HBCWAwsyc1FCILZqFXy0QXAyTnUErsd6OaGlrjzoPUD2Ic3DMK7n9JNp3k-XEsY_vJntl2pGODqBo2VCKzyeJnpHdAvEb_BvEDjgaBAoHaQWr8e7zuUUVrvwEc8X5sSUIiY5_ztTFdGOQPC04TrFMB18mDZCnA0y6RpAgREqqbMsnM47BQ/s4032/IMG_6113_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1kOku6A-HBCWAwsyc1FCILZqFXy0QXAyTnUErsd6OaGlrjzoPUD2Ic3DMK7n9JNp3k-XEsY_vJntl2pGODqBo2VCKzyeJnpHdAvEb_BvEDjgaBAoHaQWr8e7zuUUVrvwEc8X5sSUIiY5_ztTFdGOQPC04TrFMB18mDZCnA0y6RpAgREqqbMsnM47BQ/w480-h640/IMG_6113_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><br /></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #6aa84f; color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Coconut costs 80</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baht,</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #6aa84f; color: white;"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFDdAsT_NEoxgq6eQJc-tMC9qczIK0o50nXuCq1W6fIKy-maO_k32cks2kYYSMf3GZpjnr6-tBrbJzo_XTassbv71ymsdaxt1NornF5Xx0PX7SVXXvxRYflw_4nKlceaiINIsC0oXeqN0aEFvr_B5FykmvrwhtCceli2e-8Nx2lsRG457D-d-Gpfp9FQ/s4032/IMG_6123_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFDdAsT_NEoxgq6eQJc-tMC9qczIK0o50nXuCq1W6fIKy-maO_k32cks2kYYSMf3GZpjnr6-tBrbJzo_XTassbv71ymsdaxt1NornF5Xx0PX7SVXXvxRYflw_4nKlceaiINIsC0oXeqN0aEFvr_B5FykmvrwhtCceli2e-8Nx2lsRG457D-d-Gpfp9FQ/w480-h640/IMG_6123_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: white;">We couldn't explore the Siam Paragon mall because the central world took away every bit of our time already, the malls in Bangkok can consume an entire day's time easily.<br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUe9yzTHBr5UHDBQxPSmqfagOYp-GSwyHxHvu3ewdSwsCzoumib5kUj1Z6awP2C4gEjhWT8XR1eP5aSSM5Orlkt2DpZJwG-SDzHnWvZe2owvgjoCGzfuH6SylGKrxYVSTUra7xL7WJAKqeSLCVGG5-2LMG45yWCoGFpTTdBmB_7b-LnA_oTmgCQXAXQQ/s4032/IMG_6139_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUe9yzTHBr5UHDBQxPSmqfagOYp-GSwyHxHvu3ewdSwsCzoumib5kUj1Z6awP2C4gEjhWT8XR1eP5aSSM5Orlkt2DpZJwG-SDzHnWvZe2owvgjoCGzfuH6SylGKrxYVSTUra7xL7WJAKqeSLCVGG5-2LMG45yWCoGFpTTdBmB_7b-LnA_oTmgCQXAXQQ/w480-h640/IMG_6139_00.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We booked a Grab Taxi from Central world to the airport</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (440 baht), we also paid an additional "express highway toll" (</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">50 baht</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">).</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO180499240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">At the airport we bought a "Siang pure formula 2 oil (white)" (215 baht for a pack of two small bottles). </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO180499240 BCX0" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-IN"><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Our final dinner in Thailand was the </span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN">Vermicelli noodles with crab meat and egg on top</span><span class="TextRun SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-IN"> combined with a hot ginger tea In a Thai restaurant at the airport (352</span><span class="EOP SCXO180499240 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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user-select: text;">hennai</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO226712 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> airport by 10:55 pm.</span></span></p></div></div>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-9476431632691041482023-05-13T12:13:00.003-07:002023-05-13T23:21:35.931-07:00Right brained light worker<p>LEFT BRAIN - intellect, science, math, analytical thoughts and ego.</p><p>RIGHT BRAIN - heart, spirit, intuition, creativity, art and music.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4IcW9AR6V8120g2M3MyX2s0yptq01Y1oRviY4Bk6uEBF1Z5LxvGTJryMSSN3OpH5R0YWJeqK_pbz03TrI7KcEycuHk91oeFkHsNI5jF8KAhegRE53FEtCKVuvvB93CuqImB1kPezxElZR7sOXHzfM_iJ3gU6p4O9DH7IlhAmdMc4g3gC5s14J09hdGQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="519" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4IcW9AR6V8120g2M3MyX2s0yptq01Y1oRviY4Bk6uEBF1Z5LxvGTJryMSSN3OpH5R0YWJeqK_pbz03TrI7KcEycuHk91oeFkHsNI5jF8KAhegRE53FEtCKVuvvB93CuqImB1kPezxElZR7sOXHzfM_iJ3gU6p4O9DH7IlhAmdMc4g3gC5s14J09hdGQ=w531-h640" width="531" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">There is something incredible happening in the heart region. We are spiritual beings in a physical body, our vibrations are more intense in the heart region and we are more of a free flowing waveform and not a solid body in the quantum energy field. .</p><p><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">The shift of consciousness</span> is also a shift from the left brain thinking to right brain feeling.</p><p>A shift from the intellect to intuition can unlock vast potential like telepathy and clairvoyance.<br />A new study says humans have developed language because of our inability to truly communicate. Dolphins and whales can share messages and sing songs from 100's of miles apart. <br />Alien contactees have reported telepathic communication.</p><p>More <a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/spiritual.html" target="_blank">insight @</a></p>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-66979165575893696292023-05-13T12:02:00.001-07:002023-05-13T23:23:31.487-07:00Entheogenic spirituality<p>Prehistoric rock-art and shamanic imagery suggest that humans have been using mind altering substances for thousands of years. It is even suggested that they may have played an evolutionary role in our mental development. hallucinogenic mushroom rituals were a central aspect of Maya religion.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji-pZqd7RxXB11Ks87fBb6Slv3CnDVgZ66HjvkdwrYs4K_y0s4d3UArjAa7Cmvvp_QFwykPCdAHsWYGDEWjmt-JXMy230gYJm5MOylXMzg85KERSpNZ41BmFVk6e-XWtHnFsU-Fyizo_BOoeBKAL8gBjQT4Of9pqOgL289Cm-3nsPN0mjBUWhSvXCpZw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="347" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji-pZqd7RxXB11Ks87fBb6Slv3CnDVgZ66HjvkdwrYs4K_y0s4d3UArjAa7Cmvvp_QFwykPCdAHsWYGDEWjmt-JXMy230gYJm5MOylXMzg85KERSpNZ41BmFVk6e-XWtHnFsU-Fyizo_BOoeBKAL8gBjQT4Of9pqOgL289Cm-3nsPN0mjBUWhSvXCpZw=w400-h248" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwGIID0LADiuLuqKeULmect-svBZIQVX5BkNPGTHbGES1kwKjrBcfTitmVseMkoE8p_CPs5iFDOxS3Ir_blJ9nd3l6vCxG8ymqzM_jgm7o9US528Q1BWoRUhklBxpF4RHw_nBz0xMd2DdI3VD8y5o6o4nAQ1WhTtsz-4yYuJZJyKd6cw6x43UhOgKR3A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="341" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwGIID0LADiuLuqKeULmect-svBZIQVX5BkNPGTHbGES1kwKjrBcfTitmVseMkoE8p_CPs5iFDOxS3Ir_blJ9nd3l6vCxG8ymqzM_jgm7o9US528Q1BWoRUhklBxpF4RHw_nBz0xMd2DdI3VD8y5o6o4nAQ1WhTtsz-4yYuJZJyKd6cw6x43UhOgKR3A=w219-h320" width="219" /></a></div><br />The third eye is a symbol for the pineal gland.<p></p><p>Cannabis mentioned in the Indian scripture of the Atharva Veda where its use is considered to "preserve one from disease and prolong the years we have to live". Ancient man lived the same way for almost 10,000 years using the same stone tools until he tried eating a psychedellic mushroom or a hallucinating plant and suddenly there was a great shift in his consciousness. His imagination developed and he started doing cave drawings.</p><p>Ayahuasca of the amazon, fly agaric, magic mushrooms, the African visionary plant called Iboga and others widely used in entheogenic spirituality..</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcmudVctJIuTRc4k7WCkIkRQKlDFIcdlE5635Y9wRaXmR7s3YuQVn5mwu0eHUxkNH1ccA-BSmmFw47FJg1mm760wYkwFP8Pmz-_kE3KoESa1QjvxzNU5_dQC8C1s6vi5irEgv0Wn4jxnBCYv5VQ7YC9gs43X_87t5niGaABl0BO_fmJfs16tN7itASYw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcmudVctJIuTRc4k7WCkIkRQKlDFIcdlE5635Y9wRaXmR7s3YuQVn5mwu0eHUxkNH1ccA-BSmmFw47FJg1mm760wYkwFP8Pmz-_kE3KoESa1QjvxzNU5_dQC8C1s6vi5irEgv0Wn4jxnBCYv5VQ7YC9gs43X_87t5niGaABl0BO_fmJfs16tN7itASYw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Graham hancock's "Elves aliens angels and ayahuasca" speaks about the benefits of mind altering drugs. <p></p><p>Humans evolved with the use of marijuana and other psychedelic plants. Marijuana has cannabinoids which activate the cannabinoid receptors in our body.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlzeT1MGGJMzYfeTPQWkJMtkR1ccLGVHW4RIXjvz76QCv5oSiOUOn5iNXHl6Zw15NmHaCO9sF1lXFKOVZk0OYrdPqcKlhv4KJ_c1SV-C8yKetubivz-H9_yMawpTo9y6bmsG1U7HcRK5_M9_Ps_n1yJRNn96wwKgwTPFjY7V1QGyus3xjop-mVYmIE1g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="438" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlzeT1MGGJMzYfeTPQWkJMtkR1ccLGVHW4RIXjvz76QCv5oSiOUOn5iNXHl6Zw15NmHaCO9sF1lXFKOVZk0OYrdPqcKlhv4KJ_c1SV-C8yKetubivz-H9_yMawpTo9y6bmsG1U7HcRK5_M9_Ps_n1yJRNn96wwKgwTPFjY7V1QGyus3xjop-mVYmIE1g=w373-h400" width="373" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>And moreover our body produces its own cannabinoids by the endo cannabinoid system to release dopamine. Human breast milk naturally contains many of the same cannabinoids found in marijuana, which are actually extremely vital for proper human development.</p><p>DMT is found in many plants and grasses and also in the ayahuasca plant. This DMT is also found to be produced in the brain , which is responsible for our dreams during sleep .</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhr2a2GgXETekTovJcwAFmPcVC9iqygktEzqE4LcEZnfeS8z79UAFkvF8eKAKqyLeLVKdZiuCRn2URuHXcLxLwkQekx7n_hfoQ0d2eWFcgRBPxqM4qZWjACeSBsv13lAVh-1t6V0ID277zzMEXm8RyM5Vx5j1bmV_UivtjvMKuJF2xDF1Lmxw6OxOIEbQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="411" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhr2a2GgXETekTovJcwAFmPcVC9iqygktEzqE4LcEZnfeS8z79UAFkvF8eKAKqyLeLVKdZiuCRn2URuHXcLxLwkQekx7n_hfoQ0d2eWFcgRBPxqM4qZWjACeSBsv13lAVh-1t6V0ID277zzMEXm8RyM5Vx5j1bmV_UivtjvMKuJF2xDF1Lmxw6OxOIEbQ=w421-h640" width="421" /></a></div><br />Rick strassman, a researcher has found DMT produced in high amounts in the pineal gland of the brain when a person dies, pineal gland is the seat of the soul and DMT is produced when soul leaves the body. The doctor ingested DMT to his students and observed their experience, they reported contact with 'other beings', alien like, insectoid or reptilian in nature, in highly advanced technological environments where the subjects were 'carried,' 'probed,' 'tested,' 'manipulated,' 'dismembered,' 'taught,' 'loved,' and even 'raped' by these 'beings.<p></p><p>A painting based on a DMT trip.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxsI8_-R7T31YJmEj9cosD6q3nSX0TF8w1xSEMvgyhMxYBAqTt8SQNbYixFZQDDhiEg-mWA1kjrfZTRTk_0Yghx1aD8O-fi_99XQ7UkBSTQ9ulKuv_FE99O1DGMYPvOjms7oedWe6yN2hZXSrs4ox-Fblq4YQdnT9hU8g9_D8fpvIFiYGC4B1pi13Kng" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="1000" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxsI8_-R7T31YJmEj9cosD6q3nSX0TF8w1xSEMvgyhMxYBAqTt8SQNbYixFZQDDhiEg-mWA1kjrfZTRTk_0Yghx1aD8O-fi_99XQ7UkBSTQ9ulKuv_FE99O1DGMYPvOjms7oedWe6yN2hZXSrs4ox-Fblq4YQdnT9hU8g9_D8fpvIFiYGC4B1pi13Kng=w640-h476" width="640" /></a></p><p>More <a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/cannabis-and-health.html" target="_blank">insight @</a></p>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-18167597046259300292023-05-13T07:17:00.008-07:002023-05-13T23:24:43.612-07:00Marijuana ban<p>Harry J. Anslinger, ran a campaign against marijuana in the US and they made <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">marijuana illegal in 1937</span> for the economical benefit of petrochemical oil well owners because Marijuana or cannabis hemp was used to manufacture oil and it was a potential competitor.</p><p>The marijuana (hemp) plant, of course, has an incredible number of uses. The earliest known woven fabric was apparently of hemp, and over the centuries the plant was used for food, incense, cloth, rope, and much more.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3jl0HJIBQaNIUqlvBFcfPc2r4YZ_M6yDd1f3kG-tkN6DayoFzTvFz6qSeK6a0JB9yNDRujUxhFGKr4x4atFhMcYHASivQhEJQUrllp46P9-2rFwCf_G4SvbqEcmW4YqrH1jglJw-T8NVFldRVZqCnHKAf7yxjlpU1WMY6ABeXoPVmkqTuOk958bKZg/s260/as.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="220" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3jl0HJIBQaNIUqlvBFcfPc2r4YZ_M6yDd1f3kG-tkN6DayoFzTvFz6qSeK6a0JB9yNDRujUxhFGKr4x4atFhMcYHASivQhEJQUrllp46P9-2rFwCf_G4SvbqEcmW4YqrH1jglJw-T8NVFldRVZqCnHKAf7yxjlpU1WMY6ABeXoPVmkqTuOk958bKZg/w542-h640/as.jpg" width="542" /></a></div><p>Harry J. Anslinger, the first Commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics was an extremely ambitious man, and he recognized the Bureau of Narcotics as an amazing career opportunity, a new government agency with the opportunity to define both the problem and the solution. He immediately realized that opiates and cocaine wouldn’t be enough to help build his agency, so he latched on to marijuana and started to work on making it illegal at the federal level.</p><p>"Harry Anslinger" got some additional help from William Randolf Hearst, owner of a huge chain of newspapers. Hearst had lots of reasons to help. First, he hated Mexicans. Second, he had invested heavily in the timber industry to support his newspaper chain and didn’t want to see the development of hemp paper in competition. Third, he had lost 800,000 acres of timberland to Pancho Villa, so he hated Mexicans. Fourth, telling lurid lies about Mexicans (and the devil marijuana weed causing violence) sold newspapers, making him rich. Hearst and Anslinger were then supported by Dupont chemical company and various pharmaceutical companies in the effort to outlaw cannabis. Dupont had patented nylon, and wanted hemp (marijuana) removed as competition. The pharmaceutical companies could neither identify nor standardize cannabis (marijuana) dosages, and besides, with cannabis, folks could grow their own medicine and not have to purchase it from large companies.</p><p>So .. he drafted the Marihuana Tax Act in 1937 which made marijuana illegal in the USA . This criminalisation of the marijuana plant was based on<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"> false propaganda</span> and blatant lies .</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZl1U4uZhJJzpPJ-Z5cBE234sF6Nc6S_xSl10xGCMUAoTdQxab0U9L9x-rayd-3g64kJ-mQNIHQPPbtVCwjYgfg42sjWbq4stwTvibltJUUtdz30mLYfUt3kF_0bdePps2JU4qkW74nxaWg95MkQyxn7BrJpaCF6vLG6vN7Xx9tzjLP2zzs3e7Sk9gpA/s350/aax.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="350" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZl1U4uZhJJzpPJ-Z5cBE234sF6Nc6S_xSl10xGCMUAoTdQxab0U9L9x-rayd-3g64kJ-mQNIHQPPbtVCwjYgfg42sjWbq4stwTvibltJUUtdz30mLYfUt3kF_0bdePps2JU4qkW74nxaWg95MkQyxn7BrJpaCF6vLG6vN7Xx9tzjLP2zzs3e7Sk9gpA/w640-h480/aax.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>For the most part of human history, marijuana has been completely legal. It’s not a recently discovered plant nor is it a long-standing law. Marijuana has been illegal for less than 1% of the time that it’s been in use. Its known uses go back further than <span style="background-color: #a2c4c9;">7,000 B.C</span>. and it was legal as recently as when Ronald Reagan was a boy.</p><p>The United States then proceeded to pressure other countries around the world to also ban Cannabis, using the same tactics, and an international form of "peer pressure", so this idea to urge other countries to ban cannabis was widely successful, because the best and brightest in the world had found something horribly wrong with it, so it only made sense to follow, and that's why marijuana is <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">banned almost world wide.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">More<a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/hemp-legalisation.html" target="_blank"> insight @</a></span></p>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-77033624393546098612023-05-13T05:54:00.003-07:002023-05-13T23:26:40.631-07:00Life of Pi<p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">It depends on our belief or what we believe.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4B_gJ28hZUehVuLvjNgQJBxR8Q5tVTDwtaTFBLzFVP-79MmeQ9jrLBmMJVVflKi9_ZQin0hA1eEo3EZbEQ3FVKobqjTMJJ6xZQuRQnmabMhYeKQntAI_vmbKIP6rGKhvYJHhjZ9TRqPYNxVFQIMfjsYj61a1N7mgIIynr1ON31TRPsoyViZSXZRD7Qg/s640/uu.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="640" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4B_gJ28hZUehVuLvjNgQJBxR8Q5tVTDwtaTFBLzFVP-79MmeQ9jrLBmMJVVflKi9_ZQin0hA1eEo3EZbEQ3FVKobqjTMJJ6xZQuRQnmabMhYeKQntAI_vmbKIP6rGKhvYJHhjZ9TRqPYNxVFQIMfjsYj61a1N7mgIIynr1ON31TRPsoyViZSXZRD7Qg/w640-h450/uu.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><u><span style="background: white;">Pi Patel</span></u><span style="background: white;"> : "'So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you
and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which
is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?'</span><br />
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<u><span style="background: white;">Mr. Okamoto</span></u><span style="background: white;">: 'That's an interesting question?'</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
<u><span style="background: white;">Mr. Chiba</span></u><span style="background: white;">: 'The story with animals.'</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
<u><span style="background: white;">Mr. Okamoto</span></u><span style="background: white;">: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.'</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
<u><span style="background: white;">Pi Patel</span></u><span style="background: white;">: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.'"</span><br />
<br /><span style="background: white;">What does Patel (the lead role) says in the climax of the film ?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
<span style="background: white;">He tells two
stories, one with the tiger, zebra , hyena and orangutan. <br />And the other
story with his mom, a sailor and a cook. <br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">Both stories are the same, both
realities can exist at the same time. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">Spirituality is an experience that only
you can feel and it cant be explained to others. If the events and miracles in your
spiritual path are strange to believe, it will be a hard to accept story for others. In life of pi, he co exists with a tiger for survival in a boat and visits a poisonous island.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
<span style="background: white;">The tiger gave him the spirit to survive and</span><span style="background: white;"> the island, even though dangerous, it gave him
hope. People will easily believe the same story if it is said without the animals i.e.
without the miracles. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">The story with animals become a better story when we
start believing in miracles of life, only if we believe. </span><span style="background: white;">"And so it goes with god " because God
cannot be explained, he should be experienced, you will believe him only when
you experience. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">God keeps working in mysterious ways .</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">More <a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/souls-journey.html" target="_blank">insight @</a></span></span></p>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-75685863735839868202023-05-13T04:36:00.019-07:002023-05-13T23:28:39.580-07:00Divine intervention<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgABTDDSA-WBJ9U9G_Ja-NylHw1g3mfSErxnhLwADmHegyflpaatHX1tmgWzGAcOXew2kdKUarE3ybYlQbb322ynGvgu9NJnZTDkvTQllIB2YD3ootohe59eibpbUGk_SDgCs2RXRdJ92-ajGFllMFI64cWzBZjX2hH1ajON2I9ZNYhdGb507HtXl0SuA/s320/ab.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="320" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgABTDDSA-WBJ9U9G_Ja-NylHw1g3mfSErxnhLwADmHegyflpaatHX1tmgWzGAcOXew2kdKUarE3ybYlQbb322ynGvgu9NJnZTDkvTQllIB2YD3ootohe59eibpbUGk_SDgCs2RXRdJ92-ajGFllMFI64cWzBZjX2hH1ajON2I9ZNYhdGb507HtXl0SuA/w640-h412/ab.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">(carved in the Dandera temple in Egypt)</div></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5s4vEi8f0FfgyTwRdMuAwhN8UjQcFsPMev7EJLKeP776ALz55q1_JQGSi1fuwHO1QvRB-Uh6CLuUMWuRpD4UjqdRND3Y_EivwtrxMFPnj6-ywGHlvte6ilmLaeo1vC5Lo84aSTufZ1nUQkzRXzN4iYW5XU1WplXIIz6o3cKr2HjZ8jbKXeE6f4pOg7g/s320/abc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="320" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5s4vEi8f0FfgyTwRdMuAwhN8UjQcFsPMev7EJLKeP776ALz55q1_JQGSi1fuwHO1QvRB-Uh6CLuUMWuRpD4UjqdRND3Y_EivwtrxMFPnj6-ywGHlvte6ilmLaeo1vC5Lo84aSTufZ1nUQkzRXzN4iYW5XU1WplXIIz6o3cKr2HjZ8jbKXeE6f4pOg7g/w640-h412/abc.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">(This rock painting was found in the Sego Canyon in Utah and is from approximately 5,500 B.C). </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaSxFZ6MhyLM6Z1WN-dOx4-lWLmsMf-CR_0L0CH6-quzD6kEz_Pgt5TLaeYO8tMOefw9RPmTJ9x2xr_W8El30nswbmj9T46VjJ-479_f_b76ZkqXc4TtU7dezwV7rHbbc2_d-wQSxFu2-VaMtCwtchoFaWhIIo5Isbn6V28nvZDSdYgRAP9Gxr7m3ig/s300/abcd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="233" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaSxFZ6MhyLM6Z1WN-dOx4-lWLmsMf-CR_0L0CH6-quzD6kEz_Pgt5TLaeYO8tMOefw9RPmTJ9x2xr_W8El30nswbmj9T46VjJ-479_f_b76ZkqXc4TtU7dezwV7rHbbc2_d-wQSxFu2-VaMtCwtchoFaWhIIo5Isbn6V28nvZDSdYgRAP9Gxr7m3ig/w497-h640/abcd.jpg" width="497" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">(This photograph of Peruvian rock is from Toro Muerto and dates back to 12-14,000 years ago).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDAyY7IBj6MDrnRJ7RJ3uy-KZ6aJ6MlPHV814SQj-NklMI-cLTaVx--5ZkwuH7Z5Wc9BN1HrJKctzrQmKLBjXVPIgBZwYPmwXGheyDL46uxr_xFUdIApJBs54DxW16wCLseQAILtz5fwv9phpTdSXQbWfBcswVwkIJhUji53z6Wu-FC2pTQeztLw9ltw/s320/abcde.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="320" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDAyY7IBj6MDrnRJ7RJ3uy-KZ6aJ6MlPHV814SQj-NklMI-cLTaVx--5ZkwuH7Z5Wc9BN1HrJKctzrQmKLBjXVPIgBZwYPmwXGheyDL46uxr_xFUdIApJBs54DxW16wCLseQAILtz5fwv9phpTdSXQbWfBcswVwkIJhUji53z6Wu-FC2pTQeztLw9ltw/w640-h456/abcde.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(<span style="text-align: left;">This carving found in Kiev, Ukraine, belongs to </span><span style="text-align: left;">4000 B.C</span><span style="text-align: left;">).</span></div><p>Professor Gerald Crabtree, who heads a genetics laboratory at Stanford University in California, has put forward the iconoclastic idea that rather than getting cleverer, human intelligence peaked several thousand years ago and from then on there has been a slow decline in our intellectual and emotional abilities.</p><p>UFO's are seen all over the world, some appear in the classic disc shape.</p><p>The characteristics that differentiates an UFO from a normal flight:</p><p>1. sudden ninety degree turns, <br />2. sudden visibility and non visibility, <br />3. splitting into smaller crafts <br />4. amazing speed patterns.</p><p>There are aliens , alien space crafts and alien contactees. </p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Contactees </span>are people who can contact the aliens and channelise messages from them.</p><p><b>The crop circle phenomenon</b></p><p>There are real crop circles and fake ones, it needs proper research to find out the real ones.</p><p>There were some hoaxers who created few crop circles and when they got caught, the media stated that all crop circles are hoax . They made crop circles with plank boards, tying them around their neck with rope and walking on the crops to create the patterns.</p><p>More than 10,000 crop circle formations have been found in more than 29 countries, a majority of them near the stone henge in England. The crop circles have complicated symbols and meanings, they sure cannot be created overnight in few hours with plank boards and rope or even with a good bunch of art students.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM1Ctk30w_7Gg0mOw9OZUvxV9eSvb_Cu_waTH5mNHPTBgGVC7UvonSnOho2cEVGXRmAbRu1ocn5G9_3pSY8SBol_7_3GWarnkex4wEmV8nh48V-RsSEA2kBo8GEaHvu2p0an_m_wluWGSPGJGRe53DtlhfGyuT2p7TpOPeQyMsjpKXCiil-dgk09kjcw/s400/def.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="267" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM1Ctk30w_7Gg0mOw9OZUvxV9eSvb_Cu_waTH5mNHPTBgGVC7UvonSnOho2cEVGXRmAbRu1ocn5G9_3pSY8SBol_7_3GWarnkex4wEmV8nh48V-RsSEA2kBo8GEaHvu2p0an_m_wluWGSPGJGRe53DtlhfGyuT2p7TpOPeQyMsjpKXCiil-dgk09kjcw/w428-h640/def.jpg" width="428" /></a></p><p>Man made crop circles will have a rough design , irregular shapes and broken crops but the real crop circles are : </p><p>*Totally regular in shape with the shafts of corn bent not broken and often intricately woven in with each other, seemingly impossible for humans to do even with sophisticated surveying equipment. The bending is created from the inside the crop and not from the outside. It changes the molecular structure of the crops but doesn't harm the crop.</p><p>*The soil in a crop circle is 2 to 3 times as radioactive as the soil outside the crop circle , 50-100 micron diameter spherical beads of pure iron have also been found within crop circles.* when measuring the electromagnetic field around these circles it dramatically shoots up as soon as you enter them, which again could not be caused by a bunch of students or surveyors , Measurements of the Earth's magnetic field inside crop circles, have been recorded with increases up to 120%.</p><p>*More than 80 people have witnessed and reported seeing crop circles forming in 15-20 seconds</p><p>*They can make a trilling sound with a frequency of 5.2kHz</p><p>*Most crop circles are formed on rainy days and no foot prints are found anywhere near .</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFlEyG0UQkxTU7vqwx1svyliyzkGo7lisTz3B5NA4-lamBEv4ZXMUkE8FYMpxiyOKiu6zAQkbaSh5MzoSIxkZ4Y1Sn3h0PzQ4Ds9xGiALIuoRhUdq2Xzbx1gkZgT4DBSe5rb6UBW_XwVCBnl3rbsb9x1EkiX-d8HpLAOJnuke3dFcSkkI3mZ8rpJP0EQ/s400/defg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="320" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhN4XumNFYuHZEGpa_BwehWtAeEYBlnsGoFvEbh_5DO8fUiXLStHMLcGRNfq9RItgsnNBzvkTfOLHcTzpblbnyiQri2tzV2zwljkMb70qyggOLuz-H73Z54yzRHW8ziE0ztn-iLCaZ35v4NvYdHlCh8NKkqGOyOVnv9LMThAMculctnjKygknkkEpipA/w640-h450/ijkl.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /></p><p>These crop circles carry a meaning in the patterns .</p><p>Crop circle formations continue to increase in size and complexity </p><p>We had an alien face in a crop circle once.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyx7Fa-EATomyCoytmmZ1QOoenNiwror_kmhZlTiAzPly7WBbha-3gOIy5IH9HssGtGGab2vlazaAVeu3epdY8gX9TyvlnsjOBNWD_Vofz_0WOJrUrDXfURMTngOiS06iLhvolgIb9kj2VAx4Edrv41ZFbuT7uw5LjhfI5I5AgVuCM55LM10XbMzGpA/s400/nop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="400" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyx7Fa-EATomyCoytmmZ1QOoenNiwror_kmhZlTiAzPly7WBbha-3gOIy5IH9HssGtGGab2vlazaAVeu3epdY8gX9TyvlnsjOBNWD_Vofz_0WOJrUrDXfURMTngOiS06iLhvolgIb9kj2VAx4Edrv41ZFbuT7uw5LjhfI5I5AgVuCM55LM10XbMzGpA/w640-h366/nop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>This pic is an example for the presence of orbs in crop circle photos, orbs are circular artifacts which sometimes occur in flash photography.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdk_VHaj-Rv0vrYRQZcndBsHMGnCc2rsv1CaNtzBm2qSoJHlcps-_qN22b_PfolSj87Wc2G-sepFkDlYUV-a_1q7XyzfmmtFlE8FUCdP2pLdjqt9nuuZw6GA2rUrnevTExunKxf78QA-A60YWIW0xZK6jUe9qjccdgxOZcKwUeX_VIZcNeVlldFSRF9g/s320/pqr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdk_VHaj-Rv0vrYRQZcndBsHMGnCc2rsv1CaNtzBm2qSoJHlcps-_qN22b_PfolSj87Wc2G-sepFkDlYUV-a_1q7XyzfmmtFlE8FUCdP2pLdjqt9nuuZw6GA2rUrnevTExunKxf78QA-A60YWIW0xZK6jUe9qjccdgxOZcKwUeX_VIZcNeVlldFSRF9g/w640-h480/pqr.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>These orbs are normal but many have claimed seeing mysterious orbs in their photographs, entering and leaving bodies while praying. These orbs are common in crop circle photos because real crop circles are very energised. In the mid 1970, a group of astronomers sent a radio wave message into space 25000 light years away through the Arecibo radio telescope.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9DvB6bYmd3DXuSNaoEIuhAS_KHx_cSwR-0Nqw7ebmjzouyheFXXB-E_NC3woJuW400VHYQI_OOZt6YbuLCkSs6bobb7VJ4qL4UywhGnpvkeo14_foV8ybkmljh3bRJSwbu74i0ct1mtgH_vmAcrQWZYupxV5tLccZb77leLEHDSHQNEwj_EnoUrJvXQ/s640/rst.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9DvB6bYmd3DXuSNaoEIuhAS_KHx_cSwR-0Nqw7ebmjzouyheFXXB-E_NC3woJuW400VHYQI_OOZt6YbuLCkSs6bobb7VJ4qL4UywhGnpvkeo14_foV8ybkmljh3bRJSwbu74i0ct1mtgH_vmAcrQWZYupxV5tLccZb77leLEHDSHQNEwj_EnoUrJvXQ/s16000/rst.gif" /></a><br /><span style="text-align: left;">(this is the encoded message in binary characters, <b>1679</b> pulses of binary code (0's and 1's). It was transmitted on a frequency of 2380MHz)</span></div><p></p><p>Only two primary numbers 23 and 73 when multiplied can give the umber <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">1679.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVBmuN_ZQuF-ZtmCDXNNSkUURBYo66CTDOzrLZEDq-u574zFBpHubQm3FKM6UzFnuULoctuYgiVE3zNZvxrpG9UWzNP93_ZVHoOEH4CZ_7JS5nbAm4EfNhLn2mpYE_v-a0KI_8GSgRoDT_vOAFHFxbTSAC59qK2k14ge1MrAtKCUDswfOQvpsf3Hzb4A/s640/ssa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="640" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVBmuN_ZQuF-ZtmCDXNNSkUURBYo66CTDOzrLZEDq-u574zFBpHubQm3FKM6UzFnuULoctuYgiVE3zNZvxrpG9UWzNP93_ZVHoOEH4CZ_7JS5nbAm4EfNhLn2mpYE_v-a0KI_8GSgRoDT_vOAFHFxbTSAC59qK2k14ge1MrAtKCUDswfOQvpsf3Hzb4A/w640-h412/ssa.jpg" width="640" /></a>(<span style="text-align: left;">in 21st August 2001 two new crop formations were reported near the Chilbolton radio telescope in Hampshire, UK). </span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPPKtwtzmpdV3z7ZRjqupNOHUC2TV5SzDQxsLOcMR2hJn5P64GmdOFTF8IftM4JBi5Nx1xiK0_8_9gTCfBu_VD79PveqIfJ_T_yKDeCl6J-l66y511ooDuNxYqU0Oo14xzYrar0N0Smfjk52PhYQAwA1c3Vaw69kvqqAfbxDYxtxbhCvNFnUxGdcM0ow/s675/Q.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="675" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPPKtwtzmpdV3z7ZRjqupNOHUC2TV5SzDQxsLOcMR2hJn5P64GmdOFTF8IftM4JBi5Nx1xiK0_8_9gTCfBu_VD79PveqIfJ_T_yKDeCl6J-l66y511ooDuNxYqU0Oo14xzYrar0N0Smfjk52PhYQAwA1c3Vaw69kvqqAfbxDYxtxbhCvNFnUxGdcM0ow/w640-h536/Q.gif" width="640" /></a>(<span style="text-align: left;">the image on left is the reply for the radio message we sent into the sky and the other one is the image of an alien face. Previously we had</span><span style="text-align: left;"> sent the details of our location in the universe, DNA type and body type, so in turn we received details of their DNA, body type and their signal system)</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBjF8R7CzvRKkGOGaLYguxwGO_nm44G2UcouzMjzXHLUn7uX7XJCu-HgO9zvO3vxG8_s90ETaqmCwQDCYzQXwdhDTfCGMJ_eweWcEIXxfujTiHr_HjrQN4A-EouMdXRK0owqBE1q_NmFT-6QjrEdaKTQ0RDxX_SLghnfp6Z9XdR8LUHGVbOP2tplGfBA/s400/QQ.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="400" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBjF8R7CzvRKkGOGaLYguxwGO_nm44G2UcouzMjzXHLUn7uX7XJCu-HgO9zvO3vxG8_s90ETaqmCwQDCYzQXwdhDTfCGMJ_eweWcEIXxfujTiHr_HjrQN4A-EouMdXRK0owqBE1q_NmFT-6QjrEdaKTQ0RDxX_SLghnfp6Z9XdR8LUHGVbOP2tplGfBA/w640-h468/QQ.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />(<span style="text-align: left;">This is a crop circle with a disc shaped coding which when decoded by the ASCII coding system in computers gives us the message)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">"Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises. Much pain but still time. (Damaged Word). There is good out there. We oppose deception. Conduit closing (bell sound)".</span></div><p>why would the Alien race send us a message in the ASCII system which was developed by computer engineers in America ? The other crop Circles are usually based on standards like prime numbers, pi and symbols found in natural forms but a variety of ideas and hypothesis tell us there could be aliens living among us in the undergrounds. The truth is " the aliens have been visiting us. <br /><br />There are descriptions of Vimanas (vimanam) or flying machines that navigated at great heights in the ancient Vimana Sasthiram (science of aeronautics). There is a description of a Vimana: "An apparatus which can go by its own force, from one place to another place or globe to globe.</p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"The text's revelations become even more astounding". Thirty-one parts-of which the machine consists-are described, including a photographing mirror underneath. The text also enumerates 16 kinds of metal that are needed to construct the flying vehicle: "But only three of them are known to us today. The rest remain untranslatable</span> - Dr. Raghavan </p><p><span><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. A.V. Krishna Murty, professor of aeronautics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, a</span><span style="background-color: white;">nother authority who agrees with Dr. Raghavan's interpretations says that </span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">"It is true", </span></span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">the ancient Indian texts refer to aeronautics, spaceships, flying machines and ancient astronauts</span>. </p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">The other civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time. It’s clear that their appearance is bizarre from any traditionalistic western point of view. There is abundant evidence that they use the technologies of consciousness, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems. How they can manipulate time and space locally so they can have their own anti-gravity propulsion. They have their own energy field, electromagnetic field that’s isolated</span>. -Dr Brian O’Leary, American Scientists, NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor</p><p><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered.</span> - Dr Edgar Mitchell ,Pilot, retired Captain in the US Navy and NASA Astronaut. Sixth person to walk on the Moon. Co founder of the Institute for Cooperation in Space and Institute of Noetic Sciences.</p><p>There was even a witness testimony from retired US military personnel in a press meeting about UFO's </p><p>The aliens in space crafts are intelligent and superior enough to make light speed travels<br />They have the technology to temporarily shut down our weapons system . <br />They have been seen hovering over the missile launching bases in US, <br />They can shut down our radar.</p><p>Due to the increased UFO sightings in Mexico , the majority orthodox Christian people in there reported this to the pope in the Vatican and the pope couldn't reject the claims, so he said let them come, accept the sightings and we will try to <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">convert those aliens to christians.</span> </p><p>The Egyptian god Osiris is usually depicted with a green skin and an odd, elongated head.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvmX_f2WTrUHDqVnvQbiGDxafKwS8D0HWP53xyVXj5Vy443jbRiHEpvIQT5auTkhUfLkfAOj9k1GRl4S9mP-JbHDECujfz4-AX-nkR4AqdAc7EVdOX74szTohCeMuWooMpauELO4kyRR_T56p100lEvnb1fAXmGvpwiWNDjh6STgSc9406YlTl2KM4w/s320/sas.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvmX_f2WTrUHDqVnvQbiGDxafKwS8D0HWP53xyVXj5Vy443jbRiHEpvIQT5auTkhUfLkfAOj9k1GRl4S9mP-JbHDECujfz4-AX-nkR4AqdAc7EVdOX74szTohCeMuWooMpauELO4kyRR_T56p100lEvnb1fAXmGvpwiWNDjh6STgSc9406YlTl2KM4w/w400-h300/sas.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">(This is not the head of Osiris, many Egyptians artificially elongated their head because they wanted to look like Osiris (or perhaps like the alien gods from the sky).</p><p>The Sumerian texts say Gods from planet Nibiru called the <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Annunaki </span>came to earth, at present only 220 people in the world can translate sumerian texts directly.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi96G7TpQO4ET-BSEOLxqcZnQDG-Cfi3VPY1C18NlbxZnqpzAdmaTsUo4HhqRvhxfijjP2NCPosuEVDig81UiEE3eEZ6hnbseXIS_PIWbv7Uz2LhOgRDZ6rHHyBCnG4DtcV9FzehjoELgd2Kg8plXkq0UhjLIaZSDzULghUW09KsNSHsUTYRCiiIjrooA/s400/ssas.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="400" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi96G7TpQO4ET-BSEOLxqcZnQDG-Cfi3VPY1C18NlbxZnqpzAdmaTsUo4HhqRvhxfijjP2NCPosuEVDig81UiEE3eEZ6hnbseXIS_PIWbv7Uz2LhOgRDZ6rHHyBCnG4DtcV9FzehjoELgd2Kg8plXkq0UhjLIaZSDzULghUW09KsNSHsUTYRCiiIjrooA/w640-h334/ssas.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Are humans genetically created from apes by aliens (not evolved by Darwin's law) ? - Lloyd Pye</p><p>There's a missing link in the evolution of human history .</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhboOqRiCLVcJHbFELEMeurOHgzvhnl40oRaAP22yEwLOOAmZqNQvZa6aVrtFDnRyHktdnZwWEVhRyX8G87BO52oSb2at5r9X5SWQYvRC2j0Md9Wb6l7fQmf5-6xDQrS4SoANQCmdkONesUOq27jsy6OuGon6OcxKOvBl3WgnnFX1PeSmoTqJOEtLA-Q/s320/ds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="244" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhboOqRiCLVcJHbFELEMeurOHgzvhnl40oRaAP22yEwLOOAmZqNQvZa6aVrtFDnRyHktdnZwWEVhRyX8G87BO52oSb2at5r9X5SWQYvRC2j0Md9Wb6l7fQmf5-6xDQrS4SoANQCmdkONesUOq27jsy6OuGon6OcxKOvBl3WgnnFX1PeSmoTqJOEtLA-Q/w488-h640/ds.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">More <a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/extra-terrestrial.html" target="_blank">insight @</a></div>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-14598378562935830102023-05-13T04:04:00.002-07:002023-05-13T23:30:36.765-07:00Venus transit<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The venus transit is a very popular phenomenon in the sky. They occur
in pairs separated by 8 years, in alternating cycles every 105 and 120 years. This pattern repeats every 243 years.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">1761 and 1769 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">1874 and 1882 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">2004 and 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">2117 and 2125<br /><br /></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18px;">The difference between the first pair of transits and the second pair is 105 years</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18px;">The difference between the second pair and the third pair is 122 years</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 18px;">The difference between the third pair and the fourth pair is again 105 years</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Venus Transit is when the planet </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Venus</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> travels
between the earth and the sun appearing as a small dot against the bright sun. </span></span></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGlcrClP6dvIRiY1dG5RPwk2pckZp0_zZEQcokQ_GmSAsW-SWqrkpTQyQ35dTIBcCG0zNoybsfJIls1qFpLq4De82rIwvT_mj06u9LxK7eqd5DcR0c1zYzwie3Q5orRcOhxrykDvrExISTavatLSaHUfYkJIS4Clc32IJw515iqn1z_LQSynt-dCesXw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGlcrClP6dvIRiY1dG5RPwk2pckZp0_zZEQcokQ_GmSAsW-SWqrkpTQyQ35dTIBcCG0zNoybsfJIls1qFpLq4De82rIwvT_mj06u9LxK7eqd5DcR0c1zYzwie3Q5orRcOhxrykDvrExISTavatLSaHUfYkJIS4Clc32IJw515iqn1z_LQSynt-dCesXw=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">A Venus transit happened in 8th June 2004 and 6th
June 2012, (with 8 yrs in between)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">1518-1526 It was during this transit that Cortez
invaded and conquered Mexico, during this 8-year period many paranormal events
occurred in Mexico. Strangely enough, signs appeared in the skies booming
out warnings to the citizens of the Aztec Empire.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Just after the lunar eclipse occurred,
Mt. Popocatepetl erupted. The volcano near the Valley of Mexico, had been
dormant for many years so the eruption made the people fear the future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><span style="background: white;">In 1991, a similar sequence of events took
place. As the residents of Mexico City lined the streets to watch a full lunar
eclipse, a UFO appeared over the city at 1 pm.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When we see the </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Venus</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> transit of 1631 and 1639, sunspots stopped
appearing for 70 years immediately following this cycle. The radical drop in
solar output caused the ‘little ice age’ from 1640 to 1710.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">what about the transit of 1882 ? Mt. Krakotoa erupted in that
year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The highlight is the venus transit of 2004. it happened in </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">June</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> 8th and
we faced a massive Tsunami in the </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Indian</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> coastline on </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">December</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> 26th the same
year.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The planet </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Venus</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> or the feathered serpent has a vital
role to play in the </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">events</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> on earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For <a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/planetary.html" target="_blank">more insight </a></span></span></p>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-48245637463159673322023-05-13T03:51:00.001-07:002023-05-13T23:34:21.323-07:00Mayan calendar <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsbjaz747ofdRuwBsprD3L8tsNCNBWcYnojEsJmfZ_ve__B0uNYnz9zK7yzz91rJ58hhW0S4s8fi_iOZvsM6XxCyP9oLos4HfJx8J84zHg67NjUjhvhjNDpUGv6pV96uUUew0cGsk4BD0vyFaY7a2oKfOciKDvxO0FB7o9KSYBqYNQ6-u5EaI4XU6aw/s400/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsbjaz747ofdRuwBsprD3L8tsNCNBWcYnojEsJmfZ_ve__B0uNYnz9zK7yzz91rJ58hhW0S4s8fi_iOZvsM6XxCyP9oLos4HfJx8J84zHg67NjUjhvhjNDpUGv6pV96uUUew0cGsk4BD0vyFaY7a2oKfOciKDvxO0FB7o9KSYBqYNQ6-u5EaI4XU6aw/w640-h480/a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The Mayans did this calendar around 2600 B, the counting starts from August 11, 3114 BC and it is still continuing. The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in the MAYAN CIVILLISATION of the pre-Columbian Mesoamerica .The Maya calendar consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths. </p><p>The 21st Dec 2012 is a specific date in the long count calendar of the Mayans.</p><p>On 21st Dec 2012, humanity witnesses a shift of consciousness.</p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">we are the ones we've been waiting for</span>.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH9URBJtwI1ZGxpW0cWIoJE58KpTrkLwNpFDDdin3sqeyylwrOtrHTb6pCO8Qx0mN761QWpel9Xybwzj7TVp9BJDaenwWT8JZ_hfq-W3igF3VDPoXyVpl8_HLHh16Clab_1bcQ9AfcOn2AS40nUNB9iFwqet8kkWlYFqS5Xtsn6cTbZCZcaOUppzRYbw/s640/aaa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="640" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH9URBJtwI1ZGxpW0cWIoJE58KpTrkLwNpFDDdin3sqeyylwrOtrHTb6pCO8Qx0mN761QWpel9Xybwzj7TVp9BJDaenwWT8JZ_hfq-W3igF3VDPoXyVpl8_HLHh16Clab_1bcQ9AfcOn2AS40nUNB9iFwqet8kkWlYFqS5Xtsn6cTbZCZcaOUppzRYbw/w640-h370/aaa.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhoAX5Cq1v6SqBknGUWzprWWZNnFuJhCe1DpvMTFMpIF8LtcEE1g9RkYP3HyzUCSfMBpNFIeBcNXhZQbzONTFTcBQmeX1BWgUGd9NgfRe-_DaEeRVAI8gDQQA3QJqejH_mg-BvmqRhV40eeq5Mg758-pgcFlTH0PPUy7CnCF7ee9qVP3wnXLkWADaRrg/s562/aa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="562" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhoAX5Cq1v6SqBknGUWzprWWZNnFuJhCe1DpvMTFMpIF8LtcEE1g9RkYP3HyzUCSfMBpNFIeBcNXhZQbzONTFTcBQmeX1BWgUGd9NgfRe-_DaEeRVAI8gDQQA3QJqejH_mg-BvmqRhV40eeq5Mg758-pgcFlTH0PPUy7CnCF7ee9qVP3wnXLkWADaRrg/w640-h526/aa.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />One complete cycle of the Mayan Long Count Calendar occurs every <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">13 Baktuns </span>or 1,872,000 days (roughly 5,125 years). This is often referred to as the "Great Cycle" with the current 13th Baktun scheduled to end on the Mayan Calendar Round date of 4 Ajaw, 3 Kank' which corresponds with our Gregorian calendar date of December 21, 2012.<p></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5V3w1bPEnkwYxZeIiRrqVxVFBoQRwLBv20_d8gMhC5JuqUJ_fdPt65WdaP06VrNgq6RV9VwOkD83bnC_n5lUD3K45OlRWLQrobKebli9Mg5PyeK-Pb-f73Sa31m4s1pdd6c-yj-lrWdSXEDpFbJ97l6Ml3dOaM1jts_hIBGJd7c3KZ8hlH4tMZKk7zA/s414/aaaa.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="414" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5V3w1bPEnkwYxZeIiRrqVxVFBoQRwLBv20_d8gMhC5JuqUJ_fdPt65WdaP06VrNgq6RV9VwOkD83bnC_n5lUD3K45OlRWLQrobKebli9Mg5PyeK-Pb-f73Sa31m4s1pdd6c-yj-lrWdSXEDpFbJ97l6Ml3dOaM1jts_hIBGJd7c3KZ8hlH4tMZKk7zA/w640-h386/aaaa.gif" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The mayan calendar starts on August 11, 3114 B.C. this is the day of the creation or the beginning of the long count. </p><p>13 baktuns x 144,00 days each = 1,872,000 days.</p><p>If we calculate 1,872,000 days from August 11, 3114 B.C, we get the date December 21, 2012 A.D which is <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">the end of the Mayan calendar.</span></p><p>So when 13 Baktuns get over, one long count gets finished and we enter the 14th baktun which is the start of a new long count.</p><p>There are even more longer cycles in the mayan calendar which are rarely used / The date on which the calendar will go to the next<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> piktun</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>(a complete series of 20 b'ak'tuns), will be on <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">October 13, 4772</span> which is far far away from our era.</p><p>The ending of a long count cycle or 13 Baktuns is very significant and we should be lucky to be at this point of time to witness the start of a new long count cycle .</p><p>The Mayans also built pyramids like the Egyptians, like the <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Chichen Itza</span> pyramid in Mexico.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixvPyOgyJ_ch8DABhCeSBmknqhWZdU-aps6rSdACYvFRI2iWi_KZ1cCiUVdZARZZbbL-ehyLF-KCnC40Fec5BKuFMAsSYa5LjJ1a3kVDrXnaC94UhrNY-G6y-JyZPSq4jQt4_KbInOKzeWG_wFackIPTzc3T3-C3qpfxZLrfrw0vkTW-rW1AaWj2Z_kw/s640/aaaaaa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixvPyOgyJ_ch8DABhCeSBmknqhWZdU-aps6rSdACYvFRI2iWi_KZ1cCiUVdZARZZbbL-ehyLF-KCnC40Fec5BKuFMAsSYa5LjJ1a3kVDrXnaC94UhrNY-G6y-JyZPSq4jQt4_KbInOKzeWG_wFackIPTzc3T3-C3qpfxZLrfrw0vkTW-rW1AaWj2Z_kw/w640-h480/aaaaaa.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>This entire pyramid is like a timeline of <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">creation</span>, <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">evolution </span>and <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">ascension</span>.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceMKFgoBWw5O1iwxCzu310mYR0bPLcqZZh34mJDrOqN0K0I1CTbC7P76lXlr44yqPlyDGwixEIOJWzLT_6uyzLndAcBF8MSyeEGsSK6f_tup_JJLyu4Q6gULWzpvROcwpPo_04JpRC0LTiLuRCkkEdY9g5oDBqUw3wOrp6iIZXPBcX6v31lJelZiWlw/s991/b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="991" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceMKFgoBWw5O1iwxCzu310mYR0bPLcqZZh34mJDrOqN0K0I1CTbC7P76lXlr44yqPlyDGwixEIOJWzLT_6uyzLndAcBF8MSyeEGsSK6f_tup_JJLyu4Q6gULWzpvROcwpPo_04JpRC0LTiLuRCkkEdY9g5oDBqUw3wOrp6iIZXPBcX6v31lJelZiWlw/s16000/b.jpg" /></a></div><p>Every level of the mayan pyramid is a shift. The mayan pyramid calculates time, not ordinary time but the <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">time of consciousness.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDQO-snAvTIXerq9ShwL1BtWq92HG0TGkK-8uMj8KExI0CcP28kPA3LuPH7zPTnPROby5bwZI8J8pcrSvzIbkVhpNGqhR0KRs9Y0soUUzrDsMTdlP-bA3Vv_e03Wr44ioFw4XZyJCW6VHdxJf4Fgi2GQnX7yA-kbxpa_19VRuZS6iTur2GkV_VrBfL3w/s1379/bb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="975" data-original-width="1379" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDQO-snAvTIXerq9ShwL1BtWq92HG0TGkK-8uMj8KExI0CcP28kPA3LuPH7zPTnPROby5bwZI8J8pcrSvzIbkVhpNGqhR0KRs9Y0soUUzrDsMTdlP-bA3Vv_e03Wr44ioFw4XZyJCW6VHdxJf4Fgi2GQnX7yA-kbxpa_19VRuZS6iTur2GkV_VrBfL3w/w640-h452/bb.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>According to the mayan records,</p><p>Cellular stage began 16 .4 billion Years Ago </p><p>Mammalian stage began 820 Million Years Ago </p><p>Family level began 41 million Years Ago </p><p>Tribal began 2 million Year Ago when humans came, created tools and started family relationships.<br /><br />Cultural level began 102,000 Years Ago when we started Agriculture and religions.</p><p>National began in 3,115 B.C where govts and nations formed. </p><p>Planetary began in 1755 AD - the start of Internet & Global Economy.</p><p>Galactic began in Jan 5th 1999 - the era when the economies will start falling down and some truths will come out.</p><p>Universal began in March 9 2011 which leads to Conscious Co-Creation.</p><p>Every level shrinks or speeds up by <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">20 times</span>. As we go a step higher from each level, everything gets <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">20x</span> faster. This is called the <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">quickening</span>.</p><p>The earth took a long long time (16.4 billion years ) to cool down after the big bang and to form cellular life forms. Then we went to the next step, animals were formed, mammals evolved from fishes and that evolution took 820 million years. The time taken for things to change in this world got quicker 20 times for every step. The amount of changes that happened in 16.4 billion years in the first step took only 12.8 years in the eighth step. Things change faster, our thoughts and consciousness have become faster and we entered the ninth stage or the 9th wave in march 2011. It got 20 times faster than the eighth step and that level completed on October 20th 2011. Its the fastest.</p><p>The importance of the ninth stage or 9th wave is that our consciousness gets elevated to a greater level, we get awakened. This is called the awakening or the "<b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #660000;">SHIFT</span></b>".</p><p>It is believed that the ninth stage in the Mayan pyramid is a level after which we will be able to see our world in 5 dimensions. We are the stage of the Mayan pyramid where everything changes faster. </p><p>There are basically two emotions, LOVE and FEAR. </p><p>Through love we will be able to make positive changes in the DNA which will create further positive changes in the world around us. These changes are going to happen at a faster rate because of us being in the 9th wave of the mayan pyramid. Scientists call a part of our DNA as the “<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">junk DNA</span>” because of its unidentified functional activity. They call it junk because they don’t understand it. Only 3% of our DNA is wrapped up in the spiraling double helix strand which does protein synthesis.</p><p>The great long count mayan calendar ends in 21 - 12 - 2012 but the levels of the mayan pyramid ends in October 28th 2011.</p><p>There are two dates because the mayans followed two different time calculating methods, they had two concepts of time, one is the linear time recorded by the Long Count calendar (13 baktuns = 1 long count), 21/12/2012 is the end date of this linear time calendar and the other concept is the cyclical or synchronistic time recorded by the Tzolkin and Haab calendars.</p><p>For<a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/temples-and-pyramids.html" target="_blank"> more insight</a></p>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-26574710714084338502023-05-13T03:21:00.008-07:002023-05-13T23:39:27.815-07:00Secret knowledge<p><span style="background-color: white;">it's the Pineal gland, the secret!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjutbFc8TMy_9jcPkjBGaKUVUWEQRkYnLoG1Sfw-Blrw1Wwzg2HpaIgGIBE76xX55Mg1OGNuylZLjiZ05OACZElr9lpf0IhWO2Arf7N1WHm25Q95FXysyPbvYN5KBb1tzXQ-gsxSSK9PQdqTYS_lhCHS3OEM0lmZ9sKHGp10EvTe2n3YsP2deP1qDuL8w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="626" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjutbFc8TMy_9jcPkjBGaKUVUWEQRkYnLoG1Sfw-Blrw1Wwzg2HpaIgGIBE76xX55Mg1OGNuylZLjiZ05OACZElr9lpf0IhWO2Arf7N1WHm25Q95FXysyPbvYN5KBb1tzXQ-gsxSSK9PQdqTYS_lhCHS3OEM0lmZ9sKHGp10EvTe2n3YsP2deP1qDuL8w=w640-h412" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg14SHTMAMlDJ5Uku8YSnLMDoEBkxCNvJOittqTkmmDGjGiwp7GkOZ5sdu03mR00jce4LzZdCrdHIrZgFIS_PgjtOsPC01NncEj2ycXq1Ls9j5gW0t99CAxqL0hzOMQUURfBaXUkLiM9dp32vnTELqCt0Me9aMH7_-R84HQliSzr6cy90pZ8O3rT9eHLg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdS0qbxxQKFcACNLJHfDCcKVWZypXLDjGPTBDDgi8esS4_s7QU5PflA6FEkL0N0qo9qKCSl_pv6yMYl_0sEgrIFyaFGktKnTdUjwiLeUFt7mBnr3BtQut6uTG2McVEjDBk6mWm5LN-jtYfWdWhe7fCpPs7kJHtagY4sK2utIaUFEipnGU17L-LnnKhHw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1000" height="563" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdS0qbxxQKFcACNLJHfDCcKVWZypXLDjGPTBDDgi8esS4_s7QU5PflA6FEkL0N0qo9qKCSl_pv6yMYl_0sEgrIFyaFGktKnTdUjwiLeUFt7mBnr3BtQut6uTG2McVEjDBk6mWm5LN-jtYfWdWhe7fCpPs7kJHtagY4sK2utIaUFEipnGU17L-LnnKhHw=w640-h563" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: left;">(pineal gland in the Egyptian civilisation)</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Even the ancient Sufi Muslim mystics worshipped the pineal gland.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxCXUjOoxJFtHI9PZwkyapZIJofTw8SldQ6fVlUv8951k0KdCsO9Z1thgq8Mj7Qc_B4dV4YIauZYT13nMK9Od4G71wSXL6n_YY0c4mPWiQLUXmBbAOpoV3lLNjE0a5dTxm4BJYa7AIGSbiJm6AXQNuJqaDpbqijD0SpfXR5tx00mB2-O8dcylBRtBAOQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="964" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxCXUjOoxJFtHI9PZwkyapZIJofTw8SldQ6fVlUv8951k0KdCsO9Z1thgq8Mj7Qc_B4dV4YIauZYT13nMK9Od4G71wSXL6n_YY0c4mPWiQLUXmBbAOpoV3lLNjE0a5dTxm4BJYa7AIGSbiJm6AXQNuJqaDpbqijD0SpfXR5tx00mB2-O8dcylBRtBAOQ=w616-h640" width="616" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">This is an emblem on one side of the American dollar. Why is there a pyramid in a dollar note and does it denote the third eye (pineal gland) ?</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The founding fathers of the most powerful nation (USA) had the ancient knowledge.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">At the bottom of the pyramid (in the dollar), we can see the Roman numerals "MDCCLXXVI" which decodes to the year </span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">1776</span><span style="background-color: white;">. It is the year of the declaration of American independence.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggz3TaX0ffuSpeC-gGx3MOR_J8sojz1AeT6OJmC8mn0BvS3kbT127qIPwZMgJmmgy6uu9kTVdpfGrqiWoIIaBQ5DFrC_0ukls8zbAfCfRSDceF2BJE_2Smmx5h4nSJo5azIqEUE9JfphDyiP1OmtR32qDXzG3JFhccjBymVUgZuGXH1hDU-cgR23vf3g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="626" height="593" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggz3TaX0ffuSpeC-gGx3MOR_J8sojz1AeT6OJmC8mn0BvS3kbT127qIPwZMgJmmgy6uu9kTVdpfGrqiWoIIaBQ5DFrC_0ukls8zbAfCfRSDceF2BJE_2Smmx5h4nSJo5azIqEUE9JfphDyiP1OmtR32qDXzG3JFhccjBymVUgZuGXH1hDU-cgR23vf3g=w640-h593" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The pyramid in the dollar bill is a 13 step pyramid.</span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">According to the Mayan calendar, if we take the year 1776 as the end of the first Katun, then the end of the 13th Katun takes us to the year 2012 exactly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">One katun = 19.7 years, 13 katuns = 256 years.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1756 + 256 years = freaking 2012 (end of one great cycle in the Mayan calendar) </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Why is this information there in the US dollar note?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Freemasonry </span><span style="background-color: white;">is a secret society of he highly educated influential powerful people who know the truth of this world and who took the oath to keep it a secret.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">The free masons are the builders of America and it is one of the reasons why America is so powerful.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Men like George washington, Benjamin franklin, Paul revierre and John hancock who were the powerful men in the American revolutionary war, who were the founding fathers of the nation were Free masons.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">The free masons also designed their dollar bill, they put that pyramid in the dollar to Symbolise a hidden truth . They declared independence on July 4th, which is the day when the sun and the star </span><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Sirius </b><span style="background-color: white;">(brightest star in the night sky) come in alignment when viewed from earth. Its the day when the bright star Sirius also comes in direct alignment with the top of the pyramid.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">They also built their monumental buildings in Washington DC in alignment to important stars in the sky so that they could channel the energy system of the cosmos to benefit their nation.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">When a pentagram is drawn in the seal of the dollar bill, we will get the anagram of the word " MASON.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMpz4mWdVqEAgT4HzPRG7bQtIaPBv-Rw_vtqBVjTFfK9LLB8ix6vmZqmQ8ch3hruoXTEVIuprLWTXitGJNc5UIZnbFW4PpVcEtBUwiPl3SlUGIc5FR1peQdLxDjYpGLhHstDOFAGXpI_7SxYQjF5uZSBqZrH4l3f2ZAgd1I0DBs4njIrrtG5Yva7aBSw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="599" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMpz4mWdVqEAgT4HzPRG7bQtIaPBv-Rw_vtqBVjTFfK9LLB8ix6vmZqmQ8ch3hruoXTEVIuprLWTXitGJNc5UIZnbFW4PpVcEtBUwiPl3SlUGIc5FR1peQdLxDjYpGLhHstDOFAGXpI_7SxYQjF5uZSBqZrH4l3f2ZAgd1I0DBs4njIrrtG5Yva7aBSw" width="459" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For <a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/09/globaliststhe-global.html" target="_blank">more insight</a></div><p></p>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-78907009605791038012023-05-13T02:40:00.007-07:002023-05-13T23:41:56.807-07:00The age of Aquarius<p>When Moses brought back the ten commandments from god, his people were worshipping a golden calf, Moses got very angry and shattered the calf stone. The shattering of the calf stone or the bull denotes the end of the <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">age of Taurus</span>, arrival of Moses represents <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">the age of Aries.</span></p><p>Then came Jesus, his ministry in this world denotes the end of Aries and the beginning of the <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">age of Pisces</span>. The analogy of Jesus feeding over 5000 people with few loaves of bread and two fishes symolises the age of Pisces (two fishes).</p><p>This is why the fish is present in stained glasses of the churches and in pope's head .</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzYvOC6AOypgA38S5FoD55eJ5k-omlkX8l4WWmyymdCGwn4uSJcDcxoVta_xm7xseyGijiHRUFZU2NYlNm6mw6VvBj54H2vWDUNPD7X579i6V20heGe9d5N0oqSfAYbY-b3_eRlJnYPJjWp3guy0ujgkROQ-LZ3yqE0Z320KszT4mdF4jhw-wsa82IdQ/s320/ss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="310" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzYvOC6AOypgA38S5FoD55eJ5k-omlkX8l4WWmyymdCGwn4uSJcDcxoVta_xm7xseyGijiHRUFZU2NYlNm6mw6VvBj54H2vWDUNPD7X579i6V20heGe9d5N0oqSfAYbY-b3_eRlJnYPJjWp3guy0ujgkROQ-LZ3yqE0Z320KszT4mdF4jhw-wsa82IdQ/w620-h640/ss.jpg" width="620" /></a></div></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx48RRXW7KhgJgidBgBgPfAPu93dUYfY7MAqTSDUmTNIwkK-EPVDaePEjUXl-umH20OunQj1fHLb2Bf3EckHGIZrt-OSUmwFZ2ZQ_ehoMcYYo7Rfmbv4pDRerAJLxoFD_k91BFEz_h73QF1qno6WULVlgWd6l_nuctQhmBeSWRCqnp6-XKueb-mz4j5w/s320/sss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="320" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx48RRXW7KhgJgidBgBgPfAPu93dUYfY7MAqTSDUmTNIwkK-EPVDaePEjUXl-umH20OunQj1fHLb2Bf3EckHGIZrt-OSUmwFZ2ZQ_ehoMcYYo7Rfmbv4pDRerAJLxoFD_k91BFEz_h73QF1qno6WULVlgWd6l_nuctQhmBeSWRCqnp6-XKueb-mz4j5w/w640-h454/sss.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>A disciple asks Jesus about when the next big event will happen after the master is gone. Jesus says in Luke 22:10 "Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him into the house which he enters." <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">This is the Age of Aquarius</span> that is hidden in biblical metaphor.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg5vDOEWSt_SAf6EPcGI5bHPHYEN_zeCuxI7H7-bvQXUmaOhT0IjZdCKTfqpUm67kMRMsdKQXUXSeXPBUUgRq4d5ooai3Vycf6vOQK38C_vd7ZtDq63-aAmKksgWVC1pYT5kliNwe-kXL4ko17orxl9xSqcC1kLurZOVVEksbN0jCMua4wpDU161apxg/s320/ssss.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="315" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg5vDOEWSt_SAf6EPcGI5bHPHYEN_zeCuxI7H7-bvQXUmaOhT0IjZdCKTfqpUm67kMRMsdKQXUXSeXPBUUgRq4d5ooai3Vycf6vOQK38C_vd7ZtDq63-aAmKksgWVC1pYT5kliNwe-kXL4ko17orxl9xSqcC1kLurZOVVEksbN0jCMua4wpDU161apxg/w630-h640/ssss.gif" width="630" /></a></div><p></p><p>Now we know that bible is not just a religious book , its a history book. 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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Age of Aries</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… …</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">dawned in 2308 BCE</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sixth Age</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… …</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Age of Pisces</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… …</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">dawned in 148 BCE</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Seventh Age</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… …</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Age of Aquarius</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… ...</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">dawns in 2012 AD</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Winter Equinox</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Eighth Age</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… …</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Age of Capricorn</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… ...</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">dawns in 4172AD</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ninth Age</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… …</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Age of Sagittarius</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… ...</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">dawns in 6332 AD</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Tenth Age</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… …</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Age of Scorpio</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… …</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">dawns in 8492 AD</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Spring Equinox</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Eleventh Age</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… ...</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Age of Libra</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… …</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">dawns in 10652 AD</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Twelfth Age</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… …</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Age of Virgo</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">… …</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">dawns in 12812 AD</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white;">The
Bible is holy because it is a metaphor for astrotheology. The scientist </span><span style="background: rgb(244, 204, 204);">Sir
Isaac Newton</span><span style="background: white;"> (laws of gravity, optics and calculus) said that <b>religion
and science are inseparable, two parts of the same life long quest to
understand the universe. </b> He continued researching the bible till
his death to find clues in alchemy, astronomy, the future of the world and the
meaning of life. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white;">
Newton interpreted god Vulcan as fire and so in high temperature he found a
purple crystal structure which is an alloy of copper and iron and it had an
interesting net like surface too .It is a step towards finding
the</span><span style="background: yellow;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1575469592352790092/6337808407215227598"><span style="background: yellow; color: blue;">philosophers stone</span></a><span style="background: yellow;"> </span><span style="background: white;">. Myths are alchemy
recipes. <br /><br />
ALCHEMY is not just about converting metals into gold, Real alchemy is the
science of converting man into God. That's why alchemy and religions have a
strong connection. The S</span><span style="background-color: white;">iddhars</span><span style="background-color: white;"> of the ancient </span><span style="background-color: white;">South Indian were alchemists.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Newton also has predicted the end of the world in the year </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">2060</span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are also some research works that say Jesus was not a real person but a symbol for the sun. The similarities between the stories of Greek God Dionysus , Roman God Mithra , Egyptian God Horus and the Christian God Jesus is astounding. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The age of Aquarius gives us a global shift in consciousness and the gift of knowledge and compassion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Pawnee Indians believe that the future destruction of the world depends on the </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: inherit;">planet Venus</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>For example in the book metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid </span><span>in Greek mythology, the god Vulcan finds his wife Venus in bed with the god Mars.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white;">In alchemy, </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Venus is a symbol for </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">copper</span></span><span style="background: white;"> , Mars is a symbol for iron .<br />The myth says Vulcan hanged the adulterous couple from the ceiling in a metal net for everyone to see.</span></span></p><p>The destruction does not literally mean earth blasting into several pieces. The wipe out of one generation and the beginning of the other when all the knowledge of the previous generation are lost is called a destruction. We have lost the key to our ancient science because of such a destruction, these destructions are cyclic, sometimes aligning with the cyclic nature of planets and stars.</p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"The Taurus program was retrograded to loop into another reality when the Pisces Intelligence entered the picture. Emotional shift to compassion will soon find its purpose and another much greater influence.... the Age of Aquarius. What comes of compassion is the next human generational experience"</span>.</p><p>More <a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/alchemy.html" target="_blank">insight here</a></p>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-62557159212362969732023-05-13T01:29:00.007-07:002023-05-13T01:31:10.027-07:00Solar storms<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ9lhQq3JqgnG2UuegUlt26SkxmvWa-cPVXnWGYyI-R025Ray8Egi5NB-9LqMzXM7GchSXPh-L_R0QFlfYpdT_3MzcdQl5NiHtneYIfGYzFLNC6LH26fkT0NdGvxDn4pomzPyktGfktMicKE-iKMwqKYqR2LrCuN9efoPR7Md3gZDDIzIznxGh_DvCHg/s1000/ll.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="1000" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ9lhQq3JqgnG2UuegUlt26SkxmvWa-cPVXnWGYyI-R025Ray8Egi5NB-9LqMzXM7GchSXPh-L_R0QFlfYpdT_3MzcdQl5NiHtneYIfGYzFLNC6LH26fkT0NdGvxDn4pomzPyktGfktMicKE-iKMwqKYqR2LrCuN9efoPR7Md3gZDDIzIznxGh_DvCHg/w640-h628/ll.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Richard carrington on September 1, 1859 observed an enormous group
of spots in the sun . That day was marked by auroras all over the sky and
their telegraph machines failed . In the 160-year record of geomagnetic storms,
the <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Carrington event</span> is the biggest .</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Similar solar storms happened in 1972 , 1989 affecting the power
systems and a small one in 2005 </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">affecting</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> the GPS. But none of these can
be compared with the <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Carrington effect of 1859</span>.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Solar cycle</span> is an average 11 year or 11.6yrs cycle which is observed by
the frequency and placement of sunspots visible on the sun.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A solar maximum occurs once in 11 years when the maximum number of
sunspots are visible on the sun usually near the equator of the sun. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">This cycle may sometimes vary, it is not always accurate. The average
period is 11 or 11.6 yrs but the variation may be from 9 to 14 years.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixrhvydMhZLU47G_LXOS-I3B-KEsGp0Kxm61LLyww6U8UFZv5yOLhyAD3q663Gpjj_YRke0PtieZq1dy8Zb7rJ11i8BLR2spW85DUVhl3ZzCqRkkaMqn5Ml2CdQ1nVbqrfl3E0DbPZ8rRUWPset8nJhQhPE3wseOzyikLbv97Hss7mYqVk_vdTmTC-hA/s626/lll.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="626" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixrhvydMhZLU47G_LXOS-I3B-KEsGp0Kxm61LLyww6U8UFZv5yOLhyAD3q663Gpjj_YRke0PtieZq1dy8Zb7rJ11i8BLR2spW85DUVhl3ZzCqRkkaMqn5Ml2CdQ1nVbqrfl3E0DbPZ8rRUWPset8nJhQhPE3wseOzyikLbv97Hss7mYqVk_vdTmTC-hA/w640-h350/lll.png" width="640" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">If it hits earth, there wont be
electricity for days or months, our electric grids will be damaged and the
problems will be much more than in 1959 because our generations relies
completely on electricity. Our water supply, food supply, banking,
satellites, communication systems everything will collapse.</span></p>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-62199713202219100882023-05-13T01:22:00.003-07:002023-05-13T23:46:48.823-07:00Our place in the cosmos<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgf_KCvhg8RFb-EPcc6OSCCTkj6BLxJ1naUchhjQgodmDIZHLkOvCfsHM6VbKL2vVYnnI5RZXRg_wjJSC9zmDlWtx-k1YxyE6JEcsi3ETepqyexuN8pWX6TkfFo5wjYbyQGje_tfFU_MakzFPMipt2A-nXl3fA1Nquti96fjIt-JqaLIDsY45h-ZHYBkQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="816" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgf_KCvhg8RFb-EPcc6OSCCTkj6BLxJ1naUchhjQgodmDIZHLkOvCfsHM6VbKL2vVYnnI5RZXRg_wjJSC9zmDlWtx-k1YxyE6JEcsi3ETepqyexuN8pWX6TkfFo5wjYbyQGje_tfFU_MakzFPMipt2A-nXl3fA1Nquti96fjIt-JqaLIDsY45h-ZHYBkQ=w397-h640" width="397" /></a></div><p></p><p>We know that the solar system is inside the milky way galaxy, we are on one of the spiral arms of the galaxy and we are going around the center of the galaxy every 226 million years.</p><p>The milky way galaxy is 100,000 light years big (the distance between the sun and earth is just 8 light minutes). we are in the outer part of the galaxy and most of the stars and planetary systems are located near the center of the galaxy. What lies in the center of the galaxy is a big black hole, its because of the gravity of the black hole that it forms a thick galactic plane. It attracts most of the mass of the galaxy along the equator of the galaxy thus forming a plane. </p><p>Our solar system travels around the milky way in an upward downward motion like a wave.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8Ty2Nj8-HFVKW8711yzLzRxfrVtMk7iKfYSjlmUMzYOOePB2nNxIRQPnTAeClAh6AThpfHtgj86W83dvJ6_vo9Iji15LiRbkCsmTujOAWIg2p9mhi19sYNceBbXy2hpprE1b2vZmbMa5h5yPKBwqBmO_MATNxQSyE95gW7btm_iSLY1n3E3MikXZG5Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="797" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8Ty2Nj8-HFVKW8711yzLzRxfrVtMk7iKfYSjlmUMzYOOePB2nNxIRQPnTAeClAh6AThpfHtgj86W83dvJ6_vo9Iji15LiRbkCsmTujOAWIg2p9mhi19sYNceBbXy2hpprE1b2vZmbMa5h5yPKBwqBmO_MATNxQSyE95gW7btm_iSLY1n3E3MikXZG5Q=w640-h430" width="640" /></a></div><br />Scientists say that the gravity of the center of the milky way, even though its huge cant affect life because its too far away (165 quadrillion miles from the Milky Way's black hole) and earth is more affected by the gravity of moon and the sun which are closer.<p></p><p>The time taken for the solar system to leave the galactic plane and return again is 33 million years. we passed through the milky way galactic plane 3 million years ago and we are moving northwards from the plane, not downwards like in the picture. it will take another 30 million years to meet the galactic plane . .</p><p>NASA says on 21st Dec, There's an alignment of the sun and the earth with the galactic center from earths point of view. It happens every year and its a normal event.</p><p>Based on the information from voyager 1 and 2 (they are travelling beyond Pluto and will go outside the boundaries of our solar system) and also with the help of IBEX (interstellar boundaries explorer, the latest spacecraft from NASA), the earth and all the planets of the solar system are inside the heliosphere which protects us from cosmic rays from the rest of the galaxy .we on earth are protected from the cosmic rays by our Ozone layer but the sun has a similar shield called the <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">heliosphere</span>.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTnBqZs9nYb2lNLs5yv6A5fAqimdwTN9OjbrNyQyug1XHw1jwjmiUjpPQviKlWDNkQApldoSmZ9w7Rx7pPnGFwLbv6V-DKjnAvr83QoBgmIqbZ1fi7COX0TjOkXukQeU0jOeslcqKcL4s7JE51lK6wSpa0TMjl2jKSQ-9NlPbYm83URMO9ltkV88m54g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTnBqZs9nYb2lNLs5yv6A5fAqimdwTN9OjbrNyQyug1XHw1jwjmiUjpPQviKlWDNkQApldoSmZ9w7Rx7pPnGFwLbv6V-DKjnAvr83QoBgmIqbZ1fi7COX0TjOkXukQeU0jOeslcqKcL4s7JE51lK6wSpa0TMjl2jKSQ-9NlPbYm83URMO9ltkV88m54g=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>We are learning more about the heliosphere as the voyager spacecrafts are currently in the outermost layers of the heliosphere, < as On June 15, 2012, NASA scientists reported that Voyager 1 may be very close to entering interstellar space and becoming the first man made object to leave the Solar System. </p><p>They say our solar system is travelling inside an interstellar bubble for the past 5 to 10 million years, it is 300 light years across and this <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">interstellar bubble</span> also protects us from cosmic rays just like the ozone layer and the heliosphere . .. . .</p><p>In May 2012 at 120 AU, Voyager 1 detected a sudden increase in cosmic rays.</p><p>Information from voyagers and IBEX shows a ribbon like structure in the edge of the heliosphere . This ribbon is a geometric effect created in the boundaries of one interstellar bubble and another bubble . Our solar system has begun to pass into this ribbon as we are travelling from the current bubble to the neighboring one.</p><p>Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University says this energy cloud is at least twice as strong as had previously been predicted and that this field "is turbulent or has a distortion in the solar vicinity."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlas-BALLRp8_MHG9I16obB9ZN-UBOXPZNbINPE7BqEvP9pCLtgOnGA0BOoAbHoV29L24t0QIhrR6X5gG13SE4-F7oDZYibx8aYSagcXQU4iBZWcvK_QD6Ypz-6wl5ZL_CKDCw1r6RepY23gBFyCr-1mBRFnPj_2IKnbLcPVlXkdNjZRnQBDeny0OuyA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1000" height="545" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlas-BALLRp8_MHG9I16obB9ZN-UBOXPZNbINPE7BqEvP9pCLtgOnGA0BOoAbHoV29L24t0QIhrR6X5gG13SE4-F7oDZYibx8aYSagcXQU4iBZWcvK_QD6Ypz-6wl5ZL_CKDCw1r6RepY23gBFyCr-1mBRFnPj_2IKnbLcPVlXkdNjZRnQBDeny0OuyA=w640-h545" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">(the two interstellar bubbles)</span></div><p>It will take light years for the solar system to travel from one bubble to the other says scientists but we have started entering a new realm.</p><p>These interstellar bubbles are created by the supernova explosions . . within the past 10 to 20 million years at a distance greater than 120 light years .</p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Supernova explosions within a distance of 25 light years are capable of wiping out all the life on our planet</span>.</p><p>The neighboring interstellar bubble that we are entering will be denser than our local bubble and more hotter, it would be a million degree. Our heliosphere is just 6000 degrees hot.</p><p>As we enter the denser interstellar bubbles, our heliosphere will shrink and it leads to more and more cosmic rays hitting our earth. We have at least 5000 yrs for something like this to happen but while entering this boundary we will be facing interstellar energy clouds like storms of charged particles from the neighboring bubble. It is an unavoidable collision.</p><p>When Dr. Alexei Dmitriev, the esteemed Russian space physicist was asked what are the implications of all this for earth he replied, "Global catastrophe! Not in tens of years from now, but in ones of years". This global catastrophe is basically right around the corner.</p><p>Pane Andov researcher and the author of astral walker says that this is a mega event that will happen between dec 21 to 23, 2012.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwwjqflSf0-gN7dtP7nzKG3Y0PpD4-DeZHr6dYjvnrAwmtPUuaLMoCQP9F5Co40fUpbJQNjIGYDO4BwPc0hgITzUzJDNEsnmL0xOINjf8vqTIgwgTH8M_RSTxlqhB0oXd_T7T_u7R8ZaTi-w0oWG4_fTGgppPkYZCu2RHcIj0nOxIZ0ltL_YEJh56SzA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwwjqflSf0-gN7dtP7nzKG3Y0PpD4-DeZHr6dYjvnrAwmtPUuaLMoCQP9F5Co40fUpbJQNjIGYDO4BwPc0hgITzUzJDNEsnmL0xOINjf8vqTIgwgTH8M_RSTxlqhB0oXd_T7T_u7R8ZaTi-w0oWG4_fTGgppPkYZCu2RHcIj0nOxIZ0ltL_YEJh56SzA=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>"Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history."~ Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division.</p><p>More<a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/12/astronomy.html" target="_blank"> insight @</a></p>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-33942381994252971722023-05-13T00:57:00.005-07:002023-05-13T23:48:21.559-07:00The pyramids of Giza and the precession of the Equinox<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Archaeologist Graham Hancock has provided us vast
knowledge about our ancient civilisations through his expeditions and studies
in the recent years. His deep sea marine archaeology led to the discovery of
the ancient city of Dwaraka near Gujarat and his most important discovery of
the Kumarikandam, a sunken land mass, the root of Tamil culture in the Indian
Ocean.</span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
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<span style="background: white;">He says there were intelligent civilisations
before Harappa and Mohen ja daro.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The ancestors who built the Egyptian pyramid and
Ankorwat in Cambodia are older than we have thought.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Researchers use software like sky globe to trace
the positions of stars and planets at any date in the history or future. We
know that the constellations, stars, planets in the sky keep changing positions
every year.</span><br />
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Ankorwat from the sky, from the pattern of it, they saw it matching to the
constellation Draco in the space. The ancients have constructed the celestial
map on earth. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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the angle of the Draco constellation back to 10,500 BC. That was during the end
of the ice age.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br /><!--[endif]--></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLgwAF1E-bWj-iAf7qnK5cJRdaEPeB0E4JtRTUgkhmRC3UGYz_S5CEAichzdc9i-NIAKF07wQC2hoFzJtmamTsJ8T2KflV47hRwnrbGKCYR-QmMxebmrm65YuRP8DoBVnyYwNTsnfc4fJ2BHbmxTx7nuXdI89jY3a56VqkyYqsqMwEL0FSbEtkrJCYEw/s640/3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="640" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLgwAF1E-bWj-iAf7qnK5cJRdaEPeB0E4JtRTUgkhmRC3UGYz_S5CEAichzdc9i-NIAKF07wQC2hoFzJtmamTsJ8T2KflV47hRwnrbGKCYR-QmMxebmrm65YuRP8DoBVnyYwNTsnfc4fJ2BHbmxTx7nuXdI89jY3a56VqkyYqsqMwEL0FSbEtkrJCYEw/w640-h404/3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Likewise the pyramids of Egypt represent the
constellation of Orion, the three stars that appear in a straight line in the
night sky.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7d6osrgnK64FgPjS-8WVZZsUbAZ6R6_X9UcwtFxi-tbYzvMgh6KNKUQodY_Wtn5H1107t_4ETDvgx0t6ZPl9lEXvazgdjQdBVPh2hn_47MpSCgN5yGFnYoP8sPp9aOJ3-4p26hRSIOhxagx393g9nYUtKaCWtftwFLaR43yzYf25E-nOLrSmN3Dac0w/s400/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="400" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7d6osrgnK64FgPjS-8WVZZsUbAZ6R6_X9UcwtFxi-tbYzvMgh6KNKUQodY_Wtn5H1107t_4ETDvgx0t6ZPl9lEXvazgdjQdBVPh2hn_47MpSCgN5yGFnYoP8sPp9aOJ3-4p26hRSIOhxagx393g9nYUtKaCWtftwFLaR43yzYf25E-nOLrSmN3Dac0w/w640-h462/4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzxpGm5CBX8bkjUKyfpqxBGaPgldE1rsdUIKQHkNO5-6-92FogmV3f8-XQ328EFp5RMtHo4-vshMhe8bNRBVDJJfkqPx-iBdVDGOxRdkRFtWoQ0SkWjLNnyG_ShjH0opZzNksoBwJqgpMPKQNsZFPnQt3aJzSgepE2KyV1ahgdd124Jl1yncNcBC1Jaw/s400/5.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="400" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzxpGm5CBX8bkjUKyfpqxBGaPgldE1rsdUIKQHkNO5-6-92FogmV3f8-XQ328EFp5RMtHo4-vshMhe8bNRBVDJJfkqPx-iBdVDGOxRdkRFtWoQ0SkWjLNnyG_ShjH0opZzNksoBwJqgpMPKQNsZFPnQt3aJzSgepE2KyV1ahgdd124Jl1yncNcBC1Jaw/w640-h476/5.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white;">And they pyramids matched with the angle of the Orion constellation only
when we traced the stars back to </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">10,500 BC</span><span style="background-color: white;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">We can
see the similarities between the ancient monuments at two different places on
earth representing the stars like how they appeared in the sky in 10,500 BC.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
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BC?</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">The great Sphinx in Egypt is also older than previously
predicted. The texture of it is caused
by continuous rainfall and we dint have that kind of a rainfall in Egypt
for the past 5000 years. It should have happened during 10,500BC when Egypt was
green and getting heavy rainfall. The sphinx has the body of a lion and the
head of a king (human).</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">But the true Sphinx had a lion head which was
changed to a human head by the kings of the later dynasties.</span></span></p><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
<br /><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">
Precession of the equinoxes</b><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><span style="background: white;">There are 88 constellations in the sky.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
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ecliptic plane and the zodiac signs are the 12 constellations that lie in the
ecliptic plane.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">From earth's perspective we can see the sun
moving through a different constellation every month. Thus it takes one year to
complete a full cycle through the 12 zodiac signs. This is the zodiac calendar.</span><br />
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Earth spins (rotation) on its axis at the speed of 24hrs and it also wobbles (which
cannot be observed easily). This slow wobbling causes the precession of
the equinox cycle which takes 26000 years to finish one circle and the ancient
Mayans, Indians and Egyptians have observed it.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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degree every 72 years. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">A
full 360 degree change takes 72x360 = 25920 years, by rounding it as </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #d9ead3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(217, 234, 211); font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">26,000yrs</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">,
we call it </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #d0e0e3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(208, 224, 227); font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">one platonic age</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">So when a full cycle through the 12
constellations in a platonic year or precession cycle takes 25920 years, the
time for the change from one constellation to the other is 25920/12
constellations = 2160 years</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Its the age of Pisces now, on the spring
equinox(vernal) of every year we can see the Pisces constellation showing up
before sunrise or after sunset.</span><br />
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spring equinox date.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The
path of the sun (in the point of view from earth) goes through each zodiac and
comes back to pisces on that equinox date.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">But due to the precessional cycle this will
change every 2160 years.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We are about to move into the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f4cccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(244, 204, 204);">Aquarian age</span><span style="background: white;"> very
soon.</span><br />
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happen.</span></p>
<span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Nicholas
Campion suggests that approximated dates for entering the Age of Aquarius range
from 1447 AD to 3597 AD, there are many claims from many researchers.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> M<span style="background: white;">ost writers claim the Age of Aquarius arrived in the 20th century (29
claims). The 24th century is in second place (12 claims).</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Many also say it happens in the year 2012.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The New age movements claim that the Aquarian
age started in 1970's, that’s when the hippie culture started .</span><br />
<br />
</span><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1575469592352790092/6337808407215227598" title="Yogi Bhajan"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Yogi Bhajan</span></a></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">,
says that The Age of Aquarius began on November 11, 1991 and
fully transitioned from Pisces on November 20, 2011.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">In the age of Aries, the Egyptians built huge
statues with Goat heads, they called it Ram.</span><br />
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built in 10,500BC in the age of Leo and not in 2500 BC.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Stones cannot be carbon dated,
therefore the pyramid and the sphinx and other monuments also cannot be carbon
dated</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">So how did our scientists find the date of these
architectures?</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Egyptologists simply carbon dated the skulls
and other organic body parts around the pyramid. They concluded its time period
as 2500 BC especially after they saw a name scribbled (they thought it’s the
king who built it) in one of the chambers in the pyramid.<br /><br /></span></span></p>
<span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">No mummified
bodies were ever found inside the Pyramids. All the bodies (mummies) were found
only in a place called the kings valley which is far from the pyramids</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">. <span style="background: white;">If the pyramids are not tombs then what are they?</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0q9Z84VxVAaJRTgE_Lj1i6LceHFac9PAFSD-NsG6xdyxbwyrizjIr1pM0_WTuIQbbEPy4ZzfTTFEFLX7QUpTcXQ5uXoFnR4QK1AEDYIyjkcx2uRtw4hTi0oXytC9QNWDy2jGcSdjcLo7hks4ejsUQwwrL5ONFLc71Wn2F28yOYmXjgdeimlTr7-jAQ/s740/15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="740" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0q9Z84VxVAaJRTgE_Lj1i6LceHFac9PAFSD-NsG6xdyxbwyrizjIr1pM0_WTuIQbbEPy4ZzfTTFEFLX7QUpTcXQ5uXoFnR4QK1AEDYIyjkcx2uRtw4hTi0oXytC9QNWDy2jGcSdjcLo7hks4ejsUQwwrL5ONFLc71Wn2F28yOYmXjgdeimlTr7-jAQ/w640-h520/15.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">There are two shafts leading from the kings chamber
and queens chamber, the Egyptologists thought they were air vents, they dint
know the pyramid was a portal, a stargate for the soul to enter other
dimensions, The pyramid is like a flight simulator for the soul to reach the
stars. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">The Kings chamber has a coffin like structure to
place one's body and there are holes or shafts which leads or directly points
towards the constellations in the sky. The Orion belt.</span><br /><br />
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later dynasties but they were badly made and nowhere near to the exquisite art
of the Giza pyramids. This shows that the Great pyramids of Giza were not
built by the Egyptians of the 2500 BC, they were built by a super high tech
race who could understand precession cycle and map the movement of stars
accurately, cut huge blocks of stones and transport them to huge distances,
most importantly they knew the science of the souls and the afterlife.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Graham
hancock says, there lived an unknown race in history long before the Egyptians
and Sumerians. They disappeared around 10,500 BC by a huge catastrophe.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="background: white;">The Egyptian pyramid has been built with a high technical master
engineering which cannot be achieved even in our time. The stone cuttings near
the pyramid and the drillings in the stones are so powerful, 500 times more powerful
than our modern drilling equipment. There should have existed a highly
intelligent super race that has left its legacy, their fingerprints in many
parts of the world.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">There are pyramids in Mexico, china and many
other parts of the world too.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">10,500 BC was when the ice age ended, the ice
melted and created floods in many parts of the world, increasing the sea level
and many continents and cities of the master race went under the sea.</span><br /></span><br />
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is covered with miles of ice surface but the maps of the ancient Alexandria
library in Egypt knew about Antarctica with depictions of rivers and mountains.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Even Hitler had sent a special Nazi team to
search for the lost super race in Antarctica.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The story of Atlantis going under water was told to
us by Plato who claims that his information of ancient Athens and Atlantis come
from a visit to </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1575469592352790092/6337808407215227598" title="Ancient Egypt"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Egypt</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> by the legendary
Athenian lawgiver </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1575469592352790092/6337808407215227598" title="Solon"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Solon</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> in
the 6th century BC. In Egypt, Solon met a priest of </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1575469592352790092/6337808407215227598" title="Sais, Egypt"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sais</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">, who translated the
history of ancient Atlantis, recorded on papyri in </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1575469592352790092/6337808407215227598" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Egyptian hieroglyphs</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">The priest of Egypt said to Solon that “at every
change of the great ages, there will be a global disaster which will wipe out
every memory of the previous civilisation and humanity has to start again as children
who know nothing of it.<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />There are also some hidden chambers inside the Giza pyramid
and also under the sphinx. May be the answer is somewhere in those chambers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/egyptology.html" target="_blank">More insight @</a></span></p></span></span></span></span></div>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-85866967064102700742023-05-08T14:48:00.176-07:002023-05-13T23:52:18.293-07:00Our trip to the Spiti valley<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";">Day 1</span></b><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"> - Chennai to Chandigarh | Sat,10Sep2022 </span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";">MAA <b>07:45</b> to BLR 08:40 - ( Transit in
Bangalore ) - BLR 10:35 to IXC <b>13:25</b></span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";">It starts with me (Mathi) and my wife (Nisreen) starting our trip
from Chennai in the morning and landing at the Chandigarh airport in the
afternoon, hoping to reach Manali on the same day. </span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";">Chandigarh
Airport to <b>ISBT
(sector 43 bus terminal) </b>is a<b> </b>20-30 min drive, buses
from Chandigarh to Manali are available from sector </span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";">17 and
43, but frequency will be more from 43 (every bus which departs from 17 also
goes via <b>ISBT- 43</b>.) </span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";">The airport taxi costs a bit too much , so we chose to hire an
auto (the auto drivers are friendly but theyr'e also a little tricky to
deal with). They were trying to convince us to take a day trip around
Chandigarh but we were determined to reach Manali the same day, so we
requested them to drop us in the bus terminal. </span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p>
</p><p><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">We had lunch in the Chandigarh bus stand where no one
would speak English or even Hindi. It is really nice that they stick to their
native tongue but unfortunately we had a difficult time getting information
regarding the transport to Manali. I already knew it was not going to be easy
but at the same time I was not at all interested in booking a taxi for the long
journey uphill. I could have booked a private bus through an app but all the
buses in the Chandigarh to Manali route were 8 hour long night buses, there
were almost no buses in the day time. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Arabic, serif;">The stalls were giving tokens for the
buses but they give the token only once the bus arrives. It was getting late as
we waited in the bus terminal for over 2 hrs at least. The much awaited direct
bus to Manali didn't show up so
we jumped into a bus that was going to Mandi ( located on the way to manali).
The token system was a failure, people flooded the stall counter and the token
guy lost his temperament. He said "ok everyone get into the bus and get
the tickets directly from the conductor". It was stupid. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: courier;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><b><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;">Route</span></b><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt;">: Chandigargh (</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">1,053 ft) </span><span color="windowtext" face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">to </span><span color="windowtext" face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Ropar-kiratpur-sundernagar - <b>Mandi </b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; mso-highlight: white;">(</span></span><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">2,493ft)</span><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
managed to book a stay in Mandi while on the bus travel. It was supposed to be
a 6-7 hours journey to Mandi but It took longer than that. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Travel tip : </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">HRTC (Ordinary/Semi Deluxe
/Deluxe) buses are the best to travel over hilly areas, they're relatively safer than private buses. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit; mso-highlight: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";">The
bus paused for dinner and reached Mandi very late. We stayed overnight in a
very simple hotel. Restaurants were closing soon and I luckily managed to get
some Roti sabji for dinner.</span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Day 2 – The morning was
beautiful, we had booked an early morning private bus (zing) from Mandi to
Manali. We got a free ride (ticketing hadn't started yet) from the hotel to the
main bus stand in a public bus which came by. We had tea at one of the bus
stand tea shops while watching the sparrows (the first batch of customers
always get greeted well). We waited for the bus from 6 am and the bus came an
hour late. The sleepy youngsters in the bus from Delhi were waking up and
eating the left over snacks. The bus stopped for breakfast in a roadside
restaurant somewhere around 10 am. The passengers who were heading towards
Jibhi, tirthan and sainj valley got down near the <b>Aut - tunnel</b> (3kms long
dangerous tunnel).</span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: courier; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Aut</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> is 19 kms before </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Bhuntar</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and 3 hours from Manali) </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: courier; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: courier; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #212529; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Distance between Aut to Tirthan Valley is 30 kms</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">The bus crossed <b>Bhuntar </b>and reached the beautiful <b>Kullu
valley</b> in <span style="background: rgb(244, 204, 204);">an hour</span>. There
were apple markets all the way from Kullu to Manali. The zing bus lounge and
parking was 4kms before the main town of Manali and we had to hire an
auto (10 mins) to finally reach the Manali HPTDC bus stand (<span style="background: lightgrey;">6,725 ft)</span>. The plan was to hire a bike
and start our journey towards Kaza (the capital of Spiti valley) immediately as
we were already half a day behind our schedule.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: rgb(243, 243, 243); font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";">We had lunch (Amritsari kulcha) in the famous Mall
road market just adjacent to the bus stand and also left a part of our luggage
to be stored in the HPTDC cloak room till we come back from Spiti.</span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Immediately
after lunch we walked to Biker point (bike rental service) managed by Mr.
Pyar singh thakur to hire a RE Himalayan bike, We asked them to
fit a luggage carrier (an extra accessory to carry the luggage comfortably) in
the bike, popularly known in these areas as the Ladakh carrier. We
spent around half an hour inspecting the condition of the bike and fitting the
carrier. We brought the bunjee straps with us from Chennai
so that we don't have to hire everything in Manali. Once we got the bike (8400
Rs for 7 days), we visited the most famous <b>Hadimba temple</b> which
was nearby. The forest trail near the temple with the deodar cedar trees and
the beautiful big rocks was indeed wonderful despite the many
tourists. The water from the pipe in the entrance of the temple was gloriously
refreshing. This place is full of peddlers trying to make a living by selling
products like Kesar (saffron), honey, Kullu caps etc. They also sell various
fun activities like getting dressed in the traditional Himachal attire, yak
rides, photos with bunny rabbits etc. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fce5cd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We filled the petrol tank as the next petrol station is only at Kaza (spiti valley), 200 kms and 10-12 hrs away</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
left Manali around 4 pm and drove along the beautiful <b>Beas
river</b>, the <b>Jogini falls</b> was visible in the long. By
the time we started driving up the hair pin bends we could feel the temperature
dropping. We stopped near <b>Solang valley</b> <span style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204);">(8,400ft) </span>to put on the jackets,
gloves, face covers etc.. It is not possible to drive further without the help
of these. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Solang valley is a very popular winter paradise.</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: large;">Our
initial plan was to reach Manali in the morning, acquire the Rohtang pass
permit and reach the Lahul valley through the insanely popular Rohtang pass.
But as I explained earlier we were able to reach Manali only in the afternoon
and our best option was to take the Atal tunnel to reach </span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><b>Lahul
valley </b>before dark (it saves a lot of time compared to the Rohtang pass.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjev4qab3naize6u6YsgzSmvMZPD0ordN4eihZ8Ma258tUChEN-bd8U66gm1bNO3FsvhDrB3c9xlQWpkIqM7g2aXiz4zDJP94rmlFi3n_HVSOAEsORsj15xC3vf6UXsx14-Yblh7drXmIojqqiiPabKt19P6GXXZfLUn8YZAi9v46mmiSEY0UmGY0zyoA/s4320/IMG_3481_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="4320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjev4qab3naize6u6YsgzSmvMZPD0ordN4eihZ8Ma258tUChEN-bd8U66gm1bNO3FsvhDrB3c9xlQWpkIqM7g2aXiz4zDJP94rmlFi3n_HVSOAEsORsj15xC3vf6UXsx14-Yblh7drXmIojqqiiPabKt19P6GXXZfLUn8YZAi9v46mmiSEY0UmGY0zyoA/w640-h480/IMG_3481_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(255, 242, 204); font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Travel tip : it is best to visit Rohtang pass on the way back from spiti rather than on the way to spiti as there is no need for the pass permits for those who are travelling from spiti to manali. Also its better to avoid the rohtang pass in the weekends when it </i></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><i style="font-size: 16px;">will be crowded </i><i style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihRWm9-x4J6XhiCLZn-uqePTLdkTf-VVIWM2mfo2qDRryQRZH9D2Zrw2zYtErQCg7yKgChKLHyGzNA_nIqAOTsfWLw9q8KFLBYb-cqRf0nSDp5R1iY6Kvq3CIc6cboXxgjR4v8N9qZcsc_FwkdSfvdlcyVN6drZZZ7UIyLb02EdEZ17jmlGCF02Y8JUQ/s912/ata;%20tunnel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="699" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihRWm9-x4J6XhiCLZn-uqePTLdkTf-VVIWM2mfo2qDRryQRZH9D2Zrw2zYtErQCg7yKgChKLHyGzNA_nIqAOTsfWLw9q8KFLBYb-cqRf0nSDp5R1iY6Kvq3CIc6cboXxgjR4v8N9qZcsc_FwkdSfvdlcyVN6drZZZ7UIyLb02EdEZ17jmlGCF02Y8JUQ/w491-h640/ata;%20tunnel.jpg" width="491" /></a></div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #f4cccc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;">Manali – via </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;">Atal Tunnel</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;"> – Khoksar (41 KMs) – Gramphu (</span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;">46 KMs</b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;">)</span></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #f4cccc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;">Manali – Marhi (37 KMs) – </span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;">Rohtang Pass</b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;"> (51 KMs) – Gramphu (</span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;">66 KMs</b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;">)</span></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It was time to say good bye to the <b>Beas river</b> which was accompanying us from Mandi.</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The <b>Atal tunnel</b> was well managed and </span></span><span color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">well lit with </span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">repetitive speed limit warnings. We were so excited to travel through the tunnel but it seemed like never ending and after a point we couldn't resist anticipating the daylight to appear at the end of the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">9 Kms long </span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tunnel. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I</span></span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">t is the highest highway single-tube tunnel above </span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">10,000 ft</span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"> (3,048 m) in the world. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Reaching the end of the tunnel and entering the </span></span></span><b style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Lahul valley</b><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> was one of the best moments of the trip. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">At the exit of the Atal tunnel, the road splits into two, towards <b>Sissu </b>( a popular tourist town on the way to Ladakh) on the left and towards <b>Koksar </b>(a small village on the way to Spiti)<b> </b>on the right. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Now we were in the company of the <b>Chenab river</b></span> and reached Koksar <span style="background-color: #cccccc;">(10,302ft)</span> for the evening tea amidst the cabbage farms. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UQdaRFAyR8XeiIE_4sXiIa1lzc4c8tXRefvoQYxYEBNxC5FQVfFmYZQRAzJ0LilsqJ0aGgPx3J8KM9ZBV-P12F1C7jyYGv92w39ngomt-OtSOAD2SHca_2BKmxj1JQpJKn_mOfLX0hL8PGThcrd8o0XTDsjWe_AuqrQiPqrMZFeG5_qyCNU-RfVWrA/s5738/IMG_20220911_174447493_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5738" data-original-width="4320" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UQdaRFAyR8XeiIE_4sXiIa1lzc4c8tXRefvoQYxYEBNxC5FQVfFmYZQRAzJ0LilsqJ0aGgPx3J8KM9ZBV-P12F1C7jyYGv92w39ngomt-OtSOAD2SHca_2BKmxj1JQpJKn_mOfLX0hL8PGThcrd8o0XTDsjWe_AuqrQiPqrMZFeG5_qyCNU-RfVWrA/w482-h640/IMG_20220911_174447493_HDR.jpg" width="482" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;">(</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">and we also met a Siberian husky)<br /></span></span></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Travel tip : We have to be well prepared in advance with </span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">the addresses and phone numbers of guest houses and homestays in these areas </span><i style="color: windowtext; font-family: georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">because internet or phone connectivity is not available. BSNL has signal coverage but don't depend on it. </i></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">It started drizzling and we were worried a bit, luckily we found a homestay near the Koksar forest range. The host, a friendly lady welcomed us with the honey lemon ginger tea as soon as we decided to stay there. So we had the second tea of the evening in a lovely balcony, mesmerised by the sight of vehicles crossing the valley in the far. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTRjYQ7Wb5iGgsV1KIBSaHNuBQP9_tNQXN9EDxF-JG_aV7D8PhvztVXhKri0w16XcYSNSS9rsZ53M-cOXqIFjft51Lz9DqwD1uhtgZ80wXQKIpiWp4_0FqCrTqdiyrqGuIVdaLynluaBqu_1L60kJPPQLMPbINXvgTpDVOO_tekbq4hFEaxTYe2Ao-g/s4320/IMG_20220911_182918121.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3253" data-original-width="4320" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTRjYQ7Wb5iGgsV1KIBSaHNuBQP9_tNQXN9EDxF-JG_aV7D8PhvztVXhKri0w16XcYSNSS9rsZ53M-cOXqIFjft51Lz9DqwD1uhtgZ80wXQKIpiWp4_0FqCrTqdiyrqGuIVdaLynluaBqu_1L60kJPPQLMPbINXvgTpDVOO_tekbq4hFEaxTYe2Ao-g/w640-h482/IMG_20220911_182918121.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></span></p>The overpowering wind and darkness made us leave the balcony and find warmth under the woolen blankets. We requested our host to cook us some noodles which she gladly did. </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Hospitality was heartwarming, the Chillness though was harsh. We couldn't set foot on the floor without socks. </span></span><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 12pt;">As per Census 2011, The district
of Lahaul & Spiti is the 3rd least populated district in
India and the 2nd least densely populated
district in India. </span></i></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Day 3</span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – The only way we would survive the day is by starting early. After checking out from the homestay around 6 am, we realised the </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">bike was exposed to the dew throughout the night and the seat was damp. Anyways we managed to ride the bike by spreading some plastic covers on the seat. We were stopped at </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Koksar check post</b></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">where the guards asked us to fill in our details on a note book. Most of us crossing this check post for the first time in our life wouldn't be prepared for what lies ahead. Anyhow the check post opened and we drove past the officials, soon t</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">here'll be a revelation on whether we under estimated or over estimated our guts.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(While we were planning for the trip, we had come across several articles and blogs mentioning the road condition from Gramphu to Batal. It is one of the most treacherous highway roads between two popular tourist destinations). </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We were driving upwards on a well laid road in a </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">very </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">beautiful place.</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHrCRUBw42dLWIC0fLA_3J_Tv_tGxZIuWeduSVn9iPMLvbav_15ysYz_fLZ2EWeQgK2mhqqLDKRhN7yUf_4J3TGrwHmh1r4zOWwJYLIWAgfv1nK01ebNMyIbqaaFAgklGwwePNTLi5exJXVTMSPULCBVr2GmEFSfDEbSisH8Myp2gQlbotfWeka_YOPQ/s4320/IMG_3511.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="4320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHrCRUBw42dLWIC0fLA_3J_Tv_tGxZIuWeduSVn9iPMLvbav_15ysYz_fLZ2EWeQgK2mhqqLDKRhN7yUf_4J3TGrwHmh1r4zOWwJYLIWAgfv1nK01ebNMyIbqaaFAgklGwwePNTLi5exJXVTMSPULCBVr2GmEFSfDEbSisH8Myp2gQlbotfWeka_YOPQ/w640-h480/IMG_3511.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">It was only after an hour of driving that we realised we might be on the wrong route, immediately we felt the extra chill in our spine because this day was all about saving time and we might have already wasted the most crucial hours of the journey. We were at the top of some mountain and in fact it was the Rohtang pass. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZJdPH66OSWHRcd-IyxgzxtiT51ZUCeZabg20b4tElYBYlirsSjjeltbTxLvT9T-rQRi9rLz4Gpf1bgGZsmG6Oh5rEx2Bjesv9HLVUyNpCpHrxwRsupAj5S7U4mQcUYCgrh6bSk23KDSjW3TcZ8AYWzPGTtZfRoVrDYu38S-YfvyZNCbgMjuKp0SVWw/s4320/_MG_2075.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZJdPH66OSWHRcd-IyxgzxtiT51ZUCeZabg20b4tElYBYlirsSjjeltbTxLvT9T-rQRi9rLz4Gpf1bgGZsmG6Oh5rEx2Bjesv9HLVUyNpCpHrxwRsupAj5S7U4mQcUYCgrh6bSk23KDSjW3TcZ8AYWzPGTtZfRoVrDYu38S-YfvyZNCbgMjuKp0SVWw/w640-h426/_MG_2075.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We had crossed the <b>Rohtang top</b></span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">12.058 ft)</span><span style="background-color: white;">, also crossed the Rani nallah, and reached <b>Marhi </b>(</span></span></span></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 12.32px;">11,020 ft).</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.32px;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> How much petrol and time did we lose in this stupid mistake ? </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wKGuqGmDwwDk9MXY25tUT0CT8woqQtoF8Ml6-yKB5GJZeyATvHy0q5nMBX0_sjlE1Cavu6vl1-L3T8WT-hUO_7JnwFOBBJu2z_reDJdopsgSZ0dFoCqlq2L0dfd8H4NOFFOfGTrRQvSA2Oz_Gf7XaJdR62p3RZdeJz0Dn-12iW3KAjfUHt8vG3l-0Q/s800/maneuver.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wKGuqGmDwwDk9MXY25tUT0CT8woqQtoF8Ml6-yKB5GJZeyATvHy0q5nMBX0_sjlE1Cavu6vl1-L3T8WT-hUO_7JnwFOBBJu2z_reDJdopsgSZ0dFoCqlq2L0dfd8H4NOFFOfGTrRQvSA2Oz_Gf7XaJdR62p3RZdeJz0Dn-12iW3KAjfUHt8vG3l-0Q/w400-h225/maneuver.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">We realised we were completely engrossed in the </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">undisturbed serenity and the </span><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">austere beauty of the valley, well enough to miss the road to Spiti. Anyways we thought to ourselves we could now tick off the Rohtang pass from our Wishlist as we've now </span></span></span></span><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">witnessed the </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">great Rohtang la (</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">at least</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> one half of it). Rohtang was nothing but spectacular, especially </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">in the early morning when it was not </span><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">spoiled by the </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">tourist crowd</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">. We had seen absolutely no one else on that route for over an hour. We wanted to ask someone for the right direction, luckily a guy showed up and advised us to go back the way we came, 30 kms back till </span></span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.6667px;">Gramphu </b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.6667px;">(which is only 5 kms from Koksar).</span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">It was 10 am by the time we reached all the way down to Gramphu after wasting over an hour (60 kms) on the wrong road. We now realised, the road to</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Kaza (Spiti valley)</span> <span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">was on the left side of Gramphu while the road we took by mistake to Rohtang was on the right. The road to Kaza was marked by a rusty direction board which is easy to miss. It is the only road to Kaza but no one would acknowledge it as a road on seeing it. Anyways w</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">e were on the way to Kaza, manifesting the path while proceeding into the unknown.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">The kaza road had already</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> got us focused on survival but </span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">we </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">couldn't</span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">shrug</span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> off the beauty of Rohtang from our immediate memory, we never could! </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p>Even though it was intimidating, it was also the time for thrill and adventure. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">The Gramphu to Batal road</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span><span><span color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">experience is purely </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">visceral</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> as we are at the mercy of chance/nature</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">.</span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Khoksar to Gramphu is 5</span><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> </b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">kms</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Gramphu to</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"> Chhatru is 16 kms</span><br /><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Chhatru to Chota Dhara is 17 kms</span></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Chota Dhara to Battal is 15 kms <br /></span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Battal to Kunzum Pass is 18 kms</span></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Kunzum Pass to Losar is 20 kms</span></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Losar – Kaza ( capital of spiti )is 51 kms</span></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The next place on the map after Gramphu was <b>Chhatru </b>but we did not see it passing, we could only see the vast nothingness of this semi arid, </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">high altitude cold desert. We were living in the moment as we drove between boulders with a conviction, </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">this is the way !</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCxMarbtqb-QlN85jrBtGCPxzI36nbijZUar7FDzGUx8CK81O7PjDJlq88ypIHgn57Y84_L03VtNSXXBd5TolIE5NTiFfu2DCgE487pJ19-WE11Z0Zwmh683dFCL3qHd4t4dTOe_R1DYjkb_zFOjiu81fXRDN6WvWBfGWt1EjbQJN4Al7f_v-K8R1rkg/s4320/IMG_3572_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="4320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCxMarbtqb-QlN85jrBtGCPxzI36nbijZUar7FDzGUx8CK81O7PjDJlq88ypIHgn57Y84_L03VtNSXXBd5TolIE5NTiFfu2DCgE487pJ19-WE11Z0Zwmh683dFCL3qHd4t4dTOe_R1DYjkb_zFOjiu81fXRDN6WvWBfGWt1EjbQJN4Al7f_v-K8R1rkg/w640-h480/IMG_3572_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">We came across a place which could be Chota Dhara; w</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">e had lost track of time while driving through the m</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">any small streams and a few mad streams called nallahs.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Travel tip: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Its better to</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> remove our shoes while crossing these nallahs or else we might have to travel the whole day with a wet feet.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">T</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">he continuously bumpy ride <span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">on the gravel, pebbles and other rocks</span> deserved a break and</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> in the afternoon we were able to see two dhabas where some vehicles were parked. It was </span><b style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Batal</b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Starting very early in the morning saved our day despite the time wasted heading towards Rohtang by mistake. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Travel tip : Starting the journey to Kaza from Manali is tougher because it is 41 kms longer via Atal tunnel and 70 kms longer via Rohtang pass compared to Starting the journey from Koksar. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Batal is the only place for food in this route where we should decide between rajma chawal and dal makhani chawal. It is truly an oasis with </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">rest rooms, water and some ordinary snacks</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Travel tips : The manali to kaza road is </span></span><i><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">free from snow only from
mid-May to October. This is the only time this road will be available to access. The only other route to visit spiti valley which is open all around the year is the shimla to kaza road ( 422 kms , 2- 3 days)</span></i></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><i><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">After spending close to 45 mins in Batal we started off towards Kaza around 1: 45 pm.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">The Chenab river will bid adieu to us here at the bridge in Batal and we will be accompanied by the <b>Spiti river</b> after this point.</span> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">we wanted to see the <b>Chandrataal lake </b>to which a small deviation </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">needs</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> to be taken</span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from the main route but we missed the entry point to Chandrataal lake and went straightaway to the </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Kunzum pass</span> <span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(</span></span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">14,100 feet)</span></span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">There was also a</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">n other couple riding a RE classic 350 scratching their head after missing the way to Chandrataal. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHSHgxw3d7pCtoU_wzYtVx64t0w2tkH_zfQ-de3ffPDK6upbsApy5-crz7mshPyBQFV3cfVXr4xZuO5Gx0eBejMhFtsEocVmyu5pLFVxLNpVKQwShSvhm1Q8E_H7rdoV83hzOvv-fkD7rRHA6YkwTokorzSr3liPOhU6fMg_M8PQgX07XDZMsrEF-2A/s4320/IMG_3928_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="4320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHSHgxw3d7pCtoU_wzYtVx64t0w2tkH_zfQ-de3ffPDK6upbsApy5-crz7mshPyBQFV3cfVXr4xZuO5Gx0eBejMhFtsEocVmyu5pLFVxLNpVKQwShSvhm1Q8E_H7rdoV83hzOvv-fkD7rRHA6YkwTokorzSr3liPOhU6fMg_M8PQgX07XDZMsrEF-2A/w640-h480/IMG_3928_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br />Then we asked a team of bikers at the Kunzum stupas and they </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">said we have to go back a few Kms to see Chandrataal and it is not a good idea to visit the lake now if we are intended to reach Kaza by evening. <br /><br /></span><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">t is a sentiment of the travelers in the Spiti circuit to express their gratitude at the Kunzum stupas.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">From where we were located, </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">reaching chandrataal and coming back </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">will take</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> over 2.5 hrs of travel time and one more hour to relax at the lake. We should not have missed the entry point, there's no point going back now. I was also not interested in staying overnight at the chandrataal camp site ( in one of their tents). </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtW8Vu0dcRf0yMG5tJhZGa_Dkkx3i-E_AgeIWkTLQwEcavR2CTjPdsHX_jlw-narSm8q7Sw14i4VbcggH-UT1WGgo2dMf4dfe1PPpLXR3rw0VA-j4m6P-zn0-NE7eeR6pOHq5KivUmWV8JwLBx8OHUNlSTczZr_lWCMDxkzR68vvPE6Vu1RCIDeTMicw/s1511/chandrataal1%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="1511" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtW8Vu0dcRf0yMG5tJhZGa_Dkkx3i-E_AgeIWkTLQwEcavR2CTjPdsHX_jlw-narSm8q7Sw14i4VbcggH-UT1WGgo2dMf4dfe1PPpLXR3rw0VA-j4m6P-zn0-NE7eeR6pOHq5KivUmWV8JwLBx8OHUNlSTczZr_lWCMDxkzR68vvPE6Vu1RCIDeTMicw/w640-h392/chandrataal1%20.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Travel tip : The duration of the trip according to the google maps is not reliable, it takes around 10 hrs to reach Kaza from Koksar and around 12 hrs from Manali.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">The road condition in Kunzum is not the worst but it is the
most dangerous (too steep and constituted by loose mud). We missed the
Chandrataal lake but we were still in the right direction to Spiti, perfectly
aligned towards Kaza. We decided we could catch up with Chandrataal lake while
on the way back to Manali (after a few days), the downwards slope from Kunzum to Losar also demands extreme caution.</p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We reached <b>Losar (</b></span></span><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 12pt;">13,418
ft)</span><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">by around 4 pm and had a milk tea, wondering if it was cow's milk or yak milk. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fce5cd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Travel tip: The road gets better from Losar towards kaza through the many villages like Kiamo, Hansa, Kiato, Pangmo, Hull, Hal, Moorang, Sumling, Khurik etc.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fce5cd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyldqzhG8LJ8Vb2T_He9BzcCrcPhLxKC7tnoNIYVzhZs4Eo1YAtIhJYIevpE0QTyV44NMxXxH4sIszJE7deOwxq7vQwdKgO_THEJcXUarLwMozQtitBWIhVGX2Q6V1PeXFGCcrfiOAXHdw8Rdyr47KpQO_WE16omrOLcr1bvd8-OdBw-H29aXS3Rk3bA/s4320/_MG_2156.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyldqzhG8LJ8Vb2T_He9BzcCrcPhLxKC7tnoNIYVzhZs4Eo1YAtIhJYIevpE0QTyV44NMxXxH4sIszJE7deOwxq7vQwdKgO_THEJcXUarLwMozQtitBWIhVGX2Q6V1PeXFGCcrfiOAXHdw8Rdyr47KpQO_WE16omrOLcr1bvd8-OdBw-H29aXS3Rk3bA/w640-h426/_MG_2156.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><br /></div>We drove across the small village called <b>Rangrik</b> ( 6 kms before kaza).</span></span></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg9SSqoxoM0pRmebT9gWRzPGhWPWBpXFJwl-Kfab6OO_zyoYOpuEJ3PsCvvvM9g7EqOwJTGS90-ZMNW_cHhsJnyjNvd5j5zVBpojb7fl_APCo3t1_a7-9VcrtqGy-3e7-MmL1gu5svrrIIH4nwGxG3MKvKt8BZrjFnsqcnAN1WTk-JtlHAoBDLPSZk9w/s4080/IMG_20220912_173500130.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg9SSqoxoM0pRmebT9gWRzPGhWPWBpXFJwl-Kfab6OO_zyoYOpuEJ3PsCvvvM9g7EqOwJTGS90-ZMNW_cHhsJnyjNvd5j5zVBpojb7fl_APCo3t1_a7-9VcrtqGy-3e7-MmL1gu5svrrIIH4nwGxG3MKvKt8BZrjFnsqcnAN1WTk-JtlHAoBDLPSZk9w/w640-h482/IMG_20220912_173500130.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Travel tip : The buddha statue mounted </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">on a hill</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in Rangrik is real, it is not a hallucination. Also don't confuse it with the Buddha statue of Langza. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The key
monastery was visible on the far left, the majestic Spiti valley connects with
our primal instincts and resonates a truly divine feeling immediately as we
enter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitXym06A4I6d6x_ettxQqfsTvPGwdTFeeaqaM-TPspWhf18An6eRujL0R6xUGD2CbAJrt81WN7Z1AAswyb-lcmo5dgZXt87Aeqwq3wQZY1uNjNqLoDdVlo7KbTWHME0IIhkry9qMKOegWJIFqYHLoRBOIPwr7eucwP5JqY9IVYt38yFAeFXf1hTRUSyw/s4320/IMG_20220914_165344211.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3253" data-original-width="4320" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitXym06A4I6d6x_ettxQqfsTvPGwdTFeeaqaM-TPspWhf18An6eRujL0R6xUGD2CbAJrt81WN7Z1AAswyb-lcmo5dgZXt87Aeqwq3wQZY1uNjNqLoDdVlo7KbTWHME0IIhkry9qMKOegWJIFqYHLoRBOIPwr7eucwP5JqY9IVYt38yFAeFXf1hTRUSyw/w640-h482/IMG_20220914_165344211.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On reaching <b>Kaza</b>
<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">(11,980ft)</span> around 6 pm, it started to rain and both of us were losing patience
especially after what we had gone through the whole day. We called a few home
stays to check the availability/prices and finally chose to stay at the "<b>Kunzum home stay</b>".</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The host was yet again a very friendly lady, the ginger lemon honey tea was ready, there was a dog of course and this time we did not forget to protect the bike seat from the dew. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fce5cd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Travel tip : We were getting accustomed with the bunjee cords, our bags fell down a few times during the journey but soon we became experts at luggage safety and maintenance. We had a <span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">bluetooth </span>speaker and we wouldn't have made it this far without the songs.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">After some rest, it was time to explore the town market. Quickly after shopping a few essential things we found this restaurant/cafe called "<b>Taste of spiti</b>" where we ordered thenthuk and some nice momos. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"We should have chosen the regular thukpa instead of the thenthuk" was my first remark. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br />We walked back to the homestay after getting a glimpse of
the hipster vibe that Kaza has especially with its many cafes like the sol
cafe, himalayan cafe, cafe piti, cafe zomsa etc. It is also one of the best places for stargazing as most
part of the town doesn't have any lights. Least light pollution and high altitude allows the leisure
observation of celestial objects in the night sky.<br /><br /></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Day 4</span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> –We started off towards </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Mudh </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">in the morning</span></span></span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> which is 50 kms away in the pin valley. We continued along the <b>Spiti river</b> on the main road till the </span><b style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Attargo bridge</b><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> which connects Kaza to the Pin valley national park.</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> We took a right turn to cross the bridge and here starts the road to the Mudh village..</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">We are accompanied by the <b>Pin river</b> in this route.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: courier;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The route: </span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt;">Attargo to
Gulling – 16 Kms, </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt;">Gulling </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt;">to
Mikkim via kungri gompa – 3.5 Kms, </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Mikkim to Mud village– 15 Kms.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_1OIown79Ww6Vu259uJ5TGRYkIjB2dMqwTjOl9mCwGQthq7r9Bs2k-FofMXK7pq_sOSYFY5R5fH7cVCfhGRErrnKuwkXIpYBcYHRvbHcO30jFWMbfEnwXe-yvCJGwlIeI5o-2VtwCbzXm-9shL8i1eEoVILCaTpx1T01fSPE7V8S6RQQIdfO1OpUFQ/s4320/IMG_3646_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="4320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_1OIown79Ww6Vu259uJ5TGRYkIjB2dMqwTjOl9mCwGQthq7r9Bs2k-FofMXK7pq_sOSYFY5R5fH7cVCfhGRErrnKuwkXIpYBcYHRvbHcO30jFWMbfEnwXe-yvCJGwlIeI5o-2VtwCbzXm-9shL8i1eEoVILCaTpx1T01fSPE7V8S6RQQIdfO1OpUFQ/w640-h480/IMG_3646_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We stopped at the most beautiful <b>Kungri gompa</b> and the prayer hall was full. The villagers were casually </span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">listening to the sermons, free from any sophistication or tension. They were genuinely happy in that cultural gathering. We sat in a corner silently for some 20 minutes, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">not trying to meditate or anything and some of the monks welcomed us with a smile.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">Kungri gompa - the main centre of the Nyingma-pa sect in Spiti, the 2nd oldest monastery in spiti.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">It is noted for its sword dance by the buzhens of Mud village.</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Mudh is the last inhabited village of the pin valley.</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="4320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFnYAQ7fvkp5EkmWhVw0eR5lEwdqyRUNAYeePdojjZamyC_Yigq6R4pvvqyzY1uQheeTCKWm3JUOS90MNwPfT1q_jpESJA_TN5yLaLAvtSo_zGVqETcarCar40I92HSteqdf4qVxxluZ1qwyUrsme2qKGzq4lGocM1FQCMBYF62sgyC7w6AyB49fhRjA/w640-h480/IMG_3661_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt;">The journey to the <b>Mudh </b>village (</span><span color="windowtext" face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 12pt;">12,139 ft)</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt;"> was very peaceful with many impressive bridges across the beautiful Pin river. </span>As soon as we reached the village, we booked a room in the </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Pin Parvati</b></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> <span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">hotel. There was a group of Mumbai based Tamil people, most of them in their forties or fifties staying at the Tara homestay. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">We had lunch in a nearby restaurant and visited the hanging
bridge in the evening. Beyond the suspension bridge there's a trek route to a
place marked in the google maps as the valley of colours. We hiked for sometime
in that trail witnessing the lifestyle of the people of Mudh village who were
surprised that we came all the way from Tamilnadu to see their village.<br /><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">The Mudh village was getting ready for the winter. People were busy covering the roofs of their houses with bundles of dry grass (</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">thatching). WINTER IS COMING !</span></div><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We had tea (of course the ginger lemon honey tea) in <b>Tara cafe </b>and an early dinner in the other restaurant (the same place where we had lunch that afternoon). Our hotel room had a big glass window allowing us to keep an eye on the beautiful blue green colours of the landscape but it also made the room very cold. Electricity supply was not consistent, so we had to charge the phones, power banks, speaker etc. whenever there's a chance.</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNE63H0AVmDUGKnIbhlkgDCJ_WVwOmjKNXXFnwROya3QJEn-4vEMOcYClMrsruqwT1718xkdawbzZcZ9Dsq6e_YSOaVRfWf7h0oZV7DeZZTJsFYvpB_88dAC6AJHGpHVreb9JYUW14N3MTApvJVCpHW7LR5ccPsXAgZIjqrbiNQDC5tsXQ1CeB3iw4MA/s4320/IMG_3712_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="4320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNE63H0AVmDUGKnIbhlkgDCJ_WVwOmjKNXXFnwROya3QJEn-4vEMOcYClMrsruqwT1718xkdawbzZcZ9Dsq6e_YSOaVRfWf7h0oZV7DeZZTJsFYvpB_88dAC6AJHGpHVreb9JYUW14N3MTApvJVCpHW7LR5ccPsXAgZIjqrbiNQDC5tsXQ1CeB3iw4MA/w640-h480/IMG_3712_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="EOP SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><p></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Day 5</span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We had breakfast in <b>Tara cafe</b> and the day's plan was to
reach <b>Tabo </b>(65 kms away)</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">.</span></p><br /><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirqeEODhyb0ByX7tWZDPoBO6b6l_Re8Bj9AJIj2Npl5CHMrSXZB-Dw27WNohTTHX7zwKwFpazlnIIBSzRhK-mocnTum_aekuA4ZUajNQYEc8YQ6mjNUvdD-5o6-LEAkOFoEF6bz3azqugIlzA6-Ss_hob_udKt1dkdYWH0t36rdm-8-Um-GBKZwKVhMA/s4320/_MG_2434.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirqeEODhyb0ByX7tWZDPoBO6b6l_Re8Bj9AJIj2Npl5CHMrSXZB-Dw27WNohTTHX7zwKwFpazlnIIBSzRhK-mocnTum_aekuA4ZUajNQYEc8YQ6mjNUvdD-5o6-LEAkOFoEF6bz3azqugIlzA6-Ss_hob_udKt1dkdYWH0t36rdm-8-Um-GBKZwKVhMA/w640-h426/_MG_2434.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">(Tara </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">café</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> offers a </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">decent</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> view of the pin valley)</span></span><br /></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal">The road to Tabo is renowned for shooting stones and land
slides. The landscape changed its shape and form every half an hour and
the danger was ever persistent due to the unreliable roads.</p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgKp5vUqwwnYJ2eS1JdDWn2IKCbt0dbMlMCKXzLS1zGzvNnzJGbSgPj0MmXiUfTBevN0sN7DXTUTz9Sli38z9qQNHNvISBjGRdADqEW-JXvs55vz1uhSpj4lLwdbzUz84RftI0Tj0t0FMGsCLr0jdwGZbLewsk4ELm-BCc2j3JDUP29gJ3cdHGAAaew/s4032/IMG_3774_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgKp5vUqwwnYJ2eS1JdDWn2IKCbt0dbMlMCKXzLS1zGzvNnzJGbSgPj0MmXiUfTBevN0sN7DXTUTz9Sli38z9qQNHNvISBjGRdADqEW-JXvs55vz1uhSpj4lLwdbzUz84RftI0Tj0t0FMGsCLr0jdwGZbLewsk4ELm-BCc2j3JDUP29gJ3cdHGAAaew/w640-h480/IMG_3774_00.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">We are again accompanied by the Spiti river.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">We saw the workers, mostly women picking up the stones from the
road on a daily basis. The closer we got to Tabo we could see the yellow
flowered trees on both sides of the road. Around 5kms before Tabo I noticed the
sound of the bike getting odd and the performance dropping. The worst thing to
happen on a Spiti trip is tyre puncture. </p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Travel tips: The irony of hiring a bike to spiti or ladakh is that, you will need an adventure bike like the himalayan (400 cc) or the 350 - 500 cc bullet bikes to carry the load up the mountains. But these off road bikes don't usually come with tubeless tyres because they have spoked wheels and not alloy wheels. Alloy wheels might break due to the impact it takes while </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">cruising through stones along the way.</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> So one has to be ready with a puncture kit or extra tubes in case of emergency.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We did not have the privilege of carrying an extra tube with us and it is not easy to change tubes in a bike wheel ourself. All i had was a compact tyre inflator device which can be powered from the bike's battery. Anyways once i suspected the puncture, we drove all the way to Tabo without stopping because i knew there was a puncture repair shop in Tabo, It was at the very entrance gate of <b>Tabo </b>(</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 12pt;">10,761
ft)</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br />This was pure luck and the mechanical expert patched the tyre with extra rubber to avoid any more punctures and also filled the tyre with extra air pressure saying it is the ideal thing to do in the mountain roads. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So after an hour in the puncture repair shop, we had lunch at the tiger den restaurant. The slight drizzling of rain dint stop us from visiting the </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Tabo monastery</b></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">which has a beautiful garden and an apple orchid. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Tabo caves </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">where the monks used to meditate </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">was also visible from the monastery </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br />Tabo Mud Monastery - the oldest continuously functional gompa in the Indian union, tantric vajrayana sect.<br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Wiki data: Tabo was built as a 'daughter' monastery of the Tholing Monastery in </span>Ngari<span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">, western Tibet. This royal dynasty was instrumental in re-introducing the </span>Indian Mahayana Buddhism<span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"> in Tibet. T</span></span></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">abo is noted for being the oldest continuously operating Buddhist enclave in both India and the Himalayas<br /><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Our next plan was to visit </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the </span></span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dhankar monastery</span></b><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">on the way back to Kaza. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; font-family: courier; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: courier; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;">Tabo to Kaza is 48 kms, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2 Hours drive. <br />Tabo to Dhankar monastery is 31 kms</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">The <b>Dhankar </b>monastery (<span style="background-color: #cccccc;">12,467 ft</span>)was on the top of a hill and i was checking the fuel meter all the way up as the punctured ride to Tabo might have consumed a lot of petrol. The view from the hill was ethereal, we could see the the rivers from spiti valley and pin valley merge together to create a painting. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBvhQm2fHFNavhfYnj9thorz6r2Qu-jzuRCB9lFDIUAL5r6RXPsz_GY6NumS9ZzVhTpiGar_SsvcmMigrnhZgrHrovJHeLWLTyMtdwpZg8rK7CfXKBJQJiXGtHHOQ2w5_JhQrQvzrZScz-ro9MnfLU6GaA26f9rxsMAPO1_99WDl58guLwmuzv_NNERg/s4320/IMG_3801_00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="4320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBvhQm2fHFNavhfYnj9thorz6r2Qu-jzuRCB9lFDIUAL5r6RXPsz_GY6NumS9ZzVhTpiGar_SsvcmMigrnhZgrHrovJHeLWLTyMtdwpZg8rK7CfXKBJQJiXGtHHOQ2w5_JhQrQvzrZScz-ro9MnfLU6GaA26f9rxsMAPO1_99WDl58guLwmuzv_NNERg/w640-h480/IMG_3801_00.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br />By the time we reached the Dhankar monastery, it was raining a little bit but the sight of the monastery clinging over the mountain made us forget the rain. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Travel tips: Spiti valley is a Rain shadown region, it is a cold desert that doesn't face heavy rain but it is better to have a poncho in case of minor downpours. <br /><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">here were a lot of Kids living the disciplined monk life, chanting prayers and serving tea in the 1200 year old monastery while the rain continued to drizzle. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Dhankar monastery - the old capital of spiti, Gelug sect. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">Wiki data : Dhankar was the traditional capital of the Spiti Valley Kingdom during the 17th century and has some features dating back to the 12th century. It was the seat of the early rulers of Spiti, the Nonos</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Afterwards when we started driving down, the rainfall was a bit more than the usual drizzle. We found cover under a tree for fifteen minutes till the rain calmed down.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br />We started off to kaza, to stay at the </span></span>Kunzum <span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">homestay</span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> for a second time.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #f4cccc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Dhankar to Kaza is around 35 kms</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text;">That night we had a better exploration of the K</span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">aza market and had dinner at the </span><b style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">himalayan cafe</b><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">. We ordered the yogi's bowl and the seabuckthorn berry tea.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPOK0-AP6QgxVje2KeDw9t9WIvmVVIOibf-qiPZ1NV6rTYq2iVt1lKy3Atq_6LVP2t7V7SD2_6f1DjSqS0vYTDxGi25KYJVgGYub5snXbDkiXvM_TFRcOSZ_8_MfAWuhu75MEhZPTA2SSqEfxScd4i_W0E-af6P7gTHa0pIPjgMOgoNeirBu15rIHmBQ/s5738/IMG_20220914_203520985.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5738" data-original-width="4320" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPOK0-AP6QgxVje2KeDw9t9WIvmVVIOibf-qiPZ1NV6rTYq2iVt1lKy3Atq_6LVP2t7V7SD2_6f1DjSqS0vYTDxGi25KYJVgGYub5snXbDkiXvM_TFRcOSZ_8_MfAWuhu75MEhZPTA2SSqEfxScd4i_W0E-af6P7gTHa0pIPjgMOgoNeirBu15rIHmBQ/w482-h640/IMG_20220914_203520985.jpg" width="482" /></a></span></div><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span></p></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Back at Tabo, </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">I did a small favor for a biker gang by clicking a group photo for them in their smart phone. They appeared again in Kaza at the Himalayan café and I was a bit worried they might make a small talk.<br /></span></span><p></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Day 6</span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> – The morning strolls in Kaza were the best part of the trip, our breakfast was again in the himalayan cafe as they had a really good menu. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBIunHvaLbhG7yJcaRLjomTLIjUDrFqj2IYB1JvOBGIEyExHy2heeifo1uStcp7RJcus1ZEAUbCbn23Mu7Kp8iXoBnf7U9K-9xRnUHE_OafCZl8jdru0R2v8AsjogSJhk46p6Pu9JPC6MpTRl3V3wupLJz2vZhNPjp3h7ze85u3NNlc-hAetip03c8pw/s4320/IMG_20220916_101519890.jpg" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3253" data-original-width="4320" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBIunHvaLbhG7yJcaRLjomTLIjUDrFqj2IYB1JvOBGIEyExHy2heeifo1uStcp7RJcus1ZEAUbCbn23Mu7Kp8iXoBnf7U9K-9xRnUHE_OafCZl8jdru0R2v8AsjogSJhk46p6Pu9JPC6MpTRl3V3wupLJz2vZhNPjp3h7ze85u3NNlc-hAetip03c8pw/w640-h482/IMG_20220916_101519890.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUSyuzFAGkb4_VCGflVCDyHvgaj1YBTf_OY3EV3-xNEhDUaQo_TePV4wN-iSygnDzF2Rxd9jbAj0y4vSybdQLxZLZ_A5S4MwIBFJJAgocesZczUTWYq3i2s0ryJmf17fJ6wPQbm9ov47nd7eGjQpRAEJNj-2E6aGhkEqMr_icWubbVHURLxnMaU8xRpA/s4032/IMG_3799_00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUSyuzFAGkb4_VCGflVCDyHvgaj1YBTf_OY3EV3-xNEhDUaQo_TePV4wN-iSygnDzF2Rxd9jbAj0y4vSybdQLxZLZ_A5S4MwIBFJJAgocesZczUTWYq3i2s0ryJmf17fJ6wPQbm9ov47nd7eGjQpRAEJNj-2E6aGhkEqMr_icWubbVHURLxnMaU8xRpA/w640-h480/IMG_3799_00.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(View from our home stay)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJzi7tOUdE6dmexngsleUP2Q-dGq_i8_pX05pOKDt-SkNFzwkJBKVytlrsyPLMo7dnztRZwMtyT9jK32nnalsUdj1GOB47KMnaro6_pAIFvFQBKIM8tO14-xlPKIw5XjAnkmZS-1HA2nh2X39c1ZhoSXPSoVUeyvIMeHGWIgs9j-qTAR-5zrbY2BGMg/s4080/IMG_20220916_110539998.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJzi7tOUdE6dmexngsleUP2Q-dGq_i8_pX05pOKDt-SkNFzwkJBKVytlrsyPLMo7dnztRZwMtyT9jK32nnalsUdj1GOB47KMnaro6_pAIFvFQBKIM8tO14-xlPKIw5XjAnkmZS-1HA2nh2X39c1ZhoSXPSoVUeyvIMeHGWIgs9j-qTAR-5zrbY2BGMg/w640-h482/IMG_20220916_110539998.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; user-select: text;">(Kaza town)</div></blockquote><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">We were looking forward for a relaxed drive to Langza
(14,435ft) where there was a big Buddha statue; it is one of the main landmarks
in Spiti valley. The road to Langza was fantastic compared to the other roads
in the region; it was such a relaxing drive all the way to the top as we expected.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBdawY0edjyyp1-yX40K6Nao6YzDEDRnFahRnWRYV-KOWA9kLj8Gv6G5za4u0Kuxs4s2eZVcRd5UyKKkRAadaCndWVzpQ2p349fSdonTULhoOrz8sHg64g9VtRy2kRZb_cokncZLCFDjnNcj7coOpKnVbAE346nT7ySjDRyZbMwq9f3ML2yWZCUgAwfg/s5184/_MG_2629.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBdawY0edjyyp1-yX40K6Nao6YzDEDRnFahRnWRYV-KOWA9kLj8Gv6G5za4u0Kuxs4s2eZVcRd5UyKKkRAadaCndWVzpQ2p349fSdonTULhoOrz8sHg64g9VtRy2kRZb_cokncZLCFDjnNcj7coOpKnVbAE346nT7ySjDRyZbMwq9f3ML2yWZCUgAwfg/w640-h426/_MG_2629.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-23B79DWjbqhAQIrVdPXZZDzf7jS0s3ehUpk51evvBHxCBXSk03r9V0A9EIyFqJsgL8I6e6Rlz2FxEljrDO8Q3s-vBXVKBQbK7eZ-2uWKB3V2mkYfflHQ8UOW7QDqCB-caQo2cRDqYwKBm3vrmErI4EdzGjDHmtRbfD3IR3DRh63-XIyxxb5degxcZA/s4320/_MG_2604.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-23B79DWjbqhAQIrVdPXZZDzf7jS0s3ehUpk51evvBHxCBXSk03r9V0A9EIyFqJsgL8I6e6Rlz2FxEljrDO8Q3s-vBXVKBQbK7eZ-2uWKB3V2mkYfflHQ8UOW7QDqCB-caQo2cRDqYwKBm3vrmErI4EdzGjDHmtRbfD3IR3DRh63-XIyxxb5degxcZA/w640-h426/_MG_2604.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Snow clad mountains decorated the small village and I was wishing to see some wildlife on the way, especially the ibex (wild goat) but that dint happen. Langza is also popular for the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">fossils (</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">200 millions years old)</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">, </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the place used to be submerged under the Tethys sea. The locals sell fossils to tourists, mostly the spiral shaped ammonites. After taking a few photos and relaxing under the majestic Buddha statue we moved onto have breakfast in the <b>spaceship café</b>. Many of the cafes in the Spiti valley are run by volunteers, organised by the Spiti ecosphere voluntourism programme. We had a simple maggi noodles with ginger lemon honey tea. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fce5cd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We can also choose hot ginger lemon honey water instead of the ginger lemon honey tea depending on the mood. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Mumbai based chennai group with whom we got familiar with in Mudh were also there at this cafe in langza, They were surprised at our audacity to visit such risky places in a bike without the perfect riding gears compared to the professional bikers who are fully protected while visiting the valley. They were also very </span></span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">concerned, </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">whether we informed our parents about the nature of the trip. See, this is the problem with small talks .. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">While on the road from Langza to Komic we had to stop for a few minutes because of the hailstones shower, it took a few seconds for us to understand what was happening. We thought it was a hard rain but small balls of ice were falling from the sky like marbles.</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyways we reached the <b>Komic monastery</b> (14,806ft) which
is just half an hour away from Langza.</span><br /><br /></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Its called the Tangyud monastery, located in the komic village and it belongs to the Sakya sect of Buddhism. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVa5DfPf5Y7wDM2MWgK_LFN4LE5WSc0goUWWQ7Kw8Npg1UFu3NiRfpuJcn8Z6OGWv9xiqMUVN09HVaIw67RtcSDkkM_E2rwkJofnw18hzj5-IZlo_hXpZhImmlTw9yQdQsPC4S3s9sFuYJZO-ht2aRG4p75WrIfstRp1GH1yJitVzSWAnG5uMtQvrXOQ/s4320/_MG_2672.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVa5DfPf5Y7wDM2MWgK_LFN4LE5WSc0goUWWQ7Kw8Npg1UFu3NiRfpuJcn8Z6OGWv9xiqMUVN09HVaIw67RtcSDkkM_E2rwkJofnw18hzj5-IZlo_hXpZhImmlTw9yQdQsPC4S3s9sFuYJZO-ht2aRG4p75WrIfstRp1GH1yJitVzSWAnG5uMtQvrXOQ/w640-h426/_MG_2672.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 12px;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwEmXaxPBMjI_aYlF5P9eED_iy9kqq3VgLvmLcIXdSB7orJXZ3QQ29FOCxKk34HTqYnYzvs-aGcaSzVTEDiP4IPn9uiCg1Q5LaTv6U7e9W0DToObdM1IXJRU5Aid8twCV3YDNQyeTOqf1Yf2JKSmaEiZZL-fDJVsWJD5RauIg9tzXK2jHJTPaYJhfEPg/s4320/IMG_20220915_124659517_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3253" data-original-width="4320" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwEmXaxPBMjI_aYlF5P9eED_iy9kqq3VgLvmLcIXdSB7orJXZ3QQ29FOCxKk34HTqYnYzvs-aGcaSzVTEDiP4IPn9uiCg1Q5LaTv6U7e9W0DToObdM1IXJRU5Aid8twCV3YDNQyeTOqf1Yf2JKSmaEiZZL-fDJVsWJD5RauIg9tzXK2jHJTPaYJhfEPg/w640-h482/IMG_20220915_124659517_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wiki data: The monastery itself was apparently badly
damaged in the earthquake of 1972. This monastery was several times robbed
around 1920-1940 by the thief and robbers from Kashmir and other parts of the
areas. They took all the gold and broke all the statues and monks had to run
away from the monastic to save their lives.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">It was quiet and peaceful, especially in the interiors. The tourists visiting Langza will most probably go to Komic</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> next and then</span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"> to Hikkim (the village has an high altitude post office). We had no interest in seeing the highest post office in the world, so we chose to drive back to Kaza but we realised the Key monastery was not very far. The road to Key Gompa and the road to Rangrik (Gramphu -Batal road) splits near the Spiti valley bridge. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kye(kee/key)Gompa
- a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Gelugpa sect.<br />
Wiki data: Kye was attacked by the Mongols (17th century), it was sacked again
during the wars between Ladakh and Kulu (1830). it was severely damaged by the
Dogra army and also suffered more damage from the Sikhs (1841). It was ravaged
by fire (1840s) and a violent earthquake caused further damage in1975.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqW6UKniTS8GNrRsqqG1TcEjTmQjQcxDPZKW4op_PJko0uUEcOCUcO0EDJnKTFDyD9nabEJ_W-voW6DZrlNUy5vfJeQjmTYovULqGQPRBkHo1E_xJtpWNii5EOnujM6jeDHZbtDMfSOl29GdgR3muBDOwvRMHY5qkbaOAMmUpoKdI5tTBAETbqcw9tZQ/s4320/_MG_2815.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqW6UKniTS8GNrRsqqG1TcEjTmQjQcxDPZKW4op_PJko0uUEcOCUcO0EDJnKTFDyD9nabEJ_W-voW6DZrlNUy5vfJeQjmTYovULqGQPRBkHo1E_xJtpWNii5EOnujM6jeDHZbtDMfSOl29GdgR3muBDOwvRMHY5qkbaOAMmUpoKdI5tTBAETbqcw9tZQ/w640-h426/_MG_2815.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #202122;">The </span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #202122;">Kee Monastery</span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="color: #202122;"> is covered with paintings and </span><span style="color: black;">murals </span><span style="color: #202122;">of the 14th century monastic architecture which developed as the result of</span> Chinese <span style="color: #202122;">influence. </span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">It has a collection of ancient murals and books. </span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">It accommodates nearly 250 monks, </span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Its heads are the reincarnations of Guru Rinpoche. The current head of Kee Monastery is the 19th birth of Guru Rinpoche.<br /></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzQtmkILDK2PQfU8wCZYvJB1vg5BvVRG7FBqPJ061b5Cv32qvY6znCT1k63bAiAWsn6HuYAy9lrVDeVIdv8iz3JDaXRrmMnuN-MwlnQ38DSU6Wv7p4IcWdV6rreytRZXhb4Eu8Y7pLGMD1WLWFBJsy-6z3NVEr35U9_Ye3ZqNLQfD7Stn3gKB7DgOj5Q/s5184/_MG_2734.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzQtmkILDK2PQfU8wCZYvJB1vg5BvVRG7FBqPJ061b5Cv32qvY6znCT1k63bAiAWsn6HuYAy9lrVDeVIdv8iz3JDaXRrmMnuN-MwlnQ38DSU6Wv7p4IcWdV6rreytRZXhb4Eu8Y7pLGMD1WLWFBJsy-6z3NVEr35U9_Ye3ZqNLQfD7Stn3gKB7DgOj5Q/w640-h426/_MG_2734.JPG" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></div><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We wished to see the monastery first and have lunch later. There's a place to park our vehicles on the top from where it is a small climb further up to the monastery. <br /></span></span></span><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJsICHBanDGa_sdjDzYWz4C-htSr15abg_TvEelsJ9R9qstpGLvZARXtlpPXQdEzG_C4GkrlSBVpcPvaFvg9ndeZDrlcU72zZcqE2Ph85JsVUd0j4598p71kmS8C4sw0bg-IaCCEoWfpQ6DZc6qQa-Yy8199ULHG51w0dDoRD1MpsbB7DNa4pDsnn3A/s5184/_MG_2764.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJsICHBanDGa_sdjDzYWz4C-htSr15abg_TvEelsJ9R9qstpGLvZARXtlpPXQdEzG_C4GkrlSBVpcPvaFvg9ndeZDrlcU72zZcqE2Ph85JsVUd0j4598p71kmS8C4sw0bg-IaCCEoWfpQ6DZc6qQa-Yy8199ULHG51w0dDoRD1MpsbB7DNa4pDsnn3A/w640-h426/_MG_2764.JPG" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></span></span></div><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxQXh4HOXs376tevtaGTe-dUcI3vDSnKyLMo8rokkFUJFPADa7DBu2vtWgjKw7Fj8VUdbia92dzlqZj_KYKDlFmdOlboYwvpCJ5sXs81QgliKZmjczUZX-Q4l6zTnTqFMPAtyB6QGE_ZbACjDHydZqvGWMNdDXtkY7Snja1DJMijzE3bmb7S0bQe1DvA/s5184/_MG_2769.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxQXh4HOXs376tevtaGTe-dUcI3vDSnKyLMo8rokkFUJFPADa7DBu2vtWgjKw7Fj8VUdbia92dzlqZj_KYKDlFmdOlboYwvpCJ5sXs81QgliKZmjczUZX-Q4l6zTnTqFMPAtyB6QGE_ZbACjDHydZqvGWMNdDXtkY7Snja1DJMijzE3bmb7S0bQe1DvA/w640-h426/_MG_2769.JPG" width="640" /></a><br /></div></span></span><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This monastery had so many chambers with small windows like a fort. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">We couldn't resist the temptation to sit and meditate or at least pretend. </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">It was very busy as the people from surrounding villages were flocking there for some auspicious event. The tourist crowd was comparatively very less. </span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">There were a group of tourists listening to a monk lecturing about life, the monk paused his lecture to offer me herbal tea but i replied "no" accompanied by a "thank you" in the most polite way I could. Maybe he wanted us to be a part of his audience but i was more interested in the back door of the monastery that opens to a vast scenery, it was truly majestic. </span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSAyqizlc16ncLMeyv_hq4f6vp8bgL7cwbpkigVug5N9r8hyuYtHSVN4cHtibB8ez7Px4wUgL7-Gx4_jViCNo-SirIHwr3bfAs1BzS3ZyTRsLAXO7Xfn3rCpGVx19i9OU8XPdTRd7f3sSzVyLBuw789WZ8NNT3LEXTJblxqvLxhvRbpsc03lP85GjTbA/s5184/_MG_2743.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSAyqizlc16ncLMeyv_hq4f6vp8bgL7cwbpkigVug5N9r8hyuYtHSVN4cHtibB8ez7Px4wUgL7-Gx4_jViCNo-SirIHwr3bfAs1BzS3ZyTRsLAXO7Xfn3rCpGVx19i9OU8XPdTRd7f3sSzVyLBuw789WZ8NNT3LEXTJblxqvLxhvRbpsc03lP85GjTbA/w640-h426/_MG_2743.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Anything about Spiti valley cannot be comprised in words, may be the pictures speak better. We came down for lunch to the </span></span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"</span><b>taste of lahaul</b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">" </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">restaurant, it was late afternoon but they said they will cook for us if we can wait for sometime. We met a group of friendly guys from Bangalore in here. They had entered spiti through the shimla route (self driving in their car) and wanted to exit through the Manali side. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">They were worried about the Kaza to Manali road which I said</span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is very bad. After lunch, me and my wife Nisreen spent some time clicking photographs of the key monastery from the restaurant's terrace. </span></span><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Travel tip : The best view of the monastery is from the top of a hill near the gette village.</span> <br /></span></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrDbGFbBuzMSpD6GgBMYw6oJxHJjFhbGNfXUzD2_kFBvKHL34jHcuZ0v1gz-jXocwS3_lpUyKni3UDsl2AS8bu0gsrPm4OUHJhV8PGYnVR77vgR-Qffz0e-r6rUry4hPhSOg0oyHY9G_JeiUFQzBaT57mZs62rZD_wc_zTyQqhaElspdQSllSDVfpgKg/s4320/_MG_2899.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrDbGFbBuzMSpD6GgBMYw6oJxHJjFhbGNfXUzD2_kFBvKHL34jHcuZ0v1gz-jXocwS3_lpUyKni3UDsl2AS8bu0gsrPm4OUHJhV8PGYnVR77vgR-Qffz0e-r6rUry4hPhSOg0oyHY9G_JeiUFQzBaT57mZs62rZD_wc_zTyQqhaElspdQSllSDVfpgKg/w640-h426/_MG_2899.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 11pt;">(clicks from the restaurant terrace)</span></span></div><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We had </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tea on the way back to Kaza in the <b>K</b></span></span><b>unga hotel</b>, <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">refreshing ourselves again with the lemon ginger honey mix. They had a good map of the places to visit in Spiti valley.</span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKroV4SybNtdRr631J79tuJF9CcsLZgXuj0tKb-dGK25IfwMHcnmECfkmbcaF6KIByrBZCg0Itg_LYlrpz0VsmXh_xnjDCDjyOpNQaRGCHuNkMDyuxEXNsmj4jtSXfkaLtjnjfOzKkKOaOjdz3TjzHKdIVZcda3aMbQI5ysGLWT4LDCdToUh8RlyJZNA/s4320/IMG_20220915_172141641~2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2607" data-original-width="4320" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKroV4SybNtdRr631J79tuJF9CcsLZgXuj0tKb-dGK25IfwMHcnmECfkmbcaF6KIByrBZCg0Itg_LYlrpz0VsmXh_xnjDCDjyOpNQaRGCHuNkMDyuxEXNsmj4jtSXfkaLtjnjfOzKkKOaOjdz3TjzHKdIVZcda3aMbQI5ysGLWT4LDCdToUh8RlyJZNA/w640-h386/IMG_20220915_172141641~2.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></span></div><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We saw these wonderful maps of spiti drawn on the walls in the Taste of Spiti cafe and the Himalayan cafe too.</span></span><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal">On reaching Kaza we had some rest in the Kunzum home stay
and the special dish for dinner was the butter pepper chicken in Himalayan
café.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Day7</span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – Today we're leaving Kaza and so we strolled through the Kaza market for the final time looking for souvenirs.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> We then checked out from the homestay and went straight to the fuel station to fill the petrol tank for the travel till Manali.<br /><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Just 5 mins away from the high altitude Indian oil petrol bunk (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #cccccc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">12,270ft</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">) is the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Spiti souvenir shop</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">which had a good collection at a fixed rate. </span></span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">The prayer wheels were quite pricey but w</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">e bought a few T shirts, shawls, prayer flags and hanging scrolls. We also asked for the </span>Seabuckthorn berry which <span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">they had in one liter and two liter bottles (in liquid form). We were expecting powder packets but they only had the liquid juice which will definitely leak in our bumpy bike travel. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Sea buck thorn grows wild in the banks of spiti river and it has medical properties, the seabuckthorn market is growing and it can reach a pan india market like aloe vera.<br /><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Anyways we did not want to miss Chandrataal this time.</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Travel tip : it is best to stay in Losar to</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> visit Chandrataal from the kaza to manali direction,</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: courier; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Kaza to Losar is 58 kms, 2 hrs drive.<br />Losar to Chandrataal is 36 kms and might take 2.5 hrs to reach.</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: courier; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: courier; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">losar to kunzum pass is 17 kms</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: courier; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">kunzum to chandrataal is 19 kms </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">On the way to Losar we saw a lot of wild shrubs and berries, we even collected a few berries which looked like Seabuckthorn but we were not sure. <br /><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3RHF7ufkWmeFuEqu_yZFgrTC4469Sy0jDcsBdattFwedYqbHp2dpFN3Aj1fhn9rzn7_PzctbFR5HsemOaE7YZjmOCf8MyYe6HvZqxcq4nlBjRVLY0l2dfqvrD3lEmNvm0ACm4RnHOa9_NtDZ-8XtvT_uGW85yDGE5_rQnBl4rcQEAGx66MJuqG4zjsg/s4320/_MG_2924.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3RHF7ufkWmeFuEqu_yZFgrTC4469Sy0jDcsBdattFwedYqbHp2dpFN3Aj1fhn9rzn7_PzctbFR5HsemOaE7YZjmOCf8MyYe6HvZqxcq4nlBjRVLY0l2dfqvrD3lEmNvm0ACm4RnHOa9_NtDZ-8XtvT_uGW85yDGE5_rQnBl4rcQEAGx66MJuqG4zjsg/w640-h426/_MG_2924.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We reached </span></span></span><b>Losar </b><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in time for the afternoon lunch and we</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> found a place to stay called the </span></span></span>Khyentsey Home Stay<span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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The </span></span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">owner of the place had a kid and a dog, he was </span></span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">very straightforward in his deal. </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #d9ead3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The electricity is provided through a generator till 10pm in the homestays in Losar. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Our stay was located in a very beautiful field between the tall mountains. The farmers were harvesting wheat/barley, they also cultivate green peas in this region. Watching the mountains became our main activity as the sunlight was struggling to cut through the dense mist of the evening.</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br />We had both the lunch and</span></span></span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">dinner in </span></span><b>kunzom dhaba,<span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></b><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">a small place run by a lady and her 2 yr old kid. We kept the kid occupied while she cooked the meal. We had to inform in advance regarding the dinner because they might close the kitchen early as t</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">hey don't get many customers</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">. The 5 minute drive from the home stay to the restaurant was itself a difficult experience after dark. It was dangerously cold and silent.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">The total population of Losar according to the 2011 census was just 320 people out of which 52 % are female and 18% are kids below 6 yrs of age. <br /><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Day 8</span><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – In the morning we had to leave early, the owner of the place was not home and so we paid the money to the kid and left the place. After 20 minutes on the road we met the owner coming in the opposite direction in his small maruti car. He always leaves early in the morning and drives till Kunzum to check if any tourists are stranded in emergency situations. He is a part of the rescue squad that helps tourists who get caught in the merciless side of nature at untimely hours. We thanked him for the homestay and braced ourselves for the tough drive ahead. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The task of the day was to reach Manali. (We also met one of the guys from the Bangalore gang whom we saw at the restaurant near the Key gompa (</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">they entered Spiti through the Shimla side)</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. He dint recognise us because he was in a tensed situation. By the information we got from this guy, they had eventually attempted at exiting Spiti valley through the Manali side the previous day and their car had suffered a breakdown near one of the nallahs (streams). So he has come to Losar to find necessary spare parts and mechanical help, his friends are waiting in Chandrataal and their car was somewhere else. </span></span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">He requested us to pass a message to </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">his friends regarding the car repair</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;">.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This time we did not miss the entry point to chandrataal, there was a direction board set up by the BRO (border roads organisation). The chandrataal road is very narrow and the sides are steep without railings. Any small mistake could result in a steep fall </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">and the water crossing on the road is also quite a challenge.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Somehow we reached the chandrataal lake (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #cccccc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">14,100ft</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">), </span></span></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> it is a 15- 20 mins walk from the parking area to the lake.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEXnVyfHpRryxNcKhOQ-GgpfvFJk_V1X8ZUUfYol21fIQxfSybs11lhll38zcFAj7JHbjZ9P1tccAxGz5hEDstN37mN7SzD_dQgMMLQoR2-RSYAcmTpC_qmGa529jR-d0Lu15UdgNSDEywZADvgB-I2fnwJN5nFFwYjHy78Ioy86Od5G05Q2SO4z-_Q/s5184/_MG_3085.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEXnVyfHpRryxNcKhOQ-GgpfvFJk_V1X8ZUUfYol21fIQxfSybs11lhll38zcFAj7JHbjZ9P1tccAxGz5hEDstN37mN7SzD_dQgMMLQoR2-RSYAcmTpC_qmGa529jR-d0Lu15UdgNSDEywZADvgB-I2fnwJN5nFFwYjHy78Ioy86Od5G05Q2SO4z-_Q/w640-h426/_MG_3085.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>We saw a few tourists sitting down, </span>holding their head to the altitude sickness.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Travel tip:
The altitude sickness called as AMS ( Acute mountains sickness) affects some
people when they visit high places which are above 10,000 ft. This is why a
Spiti itinerary should have consideration for the altitude, especially the
places where we stay in the trip. We can’t just travel from Manali (6725 ft) to the kunzum pass or chandrataal lake directly and decide to stay there on the same day. The
altitude difference could lead to the sickness which can be brutal and even
life threatening sometimes. Tourists are advised to take a course of Diamox tablets
before starting the trip. We can get the prescription advice at any pharmacy in
Himachal pradesh. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Me and
Nisreen took one tablet each before starting the trip but forgot about it as
the travel progressed. Maybe we dint need it after all but it could be a life
saver for some tourists.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(The three
guys from Bangalore were sitting near the Chandrataal vehicle parking area waiting
for that friend to return from Losar. They were very happy and relieved to get
an update from him through us). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We then
walked towards the <b>Chandrataal Lake</b>, there is truly something spiritual about
high altitude lakes. It was like a Godly entity residing on the top of the
great mountains and there are also some stories of UFO sightings in
Chandtrataal Lake. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This lake
changes its colour between blue green and brown including the variety of shades
in between as the clouds move above, also depending on the time of the day.
There were some serious photographers setting up the camera on tripods, doing
the Time Lapse photography and some were hiking up the hills around the lake.
The shadow of the clouds passing over the mountains was a sight to behold.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2pTJ0J4sOcJKxgoH0kL1B1K8OztTLC6zpIwNC3y9wJKzsA9rIMW6r_k1AtPkoGaIR65cH0dO0qWaQTl0mwwRowdbK_6rB2j3VduROFeFuY3QlTkyOqU7ZvOoFwyaZh8C2QmS2RY06rpjUYweJRe2tc_-o32avsnDkV6ty6etlFFXeu2ldVAjCp3oW7g/s4320/_MG_3128.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2pTJ0J4sOcJKxgoH0kL1B1K8OztTLC6zpIwNC3y9wJKzsA9rIMW6r_k1AtPkoGaIR65cH0dO0qWaQTl0mwwRowdbK_6rB2j3VduROFeFuY3QlTkyOqU7ZvOoFwyaZh8C2QmS2RY06rpjUYweJRe2tc_-o32avsnDkV6ty6etlFFXeu2ldVAjCp3oW7g/w640-h426/_MG_3128.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px;"><span class="TextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHelnoliOwQ_eo6wDBpvxLJvyeTZ38iDppe9B8mcJCWMla2kW6G1z5Y6l5siBjpnkCEPd0Nf-mBuKMeVw60k-fBadZgu7gCeL8RjrJzeqDHJKLYoZLOwvmoiOkxhRRtdufc3YeV9cSrarFqbUGaEv-W01Yyoz8wj0axooTuQ96aq0xd8m9GlK1u5QaNw/s4320/_MG_3156.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHelnoliOwQ_eo6wDBpvxLJvyeTZ38iDppe9B8mcJCWMla2kW6G1z5Y6l5siBjpnkCEPd0Nf-mBuKMeVw60k-fBadZgu7gCeL8RjrJzeqDHJKLYoZLOwvmoiOkxhRRtdufc3YeV9cSrarFqbUGaEv-W01Yyoz8wj0axooTuQ96aq0xd8m9GlK1u5QaNw/w640-h426/_MG_3156.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNrg2BkQMbLaN5kjtKsj7FbCMvbo58SyL9dsltr89Olj1hZpDjJ4mG1lnqMVFmT92s5nbwNBtvQKWAvTFDbiXwXTrgiOAarmiWuXTDdfdYGTLW2vdCzb9O4hJV3-dIn1yEStVa7UcT3NzMIAZ8pLWQmx_91z1bSPD7DqY4rORcKdHRvD2AneN3mbM6A/s4320/_MG_3202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNrg2BkQMbLaN5kjtKsj7FbCMvbo58SyL9dsltr89Olj1hZpDjJ4mG1lnqMVFmT92s5nbwNBtvQKWAvTFDbiXwXTrgiOAarmiWuXTDdfdYGTLW2vdCzb9O4hJV3-dIn1yEStVa7UcT3NzMIAZ8pLWQmx_91z1bSPD7DqY4rORcKdHRvD2AneN3mbM6A/w640-h426/_MG_3202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO190181675 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">After the
chandrataal experience, we had our lunch in <b>Batal</b>, The place has two Dhabas,
the popular one is the <b>Chacha chachi dhaba</b> run by an old couple who've been
running it for around 50 years, they had once rescued some travellers from a
storm by risking their own life. Travellers who wish to stay near the
Chandrataal lake either stay in the Chandrataal camps or in this dhaba in
Batal.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As soon as
we finished our lunch, severe wind and drizzling started. We had a poncho in
our bag which was not used so far and so we decided to try it out. Just
unfolding the thing and wearing it in the middle of the wind really tested our
patience. One half of the day's task is completed but the tougher half was
waiting to test us. Especially the <b>Batal to Chhatru</b> stretch or vice versa is a
mission impossible dead reckoning situation (</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">This road is a river bed full of large stones, loose gravel and criss-cross water streams) </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">which we experienced once already
(while entering the spiti valley) and we were doing it again for a second time
to exit the Spiti valley.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The drizzling slowed down after an hour and we met the Bangalore guys again as
they were sitting comfortably inside their car while it was being carried
slowly on a tow truck, finally rescued out of their misery. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Once again
we lost track of time, the road gets comparatively better after <b>Chhatru</b> and
we were steadily moving somewhere near <b>Gramphu</b>. Suddenly around 4:30 pm the tar
road was back, finding the tar road after travelling through the Gramphu - Batal route from Kaza is like getting a foot massage after a pilgrimage walk.
The rain was trying to threaten us with a sensitive drizzle but we were not
bothered because of the joy of achievement we felt at that moment.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ZdLFYn_8S3NxQOmq2-uAa30d2WzIGpv5R5ySCAcVSQQMN8xg-HA5uedU2Y69XvqEU4OdDLkM0WeLUCmZP0Lly0cfQsU0b6hJhCbZJs5N00fs6MzLcA8za9eW_SY-uUmf5Nnr3DVwnok9MmlTcRrLWkUc3wf3_WO-JKqSkEktpQMQhYbSUMmrUaXosQ/s4080/IMG_20220917_163840445_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ZdLFYn_8S3NxQOmq2-uAa30d2WzIGpv5R5ySCAcVSQQMN8xg-HA5uedU2Y69XvqEU4OdDLkM0WeLUCmZP0Lly0cfQsU0b6hJhCbZJs5N00fs6MzLcA8za9eW_SY-uUmf5Nnr3DVwnok9MmlTcRrLWkUc3wf3_WO-JKqSkEktpQMQhYbSUMmrUaXosQ/w640-h482/IMG_20220917_163840445_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="font-size: 12px;"></p><p class="Paragraph SCXO190181675 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif";"><span><span style="font-size: large;">The Road was pristine and we </span><span><span style="font-size: large;">were able to reach<span style="color: red;"> Manali</span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: large;">through the Atal tunnel</span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: large;">by around 6pm. We were transitioning into the next phase of the trip, a whole another
week that's going to be spent in the </span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: large;">the hippy vibes of the </span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: large;"><b>Parvati valley</b>. </span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: large;">We both were
covered in dust and mud from the travel and were desperately in need for the tea which we had in the </span><b style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: large;">café evergreen</b><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: large;">, a river side café in old Manali. We
discussed about the choice of hostels in Old Manali as nothing was pre booked
due to the uncertainty in each and every day of the trip.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Arabic", "serif"; font-size: large;">The travel videos are <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_Vt5ZLewDm60oQk2gopqY64Ir4nPmB8" target="_blank">@</a></span></p><p></p></div>Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-35099098281400509982018-09-27T22:59:00.004-07:002023-05-14T00:00:49.122-07:00Section 497<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">After the judgement that says extra marital affairs are no more illegal, some people are pissed off as it has shaken their fundamentals for real. </span></div><div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">how to determine the success of our relationships hereafter ? </span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">I’m unadulterated , he is adulterated but we both are treated the same by law and justice, how can we be the same ? </span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">how to make sense of the commitment i invested in my relationship history ?! </span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Can the institution of marriage be this less rigid ? </span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Can this be allowed to happen ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">What am I being loyal to actually ? </span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Has affairs become the new Normal? should we have been careful about the living together trend which made its way smoothly ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">So Men are Allowed to cheat on women ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">So women are left vulnerable to be cheated by men ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">There is always a woman behind every mans success is not a quote anymore ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">The sanctity of the family is allowed to be ill maintained ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Our children can have ambiguous belongings ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Has porn and normal life interbred a virtual reality ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Are we being disrespected ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">How do I value my worth ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">How to prove myself as a good person ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Do whatever and still be a gentleman ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">What approves me as a husband then ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">so is section 497 no more a part of the social framework ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Dipak misra watches English channels ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">one of the best ways to please the almighty god is being discredited ?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Is it even allowed ? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">So far the relationship issues were contained easily within mars and Venus but now it’s beyond hope ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Did someone hack the supreme Court ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Why is the law not interfering in my personal life anymore ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Zero points for "fairy tale love" / 1 point for "all love will lose its spark" ?? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">How can we be so forgetful of the glory of Spartans, Kshatriyas and Padmavatis ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">So all those Airtel ads, sunrise coffee moments ? Diamonds and high rise apartments were fake ?</span></div><div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg91KopFBZoJ8l5D2aVH9GswN1RslFtEmG2lfNngJiy9YEK9Pk8ZxaZQB5RzLh1re0Orz1M54aZj1VmzvTxvdWWqWUgYWJzA8fr3fL1HH3byuwj9JcE5pr4LnxdLVr_VGgJnXtN4cRcWmSTDhSHZ0Nr1TqFYpE5uJRvkHvY6ZmU6y3ijyn6SGWVqpQ-AA/s845/Screenshot%202023-05-12%20124628.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="845" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg91KopFBZoJ8l5D2aVH9GswN1RslFtEmG2lfNngJiy9YEK9Pk8ZxaZQB5RzLh1re0Orz1M54aZj1VmzvTxvdWWqWUgYWJzA8fr3fL1HH3byuwj9JcE5pr4LnxdLVr_VGgJnXtN4cRcWmSTDhSHZ0Nr1TqFYpE5uJRvkHvY6ZmU6y3ijyn6SGWVqpQ-AA/w640-h524/Screenshot%202023-05-12%20124628.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">We are Conformists who have misunderstood ourselves as conservatives by all means ! The credibility and quality of our life cannot be based on the number of things that are illegal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">People wake up in the morning not because it is illegal to wake up late afternoon and things can get complicated if the government approves the morning as the official wake up time. Complications are proven to ruin the quality of life. Rules, restrictions and laws create complications. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">There is a big world of difference between being a criminal, being immoral and being unnatural. The so called supreme court decision is not because the government is becoming more liberal, the government never had any hold over the society, it just pretends like it is running everything. This is life, the government and its decisions cant affect what goes in our minds and the way we feel about things. It is really good to believe in "Made for each other, happily ever after, together forever" etc. but first Unplug the mind from the rules of the society and the laws of the government! </span></div><div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">More <a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/unplug-1.html" target="_blank">insight at</a></span></div>
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to “mise en scene”. Huma qureshi's entry asked for immediate attention and doesn't wait for us to get adapted to
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easwari. .<br /><br />The Lenin character (
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they mean by the term auteur ? i mean the pretentious
locality boys in his films, they are trying to replicate a black
American Ghetto. The Rap music feels force feeded because i think the good old gaana songs are still the predominant music
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projected himself like another Mahendran (a renowned director), with strong substance and Rajinikanth also
backs up that fact but in reality,
some section of the audience are not so convinced with Ranjith's film making
and it can’t be said that they all are fringe elements. There’s a lot of
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Movie starts with Ramesh thilak's risky journalism and ends with the same, thus
making a statement that Ranjith owns the movie despite rajinikanth’s stardom.</span></span><br />
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<br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The director uses the intermediate jeep travel from the cricket ground to Dhobi ghat for the heroism build up visuals which makes </span></span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: justify;">the hero worshipping audience expect a fight scene. </span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 11.5pt;">This unnecessary expectation blinds the audience from the interesting introduction of a father and son relationship, Kaala and Lenin. The scene also introduces a gutsy girl who
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premise of the film, ie the problem of the people in the suppressed class. Even a not so
complicated concept such as caste based Reservation might be hard to understand for a certain section of the
public because politics is not the same for all. We can’t
blame the people, we can only blame the system. </span></span><br />
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and nana patekar's face off scenes, Ranjith dares to enagage us in a triangular
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fans will definitely fall for it as they did in kabali’s “Veerathurandhara”
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effort was not massive like in kabali but it works. The storyline has now been
revealed to the audience, Kaala and Zareena were in love and almost came close enough to becoming a married
couple but got separated by fate. Kaala has her name tattooed in his hand and the drama cuts back to Easwari rao. Settling things with Easwari rao about the ex relationship provides a hell a lot of scope for
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uses one whole song to convey that
"even married men never get over with their ex affairs" but now in the
next scene he wants us to believe that Kaala has control over his emotions, asking us to adapt to the quickly changing scenarios without enough emotional
graph. Ranjth rushes the plots in bits and pieces that appear to be in flow only by
santhosh narayan's expertise. Romance between Rajini and Huma was too far fetched despite the lame excuse they try to provide for the age
difference between them. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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just dint feel right. Maybe she was casted for the bollywood recognition but Ranjith could have preferred Richa chadda
or even Radhika apte again instead of huma quereshi.</span></div>
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odd pair and somehow gets comfortable with the combination.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
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and Rajini argue against each other, this scene should have been backed up by enough emotional plotting but the pace of the movie gets the priority. Huma supports the Manu project ignorantly but Rajini says the manu builders
project is nothing but a trap (with indirect references to manusmriti) and vows to stop the
project. Huma quereshi gets stoned (attacked by a stone) during the quarrel
and Rajini walks out from the scene in style, The bold exposition of the premise and the supporting BGM are
exemplary in this portion. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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things escalate quickly as Rajini goes to convey his sorry to Huma Qureshi but instead of trying to calm her down,
Rajini gets carried away by his self</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">It is a good scene if we exclude the misguiding build up, moreover this scene was repeated over and over in TV and online media for publicity and promotions. The audience would have had variety of imaginations going on about this scene and finally when we watch it in the movie it just doesn't satisfy us. </span><br /><br />
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excitement for later but the locality boy couldn't wait, he throws a stone on
the villain party's flex print on the street, Cuts to -Rajinikanth
watches the boy’s dead body in shock later that night, the other locality boys as usual sing a rap to question rajinikanth, what kaala is gonna do about this murder. </span></span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 15.3333px;">This is the first surreal touch in the film. </span><br />
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which follows, kaala takes revenge on the murderer on a bridge in the rain.</span></span><br />
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superstar and very less on the seriousness of the situation. It kind of assures us that
we are watching another sub standard commercial movie. The dummy fight doesn’t impress us even though the crew manages to get the best out of Rajini's physical limits. The thrill of Rajini’s fight scenes are over since Batsha. He is still making rounds only for
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Now
that Kaala has shown his full rowdyism, everyone in the slum goes back to their
normal life. The director requests the audience to move on and not to sulk too much in that
boy’s death. The dramatic tension doesn't sustain due to the very average emotional
plotting despite having all the story elements. </span></span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 11.5pt;">Maybe that’s
the routine life of slum dwellers, suffering is permanent, people have to keep moving
on for survival. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: sfnstext;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">The director never gives time for actual emotional
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 15.3333px;">Ranjith holds his stocks for a long time and finally sells them for a great profit. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 15.3333px;">Hari dada makes his presence close to the interval.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The scene before the interval where Rajini forces Nana Patekar to ask
permission to leave the slum serves the essential leverage needed for the typical Tamil
cinema interval.</span><br />
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movie gets more organic after the interval especially the scene that follows the anniversary
song brings the best out of Rajinikanths’s acting. One of the sons of Kaala wants to leave the slum with his wife and kids as they feel
developed enough and “</span><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8; font-size: 11.5pt;">democratic</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;">” enough to start living in a decent and better
neighborhood. But kaala makes them stay back as he feels his sons should be
responsible enough and “</span><span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-size: 11.5pt;">socialistic</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">” enough to stay where they belong and not leave their </span><span style="font-size: 15.3333px;">neighborhood</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> behind. It’s interesting that Kaala is super drunk while he is doing all the preaching.
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<span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Even before the scene completes comes a bigger problem. The police arrives to
take Kaala to the station regarding the murder on the bridge. How many challenging
scenarios can a drunken man face in a single sequence? unexpectedly the police
station scene is a major treat to the fans. It reminds us the magic and the
terrific mass appeal of superstar. Nana Patekar's ghostly presence and super
star’s born for the silver screen attitude makes time stop for a moment. </span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 15.3333px;">They are experienced </span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 15.3333px;">actors</span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 15.3333px;">. </span></div>
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comes the godfather moment of the film, Kaala’s wife and his son Selvam dies in
the accident </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">planned by Hari dada. </span></span></span><br /><br />
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Lenin character scores more than Kaala in this scene, the director wants it
that way because this is where Lenin realizes, transforms and changes his ways
in the fight for the dharavi people’s rights. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Now the screenplay is focused on
taking us to the next major set up </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">and this time Ranjith cares to create enough emotional plotting by the scene Where kaala talks to his grand kids about his past with a
fractured hand.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Kaala regrets for being drunk that night sating that’s
the reason for his wife's death while the audience knows that the accident happened because hari dada stabs on the back with his self righteous cunning methods.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Hari dada's method is unethical for a soldier in war. It
was an unexpected ugly move by the villain and Kaala’s carelessness has nothing
to do with it. Lord Rama shot Vaali (the monkey king of kishkintha) with an
arrow while Vaali was unaware. Does it mean Vaali was careless ?</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span>
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though he woke up and started fighting against it, he can’t fight the already
programmed inferiority complex inside him whenever he faces a person belonging to a higher caste.
It’s not easy and it takes generations of awareness to actually come out of this psychological issue.
Nana Patekar might be afraid of kaala’s rowdyism and
his organised strength within the slum but they will never consider him as
an equal person.</span></span><br /><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /><span style="font-size: 15.3333px;"><span style="background-color: white;"> It’s obvious that Hari dada won’t drink water in kaala’s house but kaala drinks water in Hari dada’s house because he doesn’t want to reflect the sick mentality of the caste system. Discrimination is same even if a member of the lower caste does it (</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">ambedkarism</span><span style="background-color: white;">).</span><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Previously Hari dada expected Huma qureshi to touch
his feet in respect but Kaala avoids Hari dada’s grand daughter from touching his
feet. He prefers a hand shake. He prefers self respect
(</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">periyarism</span><span style="background-color: white;">). Ranjith is a firm believer of these two "isms". <br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;">The inferiority complex due to casteism has been seeded in the minds of the Indian society for a long time, one will still feel inferior despite the ideologies he believes in. That’s why reservation becomes necessary for several generations. Even though a few generations of the suppressed class might seem to have progressed into a better life as a middle
class society, reservation should still be provided till they are free from their inferiority complexes. </span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 11.5pt;">The real freedom is the freedom of the mind.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;">The director touches all these issues but has no time to detail
them and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;">the main problem is the placement
of these concepts. This is supposed to be the scene where Kaala meets the villain after the
villain had killed Kaala’s wife and son. When people are expecting to explore a human
condition on screen, Ranjith prefers to talk the social political Scenario. The political debate between the hero and villain was too direct and it seemed to be affecting the d</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;">ialogues in a bad way thus making it difficult for the actors to perform but Nana and Rajini have managed it somehow. </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">As the dialogues become too straight forward, Ranjith delivers a bold political statement through this film which has never been done on screen before. <br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">This is the moment in the film where the audience gets divided into fans and haters of the film because it confronts with the political beliefs of the audience. Yes, the
individual political ideologies of the members of the audience plays a bigger part in whether
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">In the film Vishwaroopam, Kamal Says it’s ok to be a Muslim but one should not be an anti-indian.<br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The dramatic /political tension escalates quickly when
Hari dada asks kaala to touch his feet but kaala asks Hari dada to touch his feet
instead. The same as the scene in kabali where he tells the villain “ Yes I
will wear a suit, I will sit legs crossed, you better die if you can’t digest
it”.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">All
that is fine but unfortunately it appears like kaala is not bothered about the
villain killing his wife and son. He walks off stylishly saying “stab me on my
back if you want” but it looks like kaala is just using the punch line as an
escapism while he is leaving the place powerlessly unable to do anything about
the man who killed his family.</span></div>
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an end, he wants to destroy the slums which had been his goal from
the beginning. Whenever he said he wants to make the city clean, he meant destroying the slum and the people in it. It’s a fact
that the political parties are highly capitalist no matter they behave like liberals or conservatives. </span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">Capitalism always is neither the left or the
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />The premise of the film</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">gets
totally exposed as Dharavi’s people comes out to stage a great protest, one that has all characteristics of the great Marina protest for Jallikattu and Tamil rights. There is even a policeman character in the protest sequence who speaks for the people just like it happened in the Marina protest. Rajini leads an unexpected </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">protest which is well supported by the " Nilame engal urimai " song.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">The climax is the most
emotional part of the film but the "pro
government conformists" </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: sfnstext;"><span style="font-size: 15.3333px;">section of the audience wouldn't be able to connect with it</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 11.5pt;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The Marina protest</span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> was an ethnicity based voice against the totalitarian authority </span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 15.3333px;">for the federal right </span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">but the Protest in Kaala</span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 15.3333px;"> is the usual "capitalism vs working class" fight even though it has the Raman vs Raavanan or Hindutva vs Dravidam trademarks. </span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 15.3333px;">Kaala is received by the public as a multi dimensional film about dalitism, dravidam, Marxism and possibly Tamil nationalism. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 15.3333px;">Kaala preaches communism from a Dalit perspective.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<br /><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The recent protests in Tamilnadu and </span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 15.3333px;">in most parts of the world are about</span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 11.5pt;"> fighting Capitalism to defend the ethnic sovereignty, demonstrating the </span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 15.3333px;">conservative ideology in democratic terms. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 15.3333px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Nana Patekar gets pissed off and sends one of his trusted devotee to solve the
issue and a guy resembling Hanuman with a gadayutham in hand walks in the
streets of Dharavi. He breaks the jaws of a few protesters including
SamuthraKani. </span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 11.5pt;">The police department in the film commits a lot of anti social activities to dilute the crowd and to break the protest just like it happened in the marina protest. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />In marina, the police ruthlessly attacked the protesters saying there were Fringe elements in the protest. Everyone clearly knows that the fringe elements theory was not real, rather the police themselves set fire to some vehicles to create panic inside the protest. It is believed they did the same in the Thoothukudi sterlite protest too but the actor/politician Rajinikanth at that time was making statements in the press which supported the system rather than supporting the people who were victimised.<br /><br />Rajini's speech in t</span></span><span style="font-family: sfnstext; font-size: 15.3333px;">he press meets </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">during the Thoothukudi protests was the main reason why </span></span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">people decided to boycott the film. They couldn't tolerate his hypocrisy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="text-align: center;"> Rajini as a fringe element in the film "kaala", pun intended.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The
audience are then taken to a Surreal climax where the army lead by hanuman kills
kaala while Hari dada and his family are in a ritual, happily listening to the Ramayana tale.</span></div>
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gets shot by bullets while he’s stuck inside a deadly fire. Raavanan’s death is
narrated in the voice over. This is not symbolism, this is an open criticism on
Hindutva. This is political clarity, </span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">the vision and vengeance of a highly politicized
film maker. </span><o:p style="background-color: white;"></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Kaala may have its flaws but it sticks to the film language enough to qualify as a film.<br />At
the end of the day, Kaala is a propaganda film and so it is not right to
criticise the craft and techniques of this film. Ranjith also says he is a politician first and a film maker next. The director’s social responsibility and his
strong voice guides the audience beautifully. The French auteur film
maker </span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Godard would have definitely felt proud</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 15.3333px;"><span style="background-color: white;">As Godard said, the shots and angles are far less significant in comparison to the director’s perspective on the subject. The art form can be violated in order to bring a social perspective about something. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">There are no rules in film making</span><span style="background-color: white;">. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Making a movie against the
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dada who thinks he has won finally comes to Dharavi to inaugurate the
manu builders project. He tries to take a handful of soil from Dharavi in his
hands and gets shocked to see kaala roaming everywhere among the people. People start to throw black coloured powder on Hari dada and all over the
place. Entire Dharavi celebrates in black, resembling the Raavana kingdom. Then the celebration includes red powder and blue
too denoting the three ideologies. Red - Marxism, black - dravidam and blue -
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was priceless, he has done his part beautifully as an actor.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">But
the director should learn that its not practical to bring everyone under one
ideology, the people have to decide for themselves. Its a shock for many that rajinikanth chose to work with this</span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">director who follows dalitism ideology but maybe it is really not a problem for Rajinikanth. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">I will tell you why, <br />Dalitism is against Hindutva but it is not against nationalism. Ambedkar is a strong proponent of Indian nationalism and he even supported Sanskirit to be the national language of india. Ambedkar was against ethnic nationalism and so Dalitism is one of the major ideologies that gives power to indian nationalism.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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threat to the system because it is like a lifeline that connects the entire
nation where SC/ST people are called Dalits. </span></span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 15.3333px;">Maybe that’s why the RSS and Hindutva India acknowledges Ambedkar as a great leader. </span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Dalitism is trying to persuade all the suppressed people into one ideology but why </span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 15.3333px;">shouldn't</span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> the suppressed people have different ideologies to face their battles ? it is pointless and stupid to try to bring all the suppressed castes of India under one name called Dalits. Especially in Tamilnadu, most SC/ST people </span><span style="font-size: 15.3333px;">don't </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">identify them as Dalits. The suppressed castes should be encouraged to protest and fight for their rights under their very own caste identity because no caste identity is inferior to another, no one needs to hide under the Dalit label. </span></span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext";"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Marina protest worked out because People were easily able to identify and organise themselves as Tamils. The massive crowd came together so effortlessly because of the ethnic identity, there was no caste consciousness or class consciousness involved in their feelings. That's how LTTE and Eezham was formed, that's how Tamil nadu got its name and fought against hindi imposition. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "sfnstext";"><span style="font-size: 15.3333px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Ranjith simply keeps repeating "Caste is bad" and gets the applause.</span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> Periyarism and Ambedkarism don't have to be
the only hope, its a shallow perspective. Let’s give space for new ideologies too. Our enemies are
taking new shapes and they are coming strong at us everyday.<br /><br />Whatever maybe the case of
Ranjith’s ideology, he is a man of action and so is Rajini, that’s one reason why the Rajini fans are supporting him in his political career even before knowing his ideology. But Ideology is all that matters when the action starts. Wrong ideologies will lead to wrong actions and wrong consequences and finally deliver wrong results. </span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">We should also stop branding
Ranjith as a Dalit film maker and as a Dalit leader. </span><br />
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space to be open for new knowledge and to have acceptance to other “isms” and Rajini </span><span style="font-size: 15.3333px;">of course</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> could have avoided his political press meets close to the movie's release.<br />The
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Rajini speaks in the Dharavi slang and Huma qureshi talks English too much but it’s a totally enjoyable film. </span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;">If someone doesn’t like the film, either the movie was against their political ideology or they have no taste in movies. </span><span style="font-family: "sfnstext"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">D</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">emonetisation (november 2016) </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">and </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">the death of chief minister Jayalalitha (December 2016</span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">) </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">was followed by the most scintillating marina protest aka jallikattu protest ( january 2017).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No politicians or big stars were allowed, even Tv media was not allowed. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Celebrities like Actor Vijay, G.V Prakash and Simbhu acknowledged the protest but the protesters dint want any deviation, they were so careful to not allow anything that could weaken the spirit of the protest. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">Then came R.J Balaji, Raghava Lawrence and Hiphop Aadhi, the only mistake the protestors did was giving these shills some extra space. Aadhi initial songs were based on tamil pride and Lawrence was known for charity, they were allowed to join the protest but they obviously used it to gain more popularity.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">They did get some attention even though m</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">ost of the protesters avoided them. A</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">t one point </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">Lawrence</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">Balaji</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and Aadhi were trying to lead three different groups, people were unconsciously splitting into three groups but luckily the collective spirit was not disturbed.</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">Lawrence, Balaji and Aadhi were not seen in the beach among the protesters on the final day. They had a meeting with the Govt officials and political parties after which, all three of them released a video message each.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">They made the most ridiculous statement, saying "anti social fringe elements have infiltrated the protest".</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">People demanded their federal rights and </span><span style="text-align: left;">were also requesting a strong Cauvery committee for the Cauvery problem. T</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">hey were there not just for the Jallikattu issue in specific as commonly believed. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Its a milestone in the recent rise of Tamil nationalism politics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The government tried to dilute the protest by offering temporary solutions and promises, they also used the celebrities to misguide the crowd. Rj. Balaji went one step further to accuse the people, saying the<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"> protest against coke & Pepsi</span> was not the plan. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The protest has a life of its own it never went in the wrong direction because it never can. Revolutions cannot be created or triggered but suddenly one day when it happens we have to learn to serve it in our best interests and not spoil it. Spoiling a revolution is the most cruel thing to do, Lawrence behaved like he was shocked to see the protest breaking up. He said he had to visit the hospital for treatment and couldn't be there to lead the people, he tried hard to act as though everything happened behind him without his knowledge. </span></div>
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The police atrocity continued but the few protesters who remained were strong. The temporary promise to revoke the ban on Jallikattu became permanent in no time but the government dint want to just hand over the victory to the protesters. They wanted to re install fear in the people's minds. They ordered the police to attack every protestor and also the fishermen folk who helped the protesters in the final stages. It was an inhuman attack. <br /><br /></div>
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The real fringe elements (R.J balaji, hiphop aadhi, actor Lawrence) orchestrated a drama in the news media which allowed police to enter and cause the riot, burn fishermen’s huts etc. There were videos of police starting the riot. </div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">The government said it was a great protest, the people have won the rights for Jallikattu with unity but unfortunately some "anti social" fringe elements had infiltrated, deviating the protest from its true motive of jallikattu rights to other motives like the right for independent Tamil nation and pepsi coke ban etc. </div>
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This was the birth of the popular "<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">fringe elements</span>" theory in Tamilnadu politics. USA and Israel uses terrorism as an excuse to rampage and exploit third world countries while the Tamilnadu politicians use "Fringe elements" as an excuse to misguide the people in every protest (Usually they accuse the protestors as Maoists<span style="font-family: inherit;">).</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">There were video evidences of Police starting the riot by burning autos or throwing stones at public. <span style="font-family: inherit;">The police behaved the same way in the IPL protests (Cauvery issue) and their behavior killed 13 valuable lives at the anti Sterlite protests in Thoothukudi.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />In Thoothukudi, the fringe elements were the police. The people's protest won and the Government was forced to close down the Sterlite smelter company It looked like the police were ordered to threaten the protesting public and to blame it on the Fringe elements </span>in the end. It looked like the police pre planned and murdered 13 protesters to re install fear in the minds of the masses.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The marina protest served as an inspiration for the Thoothukudi protest.<br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">More<a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/09/constitutions.html" target="_blank"> revolution @</a></div>
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Bharathwaj rangan says this material is a <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">little boring when seen as a movie but</span> its a remarkable achievement as a film. </div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br /></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Aditi rao hydari , a tamil girl goes to sri nagar, there's a mallu nurse there, shot cuts to a tamil guy karthi in conversation with a telugu higher official so and so. Maniratnam is pulling the entire length of india inside his film and the glorification of the airforce & defence Dept is interesting. </div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br /></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The soldiers and weaponry are glamorous, the actual problem going on in kashmir, ie the stone pelting and the riots are not shown in the movie, instead <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">director Mani ratnam focuses on "love in midst of war" like his other films Kannathil muthamittaal, Roja, Bombay etc. </span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br /></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The passionate pilots and their happy life, the heroine’s friend (Rukmini) who dances with the army men (everyone under the influence of drinks), the songs and everything keeps us engaged for sure but the rich and elite lifestyle shown in his films seems to be intended to leave the audience desperately longing for such an instragam filter added perfect life. </div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br /></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">This is anyways better than his over melodramatic movies like Bombay for example which Focussed on the <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">difference between Hindus and Muslims, the problems in an inter religious marriage and how distant the both cultures feel about each other. </span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br /></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">OK kanmani was an attempt to showcase Mani ratnam's amateur ideas about the modern youth . The film's hero likes to approach the girls casually and speak lines out of classic literature. There's a fake hollywood overtone in the film because the characters do not speak naturally. They unnecessarily pause between sentences pretentiously like whatever they are speaking is of prime importance. </span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The director wishes to impose cool english words in the dialogues but he also wants to pretend like its the normal tamil slang which is so annoying and spoils the movie experience. This art of hiding the </span>fetish for <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">english vocabulary by lethargically mixing it in common tamil has proven to only deliver dead performances. </span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizfGz73NPnyMn2fVweMw-cnk_LGkYF481jqDjm6riBSR6YDB4_LHRByIX_ugGJaQ7L1c6khkE3B2K7FYTa1QHOrJvKkAVqk5T6XgNG1DLy_j-8koaV1NnjMtprQ_m1U1XUF_iOItFrTQ7G2Lz_tvgX5GSGpRwnsWTETJMKUPtY0nwEnK8bsohjLZvoOQ/s1200/11d6bd18698baf698648ff74fe03beac2c18f0a16246f58c6796b3ba4d638f1a._RI_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizfGz73NPnyMn2fVweMw-cnk_LGkYF481jqDjm6riBSR6YDB4_LHRByIX_ugGJaQ7L1c6khkE3B2K7FYTa1QHOrJvKkAVqk5T6XgNG1DLy_j-8koaV1NnjMtprQ_m1U1XUF_iOItFrTQ7G2Lz_tvgX5GSGpRwnsWTETJMKUPtY0nwEnK8bsohjLZvoOQ/w640-h360/11d6bd18698baf698648ff74fe03beac2c18f0a16246f58c6796b3ba4d638f1a._RI_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While Aishwarya rai survives a fall into a river in Ravanan , the droplets of water over her face gets more attention than her argument against vikram because the argument is made of unrealistic flashy dialogues.</span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Karthi shouts "i love you" and "sorry" every time he gets emotional which reminds us of dandandandandanakka roaring of vikram in raavanan. Despite hiring the best technicians, presenting bourgeois characters on screen, Rahman's music and everything, it becomes a joke in the end because of karthi's characterisation, it feels like it was a deliberate copy of the Tom hanks character in Top gun. Is this movie a "<b>rip off</b>" of Tony Scott's T</span>op gun<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">?</span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Mere beautiful visuals, Life style portrayals, fashion statements and </span>Interior designing <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">doesn’t equal to film making. <br /><br />More <a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/indian-cinema.html" target="_blank">glamour @</a></span></div>
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Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-79135529970350286082017-09-29T05:26:00.007-07:002023-05-14T02:56:20.880-07:00The great illusionists <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Its obvious in my perception that The UN has well orchestrated an evil drama, A nearly believable drama with an overhyped EPIC MOMENT with the help of it's new tool , the surprise guest speaker—Palestinian Mosab Hassan Yousef—to expose PLO . The video stops with the finishing touch ..showing the reaction shots of heads turning in shock & eyes bulge like they have encountered the pure truth ! overdramatic, all as planned and rehearsed. </div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Note the fact that PLO is a palestine people's organisation. PLO's ideology is the belief that Zionists had unjustly expelled the Palestinians from Palestine and established a Jewish state in place under the pretext of having historic and Jewish ties with Palestine. They demanded that Palestinian refugees should be allowed to return to their homes. This is expressed in the National Covenant. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The same thing happened before while zionists used the nobel prize winner Malala to make the world rage against Taliban , to create a mass diversion while they were occupying Afghanistan and Iraq. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Its high time we clearly focus on opposing Israel's human rights violations. No more dramas. Israel controls the US and the IMF. The rothschild owns israel. Only a few in the comments section seems to be aware. Israel always names the revolutionary groups and freedom fighters as terrorists. Its cheap tricks still sells. </span></div>
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Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-82960698630431805802016-12-24T13:07:00.003-08:002023-05-14T03:29:31.498-07:00star boy 🌟 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNVjUNtQlK_jL38vrEEKaTBZSkLOMJKPBtBcc-nG-wXjYaqBPzzj4kFvpcWWvoXjmJKr3Xz3ecm2jrSpsWepPCXyHgNzKtHaoajCCNBRuE4YJHmWHJ6-hBEAYjKCImPzT2hs7tF2IcG5Ya-X07aGOmPO4XhscClL0UP2_6fzI_byVWXy-56YzDbAp7MQ/s700/998068_10152222732524968_1038965749_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="700" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNVjUNtQlK_jL38vrEEKaTBZSkLOMJKPBtBcc-nG-wXjYaqBPzzj4kFvpcWWvoXjmJKr3Xz3ecm2jrSpsWepPCXyHgNzKtHaoajCCNBRuE4YJHmWHJ6-hBEAYjKCImPzT2hs7tF2IcG5Ya-X07aGOmPO4XhscClL0UP2_6fzI_byVWXy-56YzDbAp7MQ/w640-h496/998068_10152222732524968_1038965749_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
He was a carpenter, a shepherd, a lord, the ultimate rebel. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Probably black, Palestinian, a monk in Tibet.<br />Born to a virgin under the star 🌟 </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Mary Magdalene's true love 💘, </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The revenant, the sun, Horus, Jesus !! <br />The timeless consciousness and the awareness behind it. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The possibility and probability of a Jesus showing up at least once in every 2000 years is a sign of hope and freedom. The awakening is real.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">For <a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/10/manly-p-hall.html" target="_blank">more awakening </a></div>
Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-79288546577068671982016-03-20T03:36:00.006-07:002023-05-14T03:31:57.511-07:00caste <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Biodiversity is the beauty of life and the survival of a species is dependent on genetic mutation and variation.
</span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">variation </span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">is very important for evolution or else our species will face mass extinction.
For natural selection to happen, </span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">sexual selection</span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> must happen in its natural method where the dominant female selects her mate, she chooses a suitable male, a suitable partner. In modern times, the social cultural system has changed the process of natural selection. The looks, the smell and other biological signals play at an intuitive and instinctive level in natural selection.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Non biological factors such as Family values, distribution of wealth, caste and religion can sometimes interfere with natural selection but when there is a strong </span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love</span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">relationship involved, these insignificant factors usually lose their authority. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Religion and caste are identity for the people who don't have any greater purpose or philosophy in life. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #373e4d;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When some advanced civillisations stop focusing on combat and start educating medicine, astronomy and spirituality, they wouldn't be prepared for war and so unexpected battles were always an headache. The invaders will be amazed by the inventions and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovations </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">of this advanced civillisation. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #373e4d;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">They will want to own it even before they want to learn it. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #373e4d;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to acquire the land, the language and the science of the natives :
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1. The invaders will add some signature qualities of his primitive language into the advanced language, will give it a new name and claim the copyrights to it.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Since the prisoners of war are now converted to the invader's religion, he can now claim the people as theirs too. Its hard to keep track or trace back one's cultural historical roots when whoever is in power keeps manipulating and destroying the native history over the years in a well planned way. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
3. They Re shape all the religious, cultural and historical constructions with a little modification and call it a new style, a new culture. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
4. They will divide the provinces or change boundaries of the internal states and districts to create divide between the people of a common ethnicity. They will label the people under new caste names. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
5. The tribe that fights more against the ruling power (invaded race) will be politically oppressed and suppressed into the lowest class/caste and they will be cursed/ ill-treated like that forever.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #373e4d;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">6.The tribe which bootlicks the invaders or blends with them enthusiastically by identifying some common grounds will be allowed to share some administrative power ( the so called high class/caste). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
7. Education, food and medicine will be restricted for the lower class. A new hierarchy will be strictly placed based on religious cross over of the invader's race. A hybrid culture will be formed.
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<span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the years, the lower/suppressed class will forget their history and they will become physically and mentally weak resulting in lower IQ over the generations because man is shaped by the environment he lives in.
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<span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">That's why we have reservations for the backward castes and It is important to continue it for at least ten generations. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
There are no low castes and higher castes, there are only politically oppressed and politically supported castes.
Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall, civilisations flourish and civilisations die.
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<span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the movie "Dance with wolves", The Native Red Indians on seeing the westerners on their first contact, they thought westerners were dirty and smelly.
The Red Indians had their own medicines culture and everything.
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People in poverty will engage in crime for money and the law will jail them. The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">government and the law will make us believe we need them for the safety of our families and to function properly as a society. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one word " Fear tactics"
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are two worlds of science. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">1: The Einstein's general theory of relativity which explains space time. (<b>Relativity</b>)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
2: The notion that space and time are illusions. <b>Quantum physics.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Today, the physicists announced the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves.
This discovery was made by </span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">LIGO, ( Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Its founders are Kip Thorne, Ronald Drever, and Rainer Weiss. They will be getting a Nobel prize for this. But have you heard the name Kip Thorne before ? He is the scientist who became </span></span></span><span style="color: #141823; white-space: pre-wrap;">worldwide </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">popular after he worked as the scientific consultant in the science fiction film Interstellar. </span></span></div>
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</span></span> A Nobel prize was given in 1993 for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation.<br /><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Interstellar was released just one year back which dealt with gravitons or gravitational energy in Future human science. </span></span></span></div>
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This year the Scientists Detect Gravitational waves directly.
The article majorly explains how they detected the gravitational waves from distant galaxies, caused by the merging of binary black holes( also a big discovery) some 1.3 billion light-years away, somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere sky near the Large Magellanic Cloud, our dwarf galaxy neighbor. They did it</span></span><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with the help of two L shaped lab facilities.
The news about G waves also registers some subliminal information to the masses by the bold statements like..</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">1.<span> “It’s a spectrum that carries entirely new kinds of information that have so far been largely invisible,” - physicist Robert Owen (Oberlin College).</span><span>
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2. <span>"This is the end of the silent-movie era in astronomy."</span> - Eric Katsavounidis (MIT and LIGO team member)</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. <span>Einstein’s general theory of relativity says that gravitational waves should carry away orbital energy, and indeed, these pulsars’ orbits spiral inward at exactly the rate relativity predicts.</span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">4. <span>The<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 12px;"> direct detection of gravitational waves represents another triumph for Einstein, almost exactly 100 years after he predicted their existence (what a dramatic coincidence ?)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />SO we see the glorification of Einstein everywhere and obviously they are creating expectations in our minds that we are entering a new phase of science, the possibilities of new planets , new star systems , cosmic strings and all the tantalizing prospects. This means more money to scientific research, more belief in the space time theory and more belief that the world is made up of matter. </span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2969i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2969i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07g43LT2vgNO-pg837r0JcmF3PtrAs_McoMX7p-NrbghEKj6BUsCS4g2B8IlZ5_ZR9zcAh7iEwKliuRPw7DqFfTrziLK7KuMET_ylWTeD72fZSpHQY2wWS6TNUbukn4NrLuaiY--xpM02WVRTzVB26c0GhygL6KhZPwWttJediflRw4RJQCG6jD9rAw/s620/ligo20160211_Tn.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="620" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07g43LT2vgNO-pg837r0JcmF3PtrAs_McoMX7p-NrbghEKj6BUsCS4g2B8IlZ5_ZR9zcAh7iEwKliuRPw7DqFfTrziLK7KuMET_ylWTeD72fZSpHQY2wWS6TNUbukn4NrLuaiY--xpM02WVRTzVB26c0GhygL6KhZPwWttJediflRw4RJQCG6jD9rAw/w640-h360/ligo20160211_Tn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2969i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a victory for Einstein's Relativity.</span><br /><span><br /><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Einstein's theory of General Relativity predicts that accelerating massive bodies will produce gravitational waves, vibrations in the fabric of spacetime.</span></b></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2969i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">A.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Einstein's physics or mainstream physics says space and time exists.</span></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">B</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Quantum physics says space and time might be illusions.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">. World is made up of matter(particles) , the movement or vibration of particles causes waves.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">B</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Particles can become waves and waves can become particle (weird dualistic nature)</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Matter exists in a time frame and things like speed mass time dilation contraction and simultaneity and differ based on relativity.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">B</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">. The mind is the matrix of all matter. Things exist or </span>don't<span style="font-family: inherit;"> exist based on the observer, they behave as wave or particle based on the observer.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A. The laws of nature are invariant. They behave the same in all conditions.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">B. The laws of nature varies because matter is an illusion. it doesn't exist. when you really know it, you can tap the possibilities like how Neo in the movie matrix could stop bullets..</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A. The observer and the object are two different things.</span></div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">B. The observer and the object are the same when observed.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br />A. An object can be in two places at the same time.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">B. Quantum entanglement i.e. changing a particle can affect the other particle which may be thousands of miles away, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">we don't know </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">what entangles them. Weird rite ??</span></div></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">That's why Einstein called Quantum science as the spooky action. Obviously he dint understand it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is no matter, only consciousness and with our awareness we can choose between possibilities and therefore travel dimensions and parallel worlds. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">The global elites and their secret societies which controls the Govt, the banks and the industrialists also has the mainstream science (funded by private parties) under their control. </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2969i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2969i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whistle blowers from NASA and US defense teams have leaked us a lot of information about Gravitational energy , anti gravity propulsion systems for space ships and Gravitational vortex generators. We've been having this technology for generations and the most powerful governments in the world has kept it as a secret from us humans. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This means we have already discovered all these but the general population is allowed to know it only when the Globalists decide. They have waited for the 100th anniversary of Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves to make it more dramatic. So that the faith on General relativity will be restored successfully. The globalists also don't want the general public to stop rely on the old fashioned oil and money based economy because of any advancement in science.</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Like i mentioned above, the facts they present to us and the order of events are too fishy , i smell conspiracy. The secret societies have tried to use film makers like Stanley Kubrick as a tool for mass mind control. We don't know if kubrick was totally in their hands but he left many symbolism in his movies like eyes wide shut about the secret societies. I see Christopher Nolan as the new Kubrick , he could also be used to prepare our minds for what's coming... like we may actually lose our planet due to pollution or face some nuclear accident and we might even have to live on space colonies floating on artificial gravity. Movies are made to normalize certain possibilities and to program the society not raise questions or revolt against such possibilities and yet Nolan established a strong message to the audience in his movie "interstellar".<br /></span><br />"<b>Love is inter dimensional</b>". </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2969i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2969i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">More <a href="https://stoicexistentialist.blogspot.com/2022/12/physics.html" target="_blank">science @</a></span></span></div>
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Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-78164588307690086142014-11-23T00:30:00.006-08:002023-05-14T03:39:50.518-07:00Interstellar review <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">* "Novikov self-consistency <b>principle</b>"<span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><br /><br />The time travel concept is paradoxical and raises a lot of questions but the scientists keep taking the concept forward. Its like the scientific community agreed to fixate on a very comfortable <b>principle </b>to get rid of the paradox problem.<br /><br /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">The <b>principle </b>asserts that if an event exists that would give rise to a paradox, or to any "change" to the past whatsoever, then the </span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">probability</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> of that event is zero. It would thus be impossible to create </span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">time paradoxes</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">.<br /><br />why is it important here ? "Kip Thorne" (physicist) one of the masterminds behind the film interstellar is a coauthor of this principle. </span><br /><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Stephen king once criticised Kubrick for not doing justice to his book " in "the shining", Likewise the film" 2001 a space odyssey" had big differences from the book too. We cant discuss interstellar without bringing in 2001 a space odyssey.<br /><br />Interstellar has replaced the monolith in 2001 with a tesseract, that's all !<br />The monolith is there in every stage of human development from evolution to space travel.<br />Likewise the tesseract helps cooper step by step right from delivering the co ordinates of NASA till getting the data from the singularity.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><br />The actual script by </span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">jonathan nolan and kip </span></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">had many many wormholes and black holes but Nolan chose to have only one black hole n wormhole because he was not doing a marvel film. <br /><br />* "Dimensions"<br /><br />On reading "flatland" (</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">carl Sagan explains it in one of the episodes of "cosmos")</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> or by watching the documentaries like "imagining the ten dimensions" it is much easier to understand this film. </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Dr. Brand says to Cooper at one point in the movie .." we have not yet found an unified theory which can contain both the ideas of quantum mechanics and relativity" so until then this interstellar travel is the only hope for us. you are the best we have , so take the Endurance, go into the wormhole. <br /><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Nolan intends to put the audience in a sense of wonder by creating a rapid time shift between the characters( time slippage of 51 years). Time is the major element and so the planets to be visited according to Dr. Brand's plan are all comfortably placed near the black holes by Nolan's wishful thinking, the dramatic license is breathtaking especially because it doesn't seem to break any scientific laws, thanks to Kip Thorne.<br /><br />* "Gravity"<br /><br />If you watch the alien space ships making a crop circle on a field, its like they use some wave energy (gravity?) to create those designs on the ground. <br />Cooper sends signals from the tesseract to the 4 dimensional earth </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">through gravity waves.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> <br />Nolan literally gave us a clue on how the other dimensional beings can contact us. Gravity may be the answer. Gravity doesn't have to abide the laws of space time physics, it can travel beyond time and dimensions. The possibility of 5D beings communicating with Cooper or Cooper communicating with his daughter is only through gravity. Even in "2001 a space odyssey" .. Kubrick dint go this far to explain what's happening, he just stated that there is a divine intervention " a monolith" a mysterious influence in every big step of mankind.<br /><br />Dr. Brand tells cooper about the wormholes these higher beings have placed in space for us to explore and find hope. The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px;">higher beings are mentioned very early in the film </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">which helps in setting the film as fantasy genre even though the crew took enormous efforts to create an actual representation of wormholes and gargantua the blackhole. </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1. The </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px;">spherical</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px;">wormholes can be entered from any side of those things.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px;">2. A spinning blackhole as big as Gargantua will bend light waves around it .</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px;">So far we have seen only radio images, spectral images of black holes from NASA, but this film managed to show how it will appear in real for human eyes. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><br />* "Murphy's law"<br /><br />Cooper says to his daughter " what has to happen will happen"<br />wikipedia definition says" </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><i>Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". </i><br />Similar to the lines from the poem Dr.Brand says to cooper "</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><i>do not go gentle into that good night</i>"<br />we cant do anything about the apocalypse but lets just try in vain or is there still a hope ?<br /><br />Why would Nolan need murphy's law in a scientific film ? because this is Sci "fiction" and moreover a fantasy film. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Novikov self-consistency principle says there is no chance of a paradox in time travel.<br />
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whats time travel ? going forward or going backward in time.<br />
Most scientists accept time travel is a possibility but they don't really accept the chances of going back in time because it creates paradoxes.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Imagine yourself going back in time and killing your grandfather while your father was not born yet,. that means there is no father and no "you". How will you go back in time when there is no "you" ??<br /><br />as simple as that.<br />
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Even a small thing like breaking a bottle has a paradox in time travel because breaking a bottle is easy but reversing the event, the broken bottle going back in time to its old shape, the same as it was with 100% perfection is not easy. Why ??</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Its called Entropy, it is the measure of disorder.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">When ice melts, there is no gradual drop in temperature but instead it remains at the same 0 degree Celsius until it melts completely. so what is the change in chemical energy until it melts? it is entropy, entropy changes till it melts and cause real temperature change only when it totally melts . Same happens while water boils , or bottle breaks or in the big bang of the universe. Entropy is a real thing, we cannot control it. So when entropy cannot be controlled we cannot bring back a broken bottle to its original shape. <br />
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Novikov self-consistency principle doesn't deny backwards time travel but it says if there is a backwards time travel then it has to be self consistent, the possibility of changing anything or creating a paradox is zero.<br />
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"Your own mother was needed to give you birth; But you could not have been born without the sun and the earth. Even these could not have caused your birth without your own desire to be born. It is desire that gives birth, that gives name and form. The real world is beyond the mind's ken." - Nisargadatta magaraj.<br />
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So the science of NASA and other labs are all ideas of the mind , just the mind and not the reality , no one knows the reality except the people who can see beyond the mind.<br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><div>Any action can trigger a series of consequent reactions that have no connection to the motive of action. Its a wave of actions , one action creates a ripple and it affects a lot of things like a chain reaction. So someone's attempt to go back in time and kills his grandfather won't just create one paradox but a whole lot of paradoxes. "What has to happen will happen." </div><div><br /></div><div>I believe Nolan has used the law of consequences or the law of karma in the name of murphy's law. The murphy's law is the fabric that holds everything, whatever that happens in the story.<br />
<br />The moment we change something.. that becomes a parallel world. <br /><br />
Multiple dimensions or multiple planes of existence ( lives) are like multiple copies of a single slice of time. When paradoxes happen , they become a copy of the reality, quantum realities. <br />
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This film is not about time travel but it strictly follows a set of rules put forward by Kip thorne and Novikov principle is one of those, This is why Nolan decided to explain the movie in one timeline.<br />
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So when someone kills their grandpa by time travelling to the past.. they create an alternate reality. But nothing happens by chance , nothing is a co incidence, everything is entangled in the meaningful universe. </div><div><br /></div><div>So when a random stranger gets affected by someone's effort to go back in time and kill their grandpa .. maybe the stranger deserved it and he was there for a reason or maybe it just happened, an accident. Karma is not a tit for tat game. </div><div><br />
So what happens when a scientist doesn't believe in the law of cause and effect (or the murphy's law)? he thinks he has errors in his time travel experiment, he calls those errors as paradoxes and he finds a principle to avoid it in his mathematical calculations despite the fact that we can never go anywhere near the actual reality (the objective reality if there's such a a thing) with these principles, these principles are discussed merely to entertain our curiosity. </div><div><br /></div><div>There's no objective reality according to quantum science.<br />
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There was ghostly activity (or gravity) in Coopers book shelf for a reason, he got the co ordinates for a reason , higher beings placed a wormhole near Saturn for a reason, cooper gave his daughter a clock for a reason , nothing is a co incidence or mere chance. These events appear to be supernatural but all the magic in the world is nothing but the science that is not understood yet as Nassim Haramein also used to say. In the end, Cooper steals a space ship to catch up with Dr. Amelia Brand who is in a habitable planet in a different galaxy., He doesn't even seem to be bothered enough to take a team along with him, because the movie is not about science, it believes in the support of higher beings and the tesseract. It believes in love, that's why the hero deciding to go on a space adventure once again in search of his love becomes the necessary final scene.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nolan definitely has done a homage to HAL 9000 from Kubrick's "2001 a space odyssey" through TARS and the idea of designing it like the monolith was brilliant ,<br />
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* "Tesseract"<br />
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In geometry, the tesseract is the four-dimensional analog of the cube. simply think of it as a cube within a cube. As a concept the tesseract functions as a wormhole, because it can bend the structure of the space-time. In interstellar Cooper jumps inside the black hole and gets pulled into the tesseract. Here the tesseract functions like the monolith. The tesseract is basically a platonic solid. There are many platonic solids in different names such as the dodecahedron which is similar to the tesseract. Though Plato cannot take full credits as the discoverer of the platonic shapes, he has done a great deal of research with it which has helped a lot of scientists like Heisenberg (quantum physicist). Plato's understanding of the solids and some of his other allegories probably come from solon who travelled to Egypt and other lands.</div><div><br />
They believed a tesseract and these other multi dimensional shapes like the Merkabah have a very significant role to play in the nature of the world and its mysteries. There have been UFO space ships witnessed in the shape of Merkabah several times.</div><div><br />Cooper could see his daughter and his book shelf as time slices inside the tesseract, he is baffled but then he understands that he can access any moment of time in her life from inside the tesseract. But how to communicate ? he knows already - GRAVITY.<br />He understands he is there for a reason, he is pulled inside the tesseract by the higher beings but it is not him that they want , its his daughter, its all about her, she is going to save humanity from the apocalypse.</div><div> <br />
Cooper says " its me , I am the ghost " (not the actual dialogue). " They have constructed this tesseract to help me communicate with her.<br />
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* "They"<br />
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Throughout the entire movie we hear this word "They", "They are leaving bread crumbs for us " , "They gave us the co ordinates" , " They have placed wormholes in our solar system" etc., Who are "They" ??<br />
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As Dr. Brand says in the first meeting with cooper , "They" are higher beings.<br />
What kind of higher beings ? in coopers conversation with TARS inside the tesseract .. he says they are us , we are they , we in the future , future humans. This is widely accepted by the audience because its comforting, future humans sounds like very scientific. Not to forget what TARS says immediately “People didn’t build this tesseract” .<br />
And then cooper says “Not yet ,but one day. Not you and me but people, people who’ve evolved beyond the four dimensions we know.”<br />
Now how do we interpret this ?</div><div><br />
TARS is a quantum machine capable of collecting quantum information. It says people dint build the tesseract. We know robots don't speculate , they tell from the data they collect. It has to be right.<br />
Cooper is speculating but he too is having a great awakening , like in Kubrick's a space odyssey. The lead role in the final scene of space odyssey travels interstellar at very high speed , he becomes a higher being , something like a real GOD.</div><div><br />
"They" or the term higher beings in interstellar can mean GODS literally, 5D beings are gods for 3D humans, and those 5D beings will have someone higher than them. Just an analogy but this is what interstellar is based on. <br />
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So now TARS will collect the quantum data from the "singularity" and cooper will send it to his daughter through gravity by the clock technique.<br />
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* "Singularity" - The climax<br />
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A gravitational singularity or spacetime singularity is a location where the quantities that are used to measure the gravitational field become infinite in a way that does not depend on the coordinate system. - wiki<br />
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This simply means we don't know what it is , we cannot expect how things will be in singularity.<br />
Before the big bang, at the starting point , all of space was concentrated as a single piece of mass. It is a singularity and similarly in a black hole everything is pulled to a single point which they call singularity. We can see the space ship travelling close to the black hole and not get pulled into it because they are out of the event horizon of the black hole. The event horizon is the point of no return in the black hole, even light cant escape from beyond the event horizon. When cooper jumps inside the black , he gets pulled into the tesseract and the focus is shifted to the time slices of his daughter near the book shelf . </div><div>They get the data required to unite relativity and quantum physics. Even after Dr. Brand quits his research of finding a unified theory, Cooper takes a daredevil attempt to get that information needed for the research by jumping into the singularity. He is ready to lose his life to be able to finish the research and take all of the human species into space (by harnessing gravitational energy and building stations using the data from the singularity).<br />
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But all of this has to be a metaphor because its highly impossible to go into a black hole, gather information and come back out to use it. It wont happen in real life because there's no help coming from the higher beings.<br />
<br />We know the spiritual evolution of man into enlightened beings through meditation and tantra transcendence. So the singularity is not just inside the black hole, it is also inside us. If we can access the essence of the present moment without the interference of our mind and connect to our soul (the source) we also connect to the singularity of the cosmos in that moment.<br />
<br />This movie is about human awakening and transcending to higher levels.<br />
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* "Cooper coming back from the black hole and what happens after" - The Resolution<br />
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How does cooper come out of the black hole ? is the top 1 FAQ. </div><div><br />There is a higher dimensional power in play, they would have brought him back. In the hospital the doctor says luckily we found you at the right time.</div><div>
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Remember ,,, the significance of Dr.Mann<span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #545454; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> </span></span>in the movie</div>
He says to cooper during the fight , when you die you think of your children because that's what matters, Survival . we have to survive for our children , they carry a part of us . Do u see your children cooper ?? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Likewise when cooper finds out Dr. Brand's plan A was a lie... he gets shocked but Brand says .. <span style="font-family: inherit;">We have to start thinking as a species and not as an individual person, We don't have the time and resource to save all the people of earth but we can create a colony on a habitable planet in space (plan B).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He says the continuation of the species ( survival of species) is more important than trying to save each and every individual on earth. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Cooper dedicates his life and jumps into the black hole to collect data for plan A because he cant give up the people on earth. Even while thinking as a species ..its wrong to leave people to die. Creating a human colony in space after leaving the people to die on earth will save humans but not "humanity ". This message is mandatory in all apocalypse movies.<br />
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1. A close similarity to 2001 a space odyssey - strangely positive<br />
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2. Corn fields, dust storms and documentary films of apocalypse victims - Positive, it adds believability and helps in world building<br />
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3. The time difference factor in each level of the dream was used for dramatic tension near the climax of the film <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Inception </span>but in <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Interstellar,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>the scene where 23 yrs have passed after the incident in miller's planet (cooper watches the video messages from his son and cries) happens in just a few minutes after the space travel starts. The film elevates to a whole new level so quickly and it is good - positive</div><div style="text-align: left;">
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4. TARS and endurance - innovative and stylish. TARS was like a moving monolith. It was totally cool and had a steady character while the Endurance was a giant wheel in space , the shot of endurance moving across the great Gargantua was a spectacle worth watching in Imax. - positive<br />
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5. Murph shouting out Eureka in the end - not so cool - negative<br />
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6. Docking scene - classic heroism, well done. This is where Cooper proves he is the best.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Dr. Mann who is said to be the best of NASA docks it wrong after several attempts (even while the endurance was simply floating steady). He destroys the whole thing and dreams are shattered , the whole mission has failed that second but Cooper goes forward and docks his shuttle with the shattered Endurance (which is rotating out of control). Cooper succeeds despite the sarcasm of TARS.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
7. Love - Dr. Brand says to Cooper and the crew "Love is the one thing that transcends time and space. " Cooper got gravity right in this film but he dint quite get it right about love. He took the wrong decision of going to Mann's planet. Love is always the right thing to believe and the theme is well established at the end. - positive<br />
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8. Do not go gentle into that good night - I felt this piece of poetry was more of a <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">tone </span>than a <span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">theme</span>. -negative<br />
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9. Music - double positive<br />
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10. Nolan's magic : this is mind blowing stuff. - positive.</div>
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Super heroes don’t choose their destinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13188535563577050608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575469592352790092.post-13786039850655221002013-08-28T02:15:01.167-07:002023-05-12T07:21:43.423-07:00From KOVAI to KODAI via Goa and rest of the world <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: small;">So what is it special abt Kodaikanal to brag about ?</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><br /></span>It was 7 of us (school friends) in this car, the 8th one was the driver. And the car started off to k o d a i k a n a l. <br />
<br />If u don't start a good conversation soon, someone will start asking "how is your projects going in ur office" ? any salary hikes in ur sector ? all of us were over 25 years of age.<br />
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I had an 8gb pen drive with random fav song collections , when everything goes bad , it can still be a good trip if u have a good music collection. i thought of using the pen drive after going some distance , till then the driver had a pen drive and his song collection was playing. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Then someone opened a packet of gooseberries ,<br />
<br />we met the other car ( 5 more friends ARE ALSO JOINING) somewhere between vellalore and singanallur, we exchanged signals to stop somewhere nearby to have a few words. <span face=""Proxima Nova Lt", sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px;">😉</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I wanted to stop near the wind mills on the way. Arun did not want to waste any time .. so we stopped immediately on the road side to elevate our mood with some fresh air <span face=""Proxima Nova Lt", sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px;">😉. The driver was saying "feel free to enjoy", I'm ok with anything. </span></div><div>
<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">We had "coffee" (slang word for something I cant mention directly) got Chinese eyes, all our faces were smiling and we had the gear changed in our heads, we know for sure now the trip has really started ..</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJk2QfpoaLxCTjKFUDQotCNbLjgfOP6xBDM8Fip60XuYpKcgtGknNVak2FGDn0Lpqe9FryD4Rrm4bXPn1rJ4jNKbnEx4p94UYwE3F3vSBAHEnG6AtK1huVXwkf2opHPlvb9nZoDrHkB-0e/s640/group.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJk2QfpoaLxCTjKFUDQotCNbLjgfOP6xBDM8Fip60XuYpKcgtGknNVak2FGDn0Lpqe9FryD4Rrm4bXPn1rJ4jNKbnEx4p94UYwE3F3vSBAHEnG6AtK1huVXwkf2opHPlvb9nZoDrHkB-0e/w320-h240/group.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I asked the driver to remove his pen drive and connect mine. We waited for the songs to flow in.. the pen drive was not readable . I couldn't understand what was wrong, The others dint have time to bring their music and the only pen drive we had is not fucking readable..</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />
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I convinced myself, songs doesn't matter but my left brain was constantly planning to get down at some internet browsing center and find what's wrong with my pen drive. May be the songs are inside a sub folder and the device couldn't read it. Prasath was feeling weird, wiping sweat from his face and neck. He said it feels like he is going alone somewhere. <br /><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We stopped again somewhere for a small break, the conversations were crazy and siddiq confirmed that all of us where in some other dimension.<br />
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The trip continues . . . <br />we started going up the
mountain path , temperature starts to drop . It was the month of may . .
. so we cant expect Himalayan climate but anything is better than the Chennai climate . <br />
The other car, (red swift) was coming behind us . quietly following .<br /><br />
Me and madhu were in the back , perfectly accommodated . I forgot to say . . we borrowed a decent music collection from the other car . They had two pen drives full of songs.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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We were excited about clicking photos but we had a schedule to keep up so we kept moving .<br />
Our plan was to reach a place called perumal peak at 2pm .. climb up and come back before 5pm , then kodaikanal is just half an hour from there , we could reach before 6 .<br />
But it started raining a little and we were in doubt if we would make it or not .<br /><br />
Then we stopped at a place for tea , i like these small tea shops in such nice locations . <br /><br />We were <b>not </b>planning to visit the popular tourist attractions in kodai like the Guna caves , pillar rock , dolphin nose , boating in the lake , cycling around , and the flower show in the park etc, our main motive was to avoid the crowd . it was the summer holidays. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It was the first day of the flower show in kodaikanal . After having tea , we quickly continued the travel , we decided to avoid the perumal peak climb , trekking on the first day will burn all energy and moreover when we enquired an officer about climbing it , he said it is not allowed these days and i have to acquire permission from the DFO office which is 10 kms away into the town .<br />
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it was 3pm when we reached kodaikanal . we parked the cars and walked down to a tibetian restaurant . <br />
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This was run by a tibetian lady , the menu was interesting . we ordered a feast. <br /><br />
The area we stayed was the most interesting aspect of the trip . It was arranged by Dinesh and he had it done perfectly .We stayed in vattakanal" which is a hotspot for the hippies all around the world , especially the Israelis. <br />
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you should definitely read this blog to know <a href="http://fountainink.in/?p=1752&all=1" target="_blank">the legend of vattakanal </a><br /><br />The hippies movement of the 70's had so many people hitch hiking and travelling to Goa for spirituality and marijuana . Goa was a paradise in the 70's and its not bad even now. <br /><br />
we started moving to vattaikanal to the place of stay, the owner of the place met us on the way and hopped into our car . we stopped at the <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">la salette church</span></span> around 5 in the evening.<br />
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The owner was friendly and i asked him about trekking in that area , he pointed his finger at the valley and said the place is all yours , trek wherever u want . <br />
I had a print out of a trekking route in that area, It was supposed to be a 2 hrs trek.<br />
<br />Our stay was a 20 mins ride away from the church. We were excited , prabhu and his friends preferred the ground floor of the guest house and some of us took the top floor.<br />
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Ours had a balcony and was painted with cool pics of mushrooms , weed and some scribblings in israeli letters . Some hippies must have stayed in there before us .</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />The place was on a steep slope and we were curious whats its like in the top of the hill .We dint wait for anything , we had a coffee <span face=""Proxima Nova Lt", sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px;">😉</span> and planned to have the next coffee <span face=""Proxima Nova Lt", sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px;">😉</span>at the top of the hill. The time was 5:30 and the light was going down ... some of us. . . were busy unpacking their things which reminded me of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac" target="_blank">George Carlin's Stuff comedy</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">It was a tough climb actually . . . wet and </span><span style="text-align: left;">slippery. </span><span style="text-align: left;"> I was thinking if this was tough , then how tough the perumal peak climb would have been if we had tried it in the afternoon. It was surprising to find houses n small huts on our climb up . We found it hard to climb for one day but the people who live with children on top of this hill must be climbing up and down daily . We reached a green pasture on the hill , it was finally the top and there was a house there too . We dint want to disturb anyone who lives there , we had climbed for at least half an hour so we sat down calmly . Time for another coffee, the last time i did this was in Goa , me and my friend had coffee and climbed a hill near anjuna beach , reached the top and had another coffee </span><span face=""Proxima Nova Lt", sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">😉</span><span style="text-align: left;"> , the Heavenly feeling .</span></div>
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Here in this vattakanal hill .. we already felt the trip was worth it . I asked the people in the house how they live in such a place .. they said " what can we do , we can stay only where they give us a place " i dint know whether to feel pity or to be jealous . such a beautiful place but it had its practical disadvantages .<br />
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after that .. a miracle happened , well..im exaggerating it but how many times in life do we see something like this . the mist was rising up from down the hill ... it was like children returning home from school , the mist was coming home to the clouds.<br />
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The mist was closing the view and we knew it was high time we get down to the cottagem some of our friends who were busy unpacking their things back at the cottage had decided to join us. They were shouting from somewhere .. we are coming up!! , we were shouting , dont come , we are coming down !!! , then we met in a terrace land full of beautiful flowers and ganged up there . now what do we do ? another coffee <span face=""Proxima Nova Lt", sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px;">😉</span><br />
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It got dark . The rest of the way down .. there was no light for our eyes to do its thing , and we reached the cottage by merely predicting the route . <br />
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We had previously ordered Chappathi and curry for the night and were waiting for it .We had the refreshments acquired <span face=""Proxima Nova Lt", sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px;">😉 </span>on the way in the afternoon as we knew there would be no shops around the place where we stay.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />I was telling siddiq about the area that there are many house parties going on , even in the guest house right beside us, there are some hippies staying and they are definitely having a psychedelic party .<br />
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<br />Madhu was admiring the light coming from the roof of a hut below .and he was saying .. did you see that , did u see that , chanceless , that was just a roof actually .Time went by .. Everyone was in the mood , it was a laughter riot and suddenly we heard something in the bush , i realised it must be siddiq falling down into the bush , we dint see him for sometime and siddiq came running from the dark and told us he saw someone through the window in the guest house above us . We laughed again .. more than ever , , we dint expect he will go chk out some house like that , on what intentions i dont know but he was the comedy of that night . chappathi's came , we ate.<br />
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We were sleepy but walked in search of tea shop that night .. there is nothing for a mile up the road. It was after 10pm, only God knows how much i love walking in a new place in the dark searching for something . Siddiq jumped over a gate and knocked a door , he gave a postive sign( <i>Evano light poatrukkaan , tea irukku</i> . He told us to come around , it was the back door of a tea shop , it was closing time and we were lucky to have a ginger tea at that hour . we slept around 11pm and we had a trekking to do the next morning . someone even took a photo of me sleeping which usually doesn't happen as I'm always the last guy to sleep.<br />
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<br />Sabha's prime motive of the trip was to trek. I promised him we would start in the morning as early as possible for the trek and he had set the alarm for 5:30 , he woke us up the nxt morning and we were ready before 6 :30 for the trekking . Prahu's friends in the ground floor were not in a condition to be disturbed . We were expecting a waterfall in the trekking route, i had the print outs of the trek route and we went in car till a place called crockers walk . We've heard the sunrise will be amazing in crockers walk but the sun was already up. Crockers walk was a common tourist spot and the flower show was starting that day in Bryant park which was just opposite to crockers walk. So we were sure there will be massive crowd after 8am , There was a nice bread omelette shop nearby and all of us got busy for the next 15 mins . <br />
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Then we bought tickets at the crockers walk entry gate and the whole place was explored completely in 15 mins . awesome place .. the sunrise would have been really great if we had seen it from here.<br />
Then we reached the church we saw yesterday and asked a local shop keeper where the TV tower was . <br />
The TV tower is where the trek begins in my print out . Then we walked till the TV tower and from there we dint see any trekking routes, already the boys started doubting my plan and the print outs but all of us were enjoying the walk. We were worried for the other boys who were sleeping back in the cottage , they definitely missed this .. <br />
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Our idea was to have a coffee after the trek gets into full Swing , Arun's idea was to have the coffee first to and get the trek into full swing . whatever .., we shifted to Bob Marley vibes soon enough. <br />
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Spiritually speaking .. Man has three centers in the body . head center , heart center and navel center .<br />
<br />People who rely on thinking
, contemplating , calculating , planning , rationalising and judging are at their head center . <br /><br />People who are more into Feeling
, empathising , connecting with nature , feeling of oneness , equality ,
kindness , instincts , hope , belief n faith ..are heart centered . <br /><br />
Being in the
source , knowing life is an illusion , seeing beyond maya , being in
control of our thoughts and mind , being blissful out of nothing , being
enlightened ... this is navel center .<br />
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when we are born .. we are in the navel center , that is our source but our sociocultural life teaches us over thinking and separates us from the source, makes us selfish and to always judge between right and wrong. we movefrom navel to head center . Most of us cant even empathise with the poor and the suppressed and thus we are also far from the heart center .<br />
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I learned from Osho that this is why we feel so much alive and blissful when we are on a trip , the moment we reach the top of the hill .. we outstretch our hands and take a deep breath , we break from the routine mechanical life , from cell phones and office files . <br />
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Actually this special feeling , the bliss comes from the source withn us . not from the climate or the mountain . The deep breath takes the fresh air to our navel and we feel our source . <br />
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I was taking deep breaths and feeling wonderful , in cities we dont know if we are breathing or not , air keeps circulating in the surface of the wind pipe and 3/4 of the lungs never see air , even if we breathe deeply ..the pollution could be harmful . <br />
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The wonderful walk took us to a place where a small path seperated from the main path and it went straight down into the forest , so we found it, the trekking path. <br />
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It took us to the small river called pambar . two or three women n children were taking bath, We crossed them and walked along the river , a beautiful trek route guided us inside the forest . The mud path was slippery at few places but it was so beautiful .. we walked watching the river running along our way. <br />
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The time was around 8 or 8:30 am and we reached a fantastic location , it was a small water fall ,The vattakanal falls was at its lowest water level which made it possible for trekking down the rocks of the river . <br />
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We had brought our towels , so we were ready to take a dip . coming to kodaikanal and having a hot water bath in the hotel room was not our plan . So this was exciting ... but cold as hell . <br />
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<br />We all slowly climbed down and the trekking route was becoming tougher and tougher as we moved down . Then we reached another amazing spot , there was a cave and light was coming inside it through a small hole . <br />
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<br /><span style="text-align: justify;">Some Israeli guys were steadily climbing up with their backpacks and sticks in hand. I was wondering what their plan was... </span>and a little further down .. we knew there is no route , some of us were convinced of going back.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
Prabhu was feeling adventurous , he said we have to find our own way . <br />Then at a specific place everyone settled their mind ... ok this is it , we will get lost if we go any further. I was telling them the route will take us to dolphin nose and from there were can go to our cottage easily . That was the plan but even i dint have hope that we will see dolphin nose in our trek, there was absolutely no sense of direction at all for any of us . It was a dangerously steep valley . <br />
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We took many dangerous leaps of faith and were going strong , some of us disappeared from sight , they shouted from above that they are going out of the forest to the main road, good luck to them. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">We have to take an alternate route through the jungle . The time must be close to 10 am, three of us were continuing our trek ... sabha was a little slow because of his shoes which got wet , he slipped at many death zones and we were luckily going forward .He removed those shoes at one point and was very determined in going as far as we could . There was a big rock where prabhu lost his balance and fell down (somersaulting into the rock below him), luckily the wild grass slowed down his fall and he dint know what happened, he asked me if he was alive . We couldn't control laughing, Sabha was threatened by what he saw .. he chose the swampy way on the corner of the big rock as it was less dangerous and it took another ten minutes for him to get himself down from the rock. Now we were sure its our funeral two days later if we continued the trek . There seemed to be no way of getting out the jungle . We heard no sound from the others , they promised to keep shouting as they move so that we could catch up with them at some junction.<br />
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Fear starts creeping in . We three were tired and i know kodaikanal is a dangerous forest . It is called the shola forests .. I couldn't avoid imagining a bear or a python . The slope was never ending , We climbed for at least 45 mins and we were not even sure if it was the right way out. We finally reached a place where we saw a big wall , human construction .we were close to the road and that wall was there to prevent land slides, we found a way around the wall and we reached the road . The other guys were eating bread omelette in the shop below our cottage . The way from the shop to our cottage was itself a tough climb . </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Me and
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so we went near dolphins nose to a nice place . We realised its the same place where we had ginger tea the last night . It was so different in the daytime. Madhu was immersed in the hippy music that was playing. He was telling the same thing again n again .. listen to the music , did ya listen to the music .. , Prasath was followed by office tension everywhere so he made use of the system in the cafe, to chk some mails but the connection was not proper . <br />
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The famous Dolphins nose was just a 15 mins climb down from the cafe . Huge crowd was going down and coming up in a rush , we had time to see it but The first rule of the trip was not to get mixed with the tourist crowd . <br />
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Siddiq was a total food freak , it was great fun having him with us . There were some dread locked spiritually inclined hippies walking around .Even the menu card had israeli names along with english . <br />
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The Israeli and the magic mushroom connection predates Judaism . The Israeli head priest goes every morning to collect mushrooms which they called Manna . They said it comes from the sky and it connects them with the gods . Its there in the old testament of the bible . This <b>manna </b>of israel is the <b>Soma </b>of ancient india and haoma of ancient Iran . These hippies come here in large numbers , they feel they have a connection with vattakanal . The story of Billy the hippie is very well known in kodaikanal. He came and settled here doing small jobs like selling accessories in the tourist areas and he doesn't care about money . He earns only what he needs for survival and had no passport or visa problems . He became one with the local people and everyone understood why he was here . kodaikanal is a heaven for nature lovers and its the only place they the get psilocybin mushrooms in Asia . Marijuana keeps coming from the idukki district of kerala nearby and many israelis come here. The locals rent their small huts and cottages to these hippies and its a good source of income for them .The hippies like to cook their own food , so they dont stay in the usual tourist lodges . They are spiritual and when its too hot in kodaikanal .. they move to places near the himalayas . Some hippies even know to make psychedelic juices from tree saps and barks and the leaves of certain plants . Many plants have DMT and extracting it properly is the science .</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">You should check out some articles and videos from people like Graham Hancock , Alan watts , Bill Hicks , Terrence Mckenna , Carl sagan , George carlin n others to know the truth about these psychedelic substances .<br />
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I learned about israeli bakeries and tea shops where they make marijuana cookies. I already planned to visit the place again in november or december when its the most happening .</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />
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This is Billy the hippie, he has a facebook page from which i got the news of his death . He died 2 yrs back and i also saw the israeli's mentioning a place called #**@## akka kadai (shop) Name censored. I thought may be if i find that akka ..i can get some crucial details about the magic mushrooms for a PhD thesis<br /><br />
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So we left vattakanal and the map i had was guiding us to mannavanur via poombarai . Prabhu's friends who missed the trekking in the morning were now fresh and ready, following us behind in the red swift . I forgot to say .. we solved the issue with my pen drive, one of the prabhu's friends had a laptop and we checked the pen drive in it and did the necessary steps to get it working again . So we were all in happy mood especially madhu and arun in the back seats . Siddiq and prasath in the front seat were as usual getting tortured by the continuous speech of the driver . <br />
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Me , dinesh and sabha in the middle seat were looking down the road sides as we travelled in the car. There were a lot of mushrooms on the ground various types , wild ones . We were searching for the "magic " one and after some 45 minutes of good music in the car ...we stopped at Poombarai for tea . I always insisted on stopping at simple tea shops in serene locations . Drinking tea is a meditating experience . Im a tea addict , of course Indians and chinese are theobromine addicts . Thanks to Bodhi dharma . <br />
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This place was absolutely stunning . It was like a brilliantly designed plot of land in the farmville game. The terrains , houses and smoke coming from one of the chimneys ... like a moment from a Hayao Miyazaki's film . We were mesmerised and after tea we took few snaps and started moving down . The guys in the other car dint join us for the snaps , we tried waiting for them but they were too slow.., they stopped somewhere for food i think .We dint see their car for sometime .The main poombarai village had a few shops , some local families going to a marriage were waiting for the bus . The bus comes only once or twice a day i guess , I have lived in a hill station called Manjoor for two years in my childhood , its near ooty and i knew hill stations dont have many bus facilities . Its nice to live in such places anyways . <br />
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The entire travel from poombarai to mannavanur was a gifted experience . One who wishes to escape the tourist crowd in main kodaikanal can go to these outskirts . Again we stopped at one more place called the Green valley view or something i dont
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This is Prasath for a solo snap in MGR style . <br />
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We could actually see the sheep grazing in the pastures , cows , mist crawling on the land and what not . A real treat for the eyes and soul . Next time i should carry a DSLR .<br />
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We reached Mannavanur in few minutes and sat in a tea shop , an old man in his 70's was running the shop we ordered tea.<br />
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All of a sudden we witnessed a minor storm pushing the trees to one side and entering the village like a ghost . It was a wild rain and it continued for half an hour or 40 mins . We were locked in that place and the tea was not worth drinking twice in that shop . So we were occupied by the sound of rain and also the smell of it . Prasath n the driver were smoking cigarettes enjoying the rain . <br />
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We had some locations scheduled for the next day also, we had to get permission from the DFO office to see those places and we have to be there in the office early morning before 9 . <br />
There were many restrictions to climb peaks and everything . I was thinking why we dont have the freedom to enjoy nature . Its the government which deforested the lands and formed cities in the name of development and employment programs . They allow people to enjoy nature only if we buy tickets . Many places are not allowed to be seen no matter however we seek permission .You are simply denied the access . Of course money can break all doors but that would be the most disgusting way to reach the natures lap . It 's the same thing as buying special tokens and VIP tickets to see God in tirupathi devasthanam . God cant be approached through short cuts , God can only be accessed by a child's faith and total surrender to the magnificent isn't it ?<br />
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I accept the government is preserving some places , they can restrict poaching , mining and pollution but why restrict the feeling of those who want to simply sit and feel nature ?? <br />
They sold 90% of the biological reserves to corporates and now they preserve the left outs for name sake . I was ranting inside my mind ITS ME WHO SHOULD PRESERVE THE FOREST FROM YOU , YOU ARE THE ONE DESTROYING IT . YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS TO DENY NATURE LOVERS FROM MOTHER NATURE !! !! <br />
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The lake was another awesome part of the trip . The soil was touched by rain and the air was chill. we have to walk through the meadows on a mud path, a 15 to 20 mins walk and we will reach the lake. . Especially Prasath and siddiq .. they loved the lake a lot . It was so silent and a perfect break from the routine career oriented life for them . <br />
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I said if there's an another life , we should be born as buffaloes in kodaikanal . No permissions needed to go anywhere , can stand for as long as we want in mannavanur lake and no one will ask questions about our future , career plans , no responsibilities , no nothing . Now that would be a meditating experience to be there and do nothing in this awesome nature . <br />
Prasath and siddiq were laughing crazy , i was laughing too but i really meant it and they know it . So that was the serious talk we had and we left the lake as it was getting dark . By the time we left the lake it was too late to enquire for mushrooms , people might think of us as anti social elements. <br />
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The way back was occupied by music and we had to go somewhere for Dinner that night. Yesterday the chappathis in our cottage was not upto everyone's appetite and we thought it was not worth the money too. So we were back at the tibetian restaurant because we had to cross the main town anyway to go to our cottage. The soups and momos were hard to resist for my taste buds. I wanted to ask the waiter about magic mushrooms ( just needed some data about it for a PhD thesis). We were sitting near the billing area ,So i thought its better to ask the tibetian lady . I turned back and asked do u have any idea about magic mushrooms ? she said : i dont personally use it but you can get it from somewhere.</div>I asked if its available this month , she said yes . i dint want to bother her anymore ( even though i needed some data about it for a PhD thesis <span face=""Proxima Nova Lt", sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px;">😉</span>).</div><div style="text-align: left;">
<br />I also met one of my favourite seniors from my college in coimbatore "Vishnu anna" after a long time in that restaurant with his wife and family . That was a happy moment . <br />
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We were on the way to our cottage now. OK this is truly my favourite part of the trip .The Vattakanal or vatta area is pitch dark at night and we were inside the forest , two or three hair pin bends away from our cottage . There were small dots of light blinking all around us . Yes .. the Fireflies . <br />
We all thought why don't we stop here and the driver responded .Car stopped , The red swift also stopped behind us and all of us were out . The moment the head lights were off, there were countless of them . The avatar feel .</div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br />We couldn't believe we got the chance to witness something fantastic like this . They were glowing and going off , on and off on and off in a certain uniform pattern. Some flies stayed in one place , must be sitting on the trees and some were flying around . <br />
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We stood there and watched it for ten or 15 mins and one of the fire flies got into Prabhu's hand . <br />
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Every small part of the trip had a moment of laughter . <br />
Prabhu was looking at the firefly in his hand, saying hey this is a fraud , this looks so ugly without the light . He was right , it was not so special without the light . That one came with us till the cottage sitting on the window and it was glowing again .<br />
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Once we got down at our cottage, i was the first one to go up to the room and the owner was standing there . He asked how the trip was going , where we ate and i just had the idea pop up in my mind . </div><div style="text-align: left;">I asked him about magic mushrooms . He said you can get it in mannavanur . But we've just been there and i dint find any . Did u ask anyone he asked ?<br />
I said i dint ask anybody because it was raining heavily , <br />he said Oh .!! that's why you dint get it , He then told me how to get it . <br />
If i had asked the owner guy before we started in the morning , things would have been easier ,we would have got it. </div><div style="text-align: left;">So now we got some data to start with. Especially Siddiq and Prasath were excited like kids to see mannavanur lake again . I said we wont be having time for the lake . We can just go , buy the thing and leave soon.<br />
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I told the driver that we might have to go to mannavanur again in the morning , he said no problem , whatever you want , just wake me up in the morning . Cool .<br />
So it was me , madhu , siddiq , prasath and driver going to mannavanur the next day early morning at 6.<br />
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Sabha leads the other team with dinesh , prabhu and arun to be there at the DFO office in the morning before 9 to see some reserved places . <br />
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The plan is all set .. what else !! ? <br />
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The refreshments ritual session started ,. That means coffee rolling session for Me , madhu and arun . We three sticked to the agenda of not having any refreshments throughout the trip.<br />
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The owner came again and this time i asked him to tell the driver about the details of the shrooms, others also listened . He said its available in all seasons during the small rains and it doesn't grow in random areas as people might think . I asked where it grows and he also told me the place which is something i wont reveal here in this blog . He said he is not interested in such things , never tried it but these foreigners are mad about it and they love it so much . <br />
I said yeah i learned all about it from their blogs and forums and some travellers even mentioned this one place called @###*# akka shop , where is it ? do u know it ?<br />
The moment i said that .. he was shaken . Oh What , that's my wife , dont go and ask her for mushrooms. She will be offended . All of us were laughing . I said some foreigners mentioned her in a blog . Yeah they might have but she doesn't know anything. <br />
That shop was the bread omlette shop we had break fast at. It was so cool to see and know all the places that were mentioned by the hippies, the places which the travelers from various countries had cherished.<br />
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So we thought of making our own camp fire , we collected sticks , dry grass leaves whatever we could grab on , moist things are avoided as they cause huge smoke which will spoil the surrounding . We lighted the fire and it was awesome for a few mins , then soon it started to go down and we had no hope of keeping it alive . Only good firewood will burn till it becomes charcoal , maintain the heat and be alive for hours . Our driver then did his part , he was talking too much like Bear Grylls in man vs wild . He took some sticks , did this and that and then he went back to his refreshment drinks. The fire was good till it lasted . We had coffee beside the warmth of the fire and again all of us wanted to go for a walk . Last night some of us went for tea .So today everyone wanted to have that experience but it was too late for tea . Anyways we went out in the dark . <br /><br />
There was no phone signal, only BSNL was working. All the phones were useless but its hard to keep a mobile phone idle . AR rahman's Mariyan album was released recently , so we were listening to "enga pona raasa" and were going somewhere up the road .I don't remember even one word of what we were talking that night. <br />
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At one point every one got alert and excited . I was a little behind and dint know what was happening . I peeped into the group and it was a Beautiful green snake, Everyone started flashing light at it from mobiles and i was worried at the situation . If it bites someone .. we were in no condition to take anyone to hospital . It was definitely not the time to play with a snake . the flash photos made the snake very dizzy or something , it was moving slowly and lost its track .<br />
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Prabhu was like a girl who just got a teddy bear gift . He was looking for possible ways to catch the snake. It went under a car tyre and that moment prabhu managed to touch its tail and he was happy .. He tried to hold the snake but it slipped into the forest covers . Good for it . <br />
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We started walking up the road again and was discussing about the fireflies we saw earlier . It was getting darker and darker . There are also many ghost myths and stories around kodaikanal. I felt like there was a pair of eyes looking at us from inside the forest. For 5 minutes i was in doubt if it was a leopard or some other animal. Their eyes glow in the dark . it turned out to be a red radium sticker in the brake light of a two wheeler which was parked in a shed. I tried to talk about the ghost dimension of kodaikanal to make the discussion interesting and came to know that The guy Karthic, (he is Prabhu's cousin actually) was haunted by a spirit for some months and his life had some ups and downs because of it . He was so casually telling about it but i was frightened hearing this . Just two months back i met a family neighbor who had a similar condition , haunted by a spirit and they don't know what happens in their life during the time they're possessed.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I don't want to go into those details as it is a very personal thing for them . I have another friend from the film institute I studied in, his name also is Karthik, who told me about ghosts in the area called Mathikettaan cholai in the outskirts of kodaikanal . He is also a kind of a person who is sensitive to spirits .They are called mediums who can sometimes see and feel ghosts or get haunted by it . </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Later prabhu and Karthi were telling about the Ancient Aliens documentary in history channel .He asked me if I've seen it .I was not aware of that series at that time . I thought he was referring to the Chariots of gods documentary which started all this buzz about ancient aliens . I said i have not seen it exactly but i knew all of that theories he was talking about .I told him ive written a blog about aliens from all the information i have collected abt it .He was impressed , He said he will read my blog but i dont know if he checked it out.<br />
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Then the topic changed to Lemuria and ancient tamil civilisation I said im going to bed as we had to travel till mannavanur again early morning .<br />
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<i>Let me give an interesting information here ( from my PhD thesis </i><span face=""Proxima Nova Lt", sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px;">😉</span><i> )</i>.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When the scientists look for possibility of Alien life forms on our planet Earth , they search for very rare unique chemical structures . The chemical formula of magic mushroom is 4 hydroxy dimethyl tryptamine which is the only 4-substituted indole in all of nature and thus the one and only 4-substituted indole known to exist on earth .<br />
Some scientists say The casing of the spore , its electron density and its deep purple colour may be capable of space travel . Biological space migration without any technology just like how plant seeds travel across deserts and rivers . <br />
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Sabha woke me up again at 5:45am , i dont know how he does that . I woke up Prasath and siddiq . They started getting ready as soon as they opened their eyes . Madhu was back . Driver was called for and wroom wroom urrrr ....... to Mannavanur . We dint regret missing the mushroom last evening because this morning drive was a splendor. Music and fresh sun light . In 40 minutes we reached the place and it was around 7 ..Me Madhu and the driver got out and walked slowly not knowing what to expect . The communication happened and the next moment we were taken to a small house where a guy showed us some stock , some plucked in the rain last evening and some was yet to come . In few mins two more guys came and they gave some freshly collected ones . How much to buy was the question .<br />
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As i read from a blog ... From an award winning traveller " Peter Gorman " when he bought mushrooms from an old woman in kodaikanal .. she said take 3 and enjoy the country side , take six and talk with shiva . <br />
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This guy was selling at one dozen for <span style="color: red;">censored/</span>Rs. I asked him how many to take for a good high , he said take 8 or 10 for Best Buzz . <br /><br />
We got into the car immediately , We had no time to visit the lake as predicted . Siddiq and prasath were little disappointed but they were ok with it . While on the way back to the cottage we planned not to tell anyone that we successfully got the shrooms .We had it kept secret for a surprise . We had tea on the way back in a place close to the main town and reached the cottage in no time . Sabha and team had left to the DFO office for permission . I asked the driver anna to get prabhu 's friends ready . They must be sleeping . After everyone refreshed .Madhu divided the shrooms into small packs and kept it hidden inside the jacket and jean pocket . <br />
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We ate bread omelettes and was waiting in the akka shop for more than one and half hrs. Prabhu's friends were ready and the guys who went to the DFO office were not reachable , they came finally with Permission for a list of areas . <br />
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The car passed through the Guna caves and pillar rocks .I was hoping no one among us would want to see those places which would end up mixing with a large tourist crowd . The moment the car went near pillar rocks .. we were shouting at the driver .. please don't go near the crowd , no no no .... as if we were in the danger of catching a horrible virus . we maintained a distance from the crowd in all places . <br />
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Arun was asking me again and again .. did we get the shrooms or not , i said believe me we dint get it , Madhu also made up a believable story , Arun rechecked with the driver who blabbered initially but then realised the drama and maintained the act with us . <br />
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Me and madhu were not sure when to open the surprise . In the meanwhile Arun and sabha had been to the Dolphins nose that morning before they started to the DFO office and they were sharing that experience . They had reached the spot at early morning when there's no crowd and they said it was not very special . just another view point on a rock that looks like a dolphins nose . <br />
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We crossed the pine forests .We had no time or interest to check the place, families were sitting there with crying babies , husbands with cowboy hats and ladies unpacking the tamarind rice and sambhar rice parcels for the old ones . It was a major picnic spot .<br />
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People love pine trees for the cinematic touch .It was first planted in kodaikanal by British officers and now these trees are growing rapidly and spoiling the originality of the environment . So they have planned to cut down these pines very soon . It was badly littered , the noise of the families spoiled the serenity of the place but it cant be helped , everyone loves pine trees.<br />
Then started a line up of vehicles. It was the peak of the tourist season and cars ,vans buses crowded up blocking the way . I dint know how many in the crowd had permission to visit the reserved areas . I would be very pissed of if all of that crowd gets into Berijam lake which was where me and madhu had planned to try the mushrooms (for the thesis research purpose obviously) . <br />
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We felt like waiting in the Queue of a ration shop , so many cars and vans behind us like people waiting for rice, dal and oil . It was taking hours to move so some people got down from their tourist buses and started dancing on the roads for peppy fast numbers . Youngsters and men in their 40's dancing off their stress . North indians , south indians all were the same when it comes to enjoying . They made the road look like a resto bar . Slowly we crossed the hair pin bend and there was a chance to drive a little faster and dooosssshhhh...... Tyre puncture . <br />
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All of us were devastated . The driver said no problem , we have a stepney .Now me and madhu looked at each other . The driver slowed down the car on the side of the road and the other friends in the red swift also parked in the side of the road seeing us. <br />
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There was a necessary discussion about changing the tyre and the driver anna was doing his duties . He had a set of spanners but the right size was not there . Now we had to ask someone in the queue for help.<br />
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Me and madhu pulled sabha and arun into the trees above us . Arun felt the vibe .. he asked did you get it or not !! I said yeah we have it , he got relieved , he knew , he had a doubt from the drivers reaction earlier . We climbed the small dune and it was awesome. It was covered by grass and was not a dense forest .. We went deep inside so that the sound of music from tourist buses and horn sounds dont reach us . We found a nice beautiful place to sit and We also had a honey bottle bought ready for the experience . We thought a little flavor will be good . Sabha was enjoying the forest alone , he was mesmerised by the place. He did not involve in the shroom ritual and also did not disturb our moment . A very comfortable character he was.<br />
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Finally .... the important moment of the trip which we all waited for . <br />
We waited for something to happen . Nothing much for the first 15 mins . It was creating some unexplainable feelings in the body, we were feeling a clench in the stomach and it was disturbing and like a gut feeling or goose bumps in the intestine. Psilocybin .. the dark blue substance in the mushroom quickly becomes psilocin as it enters your metabolism .<br />
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Then Madhu started laughing and he was getting amazed . Me and Arun were not exactly feeling what he was saying but we knew something was happening and the perspective of the environment was changing more and more . We knew mushrooms will create a colour hallucination but we dint want to simply assume that things are changing. I was on the green floor rolling because of the stomach feeling and was also taking pics of the grass . It seemed weird , the forest was silent and we dint know what to expect . MAdhu was feeling weirder and weirder . Then Sabha reached us after having his time alone in the forest and We three were laughing now ,.. Sabha !!!!..you have changed colour . His face was yellowish and turning towards cyan . The feeling took over us and other guys came up to see what we were doing . Prabhu , his friends and Dinesh came up . Everyone wanted to taste it to satisfy their curiosity . I wanted them to experience it too but i said taste it if you are ready to take three or four of it . Eating just one piece for the taste wont give u any proper effect and that piece will get wasted . This is not chilli gobi to taste just one piece . But they were too afraid to eat the sufficient amount. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Now started the real feel of the magic psilocybin mushrooms .<br />
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We felt floating inside the sea of the kodaikanal forest . Things started vibrating mildly . Some very minor colour hallucinations were there and the body felt very light and extremely relaxed . We were compelled to be silent and enjoy the nature . The plants and trees were breathing , everything was more alive and visible . Its so hard to explain the exact feeling . We could just feel it and wonder but not explain . Dinesh wanted to try but he hates anything that disturbs his stomach .<br />
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But the thing about psychedelic experiences is to forget your body and
walk into the gates of the mind and soul into other dimensions . We
could feel the other reality of the place . I wont say it is an
intoxicated feeling or as an illusion of reality . I was feeling like im into
the actual reality of the world for the first time . I was being
connected with the nature around , the feeling of oneness . <br />
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(A boy hanging on our car selling some fruit on the way . We dropped him after some distance where he wanted to get down )<br />
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The brain is not the manufacturer of every thoughts , ideas and emotions. Most visionary ideas and spiritual feelings are not always produced inside the brain . In fact our heart is several thousand times more electromagnetically stronger than the brain and more signals travel from heart to brain than from brain to heart .The mind is a software of the brain and we get too attached to it , thinking that's us , that we are our thoughts , that we are our mind and we also get attached to our physical body . We dont realise anything beyond our mind and body .<br />
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Graham hancock says our brain is like a Television set . Pineal gland
being an antennae for our soul located in the center of the brain collecting signals from the collective
consciousness or the ethereal cosmos .We are brainwashed or addicted to only one channel of the television set . This channel which is called nomal . Being normal . We think its the only reality and whoever thinks outside it or feels beyond it is considered crazy or lunatic or a mystic . <br />
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There are other realities . Normality Tv is not the only channel . We can tune to many channels .. We are multidimensional beings with the capacity to tune to other frequencies or energies . We can live in other realities and feel other dimensions . <br />
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Do not think that the psychedelic drugs do something to ur brain and brain loses its normal capacity to work and shows you different hallucinations . Its not like that .. These psychedelic drugs are gateways . They help you to tune into other channels and is very useful to know ur real self . <br />
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Let me borrow the words of Simon .G. Powell because explaining the feeling of mushrooms is not something easy . Its not a feeling of being intoxicated but a feeling of being awakened , being reborn to see everything is connected in nature , the feeling of oneness . Everything in nature is in perfect order and harmony .Its just we humans who are out of order .<br />
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We are fractals within fractals of one consciousness . We have the properties of god inside us like how a drop of water from an ocean has the same property and quality of the ocean . <br />
We forgot our true nature and we have a feeling of being separated due to the wrong idea of our body. Our mind and heart vibrations go beyond our body volume and we are connected to everything around us . Our physical body also has an ethereal dimension or the physical body is itself ethereal .The laws of quantum physics also prove this . <br />
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Now we were feeling great and i was feeling chillness in my eyes ,
like i was dropped inside a lake . It was truly divine . Madhu and Arun
were sharing the same feeling . Finally our car reached the check post .
Once we cross the check post .. we will be catching the road that takes us to all the spots mentioned in our permission ticket especially the Berijam lake . Many cars
and vans were being rejected entry because they dint have permission ,
The time was close to 4 pm and they dint allow many visitors for the
time constraint . We were near and we asked someone to go and show the
letter to the check post officer and get entry . Siddiq got down from
the car in a hurry with the letter and he was anxious and tired by
travelling through the long queue for hours . He was raising his hand
with the letter and asked the check post guard to open the gate ... <br />
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Me
madhu and Arun dint have any idea of what was happening , we were
enjoying the music and feeling one of the most awesome moments of our
life . Stomach was still clenching but we were enjoying everything
totally . Then we realised everyone in the car was out for some reason and some
big fight was happening around . <br />
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It was the check post
guard , poor man .. he got offended by the way siddiq threatened him to
open the gates and he was furious in anger . <br />
He was shouting who
the hell are you to order me to open the gates , your permission letter
is nothing and i wont open you the gate . Go complain to anyone you
want . Siddiq dint know what to do , he was convincing the guard that he
dint mean any wrong and we had come all this way in this crowd and
please allow us . Everyone tried to convince the guard and some other
officials came , Then the driver did the smooth talk . They asked siddiq
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once we entered the check post .. we all burst into laughter discussing siddiq's approach with the guard ... everyone asked siddiq why he
fought with the guard , siddiq had no idea what went wrong . These
government officers have great prestige and ego about their jobs .They get mad and furious when someone messes with their official status . It was the funniest moment of the trip and wroom
wroom wrroooo......... Several hair pin bends later .. and in half an hour we
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The road to berijam lake was a thick forest and i was looking out the window and feeling the environment in a way i had never before experienced . I was holding my body and thanking God for such a day . <br /><br />
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When we reached Berijam , on landing my foot on the ground .. i dint feel like going around the place and seeing it from all angles . Just being there at any part of the scenery was ok for me. I went and sat in the grass .The evening sunshine was warm and as it touched me .. the chillness in my body was replaced , filled with pure bliss and i became God at that instance .</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />God lives as pure consciousness ,omnipotent and omnipresent filling all of nature and we became one with nature . If i had to give an explanation for what i felt .., that would be it . Nature is not simply something that is there , it has intelligence and one has to tune in to it to feel its Godliness . <br />
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If mother nature has wisdom and intelligence .. then why does it not have the power to cure man's madness to destroy the environment ?? Isnt there an antidote for the madness ? a cure ? There is a cure and it grows on the ground . Its called magic mushrooms - Simon.G.Powell <br />
<br />We felt the mind was put to a stop and we were just there existing in pure consciousness . Madhu closed his eyes and said it was another different world inside . Things keep coming and going . Magic mushrooms and Berijam lake and the evening sun just shattered my mind and i discovered a new reality , a new myself in that moment that i would cherish forever . <br />
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<i>"All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature."</i><br />
<i>- Ancient Egyptian Proverbs from the Temples of Luxor.</i><br />
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Madhu was laughing at one family which had come there for sight seeing and asking where next ? we were thinking Where does one want to go after coming to such a beautiful place ? Just sit and feel the place u idiots . <br />
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I still worry for not taking a proper picture of the place . It was two mountains crossing at one point and a small dune in the middle with two beautiful British cottages in it . Now it must be a government office . The trees in that dune were in perfect alignment like a desktop wall paper . Coniferous trees which have branches only in the top of their height . Such a beauty floating in the mists like an island . The marshes glittered like in Daffodils poem . Wordsworth must have been living on a mushroom diet to have written such beautiful poems . (He was really living in a place in England where Psilocybin mushrooms were common and legal .)<br />
The Greenery was shimmering with yellow of the sunshine . The beauty was penetrating us and i was breathing in and out slowly .Madhu and Arun were also lost in that beauty and i wonder what all they saw . Then the time was closing in and the TNPSC guys starting asking us to move . <br />
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This is a picture of me when i was God :) still looking like a thief am i ?<br />
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From Berijam there is road to Munnar which is a very short route and another road to a place called Kavunji which is just 7 kms from there . Both roads are now blocked for vehicles to preserve the flora and fauna . I wish to do trekking on those roads which would be now in natures beautiful turmoil . <br />
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It is called magic mushrooms for a reason > to have this kind of a spiritual feeling .. one might have to do serious meditation , 40 hrs of fasting or one hour in salt water isolation tank , things that ascetics and mystics do to get into spiritual dimensions but Psilocybin mushroom does that in minutes .<br />
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Psilocybin mushrooms can occasion mystical type experiences having substantial and
sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance - griffiths
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The word psychedelic was coined by Humphry Osmond in 1957,
its etymological root is meant to indicate the ‘spirit-revealing’ or
‘soul-manifesting’ nature of the chemicals concerned.<br />
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The spiritual use of Psilocybin mushroom is seen in ancient civilisations like mayans and inca .There are statues and scriptures for these mushroom rituals . In india there are hundreds of references in scriptures to a plant called " soma " which has no leaves or roots . Even today there are mushroom spiritual rituals and ayahuasca , iboga ceremonies happening in tribal communities . The shamans who are the tribal priests go into trance state , into other dimensions through these psychedellic plants and from the spirit world they get guidance to discover hundreds of medicines from their forest . The governments destroyed amazon and african forests for money . Now they steal all the medical ideas from the shamans for their pharmaceutical industry growth .<br />
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(<i> I will share more about the connection between some of the major religions of the world with mushrooms and other psychedelics in my next mega blog about Religions which will be published next year hopefully</i> . )<br />
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The psychedelic plant Ayahuasca of the amazon and Iboga of the African jungle are curing many people from alcohol , cocaine and even heroine addiction with 98% success . Something which the modern medicine cannot achieve . Magic mushrooms can cure people from tobacco and alcohol addiction . <br />
<i><br />If you try to give up something, it will rule your mind. But if you</i><br />
<i>find something deeper in life, the less significant will just fall off ~ Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev</i><br />
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It is one of the least harmful substance known in nature but named as a class A drug by the government. Medical properties of magic mushrooms are well proven and they are one of the most efficient medicines for migraine and cluster head aches which is even worse than migraine . <br />
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It was sad when i came to know about the mercury pollution from the Hindustan levers thermometer manufacturing company . The mercury poisoning ruined the life of many of its employees and the company dint fund for any of their medical requirements and the cases filed in the courts will always go in favour of the company </span>. Thats how the government reacts to peoples problems .They always favour the corporations and money makers . The pollution is spoiling kodaikanal's environment and it is something to be bothered about . They dont ban such companies but they do all other nonsense . </div>
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We three had no interest in leaving the place but the other guys reminded us that it was late and the TNPSC guys (govt officials) were in a fury . So we left the place half hearted . Madhu was reluctant , he said leave me here .. im not coming . All others were calling him madhu come .. madhu madhu ... madhu ..times up. He had no idea why one should leave from such an experience . Practical life was creeping in like a ghost . Man can live in pure bliss and eternity but the so called practical life and social structure he has created makes him separated from what he actually needs . Prabhu was asking me how it feels , i said im perfectly normal .. i shaked my legs , jumped , moved my hands and said im perfectly normal .. just feeling unusually blissful . He advised me to become an ascetic but im not serious about anything , just enjoying what life provides . <br />
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Researcher Graham Hancock says that if we trace back our history till our chimpanzee stage in evolution .. two and a half million years ago we dint have any stone tools .Then we started creating simple stone tools .Then we were stuck with the same set of simple tools without any updates or upgrades rigidly for 6 million years . They did what was taught to them by their previous generation and that repetitive behaviour went on and on with no effort to change anything . They never came out of the box because of fear and insecurity . Graham calls this as the 6 million years of Boredom . Fully anatomically modern Humans developed 195 thousand years ago but they did the same boring thing with the same tools until just 40 thousand years ago when man suddenly started spirituality , symbolism and creativity in a sudden wooshh and Research works say this must be influenced by Man's contact with Psychedelic plants like the Psilocybin which took him into altered states of consciousness where he found bigger realms of life . The Hallucinations on taking psychedelics matches with the cave arts of ancient times and the shamans of tribal cultures are a solid proof for this analysis study. Not to forget that the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA and some inspiring ideas of Steve jobs came from the influence of psychedelics . <br />
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“The remarkable piece is that psilocybin can facilitate
experiences that change how people perceive themselves and their
environment,” - Roland Griffiths, a study author and professor of
psychiatry and behavioral science at Johns Hopkins University of
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As DR. Robin Carhart Harris says ... The brain is made up of nerve connections and these connections form hubs . These hubs are like the conductors of an orchestra or like a traffic police who directs the vehicles in the signal .Even when we enjoy nature , the eye recieves the reflected light from nature and the brain interprets it . Our mind decides how beautiful things are and decides the value of it .The Brain or the mind predicts and constructs our reality , In other words its just an interpretation which we think is the only true reality . But reality in classic physics is very different to the reality of quantum physics . Without the involvement of the mind mechanism we can see the actual reality or other dimensions of the reality , things vibrating and breathing ie the quantum universe .<br />
How does magic mushroom expand your consciousness . It disconnects the hubs in the brain . So the music conductor leaves the orchestra . We stop the mind from controlling us .<br />
While in the mushroom effect , its no more the music of the brain . The real music flows in . You see another reality , another dimension of nature which is more real and wonderful than our so called normality . <br />
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Then we reached a view point of the amazing valley . We wondered what all secrets kodaikanal had inside it . We dint have enough time and eyes to receive such a spectacular display. <br />
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<span class="st">The monkeys were enjoying their freedom , </span>There was a breach in the fencing which lead to a Rock . The Rock was protruding from the slope into the space like a seat floating there in air between the valley .<br />
It just dint have a sign board on it " Come sit here " . Otherwise it was obviously the best place to sit and have the best view of the valley for the best moment ever . Just sitting there would be like bunjee jumping . <br />
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The moment my friends saw me ..they knew what i was planning . They started calling me .. lets go lets go . I said let me just have a small moment here ., It was not such a dangerous spot and Im a natural rock climber , they all knew it but they believe in the evil twists and turns that fate can do in life more than they believed in me . It was like having my parents around . arghhh !!! . I cant fight with my friends ,so i left the place in sadness .<br />
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">"<i>According to a research from Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine.</i></span><br />
<i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">18 healthy adults, average age 46 were asked to eat magic mushrooms in their study. 94% of those who received the
drug said it was one of the top five most meaningful
experiences of their lives; 39% said it was the single most meaningful
experience. And all of them said that the experience cant be explained in words . </span></i><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><i>Critically,
however, the participants themselves were not the only ones who saw the
benefit from the insights they gained: their friends, family member and
colleagues also reported that the psilocybin experience had made the
participants calmer, happier and kinder.</i>"</span></div>
I will say it is the second most meaningful experience in life . The first one would be falling in love . Butterflies in the stomach , feeling poetic and Getting lost into a unique world feeling the soul and i need not say the rest .<br />
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Everyone was trying Venkee's sun glass and going crazy . Madhu tried it and was laughing mad . It was my turn and they said try this, its better than mushrooms . I tried and found out it was not a sun glass, its a power glass in black shade , i couldn't see anything , it was some high power lens which made me feel like my eye balls soaked in deep green liquid. Scary thing.<br />
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Thats it , thats our last major point of the trip . Our return journey almost started from there as we already had our things packed and bags put in the cars that morning . We vacated our cottage before we started here . We already bid our farewell to Vattakanal and have one or two more hours to say good bye to kodaikanal on the whole. <br />
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And that day when some of my friends thought we were doing crazy stuff .. i knew we were only in the safe zone truly indulged in the experience . </div>
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regulatory status. In J. M. Fish (Ed.),Drugs and Society: U.S. Public
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On the Way out we saw a herd of Bisons crossing the road . The driver stopped several meters before them and asked everyone to stay quiet . Bisons are dangerous and in one hit they will smash the car into the valley .There were ten or fifteen of them . The boys were excited and asked the driver anna to go closer to take photos , he went as close as he could and One Bison , the biggest and the head of the herd turned at us .With its huge horns and a white beard it was like a warrior , it looked at us and it was obviously warning us not to get any closer . its expression is worth worshipping ofcourse only next to Rajinikanth's Baashha . MASS!!! <br />
<br />We were worried about the other car coming behind us . Those Guys touched the snake's tail last night , they might get down from the car and touch the rear of the bison. We were laughing about them and those guys really did get down from the car to take a picture of the herd. <br />
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Psilocybin mushroom was awesome and we experienced loss of appetite . Now we were out of the forest area and moved towards the main town . <br />
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We crossed the famous kodaikanal Golf course where i remembered the Blog of Peter Gorman in which he talks about his kodaikanal trip . Eating close to ten mushrooms and trekking on the hills with an Indian hippie Guide who smoked joints all the way . <br />
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Scientists say that the spiritual effect of Mushroom happens in a sweet spot in the level of intake . Eating too many or too low wont trigger the spiritual feel . <br />
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Peter Gorman's psychedelic trip was Weird and wild.<br />
Getting chased by a Glowing cow and monkeys and then he ends up in this Golf course where he again gets chased by the Green guards , escaping from them and falling into a Ditch of industrial waste . All his experiences are available online . <br />
The man has travelled all over the world in many cultures and now is hospitalised for getting bitten by a bug in the amazon which resulted in the spread of flesh eating bacteria in his leg and he almost lost his leg and all his savings for the treatment. At present Getting recovered by funds from his fans all over the world . </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The entry gate of the golf course had a warning board , "Beware of sudden hits by Golf balls " School children were walking on the pavement along the Golf course and this warning board dint make any sense . Some families were peeping through the Gate seeing the Rich foreigners playing Golf .<br />
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Then we reached the town. Some of us wanted to buy home made chocolates . Its a tradition to get chocolates every time we visit a hill station . Sabha was doing the major shopping .. he spent almost half an hour choosing his taste from the variety . He was also calling his mom over phone to ask some remedies for his stomach irritation . Prasath was worried he will have to answer his senior officers the next day for not appearing at work for two days . My idea as usual was to move away to a silent place to eat but Prabhu said all the boys are in murderous hunger .It would be very bad to move from here without eating . I couldn't deny . <br />
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We ended up in a restaurant in the middle of the town . Me and Madhu were not in a mood to eat of course because of the mushrooms . Maybe Gods don't eat . We stood outside the restaurant silently for half an hour like British royal guards doing nothing . It was getting dark , the evening turned to night , i was slowly feeling the mushroom effect fading away .</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> We were doubting our driver whether he is sober or not. Night drives in hill roads are not safe and yet some drivers make it a habit of drinking to keep themselves warm and energetic . Questioning them will only make matters worse . We stood there for another 15 minutes and slowly others came out after a Grand evening lunch . Everyone was talking about siddiq's lunch which included One Chicken Biriyani , one Plain biriyani ,Two idlis , one Dosa and one Omlette . More Food = more stamina was his formula . He came out like a king and asked me and madhu why we were not eating.<br />
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We started our return journey now , time to leave KODAI .<br />
We planned to stop for tea only after going down the hill . The last minutes in the Mystic Kodaikanal and the last minutes of the mushroom trip .<br />
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The return journey was lit by music and the battle between pen drives continued . <br />
We reached palani and had tea , We had a coffee (slang word <span face=""Proxima Nova Lt", sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px;">😉</span>) to escape from the physical hangover of the mushrooms. The best way to solve any hangovers technically . </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The night drive was awesome . I was wearing sun glasses in the dark and enjoying the headlight beams of the vehicles going in the opposite direction . It was like being inside a virtual game . <br /><br />
<u><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">Author's Note :</span></u><br />
It is not advisable to consume these mushrooms just for curiosity or without proper knowledge . One should research properly before setting out on these adventures.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>DEFINITELY NOT FOR AMATEURS</b> . </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Its good for the meditative artistic people . <br />
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Even though it is used in medical psycho analysis and theraphy.. Dr. Paul Kroeger says it can cause negative effects on people who have mental problems , schizophrenia or who cant handle themselves , bi polar disorders , people who have huge crap going in their mind , life problems . These people are advised not to use it without a proper guide . <br />
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<b>Most important thing : Never pick the mushrooms yourself . Most of the mushrooms in the wild are extremely poisonous </b>. <br />
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<br />We entered into another dimension and had the time of our life but society will soon pull us into its low standards violently . whatever our ideals in life maybe ..we always end up in the normal caged life . we are no special , there is no escape . <br />
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Though its depressing on one side , I thought we should also battle the system and try our best at living as free birds . We are light workers , our job is to activate everyone into light beings and keep battling .<br />
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Meeting up with school friends was cooler than i imagined .Thanks for the trip friends ..We should do it again .Special thanks to
Prabhu , Karthic , Babu ,Venkee and Vicky for adding more fun to the
trip . Missed all comedies that happened inside your car . Next time we
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