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This is the view from Thadiyandamol, the tallest peak in Coorg district in Karnataka. The image was made in the second week of May 2007.
Below is a copy of India Travel Blog Newsletter that was mailed out on May 30.
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This May has been the most active month ever in India Travel Blog, with 22 posts made in the month and at least 2 more to go. This month is also the first time that the average page views over the month on India Travel Blog has crossed 1000 views per day.
This month, I completed writing about two major places in the North East – Eaglenest National Park and Tawang. My journey to Tawang was an eventful and memorable one, and writing about it made me recall it fondly.
Other than the north east diaries, following content was added to the blog in May.
1. Book Review – Tales from the Torrid Zone by Alexander Frater
2. Spiritual Journeys – A meditation retreat
3. Pictures from my recent trek to Thadiyandamol peak spread over many posts.
In the coming month, I am going to be back on the road again, travelling to Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh. I will be away for the first three weeks of June, and updates are most likely going to be sporadic, if at all. Once I return, I shall continue writing about more places about North East, on which I still have a lot more to write and lots of pictures to post.
Happy Travelling and Happy Reading!
-from India Travel Blog
Author: Alexander Frater
Publishers: Picador
Pages: 378
By ‘Torrid Zone’, Frater refers to the tropics. Alexander Frater, born in the French Polynesian island of Vanuatu, revisits the island to see many changes in the place where he grew up as a kid. The land where his father’s home stood was replaced by a plush resort occupied by rich Australians, but the mission hospital built by his father remained. People of Vanuatu lived better, had started living in a more modern way of life, converted to Christianity and yet, there were many things in their society that intrigued Frater. The story that starts as a mere visit to the place where he spent his childhood grows into gigantic travelogue of entire tropics, covering Polynesia, Asia, Africa and South America. He visits many islands, lagoons and atolls, and even volcanoes in the tiny islands of Polynesia. He extends this story to more amazing journeys, like cruising down the Irrawadi River in Burma for several days by a mass transit boat, or taking a luxury liner and sailing up the Amazon – some privileges entitled to a person who is travel writer by profession! There are much more, like taking a small plane to some unknown war torn region in Africa or visiting many islands north of Australia. He occasionally blends his story with history, inserting names Captain Cook who discovered Polynesia on his search fo Australia, or adds some learnings about how a perennial rivers get formed. The variety of information and stories in the book are vast and sometimes feels like a jumble. For aspiring travel writers, the book is even a realization that all is not as easy and thrilling as it looks. But Frater’s stories are as exciting as it could get, and is a must read.
The cover of the book probably features the backwaters of Kerala, but don’t assume any related stories in the book. India hardly figures anywhere in the book but Frater has written a separate book entirely on India – Chasing the monsoons.
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