monkeys

One of the 4 frogs found in our room

Chris always being the one to share kindly passed it on to me as well by the end of the day, so as well as relaxing we spent the day feeling pretty shitty and sorry for ourselves :(

written by  chrischarly on December 6, 2010 from Hampi, India
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey
Send a Compliment

---

comment on this...

a relatively clean river in Hampi

women washing their clothes and theirselves

a man having a wash in a fast-flowing river

Acheived hardly anything...

'Quality ice-cream

Perfect!!..

written by  chrischarly on December 7, 2010 from Hampi, India
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey
Send a Compliment

---

comment on this...

rocks that look like they will fall off!!!

again, lovely views...

monkeys playing

The boulder

Our friend Adrian climbing the boulders

getting there

almost there

made it!

Goan Corner

Today we spent most of the day attempting to find places to stay over the next month using a website that we’ve recently heard of called ‘Couch Surfers’ which is where we can stay at locals House’s for free! Yep that’s right for absolutely nothing!! Perfect for us poor backpackers!! So after a little searching we found a nice family to stay with over Christmas in Jaipur where prices for accommodation normally sky-rocket!

written by  chrischarly on December 8, 2010 from Hampi, India
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey
Send a Compliment

---

comment on this...

where we stayed in Hampi

the awesome bar/ restaurant

Finally deciding to leave the relaxing and beautiful Hampi we booked our tickets for a sleeper couch to Gokarna.

me working hard on this blog

where we are staying

the courtyard

The coach we had been told has real beds! However, always been a little dubious we will wait and see if that really happens!

Ginger asleep

the boulders

Sharmilla our landlady

So in the evening we stayed up pretty late celebrating our last night in Hampi with a couple of friends.

written by  chrischarly on December 9, 2010 from Hampi, India
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey
Send a Compliment

---

comment on this...

our room right at the back of the coach

Chris and I couldn’t believe our luck when we walked onto the bus and we had reserved for us a huge double bed!

all of the other compartments down the bus

However, it was right at the back; the only worse beds being those above us!

before the journey began- hence why we're smiling

Although the bed itself was quite comfortable, every Speed bump we felt quite severely- a couple of times even leaving our bed being launched into the air!

the view from our little room on the sleeper coach

Thus, the first half of the journey we failed to even have a wink of sleep…

written by  chrischarly on December 10, 2010 from Hospet, India
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey
Send a Compliment

---

comment on this...

quiet beach

where we were in the empty restaurant

just as the sun was rising

taking a walk

early morning

the sunrise

Completely unaware of what our night of travelling would be like we did very little for the rest of the day. We managed to find some rustic but nice accommodation on the beach for 150 rupees= £2 for a night and settled ourselves there reading books for the day whilst Chris did some fishing on the beach.

Chris fishing

His luck was actually with him after not long he caught a catfish!

Chris proud of his catch

Chris killin' the fish

a zoom in on the fish so it looks bigger

The locals were amazed by this and they soon huddled round to inspect his catch!

written by  chrischarly on December 11, 2010 from Gokarn, India
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey
Send a Compliment

---

2 comments...

our little bargain room

outside our huts

the toilets and bucket showers

Where we are staying right on the beach

After being pretty exhausted from the travelling the day before, we spent the majority of the day on the beach and swimming in the sea.

the beach

a sunset on Om beach

We all set ourselves the challenge to swim right out to a rock we could see from the sand. We did actually get pretty far out, almost making it but then we all started to feel stinging all over our body!

a cute little puppy

then the puppy finds some cow poo on the beach

then decides it's lunch!.. Yuck

digesting his food before it tries to lick my feet later!

We’re still unsure whether there were tiny jelly-fish in the water or plankton as we couldn’t see anything in the water but we soon swam back fast!

written by  chrischarly on December 12, 2010 from Gokarn, India
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey
Send a Compliment

---

comment on this...

The view on our walk

The boat we caught back

This morning we took a walk to Paradise Beach about 1 ½ hours away. My God it was a right mission.

An Indian tribal man watching the world go by...

Dal and Becks posing

Becks pretending to be a pirate

It was a lot further than we thought it would be; having to clamber over rocks and doing some serious trekking.

Paradise beach

Dal fast asleep after our walk!

Me loving the sunshine

We were pretty proud of ourselves for actually making it there! Thus after breakfast I fell asleep!

Our place from the boat

The sun vanishing!

After spending a nice few hours chilling on the beach we opted to get a boat back admiring just how far we walked.

Chris seriously excited at thoght of night-net-fishing !

bringing in the net

Looking for the fish they'd caught

Chris happy with all the fish they'd caught

Then in the evening Chris went net fishing with the locals.

written by  chrischarly on December 13, 2010 from Gokarn, India
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey
Send a Compliment

---

comment on this...

Chris having a swim...

..then having a wash!

our lovely beach we're staying on

Me taking a walk along the beach during sunset... lovely !!

climbing along the rocks about a km away

A cow on the beach

Chris sitting on the rocks unaware that he's lost his bait, weight and hook!

me cuddling one of the puppies who wasn't eating poo yesterday!

Our crazy bar-man with a seriously high-pitched laugh!

Chris looking rugged and unshaven...

Chris now shaven and having a massage

Chris also got his hair cut and had a cut-throat shave followed by an Inidan head massage!

written by  chrischarly on December 14, 2010 from Gokarn, India
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey
Send a Compliment

---

comment on this...

Puppies sleeping at Dolphin Bay Cafe Gokarna

Today we took a rickshaw into town for a change of scenery from the beach. However, we didn’t stay long as we soon missed it and it was blisteringly hot away from the sea breeze so soon came home!

written by  chrischarly on December 15, 2010 from Gokarn, India
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey
Send a Compliment

---

comment on this...