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    Travel Tip #1: Bring a Towel.

    There is a great series of books called ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, in which several characters have many intergalactic adventures, and they give some very good tips for traveling…

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    Languages.

    I love languages; every place I visit, I buy a little pocket phrasebook in the particular dialect of the region, and do my best to engage people in conversation. Most people…

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    The water and the beach.

    There are so many things to do at the beach; I love the water, and I can spend hours snorkeling in the shallows, paddling around with the fishes, weaving over rocks.…

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    Visiting a village.

    Sunitha and I spent a few days visiting her uncle and other relatives in a small village a few hours from her house.  Like the college in Kerala, I was the…

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    A three day journey.

    At the end of my week’s stay in Kerala, I took a train from the very South of India to the very North, to a town at the base of the…

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    The different styles of Yoga.

    Another day, I was invited to attend a yoga class taught by a small man named Lalu. He was a very good teacher, and his students listened to him very attentively.…

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    My first week in India.

    I spent my first week in India studying Yoga at a college where they study Ayurvedic medicine. Ayurveda is a science dating back 6,000 years! And it has proven that every…

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    Some highlights.

    I traveled for a whole month in incredible India. I traveled alone and with friends; I stayed in peoples’ homes and studied yoga for a week at a school for traditional…