After the tea plantations of Munnar we continued south by bus to Kumily a town that borders Periyar National Park, Southern India’s most popular wildlife sanctuary encompassing 777 sq km of land and a 26 sq km artificial lake…
Morning in Munnar
As the bus lurched around yet another curve, a refreshing gust of air sailed through the window, providing a deceptive sensation that I was my own separate entity, and not in fact merged with the other three individuals sharing my seat. Despite…
My Heart Will Go On: A Hampi Love Story
On the afternoon of our second day in Hampi, Steph and I decided to seek out a quiet place to practice the meditations we had learned at the Ashram in Gokarna. We stopped in a particularly peaceful temple, built along…
Waking Up at 5am to Sing
I’m not a morning person, as anyone who knows me can attest to. I love music, but cannot sing. So the idea of waking up at the ungodly hour of 5:45am to make it in time for half an hour…
Giving Up Our Seats to Indian Elites
Margaret Miller, a colleague of Stephanie’s from Vancouver had learned that her friend Janice Harper had been invited to the 5th Annual Goa’s International Literary and Arts Festival to present her most recent anthology “Emails from India”, a collection of…
About Marieke
Marieke’s love of travel began with a love of languages, majoring in both French and Russian at Memorial University of Newfoundland providing her with the opportunity to live for a semester in both St. Petersburg and St. Pierre et Miquelon.…