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Kolkata: Two Sides to Every Story
Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta, as the British named it), our first stop in India, was something of a tale of two cities for us: we had fairly different experiences, so we thought we’d split its post in two so we could each present our experience. Claudia Kolkata was an interesting choice for our first…
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Best Of Southern and Eastern Africa
Our three and a half months in Africa were extremely varied: we marveled at some beautiful landscapes, had some wonderful wildlife experiences, got to travel with friends, summited a mountain, endured some really rough and uncomfortable overland travel, dealt with some frustrating logisitcal setbacks, and overcame a bit of a “what are our goals here?”…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
Leaving #Varanasi tonight. We've enjoyed wandering through the Old City & seeing practicing Hindus on the Ganges River. Time for #Khajuraho # Been waiting 2 hours, 10 minutes for our lunch. And I thought African Time was bad. #VishnuRestHouse #Varanasi #HUNGRY # Fell asleep to a cow mooing and woke up to dogs chasing monkeys…
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Yum: Where the Chapatti At?
Let’s not sugar coat this: generally speaking, Africa is not exactly full of culinary delights. We ate chicken and chips for dinner more times than I care to remember, and for about two weeks our diet consisted almost exclusively of corn, bananas, peanut butter, and crackers– that’s all we could find. So when you find…
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Seeing Uganda through the Eyes of an NGO
One of the main reasons we decided to visit Uganda–besides not feeling totally ready to leave Africa, and some scheduling particulars that made it make more sense–was because we have a connection in Kampala. Lynn, one of my parents’ oldest and dearest friends some eight years ago sold the business she owned and started a…
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Sipi Falls
We had a few days to kill before heading to visit our friend near Kampala, and we had zero desire to spend a lot of time going too far, nor did we feel like going anywhere that required too much planning, so we headed east to Sipi Falls. We had read that this set of…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
#Varanasi hotel description: "Give us an opportunity and we will surely make you happy and feel better in this stange religious city" Great. # got our first "what is your good name, sir?" yesterday #India # looks like the East coast won the Superbowl #sports #tweetsbyClaudia # Just arrived in #Bodhgaya the spot where Buddha…
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Volunteering with Soft Power Education
We were ready for a somewhat different experience during our time in Uganda, our last stop in Africa. Uganda, also known as “the pearl of Africa”, is a country roughly the same size as the state of Oregon, but with a rapidly-growing population of 33+ million people (for comparison, Oregon’s population is 4 million). The…
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Video Dump 4: Tanzania
We loved Tanzania, and found so many parts of it so photogenic that inevitably took too many videos (is videogenic a word?), so here’s another dump of those videos that didn’t make their way into any of our posts. One video of the adorable chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park: Click here to see a…
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Yum: Forodhani Gardens
Forodhani Gardens is a park on the northern side of Stone Town which nightly hosts a gathering of a few dozen vendors selling various street foods. It is a scene not to be missed, and starts coming together when vendors set up around sundown. Most of them fall into one of three categories: Seafood: A…
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