ShanaYogi

Day 2, 20thMar19, 8 30AM:--  Après un bon sommeil. Je me suis réveillé vers 8h30. Marwen m'a offert des bonbons. Mais j'ai seulement pris les photos car je voulais seulment un café. Nous sommes d'abord allés voir ma maison. La météo était sombre avec des prévisions de pluie. Mais c'était trop gros pour que je sois seul. La maison était également un peu loin de la route principale. En fait, sa ville est à 10 km du centre de Sousse. C'est une petite ville qui ressemble à certaines de celles que j'ai habitées en Inde. C'est ce que j'ai dit pour expliquer ma mère au téléphone. Je dois aussi prendre un taxi qui est très bon marché (0,2 euro pour 20 minutes) pour aller en classe de français tous les jours. Mais la maison est très bon marché car elle est loin du centre. Je pensais que je déciderais de prendre la maison ou non après avoir visité des auberges de jeunesse et des maisons à louer dans la ville. Et alors, nous sommes allés à son café préfé

Après avoir pris toutes les dispositions nécessaires, merci à Marwen qui m'a donné la confiance et le soutien nécessaires pour me rendre immédiatement à Sousse. J'ai réservé les billets deux jours après je avoir commencé à penser à la Tunisie et j'ai departi quatre jours plus tard. View this post on Instagram Tunisian Times--writing a new chapter. #travel #passportstamps #airport #cdg A post shared by Devakumar Selvam (@shanayogi) on Mar 19, 2019 at 7:56am PDT Day 1, 19thMar19, 20:15hrs-- Le vol a atterri à Monastir, 30 minutes plus tôt que prévu. C'est pourquoi j'ai dû attendre Marwen pendant 20 minutes. ce n'était pas compliqué. ce n'était pas comme n'importe quel aéroport international. Les agents d'immigration étaient très souriants et parlaient bien avec les passagers. Ils ne portaient même pas d'uniformes. C'était comme n'importe quel arrêt de bus de la ville. Je me

It's been so long since I have looked at this blog. Even the design is incomplete. I made so many interesting extraordinary trips after the Leh-Ladakh trip I have written here. Kolkatta to Rann of Kutch, to the nook and corners of India, and the several European trips(25 countries so far) after coming to Nice for my MBA. I always had in mind to write them all, but I could only share pics in FB and Insta. But this time is not the same, I have a strong motivation to start writing--to learn French quickly. So the following factors made me decide to come to Tunisia. - Hosted Randa in Jul'18 in my studio in Nice, that is when I heard first about Tunisia and its culture and beauty, she sold the country to me and invited me over to Tunis, and that is when I realized Indian do not need Visa for Tunisia! - Randa again, she saw my pictures I posted when I was in Porto(Feb'19) and texted me over FB inviting me again to come before Ramzan, i.e. around May 7. - A job offer I h

Day 8, 06 13hrs: I and Sonu got ready to bid goodbye to Leh. We were about to start our bikes when there was a voice from the kitchen which was adjacent to the parking area. The cook asked us to leave after having a tea. Which is not what they normally do at this time, but he woke early only to make us tea. It was so touching and kind--the camaraderie these people shared! Day 8, 08 23hrs: After breakfast in Upshi, it was the time for the main motivation of the trip--taking a dip and drinking Indus river waters. But I realized that getting in the water will be a bad idea considering we have to cover a lot of distance in two days and we cannot afford to lose any time. So I settled to taste the Indus, whose magnificence in India's history is unparalleled. Such a holy thing and suddenly where all the energies come from, to have the Indus in my body. What all had I missed on my onward journey! The ride from Leh to Pang is the best part of the entire trip. Good roads, unimaginable

The views were, like it had been throughout, revering but this time with a lot of variety.           Vivek sat in front beside the driver capturing as much as he could with his DSLR; I, alone, royally occupied the last row, while the others sat in the middle row of the Innova. The driver was slim, vibrant and active: he either drives or smokes. Even if we had to stop to leak, he managed to light and take few puffs in the little time he had. The other pleasant thing with this drive is that we could listen to songs while we sat back in awe of nature. The Keralites are fans of Tamil songs and there were Tamil songs played too, very much to my delight. One song we all enjoyed was "Shoot the Kuruvi" from JilJungJuk, I had fun explaining the lyrics to them what many Tamils don't even know there existed one for this song. Another interesting thing I noticed here in the north extreme part of India is that they enjoyed Tamil dubbed movies and songs; I saw people enjoying the Hin