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The Agnostic Evangelist: Nicas, Ticas and Ticos
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Nicas, Ticas and Ticos. Greeting from the beach. For those of you with Day 9 in the when will Eric get a sunburn pool, congratulations. With the sun directly overhead, it becomes more important to remember sunblock for the shoulders. Well, finally caught up. It's nice to have wifi in the room, though we leave for Montezuma tomorrow, so who knows. Air conditioning is the greater priority. Glad youre having a great trip! April 22, 2010 at 7:16 PM. April 22, 2010 at 7:20 PM. Monte...
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The Agnostic Evangelist: Thrissur Pooram, Pt. 2
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007. Thrissur Pooram, Pt. 2. These are more pictures from the first day of Thrissur Pooram. The last photo is during the main ceremony, where two lines of elephants, with about 300,000 people between them, face off in front of the Sri Vadakkunathan Temple. The guys on top then switch parasols dozens of times over the course of an hour, with drummers and horn players blasting away the whole time. It is called the Elanjithara Melam. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A list of links.
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The Agnostic Evangelist: Getting ready for Costa Rica
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Saturday, April 10, 2010. Getting ready for Costa Rica. It's amazing how empty a packed backpack can be when you're heading for the tropics. Nylon clothes and Tevas make for a very light pack and a very happy backpacker. The plan is to see volcanoes, howler monkeys, tortugas, black-sand beaches and the occasional urban setting, as time allows. I'll try and throw up the occasional picture as well. Let me rephrase that. I will try and upload the occasional picture as well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Agnostic Evangelist: Slow creatures
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Monday, May 3, 2010. For the first time, travel plans have gone slightly awry, so I have a little more time than expected to catch up on the blog, but only after a wonderful day amidst the slowest creatures nature has to offer. We left Cahuita early yesterday and made a stop off for a great tour at a sloth sanctuary. Yes, you read that correctly. About a half hour south of Limon is a little place just off the highway that has dedicated itself to preserving sloths. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Agnostic Evangelist: Monteverde and Volcan Arenal
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Monteverde and Volcan Arenal. Greetings once again from Costa Rica, here after a trip through the Monteverde Cloud Forest and to view the eruption of a volcano, the one whose name you can spell. The night tour was actually more interesting, and we saw quite the assortment of insects, frogs, as well as a sloth and a tarantula. They have a beetle that is solid gold in color, almost like a C3PO version of a regular beetle. The sloth was at quite a distance and barely moved.
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The Agnostic Evangelist: Cahuita and Panama
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Thursday, April 29, 2010. It is very difficult to stand in any spot in Cahuila, turn 360 degrees and not see some image of Bob Marley somewhere. We stopped here, about halfway between Limon and the Panamanian border, as a close jumping off spot for a day-trip to Panama. The weather here is not too hot, but extremely muggy, and you develop the perpetual layer of sweat almost immediately. The people here are very friendly and the town quite lively despite this being the offseason. This crossing was far mor...
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The Agnostic Evangelist: The Backwaters
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Saturday, April 28, 2007. My dad and I spent a day touring the backwaters of Kerala in Alleppey, which are kind of like the everglades in Florida - a system of channels of fairly calm water surrounding strips of land with coconut palms and Indians of various financial means living on them. The water is quite warm and the scenery is lush. This was our boat. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Backwaters of Kerala. More photos from the orphanage. Scenes from an orphanage. Pictures from downtown Kodai.
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The Agnostic Evangelist: April 2007
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Saturday, April 28, 2007. My dad and I spent a day touring the backwaters of Kerala in Alleppey, which are kind of like the everglades in Florida - a system of channels of fairly calm water surrounding strips of land with coconut palms and Indians of various financial means living on them. The water is quite warm and the scenery is lush. This was our boat. The Backwaters of Kerala. Anyway, here are some photos. Not sure who these two are, but they were dressed really nicely. Friday, April 20, 2007. This ...
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The Agnostic Evangelist: The Thrissur Pooram
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007. At long last, here are the photos and some information from the Thrissur Pooram, a two-day Hindu festival. The elephants line up in rows of 15, with three riders per elephant. The center elephant in each line represents a different Hindu god. This is apparently the biggest Pooram in Kerala, if not India. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Thrissur Pooram, Pt. 2. More from Thrissur Pooram. A list of links. My dad's blog from India. A fakey Tetris type game.
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The Agnostic Evangelist: Greetings from the Cloud Forest
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Friday, April 16, 2010. Greetings from the Cloud Forest. I am writing just a few kilometers from the Monteverde National Reserve, the most famous of several cloud forests. What is a cloud forest? That will have to wait for the next post, as the tour doesn't start until tomorrow morning (early of course). Day two was a visit to Volcan Poas (Pwouss), one of several active volcanoes in the area. After a bus ride up the mountain, the short path takes you up to a spectacular view of the crater from above&...
