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No Rest For the Wayfaring: June 2015
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No Rest For the Wayfaring. Anjuna in the off-season. Written by: Alexander Sousa Photography by: Nicola Pritchett . The crumbling streets of Old Goa. Photography by Nicola Pritchett Written by Alexander Sousa. Vikrams tips for shopping in India. Written by Alex Sousa with special help from Vikram Photos by Nicola Pritchett. The streets of Jodhpur in the afternoon. Written by: Nicola Pritchett Photography by: Nicola Pritchett. A stay in Bundi. The magnificent Mehrangarh Fort. An artist in Bundi.
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No Rest For the Wayfaring: The island of Fort Cochin
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No Rest For the Wayfaring. The island of Fort Cochin. Written by Alexander Sousa Photographs by Nicola Pritchett. I'm sure that in their time, the nets were the height of technology. Now, after centuries of use, the fish have learned not to swim by the shores, leaving little for the fishermen to catch. Modern techniques have rendered the cumbersome, expensive, and labor-intensive nets all but obsolete. Kochi feels like the remnants of something wonderful. It was once a major city, an amalgamation of ...
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No Rest For the Wayfaring: The backwaters: a 3-hour tour
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No Rest For the Wayfaring. The backwaters: a 3-hour tour. Written by Nicola Pritchett Photos by Nicola Pritchett. Our two days on the houseboat just didn't feel like enough time on the backwaters, so when we disembarked we arranged to take a much smaller boat through some of the narrower channels for a three-hour tour. We navigated the waterways under bridges, past fisherman, and through beautiful jungle. July 29, 2015 at 4:48 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The backwaters: a 3-hour tour.
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No Rest For the Wayfaring: The aromatic tour of Sahakari Spice Plantation
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No Rest For the Wayfaring. The aromatic tour of Sahakari Spice Plantation. Written by: Alexander Sousa Photography by: Nicola Pritchett. Cinnamon. Cardamom. Turmeric. Cloves. We walked through a jungle of spices. Around us grew vines of vanilla, bunches of peppercorn, and trees full of nutmeg - all among a dozen others that seemed to grow wild in the Sahakari spice plantation. We had arrived at the plantation just as heavy rain began to fall. As we paid our entrance fee and ran for the shelter of the...
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No Rest For the Wayfaring: By way of introduction
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No Rest For the Wayfaring. By way of introduction. I grew up with people telling me that all the corners of the map had been filled in. That all the exploring had been done and there was nothing new left to find. But my whole life, I knew they were wrong. I'm Alex Sousa, a writer and journalist. My wanderings have brought me around the globe, from service work in Mexico, to backpacking across Europe, studying in the Middle East, and once getting stranded in Ukraine. We live on an expansive planet, full o...
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No Rest For the Wayfaring: Life on the backwaters
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No Rest For the Wayfaring. Life on the backwaters. Written by: Nicola Pritchett Photography by: Nicola Pritchett. But photos can show you the overwhelming green of the plant life, the quiet lives of the backwater communities, the sass of a gang of teenage girls, the after-school canoe commute of the children, and some of the reasons that Alappuzha often garners the nickname "the Venice of India.". The backwaters: a 3-hour tour. Life on the backwaters. The ruins of Hampi. The island of Fort Cochin.
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No Rest For the Wayfaring: A quick stop at Safa Masjid
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No Rest For the Wayfaring. A quick stop at Safa Masjid. Written by: Nicola Pritchett Photography by: Nicola Pritchett. The backwaters: a 3-hour tour. Life on the backwaters. The ruins of Hampi. The island of Fort Cochin. The jungle train ride to Hospet. A quick stop at Safa Masjid. The aromatic tour of Sahakari Spice Plantation. Template Galauness by Iksandi Lojaya.
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No Rest For the Wayfaring: Hampi's Virupaksha Temple
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No Rest For the Wayfaring. Written by: Alexander Sousa Photography by: Nicola Pritchett. The Hampi sun burns bright and hot at midday. So by 2 pm. When the Virupaksha temple opens, the cut stones that cover the ground in its courtyard are searing. As is customary, though, we removed our shoes along with the dozens of faithful pilgrims who had come to pay their devotion at Hampi's last working temple. The temple's towering gateway, a gopuram, is a nine-tiered structure at the eastern face. At fifty me...
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No Rest For the Wayfaring: Visiting Hampi
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No Rest For the Wayfaring. Written by Alexander Sousa Photos by Nicola Pritchett. Looking off into the distance, against the lazuli-blue sky, the rounded mountains - made from the same boulders that surrounded us - appeared like a painted backdrop. It seemed like the sort of place that had been built in an effort to look. In the evening, after a long day of blessing pilgrims in the temple, she walks to the river again. As the sun sets, she plays in the water. Her dark silhouette can be seen from ...
