Back in Coffee Bay, a couple introduced me to the website workaway.info. It’s designed for travelers, where you list your skills and the countries you’re visiting, then find locals in each country looking for someone like you. In exchange for volunteering approx. 5 hours/day for 5 days/week, hosts normally provide accommodations and meals. I thought it […]
Month / March 2016
Kerala
Located along the south western coast of India, Kerala is a province known for tea, coffee and spice plantations as well as an alternative medicine known as Ayurvedic medicine. More on that later. My first town was the small mountain town of Kumily, where I was thoroughly entertained with a demonstration of traditional martial arts. […]
Goa
Goa is the party capital of India, with a blend of beaches, resorts and all-night discos along the beach. Tourists are mostly Russians, yogis and “free-spirited people” that gravitate to the easy-going lifestyle, non-spicy food (yay for me!) and inexpensive costs of the region. The weather hovered around 30C and was sunny for the 4 […]