Visiting tribes in Orissa

Visiting tribes in Orissa We loved our first visit to India so much that we asked our guide, Suvo, to organise an interesting tour for our return in January 2007 & he suggested the tribes in Orissa. This was to be a gruelling trip of 8 hours each day in a car, travelling along narrow winding roads full of potholes after the monsoon rains had eroded them away.
There were no fancy 5 star hotels, no restaurants or toilets, as we were in the middle of no where, visiting tribes very few...

My first trip to Kolkata

My first trip to KolkataWhen I first arrived in Kolkata, I was not warned that my five senses would be assaulted. The heat and the humidity when you first walk out of the airport makes you want to strip down, then a man hands me a plastic cup the size of a thimble filled with sweet hot milky tea. I accept thinking what a kind gesture but when he asks for money after I gulped down the tea, I am embarassed but luckily I have some Indian rupees, the smallest being a 100 note which he cannot c...