Robin's India-ish Adventure

Hi Everybody,

I haven't posted in a while. I've been away from India... I decided that I needed to get out. My adventure now ventures out of India, and raises a mixed bag of feelings. I'm glad that i get to get out and see familiar faces and to experience other countries, but I'm also sad that i didn't take advantage of the opportunity to travel India.

I just got back from a trip to Dubai to visit my best friend and his family for Christmas! It was a great to see familiar faces and to spend time with my second family.

To summarize up Dubai, it's an urban metropolis, with skyscrapers upon skyscrapers. Not to mention an indoor ski hill, the worlds largest mall (doubling the size of West Edmonton Mall), and world's tallest tower, the Palms (islands in the shape of a palm tree), and numerous exotic cars (ranging from Aston Martins, to Ferrari, to Lamborghini and of course Porche)

Currently back in Chennai for 24 hours and them i'm off to see my brothers for new years! Looking forward to it!




The Burj Dubai. It's the world's tallest building! If you were on the top floor, how you evacuate if there was a fire? Stairs would take you hours to climb down! Parachute?

SNOW!! the indoor ski hill!! A Winter Wonderland...kinda like Canada right now.

Cheers

Robin

Island in the Sun

Hi Everybody,

I have just returned to Chennai from a 2 week trip to the Andaman Islands. We visited Port Blair, Havelock Island, Neil Island and Ross Island (which was a occupied by the British and briefly by the Japanese).

My trip had an interesting start.

Saturday, November 29, 2008 - Robin's Hostel Room.

I was packing till about 2:30 AM trying to fit all my clothes into my newly bought travel bag... and i decided that i would be up by 5 pm to clean my room, tidy things up and catch a cab by 6AM to the airport. However, at 6:30AM i failed to wake up... and woke up to a rapid banging on my door and somebody screaming my name. Half asleep i cursed the one banging on my door for about 2 minutes and then suddenly i realized that i was suppose to be up about 1 hour and a half ago to clean my room before leaving... high on adrenalin...i got up, brushed my teeth cleaned my room in record time... and sprinted out the door, arms flailing and with my hair blowing in the wind!!

and that's all the excitement of my trip... the rest consisted of sitting on a beach, snorkeling, eating, and reading books... on an "Island in the Sun"...

The flight was 2 hours and when we landed we proceeded directly to the jetty to catch a ferry to our first destination... Havelock Island... the ferry ride was about 2 and a half hours... we arrived around 4:30 around the time of sunset...



We then went to our beach resort.

Our hut... which consists of a double bed and a mosquito net... that is all.
the other huts.
a 10 second walk from out hut... beach no. 5.


on our way to beach No. 7.



Beach No. 7. Time magazine ranked this beach the most beautiful beach in Asia... it's absolutely stunning.


Beach No. 7 at sunset.



This is a place i would definitely take a serious girlfriend. At our resort, there was this adorable couple, about the same age, who would sit at the dinner/lounging area and play cards by candlelight after dinner. It was a scene cut out of a movie... It's all about the simple things... the simple pleasures... they say you only need 3 things to be truly happy: good food, good drinks and good company. We had all 3 on our Andaman trip...

I'll leave it at that... i have so many pictures... i haven't even posted pictures of Neil Island, Port Blair, or Ross Island.


So i guess... Single Ladies... we'll have to set up a date... how does drinks and dessert sound?

Cheers

Robin