Travel Day 988 – Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA Today I finally managed to get up at 5.20am again as I had done every single day while in the Sivananda Ashram, but today I did it to go back to the lookout on the Arunachala Mountain… Actually I was quite surprised when I got up, because the […]

Travel Day 987 – Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA Initially I wanted to leave today and visit Vellore with its castle, as well as Chennai, but since the day without people was so enjoyable yesterday, I decided to stay a little bit longer… I was actually really surprised how different Tiruvannamalai felt yesterday after all the Westerners […]

Travel Day 986 – Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA After spending almost a week in Tiruvannamalai and getting to know all the foreigners in town, today the whole town had a very different feeling about it and the reason was no-one less than Amma… Amma was currently on her South-India tour and while I found myself […]

Travel Day 985 – Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA Today was Sunday and it was Tamil New Year but for some reason everything felt really, really strange today… After going to bed at 5am in the morning, we were really only able to sleep until about 9am and then due to a power cut it was […]

Travel Day 984 – Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA Finally we had managed to go to bed early and finally after getting some rest I was having more energy again and felt ready to do something… Strangely enough but for my friend it was the opposite again and his energy level was down. So we had […]

Travel Day 982 – Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA Of course it got late again yesterday and of course we had to sleep-in again today, so it came to no surprise that this day seemed to be lacking energy and motivation again as well… It was really strange I thought and I wasn’t really sure if […]