Sail the Leviathan

A journal about our travel and adventures…

  • This is important. It must be spicy!

    This is important. It must be spicy! Last full day of touring before we start our long journey home. We leave the hotel at 8 am and drive an hour and a half southwest (basically half way back to Jawai… Continue reading

    This is important. It must be spicy!

  • That’s not a palace, this is a palace

    That’s not a palace, this is a palace Drive starts extra early today, 5:30, so that we can drive to the far hills well on the other side of the train tracks, apparently where the male leopards live. We arrive… Continue reading

    That’s not a palace, this is a palace

  • Lemonade

    Lemonade This location is unique, but not necessarily in a delighting way. The morning drive takes us a bit further afield to a closed mining location. We drive up to a hill that is half gone, with … Go to… Continue reading

    Lemonade

  • Rajasthan Boonies

    Rajasthan Boonies Leisurely start and pretty short 3 hour drive into the boonies to a place called Jawai. This region’s tourist claim to fame is allegedly the largest concentration of leopards on the planet … Go to this Sway Continue reading

    Rajasthan Boonies

  • Not too spicy

    Not too spicy Leisurely start to the day at 9 am. First stop is doing the palace museum tour, which just entails taking a golf cart up to the top of the complex from the main entrance. Before going in,… Continue reading

    Not too spicy

  • Diwali Part 2: Journey to Udaipur

    Diwali Part 2: Journey to Udaipur Very early morning, 5:10 am departure from the hotel to drive 30 minutes to the Jaipur International Airport to catch a 1 hour 6:55 am departure to Udaipur. Kishore drove the 6 hours there… Continue reading

    Diwali Part 2: Journey to Udaipur

  • Diwali Part 1: Our first Puja

    Diwali Part 1: Our first Puja Today is India’s biggest holiday, Diwali. Although due to the way the lunar calendar works there is not clear consensus on whether it should be celebrated today or tomorrow, so many people … Go… Continue reading

    Diwali Part 1: Our first Puja

  • The Pink City

    The Pink City We did a morning safari drive. Zone 4 again looking for tigress Shakti and her cubs. No sightings, nor were there from zones 3 or 5. Other than a nice drive, the main excitement was a prolo…… Continue reading

    The Pink City

  • Slowly, Slowly

    Slowly, Slowly Day 2 in Ranthambore starts at 5:30 am. When we arrive at the gate for zone 4 five minutes before 6:30 there is already a line of trucks. Our driver drives around them and angles in close t…… Continue reading

    Slowly, Slowly

  • Ghee-king out in India

    <The last post on WordPress looked terrible, so switching back to Sway/> Ghee-king out in India Today we left from the Leela Palace in Delhi headed to Ranthambore National Park, approximately a 5 hour drive. GK and Kishore met us… Continue reading

    Ghee-king out in India