On Jan. 4th I will leave, with friend/colleague from CT teaching, from JFK on Emirates Airlines headed to south Asia. We will stop three nights in Dubai to check it out and enjoy some beaches. Then we fly to Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) for a night or two - to begin our pre-trip with OAT (Overseas Adventure Travel) the company I went to Southern Africa with and connected to GCT (Grand Circle Travel) the company I went to Australia/New Zealand with last year. Our 8 day pretrip is to Bhutan so we will fly to Bhutan and travel around high up in the Himalayas and visit lots of Buddhist temples (I wanted to go here; they measure the GNH (Gross National Happiness!) instead of GNP! I wanted to visit a place like that! Doug is very envious!! :)
Then we fly to Delhi to begin our 16 day tour of Northern India including Jaipur and Agra (Taj Mahal) and a game reserve. At the end of that, we fly to Cochin in the south for a 5 day post trip of Southern India where we will be on some kind of a houseboat and end the trip in Feb. and fly home from Mumbai!
Doug (Phap Lu'u) was in the US on a tour for 3 months this past fall and we celebrated his, and some classmates' 40th birthday in Newtown/Bethel on Nov. 14th. So I will post a picture of that here! I will try to keep the blog updated as we move around, as there is wi-fi connection available!
