Tiruvannamalai Archives - Meandering home

March 17. Meditating?

Early morning I hike up the mountain. It takes me about ninety minutes from the backside of the temple complex to the peak of the sacred mountain. I walk up fast, carrying only one bottle of water I pick up at a stall adjacent to the temple. I offer this water to a local, but ...

18 April, 2010

Kamiel Choi

meditation, mountain, Tiruvannamalai

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March 17. Meditating?

18 April, 2010

Kamiel Choi

meditation, mountain, Tiruvannamalai

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March 15-16. The carpenter does a good job.

We buy more wood for the remaining tables, this time together with the carpenter who knows a cheaper place. He picks the wood himself and he will do everything. We: pay. Sure, perhaps I wake up from my slumbers one day and realize I can't really do anything except from distributing pecunnia. So be it ...

18 April, 2010

Kamiel Choi

carpenter, Tamil Nadu, Tiruvannamalai

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March 15-16. The carpenter does a good job.

18 April, 2010

Kamiel Choi

carpenter, Tamil Nadu, Tiruvannamalai

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March 14. Traveling is very personal.

Our driver has been sleeping in the car although we have told him to come on the roof and make himself feel at home. We just ask him to take us back to Tiruvannamalai, there are no complications. We haven't talked much to the Dutch owner of our guesthouse and his great dam project in ...

18 April, 2010

Kamiel Choi

Tiruvannamalai

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March 14. Traveling is very personal.

18 April, 2010

Kamiel Choi

Tiruvannamalai

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March 11-12. Elephant trunk.

We make the table today, with the few tools available. A rusty saw and a hammer that loses its handle twice. But we finish the table and the kids start painting it. Ruby cooks a delicious meal again and they serve us like royal visitors. Are the having any expectations, like some of our very ...

10 April, 2010

Kamiel Choi

EphPhatha, pickels, tailring, Tiruvannamalai

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March 11-12. Elephant trunk.

10 April, 2010

Kamiel Choi

EphPhatha, pickels, tailring, Tiruvannamalai

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March 10. Hard wood.

We buy hard wood. It is expensive and they don't cut it right. But I don't give up and promise to manufacture the table, somehow. We have promised to make a set of tables for the children so that they can study in a more organized fashion. Currently they just take their schoolbooks and stationary ...

10 April, 2010

Kamiel Choi

Tiruvannamalai

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March 10. Hard wood.

10 April, 2010

Kamiel Choi

Tiruvannamalai

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Eph’phatha Orphan home

Eph'Phatha Orphan HomeThiruvannaimalai, India. March 10th - 17th. 2010A wonderful orphans home in Tamil Nadu, India, run by the most hospitable people you can imagine.

Charity Travel works with Eph'Phatha about a week to help starting income generation projects.

NameEph'phatha Orphan homeAimSupporting orphaned children in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaSince1996Staff2: Nehru and RubyPeople ...

10 March, 2010

Kamiel Choi

children, EphPhatha, India, orphans, Tiruvannamalai

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