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To the left, the entrance of hotel Nizmar, a flowery and
colorful one. To the right, on to the beach and Fisherman's
Paradise beach restaurant where Apollo had their orientation meeting. Rita
to the left in the picture. |
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Rita in the back and Tina in the front, listening to the
Swedish tour guide. On to the beach for a sweaty walk on the
beach. The Fisherman's Paradise is proudly flying the Apollo flag. |
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Fishnets on the beach. Looks like fluff. The
day's catch of small fish laid out to dry in the sun under a net to prevent
birds to pick the fish of the beach. |
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Local shacks made out of palms leaves. Primitive and cheap.
And so are the beers. 50 Rupees are about US $ 1,15. In Norway, the same
beer is $ 10,-. And that is not cheap. |
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The staff of the hotel don't have the best of living
quarters. This is just below Martin's hotel room. On to the
tour of the city in nice little yellow enclosed scooters, capable of taking
two persons. |
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Martin outside the cab that Rita and he used.
Julie, our Norwegian tour guide for the day. |
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One of the colorful Hindu temples with Martin in the front
yelling instructions to the photographer, Kjell another of the participants.
Our yellow two seats cab at one of our numerous stops. |
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Visiting a fish restaurant showing what they serve. King
fish, king prawns, queen prawns, prawns and calamari or octopus without the
ink bottle. Martin and the cook next to the King fish.
Tastes like tuna fish. |
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All the Indian spices laid out for us to goggle at and
smell. One of the local produce, cashew nuts. Julie is
holding up the fruit with the nut underneath it. |
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Cashew nut hard tack. The cashew tasted OK, but the coconut
booze was more like average Norwegian moon shine. Not good. And it held
42,5% alcohol.
Markets are all over the place. And goods are cheap. One has the most
amazing things of offer. |
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On one of our frequent stops with our yellow cabs.
The healer himself, heals most of you ills for fee. He is 3rd generation
healer in this area. And he was not expensive. If you believes it works, it
most probably will. |
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A view from Martin's balcony, and he has two. The squalor
where the hotel staff like Sanrey lives. All rooms have two
balconies the commercial for the hotel says, but what about the view? What
the heck, Martin doesn't care much for any balcony view in any case. He is
happy go lucky most of the time. |
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