Seeing and Doing in Bangalore, India
Being fairly close (12 hour overnight bus ride) to Bijapur, Bangalore was a fairly convenient city to get to. Also known as Bengaluru, this is the third most populated city […]
Category Archives: Karnataka
I loved Bangalore So Much I Went Twice
Being fairly close (12 hour overnight bus ride) to Bijapur, Bangalore was a fairly convenient city to get to. Also known as Bengaluru, this is the third most populated city […]
Volunteering at Sabala, a Women’s Empowerment Organisation
Sabala is a wonderful organisation located in Bijapur, Karnataka, dedicated to the empowerment of women and other economically and socially disadvantaged groups. I found out about this NGO when I […]
Six Weeks At Sabala
My six weeks at Sabala have been really eye-opening. There have been a few ups and downs along the way, but I only wish to write about the positives. The […]
An Unexpected Acquaintance & Lunch At The Colonel’s House: Bangalore
Today was mind blowing. As the hotels in Banglore tend to run on a 24 hour basis (if you arrive at 8am, you must check out at 8am), we were […]
Arriving in Bijapur
The reason for going to Bijapur was so I could do a 6 week placement with a fair trade company – Sabala – which I was assigned to by World […]
Why You Should Beware When Accepting A Volunteer Placement
I mentioned in a previous post that I volunteered at Sabala for a couple of months. I mentioned that this is a wonderful organisation, dedicated to empowering women and assisting […]
Sabala: End of Week One
It’s a little difficult to know what to expect for the remainder of my internship having completed the first week. I have spent the week not having a clue about […]
First Day At Sabala
The day after arriving in Bijapur, I was told hat I would be picked up at 9.45 in the morning by a rickshaw driver and taken to work… At 11.15 […]
Not much of Mangalore
I’d be lying if I said I saw anything of Mangalore. Again, it was a stopover, and this time we were pretty tired. When we arrived, it was really hot, […]
Mysore
We arrived to Mysore on a bumpy Semi-sleeper bus. By no fault of our own, when we booked the bus from Hampi, the travel agent accidentally booked it 3 times, […]
Hampi
Hampi is a place like nowhere I have seen before, within the ruins of the Vijayanagar empire, which are spread all over the city. A mixture of the landscape specially […]
From Oceans With Love 