Photos XIX: I've Forgotten The Numbers

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by evilhippy @ 2008-04-15 - 16:12:52

And you nearly thought I had forgotten. Here is the quickest breeze through I can manage;

India, still, although as I've been through 3 countries since then I do kinda want to get this stuff all done so you can see what I've done recently rather than some 3-month-old hazily-remembered gubbins.

Mangalore.

Lovely city, great place all around, very little to see though so I saw everything, I think.
This is the round stone fort about 9km from the city, it ain't much, but it is ancient. First time you get to see those arrow slots in the battlements, bit of nice river and the odd picturesque boat:

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Just the view from the roof my first (posh) hotel;

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A tree near the museum to be seen a bit later:

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A random temple that I walked an hour to see rather than rickshaw it, and never went inside :roll:

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Out back of the same museum, some cool-looking things:

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Ahahaha!! Sneaky photo of the display case of weapons inside the museum - just before I was accosted by the curator and I had to apologetically affect that I was about to sneak a photo, rather than was just packing my camera away :

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Dabolim Airport, Goa

The sunrise; I repeat the sunrise, after 16 hours in a car all the way from Mysore, or about 650km more-or-less non-stop.
Ah well, at least the company was superb

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The drivers were great too, and really entertaining - it was a lot like being driven around the Indian countryside by two-thirds of the Three Stooges, because our two guys in the front beat the living shit out of each other the entire way - and they weren't even playing `yellow car` or `new mini` or any of the games that allow the first person to see the vehicle in question to land a blow on the other - driver or passenger.
No, these two were simply going at it like Larry, Curly and/or Moe; the driver's mate (and he must certainly have been a good one to get away with this) would in mid conversation punch our driver smack on the cheek, not a slap, a full fisted punch, and would duck under the blows of reply laughing himself silly for a full 5 minutes.

It was quite something, especially when our driver would unannouncedly smite his front passenger across the nose while he was dozing.
It was rather funny, as I recall

This was the airport itself - not many places would sport an international airport that itself in turn sports a whole office's-worth of abandoned furniture outside the main entrance:

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The way to the Airport.

Just a few odd bits of scenery seen on our rare travel stops that day/night/morning:

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