{"id":384,"date":"2021-04-28T23:32:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T23:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblingeconomist.in\/?p=384"},"modified":"2021-04-28T23:32:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T23:32:55","slug":"wanderlust-my-crazy-travels-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblingeconomist.in\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Wanderlust – my crazy travels Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My crazy travels part 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2014- May 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first part was just the warm up. I started moving around like a squirrel from August 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went to India in july 2014 and then on to Almaty for the first time in August 2014. While I found that Almaty itself was cold and not that interesting , it was indeed centrally located relative to the Eastern Hemisphere. From Almaty, you can fly to India in four hours, Dubai in about five. Frankfurt in Europe was seven hours away, while Bangkok to the Southwest was about eight hours off. There are flights from Almaty to these and many other places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The semester system gave us several long breaks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October – Fall break – seven\/ nine days<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December\/January – Winter break – about ten days<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March – Spring break – seven\/\/nine days<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mid-May through mid-august – sweet summer break !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In USA , seven day vacations were no good for international travel, but here they were!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now my finances were in order, I had money to travel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For two years, I took three vacations every year and a very long vacation every summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 2014 <\/strong>– Went to Kolkata, then Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Visited Kep by the seaside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My friends’ wives on a very windy beach at Kep, Cambodia<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

December 2014- January 2015 –<\/strong> Went to Bangalore in India, then to kolkata and Taki in West Bengal, and on to Mumbai . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bangalore Botanical Garden, with Ramu and Shuji<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n