Aloha, After the Dubare Elephant camp (from my previous post), we went to Madikeri which is a hill station here in Karnataka.  Here we did some shopping for spices and coffee since that is what this area is known for.  The store had so many products, all different spices and coffees, sandalwood lotion and oils,…

Aloha, Today was a very busy but also a very fun and exciting day! We left PHRII at 6:45am because our drive was about 2 hours away.  We are all used to waking up early though because yoga starts at 6:30am every day.  We all packed our food the night before because we wanted to…

Aloha, I talked about my project and the background on a previous post called HSV-2 and ELISA. I have come a long way from then. We are almost done with all the ELISAs! We are actually done running all the samples, we have 303 samples. However, this last ELISA is going to be retesting some…

Aloha, Today is finally the day that we have all been waiting for! Well it wasn’t exactly a wedding, more like the wedding reception.  But still, we were invited to this almost 2 weeks ago so we were all excited to experience an Indian wedding! We went shopping for saree’s and jewelry about a week…

Aloha, From my previous post I mentioned Chennakesava Temple, from there we drove to Tipu Sultan’s Summer Palace. It was about a 20 minute drive from the temple to the summer palace, heading back towards home. The Palace grounds is actually really big and has different sites to visit, but it’s too far to walk…

Aloha, Sunday’s are usually our days for exploring, a full day of exploring. One of the sites that we visited on a Sunday was Chennakesava Temple. This was by far my favorite temple because it looked so vintage and detailed. It was only Krupa, Ru and I who went exploring. Kim was tired and wanted…

Aloha, While over here in India, I have a research project and I also have to conduct a cultural project. I decided before I even came to India that my cultural project would be incorporating yoga in my life here in India and to compare it from the yoga classes I took in Hawai’i. I’ve…

Aloha, So I mentioned in my previous post that we hired a personal driver that took all four of us to Venugopala Swamy Temple and Brindavan Gardens. The gardens were close to the temple, maybe a 10 minute drive. That is why we did both sites, which I recommend to those who decide to visit….

Aloha, Krupa, Ru, Kim and I had made plans with a personal driver, who’s contact information we got from Ms. Jay, to pick us up at 2pm and take us to Venugopala Swamy Temple and Brindavan Gardens (which I will be talking about on a different post).  The ride to the temple was about 30…

Aloha, So, the whole point I am in India is to do research. I know, by all my other posts it looks like I am just on vacation, but I am actually in the lab working on a research project. I work in the lab with Ms. Kavitha, Ms. Anisa, Dr. Shakuntala, and Dr. Vijaya…