We repeated our pleasant experience with the Goan breakfast on a second day. For the rest of the morning, we had planned mountain climbing organized through the hotel. All three of us started on it, signed on with all the paper work, etc., but my daughter decided to go back to the hotel room. Thus, my son and I were the only adventurers for the morning. We both did mountain climbing; but, when it came to rappelling, i.e., going down a cliff, and the subsequent climbing, only my son braved it. For my lack of participation, he greeted me, as he came up the cliff, by awarding the title "chicken."
The travel from Goa to Bangalore, to get home, was quite uneventful until we got on the ground. Hiring a taxi at the Bangalore airport is not for the faint of heart. Even though all taxis are metered, a certain economic subculture has so developed that none of the taxi drivers near the terminal exit will agree to be paid according to the meter, particularly if your destination is J.P.Nagar or some similar location on the outskirts of the city. Certain unmetered taxis want your business too, and they will ask for a fare that is almost 200% of a what a metered taxi would charge. Then, there is also a parking fee that the taxi customer has to pay that you'd think the taxi must own up to.
Anyway, we got home quite in good shape, thus ending our trip.
The primary purpose of this blog is to provide a summary and a viewpoint of the tour for interested parties. The blog postings are arranged so that the blogs appear in chronological order. The itinerary for the tour is largely my creation, with the idea of exposing my children to important and interesting aspects of India. I got the help of a Travel Agency in India in setting up the airline and hotel reservations, and the agency's name shall remain anonymous in this blog.
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