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| Costume departure in Thiruvananthapuram - The Frankfurt Samurai Tigers! |
Incredible creative teams are running with us:
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These Suiss guys, riding a Zurich tramway and a bus, sent a nice message back home.
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Some impressions of this frst "real" day:
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| Beautiful little cows. |
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| "Geisterfahrer" |
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| Our fellow Frankfurt teams |
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| "When will we arrive?? And why do we have no internet connection? We have to stop and fix that!!" |
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finding our way and not breaking down, every day, we all have to
accomplish some challenges, like finding put things about places, people
or history, or snapping special pictures - here are some of the
challenges of the first day:
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| Prepare tea at a local chai store - check! |
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| Extra challenge: making pancakes at local food stall |
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| Fortunately, the somehow irregular form was not visible in the final rolls (which are to be fried on the hot plate nearby)! |
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| Short stop by a local beach... it was sooo hot. |
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| Hands are aching. |
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| Herons and water hyacinths, where the backwaters meet the ocean. |
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| Still-wear-your-costumes-at-arrival challenge - check! |
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... and finally: The hotel pool! Our boys where so relieved that it had water (not like the last ones, all under maintenance).
This first day hadn't been easy; although the distance wasn't that long: Getting used to heat, traffic, exhaust fumes and dust, agreeing on how to navigate, and where and when to stop ... and being at the arrival hotel by 6:30 pm at the latest (because driving a rickshaw in the dark is not recommended for apprentices like us) where challenges in itself already. After this first day, I was rather sure that we wouldn't make it (the next stages where way longer) and that it would be more stress than fun.
Press article: http://www.evartha.in/english/2017/04/11/malabar-rampage-rickshaw-challenge-2017-fascinates-state-capital.html
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# posted by Julia @ 10.4.17
