Ohh !!!

This was supposed to be a travel blog, but now it has become memoirs with colorful pictures.
We are long back from India already, and the emotions of the trip are slowly becoming weaker and weaker.

However, it would be pity not to end the story. Thus, we gonna take us few more times back to India in our minds and write down the brightest experiences and remarks.


Kerala continues...













Keralan buses - windows are not necessary, only if it rains they let down a heavy cloth on the windows.













Keralan village












Keralan banana shop


Varkala:

• Beautiful beach (especially at sunset), with even "tourist zone", where no Indian guys are allowed to go to peek at naked western women

• However, for backpackers quite an expensive place compared to the rest of India.

• We got our first serious sunburn in India, which ended up spending the whole next day inside, hiding from the sun and healing our skin.

after the sunburn


Kollam:

• the longest annual solar eclipse of the millennium, which was best to observe on the southern tip of India. We did not go back to Kanyakumari, but even though could experience a mysterious light when the moon covered big part of the sun.

Allepey:

• Backwaters boat ride

Allepey - Venice of Inda
























































boathouse
























drying the wings

• First Couchsurfing experience in India- we become tired of the routine of going from hotel to hotel, so we decided to start couchsurfing again. Our first Indian host was Santosh. We were sleeping in his Ayurvedic centre.

• Great dinner on the beach, under the palm trees and starry sky, together with our host and his friends, three girls from Sweden and two jolly ladies from Belgium. (The Belgian ladies where there to carry out a social project, which teaches teachers to teach children not to through garbage on the street. They could not, however, believe us that Kerala is actually the cleanest state in whole India, as they had not seen the other states. If they did, maybe they had lost all their motivation...... )

Kochi:

• We got bedbugs from one cheap hotel. Even after a week we could still find some of them crawling on us or in our bags.....

• Visited a great Indian fair for Indian people with real Indian stuff.

• Got a glimpse of how does the movie industry works in India.

Chinese fishnets in Kochi - in the top middle is the light, which attracts insects in the night, they touch the light, die and fall into the water, fish come to eat them and in the morning, fishermen rise the nets together with fish.






















































































And off we went to Karnataka state....
but this already in the next post.....hopefully soon....