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Ernakulam Slideshow
Ernakulam
Travel Blogs from Ernakulam, India
Cochin
This is a top pick! The bus ride to Kochi was a seven hour nightmare and we have decided that any journey which takes longer than 4 hours will be done by train from now on. We go straight to the fort side and stay at a small guest house called Wilson's. It would have ...
Here comes a VACATION!!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... have loved to have more time for shopping and sight seeing. But the beach was awaiting us and we had a big trip ahead of us ... no tickets - and we assumed it would be an easy trip from point A to point B ... but its India ... its NEVER that ...
Kickin' back in Kerala
This is a top pick! ... word meaning "knowledge for prolonging life", is a 5,000 year-old holistic medicine system that is widely practiced in India. San Francisco offers ayurvedic treatments but I had never experienced one before. Ayurvedic theory holds that disease is a ...
Just a pin on the map
This is a top pick! A tourist town, a couple of very good modern art galleries, nothing too exciting. Hanged out with a local artist and a fellow photographer who took this picture of me ... Out of the blue I got a job offer! ... to run a gallery... ...
Home in Kerala
This is a top pick! ... vast and varied regions lead to drastically different cultures and languages and religious practices all next door to each other. Thus, South India is completely different from North India. The climate is tropical with a capital T. It was usually above 95 ...
Kochi/Cochin - Kerala Region
This is a top pick! ... honest?! But eventually we had to get back into the real world...the Goan beaches are beautiful, but its not the "Real" India...everything there is for tourists, and the minute we drove out of Palolem to Canacona train station the change was ...
Day 23 - Kochi, Kerala
This is a top pick! ... food (easily the best of the trip), surprisingly good Indian white wine, more booze, coffee for Kirsty, Havana cigar for me and a chat with the proprietor - all for about £35 - it's days like this when I realise how and why people spend so long in ...
Hectic India
This is a top pick! Hi Everyone! A quick update from India so far... In the heat and humidity of Mumbai, we toured the streets and sights, visiting hustling markets and regal museums, passing the crumbling colonial buildings that have all been renamed from their old ...
More in India
This is a top pick! ... cricket! Dinner was back to normal tonight - i.e. it costed less than our tip for dinner last night!! Day 25 - Kochi - Ernakulam A day I've been dreading for the last few days - another day when actual travelling was involved. Our train to Goa ...
Finally found what we were looking for!
This is a top pick! ... thousands of kilometres on terrible roads, hundreds of curries between us and one too many Forts but we survived ! Most people that know India thought we were a bit mad to go with a small family and those that don't know India, thought we were totally ...
Silence of the Ernakulam
... travelling with them for a couple of weeks but they had to head back to Austria and I had a date with the North of India! I moved onto Kottayam in order to see the famed Kerelan backwaters (see photographs and agree that the fame is justified). I ...
Cochin (Kochi)
All grown up, the Little Owl went on the exploration of Cochin all on her own. What a brave little owl! She met a wonderful driver of auto-rickshaw, and his English speaking cousin as well. Not much space in the auto-rickshaw though... And the driving ...
Kerala
Nachdem ich mich in Goa genug ausgeruht und dem Volleyballspiel gewidmet hatte, ging das Reisen wieder los. Diesmal hatte ich Kerala in meinem Visier, den kleinen Staat an der indischen Suedwestkueste. Als erstes ging es nach Kochin. Ein toller kleiner ...
Kerala, India
... about staying for two days, but ended up staying five. By the end of that time we had a good notion that we were in India, and we had a vague idea of where we could spend our time. We were also feeling more accustomed to the idea of rough travel ...
Kerala
... 500 rupees). After a quick mozzie extermination session, we hit the sack for the first of our nights here in the south of India. We were expecting the worst weather-wise as it's still very much monsoon season down here, but were pleasantly surprised to ...
Cochin
... his/her class in the US. Accompanying them was S. Vasudevan, Administrative Coordinator of the US Educational Foundation in India. For details of Fulbright opportunities, check out the website www.fulbright-india.org. © Copyright 2000 - 2006 ...
Kumily to Cochin
We collected our sarees in the morning, after some tiny tweaks to the blouse and then raced around trying to sort out things like emails and flight bookings before catcha bus at 1415 back to Cochin, We also said goodbye to Kit, this time for good as ...
Cochin - Fort and Old City
... . It dates back to the time of Shakespeare but may have been used even earlier and it involves story playing Hindu epics. The See India Foundation was recommended by LP. I gave up on trying to figure out how to get an auto rickshaw driver to get me there ...
Cochin-Cochin-Cooo
The train journey was a painless affair. We caught a rickshaw down to the local ferry as our destination of Fort Cochin was on an island! We met up with a German/Israeli called Sacha who shared a room with Kit in the hotel we found in the centre of ...
Cochin, calor calor
Apres un reveil matinal vers 7h (ben quoi, c est les vacances, non??!!) et un petit dej rapido, nous embarquons dans nos wagons sleeper comme du betail... on arrive a trouver chacun une place, alonge au dessus des places assises, je pense a l origine ...
Backwaters and canal boats
... This was once a huge Jewish area but these days there are 60 or so left and a total of 5,000 Jewish people in all of India. After a coffee in a café I took the ferry back to Enakalum and got back to the hotel about 4.30pm. Wayne had been out to get ...
Southern India
... is quite a feat as we've even braved seafood on filthy India's shores and eaten the occasional meal in places like Mumbia. 2 - India has some wonderful environments. The dust and grime of the north has gradually given way to green in the south. 3 - ...
cochin sweet cochin
Well I made it out of Delhi alive and Go Air took me safely to Kerala and I am now in Cochin and totally in love with it. I was worried that it may be polluted as well because the drive from the airport was through a very hectic area to get to where I am ...
Continuing South into Kerala
COCHIN Kerala, India Islands tour by boat. Captivating Sabine and Katikali dance. Half day tour of Cochin. Meet Sabine Droulez and Helene. Lunch and dinner with ...
Cochin
... discovered that they really are an idiot. Ah well, each to their own. It is totally unlike anything I have seen before in India, narrow streets, art galleries, cafes and book shops. Janice and I are both fine, glad to have had a good nights kip ...
back to the backwaters
... reggae artist man that has a little studio in town, who i met last time, and chatted with him generally about india, kerala, life booked onto a houseboat, and bizarrely spent pretty much the whole time awake painting (badly) with watercolours madeleine ...
Varkala Beach, south of Kochin!
Arrived at Travandrum on an Aeroplane with 18 passengers, us included, the Air Stewardess was laughing cause she was doing the safety demonstration to hundreds of empty seats!! On our way from the Airport to the Beach we drove through some gorgeous ...
Coasting in Cochin
... yes all of these things were tactics to prevent further difficulties with curries ! We swore to each other on our flight to India that we would eat like the locals - you know the score, standing up at street vendors, eating in restaurants that served ...