Varkala Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

So we are doing well, I have finished my antibiotics and this is the place to be to get better. Varkala is a small beach town with a walking path on one side are shops, restaurants, little hotels and Internet cafes and off the other is a large red cliff that looks down on to the beach with stripes of black and white sand. It's a good hike down t...

Off to the tip of India - Kerala We only traveled a distance of 350 miles and yet it was a 10 hour day. Mysore doesn't have an airport and the closest one is in Bangalore 130 km away. 75 miles isn't too far as the crow flies but it's no less than 3 hours. The choices are train or car. We opted for the car ride, which was where we had the briefes...

Hello from the holiday destination of Varkala. We arrived here early afternoon today after a 40 minute train journey from Thiruvananthapuram, our shortest ride yet but almost our longest as it was on the Delhi Express and for a panicked moment or two we didn't think it was going to stop at our station, but go right the way through, back 'oop Nor...

Een citaatje uit "Holy cow" van Sarah Macdonald: (gaat over hun taxichauffeur Abe) "Mild-mannered Abe, however, is Tarzan of the traffic jungle. He knows the strick species pecking order: pedestrians are on the bottom and run out of the way of everything, bicycles make way for cycle-rickshaws, wich give way to autorickshaws, wich stop for cars, ...

Varkala was our next stop after the wonderful boat trip. We managed to get a seat on the train which is no small feat. The train ride took us past small villages where one can see women doing their laundry in the streams. The land is lush and bountiful. Themarkets are bursting with local produce and spices and of course the local ayurvedic produ...

As this trip takes us away from a traditional English Christmas for the first time, one of the problems that we have had to address is "How are we going to celebrate away from our family for the very first time?" The problem of Maire's Christmas presents were not to difficult to overcome. She had the silk suit that I bought her the other day and...