Abad Airport Kochi
Cochin International Air Port, Nedumbassery Kochi, Kerala, 683590, India
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Bus rides and head wobbles
It's back to school after our little weekend jaunt in Munnar. I think we all feel like we are settling into the routine of things a little more now, as well as getting to know Fort Kochi a little more. We catch the bus every morning into the hospital, which usually takes around an hour. Fortunately, we get on at the first stop so we always manage to get seats before the game of human tetris starts as people squeeze into every available inch of space. No one ever seems ...
Are we actually in a different country?!!!
Hooray for the South of India - a different world compared to the North! We actually ended up flying down to Kochi because getting public transport was going to consume too many days and we were in the mood for getting to laid-back Kerala!
We stayed in Fort Cochin which is the main touristy area surrounded by peaceful backwaters which were originally used to transport spices...here's a little fact: Christopher Colombus intended on journeying to Kerala in search ...
Fishnets and beef.
... This was not the case our bus was to leave 6km away from where we were. We rushed to get a tuk tuk and how ironic that he was the slowest driver we have had so far! After arriving at Poojia travels or whatever it was called we soon realised there was 5 travel shops all of the same name. Finally we were told at the 5th one that we had been given the wrong name and it was in fact kvm travels that we needed to be at??!! Typically our bus had gone at this ...
Traditional Keralan Cooking Class
... was tuna masala
cooked with tuna steaks, now I don't like fish at all but Kerala is famous for
its fish so I was up for trying anything – turned out ok cause I like tuna from
a can so tonight was my first proper tuna steak.
She spent 2 hours preparing the fish masala, a vegetable
stew made ...
Kerala Theater and Dance
... on the usual tourist attractions. We saw the Chinese tourist nets, walked in Jew Town (only 10 Jews remain living in the area and none speak hebrew!), and walked on the popular streets.
We also watched a kathakali theatrical show. It lasted 90 minutes. The first 30 minutes, we observed the actors carefully applying their makeup. The care they put into decorating their faces put my own attempts at applying make up ...



