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Cooking Classes, Market & Spice Garden
... Spice Garden-- featured in Monty Dons book and TV series "Around the world in 80 gardens". Wow! what a place, there was about 80 different herbs, spices or fruit trees; he had at least 3 types of bananas, we were lucky enough to taste the bananas and I couldn't believe the difference in taste, one was really sweet which reminded me of the bananas we had as children. This was an amazing place run by about three people for most of the ...
And now for something completely different....!!!
... as one monkey got aggressive while being allowed to sit on his head!!
Very touristy, mostly Indian tourists that is, we lined up to pay 200 Rs each (about $4.80) at one line-up, then discovered we could have paid 40 Rs (less than $1) had we gone to the other line-up!! A-ha!! They got us again. But although most of the people on our boat were a ...
Jungle Oasis
... well from her TD, and so far Sharon is fine.
Before we left Thanjavur, we went to the Chola Brihadisvara Temple, the tallest we would see. Sharon climbed a narrow railing-less staircase to the top, for a great view. Devotional music was playing on the loudspeakers, and there was a feeling of being enveloped in the spirituality of the Hindu people. There are 33 million Hindu gods, with 80 million manifestations. We are pretty much sticking to the three main ones, ...
Tiger, Tiger where art thou?
... to show him his Trip Advisor page as he seemed so excited to see it.
We eventually settled down at the table and he gave us some rice pudding dessert that his father had brought over, it was delicious. After sipping yet more masala tea (Chris is officially in love) we tried some of his signature Fish Curry served with Tapioca … heaven!
After such a great day we retired to our room to watch some TV, only managing to watch the back of our ...
An attack on the senses....
... to be used (dab under the nose to hide any nastys).
The photos will tell a better story of where we have been and what we have seen so will keep adding them as quickly as the internet connection allows.
We've been up to the Mannur Tea Plantations for a couple of days (blog to follow) and are now back in Fort Cochin for 1 night before heading to Kannur on Sunday (jan 23rd) for some Kerela beach action before heading north into ...
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