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Jungle Palace Kerala

Thekkady Road Kerala, India

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Cruising in Kerala-ahhhhh

A travel blog entry by off-the-rails

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... of them so that he could show his wife and young son. Its hard to imagine, how it must feel not to be allowed to live in a country where you feel you should belong.

Breaking up our stay at Varkala was a day and night spent on the backwaters on a private houseboat, complete with captain (of course) and chef! The houseboats are Kerala's signiture, made out of bamboo, they used to transport rice and spices to the port prior to becoming ...

Kerala - SIghtseeing

A travel blog entry by omg

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... fish?) with each other. It really does make you think that how can these guys live peacefully alongside each other, yet in other parts of the world this is clearly not the case. Maybe they could learn alot from these guys but sadly I doubt this will ever be the case and there will always be conflict thinly covered in the name of religion. Pretty sad really when you think about it. Actually, I often think about stuff like that - like what kind of world I ...

Elephants, Boats and nothing else!

A travel blog entry by beakandwilly

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... and murder! Negotiating down here is harder than up north we quickly find – they must make so much money during the peak season that they can be a little more pushy with their prices and hold out for good ones, something we discover time and time again when it comes to booking trips and taking tuk-tuks – still, Willy got the room price down to an acceptable cost and we’re in the cool breeze of a 20c air-conditioned room.

We book a couple ...

Katherines First Synagogue

A travel blog entry by dolly_would...

... slick marketing techniques.

By contrast, the Cochi commission racket is so prevalent that shop owners pay 50r, nearly a pound for every tourist which a rickshaw driver delivers to their door. A driver will therefore take shop visits instead of cash, in full knowledge that the tourist has no intention of buying, which adds weight to Julias argument regarding the morality of the global race of taxi drivers. It also explains the prices in the shops. If ...

Fort Kochi Fun with the Haley`s

A travel blog entry by lucywallace

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... in Princess Street.

This place was awful and appeared to be run by a group of incompetent students that were more interested in chatting up the ladies than cooking or serving our food. It took an hour and a half for the food to arrive they then tried to charge Lucy and I five pounds for 3 prawns and a handful of chips each! This lead to me having a few words with the useless waiter and a substantial reduction in our bill. I couldn`t advise against this restaurant ...