Krishnavihar Guest House Ernakulam

... around the old streets. It is a little touristy here but has a very nice feel with small cafes and restaurants with churches, temples and basilicas reflecting all types of religions, particularly Christianity which was brought to Kerala in the 1500’s by Portuguese, British and Dutch through aggressive occupation. Each country has left its mark with an architectural mish-mash from each one and we enjoyed spending the day being shown the sights in a rickshaw. One of the ...

... mais heureusement on avait un papier nous expliquant les chants. Tout se joue dans l'expression du visage et des yeux ainsi que des doigts... Tres beau et envoutant.
Puis cherchons une banque, puis achat de cartes postales et recherche d'un bar pour boire une biere. Et la malheur, pas d'alcool dans le Kerala, on est maudits... Trouvons un boui boui qui nous sert de la biere a un prix exhorbitant, et servie dans des mugs pour faire style on boit du the ou du cafe... Et la ...

... at a local farm where older ladies were making thin coir ropes using only a hand propelled wheel to assist the rope twining. In these areas we were told most people have jobs in towns so the small coir rope business is a side earner for the women who stay home. Kerala has had a democratically elected Communist government which ensures all people have a home and access to education. Consequently Kerala has one of the highest literacy rates in India and many people are well ...

... tennis for about 10 minutes, raising the tempo and hand signals with each shot, till security assistance was eventually called.

After much ‘Insure and go’ and hospital chasing we were eventually transferred to a amartadi hospital. I know I didn’t really enjoy my previous amma experience but if she can hug her way into creating luxury hospitals like this my arms are open. Ammas picture on every wall was a bit weird but a TV in the room, not ...

... d ind** naebed euis haend grad nachem istiege alli koff**e wie wild ad stuelbei gchetted, was euis scho bizzeli **stuunt haet. i d**e kategorie reised ja nur die bess**e, ab** wahrschindli haends angscht vor euis bleichgsicht** gha :-) ok, mir haend glaub au wie junkies usgseh...fotos folgen :-) da in k**ala isch es sehr schoehn. ueb**all palme und tropisch fuechts klima. s passt euis also, au waenn de im hotel uf d frag "Do you have some toiletpapi**?" ganz **stuunt ...

... are more dirty and typically more Indian than the rest of Cochin. Spent the evening at the Darbar hall area again, after a terrible fish curry that did little for me melt my taste buds due to it being far too spicy. The performance was of musical performers tonight and was far more interesting for me. The voices of some of these people was truly amazing, and they were working the crowd into a real frenzy. It was very interesting to see how close the male ...

Our whirlwind tour of Kollam's backwaters started as soon as we got off the bus after finding that our accomodation options for that evening were either 1) trawl around the town's dingy guesthouses in the sweltering heat under heavy rucksacks or 2) opt for an expensive overnight houseboat stay leaving within the hour. After inspecting the boat, meeting the 3-man crew (cook, driver and English-speaker) and failing to negotiate the price, we opted ...

... so simple plot). I'm certain that if I were to have understood the body movements, it would have made more sense. Of note, one major aspect of the body movements is the use of facial expression, again, very dramatic and involved. Allepey --> After the day of relaxation, excitement, crime that was Fort Cochin, we headed down to Allepey, famous for its backwaters. The initial plan had been to catch up with Dave and Nick, to go in together and hire a houseboat for an ...

... than to juggle in public. I think the only thing more curious than a tall (by Indian standards) blue-eyed freckled white girl is a tall blue-eyed freckled white girl who juggles and this was made fact in the first thirty seconds of my attempted juggle-meditation session. Out of nowhere 25 people were crammed around me watching intently and whispering and giggling amongst themselves. I passed off the expected performance instead for a lesson in juggling which quickly lost all of ...

... once we'd secured the bags under the seats/beds and hunkered down with the ipod for a while we came to terms with it and settled in for the night. 'Settled' that is until around 5am when the call of "Chai! Chai! Chai!" came whistling down the corridor, brutally removing the fragile layers of slumber gained. In fact that was just the start, there's a whole smorgasbord of food and drink available and it all comes direct to your seat; pakora, samosa, biryani, loads of fried ...