Shah International Hotel

Residency Road, Kollam, Kerala, 691001, India | Hotel

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The backwaters of Kerala

A travel blog entry by aborder

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... above a restaurant.

We headed back to the tour company and boarded a bus for an hour ride to the backwaters. A short walk through back gardens of houses that line the canals, we arrived at our small canoe shaped boat and we all boarded nervously, one by one. On the tour was a couple from Australia and a lady from Switzerland.

The backwaters are just stunning. ...

La vida Ashram

A travel blog entry by farokht

... Looks like the wind wants a Darshan too". Nick and I exchange mischievous glances, barely restraining our laughter.

The registration office opens shortly after. We complete the necessary paperwork, hand in our passports, and peruse the list of house rules, which includes: No smoking, no drinking, and quite time starting at 10 pm. We make our way to our building and hop on the elevator. I ask the expat stuck in the back corner: "Which floor?" His response: "Oh, I don't know, it ...

Backwaters with a bird-of-a-feather

A travel blog entry by farokht

... going next?Little did either of us know at that point that we'd be traveling together for the next couple of weeks, and jokingly barraging other tourists with these questions on our northbound trek across Kerela.
After a quick coffee and a few more minutes of digging deeper into each other's respective bios, we jump on the van with six other tourists for a bumpy ride over to the canoe departure point on Munroe Island.
The van drops us off in the middle of the ...

Southern India

A travel blog entry by rose-and-david

... see what I though was several people admiring the vista, but disturbed half a dozen men relieving themselves over the edge.

Ooty was far cooler than Kerala and it also had some great material and sari shops which we whiled away a couple of hours while Kiran purchased some beautiful fabric to take home. We would have loved to have bought some for curtains and bed covers, but without sourcing a post office, it would have meant another 5 months to lug it all ...