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Travel Blogs from Kanyakumari
Can *YOU* kumari?
... here and there also. Temples and mosques in abundance, as ever. Little shops abound and they like to hang things from the ceiling, especially at the entrance - pots and pans, brooms, sweets, bunches of red bananas, little packets of detergent... whatever they might be selling, really.
Regarding the bananas, I can report the redness is only skin deep, and the taste excellent, especially whizzed up in a milkshake. I can recommend ...
Sightseeing in Tamil Nadu
... Kerala ja der reichste und am weitesten entwickelte Staat Indiens ist. Doch außer einer Straßenkontrolle bei der Überquerung der Staatengrenze merkt man eigentlich nichts - es ist im Straßenbild kein Wohlstandsgefälle erkennbar, weder Landschaft noch Bebauung sind anders. Wenn überhaupt sind in Tamil Nadu die Straßen etwas breiter und die Orte entlang der Hauptstraße (auch hier geht ein Ort meist in den anderen über) etwas urbaner.
Beim Eintritt in den ...
In the deep south
... it until the end of the conversation. The first time I thought that the Indian man was just having fun with me. But after it happened with different people several times in a row, I figured that the people just like holding hands. You also see that when you watch the Indian men interacting with each other.
Kanyakumari is like most places in India, loud, crowded and dirty. Emaciated dogs that have hardly any fur left are roaming the streets. One time we see ...
Day in the Southern most tip of Indian Peninsula!!
... houses the foot imprint of Devi in the inner sanctum and surrounded by outer courtyard
Sabha Mandap - has a 6 and half feet tall statue of Swami Vivekananda
Dhyan Mandap - Meditation hall which didn't seemed as peace full as it had felt 20 years back
The Thiruvalluvar Statue is best seen from the ferry ride to the Rock Memorial. The statue is of the renowned Tamil poet and saint Thiruvalluvar who composed the "Thirukkural " which has in all ...
Pelgrims en palmbomen
... klim, beginnend tussen de theeplantages, langs een hartvormig meer en vervolgens non-stop klimmen naar de top. Het tempo zat er goed in en nog geen twee uur later stonden we op de top, met een geweldig uitzicht als beloning!
Via het relatief moderne Calicut, waar we voor het eerst sinds de Togeans in Sulawesi weer strand zagen, doorgereisd naar Allepey, een klein dorpje in Kerala. De streek staat bekend om zijn backwaters, een geheel van meren en kanalen tussen ...
