One Week Escapade

A week in God's Own Country. IMHO it should be called God's Own Coconut Country. The singularity in vegetation on the one hand makes the state picturesque while on the other, it makes it boring! Traveling hundreds of kilometers by road and seeing the same kind of trees can get to you. But God couldn't have chosen a better tree to bless His country with. Every part of the tree is of economic use. Makes for great commerce!

My itenarary was Munnar-Kumarakom-Kovalam-KanyaKumari- Alleppy-Cochin. Highlights from each place:

• Munnar: Sunrise at 5:30 in the morning, clouds over the lake. Tea Gardens. A 15 min cruise in a speedboat. Pineapple. Avial.
  
• Kumarakom: Lying in the hammock and reading Charlotte Bronte unravel the idiosyncrasies of her characters in The Professor. Sitting on the cabin roof of a motorboat, feeling the breeze on my face while the boat moves through narrow backwaters.
  
• Kovalam: Going into the sea in a catamaran (a boat made of logs of lashed wood, very very narrow and tiny!). Fun at the beach. Sand in clothes. LOSING MY CELLPHONE.
• KanyaKumari: Breeze. The kid who sold key-chains: "one set for seven, two for fifteen"
• Alleppy: Driving the motorboat in the backwaters.
  
• Cochin: Meeting Joker. Kaashi Art Cafe. Graffiti on the sand on the beach. Sunset at Fort Cochin. A sleepless afternoon. Bike rides. Rainbow Bridge. Fish Fillet. Impossible task of packing all that Joker gave us.