Our journey to Delhi started on a fairly sombre note as we were very sad about leaving Kerala. When we got on the train in Trivandrum, Uncle Robin, Aunty Baby and Aunty Susie spoke to a lady who was getting off at our stop in Cochin and asked her to make sure we got off there too. True to her word she looked after us very well on the journey telling us about how she was planning to move to Australia to work as a nurse. When we got to our destination she helped us...

Meeting the family in Trivandrum There's no hospitality like Keralite hospitality. If there's one thing I've learnt about Keralites, it's that they know how to treat their guests! I've just spent the best part of a week staying with my extended family in Trivandrum and I feel very enthusiastic about writing this next blog entry as it was such a wonderful experience. I won't be able to mention everyone I met but if you look through my pictures when I put them up,...

Alluring Allepey Allepey is surely one of the main reasons Kerala is called God's Own Country. Getting to this paradise wasn't the easiest of journeys however. We left the mountains and took a bus to Kottayam, towards the coast. The plan was to take a ferry from Kottayam to Allepey but when we reached the jetty we found out we'd missed the ferry by five minutes. Two hours waiting in a grotty little restaurant ensued until finally it was time to hop onto the last...

Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary Well I can start by saying that we didn't spot any tigers! We left beautiful Munnar and took a long and dangerous (but scenic) bus ride further down the Western Ghats to Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary. The bus driver seemed intent on speeding around the blind corners of the winding roads through the mountains. As if we weren't freaked out enough, we then sped past a bus which had flown over the edge of the mountain and had been stopped on...

Picture Perfect Munnar From Kerala to Tamil Nadu and back again. We left coastal Cochin and its colonial influences for mountainous Munnar in the Western Ghats. Getting up at 4.30am to catch our 6am bus on the mainland was no barrel of laughs but we made it, bleary-eyed and disorientated. 4 ½ hours later we arrived in Munnar after a semi-perilous journey racing up very narrow winding roads with lots of blind corners. I absolutely loved the journey though, the ...