Spices, Bricks and Parades Another thing that G Adventures is good at is just stopping the bus when we are passing something interesting. For example on the road to Allepey we stopped 3 times. The first time was at a spice garden. The man who owned the garden was delighted to show us around and we had a lesson in spices. Did you know that cardamom grows out of the root of the plant or that white, green and black pepper are all the same thing - just picked at dif...

The Sri Meenakshi Temple Now pay attention, this is complicated. There are three main gods amoung the millions. They are as follows - Bramah, the creator of the universe, Vishnu, the preserver, and Shiva, the destroyer of evil. The Sri Meenakshi temple in Madurai boasts the biggest and oldest temple in South India, it is dedicated to Parvati who is Shiva's wife and legend has it that Shiva and Parvati were married in Madurai. The temple houses a shrine to Parva...