So here ends our Indian part of our journey, and we can certainly say its been an experience! There are so many things to love and hate about India. We have loved the way that everything seems to work here, things are done in a much more simple way (no health and safety regs seems to apply!) We have seen some breathtaking scenery and have noticed how important family life is here. We love the little communities we have seen particularly in the smaller places like...

So we reached Cochin on Thursday, this is our last port of call in India!! We are staying in Fort Cochin, Cohin itself is made up of three different places, and Fort Cochin is like a little Island. Its very pleasant here and reminds us of a mixture of an old English town with a bit of the medditeranean thrown in! We are staying in a very cute place and the owner looks a bit like Christopher Lloyd. On the shores here there are Chinese fishing nets that are used ev...

We arrive in Alleppey which is a major tourist hub on the backwater network. Our Journey was really smooth and the connection in Kollam was really easy. The journey took about 5 hours in total. When we left Kovalam a fellow backpacker from Holland appeared out of nowhere and jumped into the rickshaw for the journey to Trivandrum (this is where we caught the bus). We got chatting and found out she was also a Christian and we exchanged details. At Alle...

So?greetings from Kovalam or Pervalam as we have renamed it..........We had an extremely bumpy bus ride from Kanyakumurai, we stupidly sat on the back seats so we were thrown about quite a bit, when we went over one pothole we?were both launched into mid air and when we?slammed back into our?seats I (Ellie) grazed my leg quite badly on a bar :-( . An excited man got?on the bus and sat near us, he was really eager to talk to us but couldn't really speak any En...

From Madurai we made our way to the bus station to go to Kanyakumari, we had about an hour and a half wait, during which we sat amongst the most flies we have ever seen!! We didn't even want to talk to eachother in fear we would swallow a mouthful! We also were surrounded by a really strong smell of urine which we couldn't escape (no it wasn't us!) So when the bus finally turned up we were quite relieved to get on it!!! There were some really loud bol...