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...

We were a bit apprehensive about going to Madurai because a few days earlier there was a mob attack on a newspaper office in which 3 people died. This was because of a disagreement of an opinion poll published by the paper, anyway we decided to to go and prayed there wouldn't be any more violence in the city!!!We left Ooty at 5am, we were planning to get a local bus to Coimbatore and change buses for Madurai. When we got to the bus station there was a jeep th...

Well our bus journey to Ooty was and adventure. We were booked on a deluxe bus which left at 7am. The journey was fine until we started the climb up the hills�to the summit to reach Ooty. The roads were really bad, pothole everywhere, they were�really deep in some places and the driver overtook in some really�dangerous�places. We felt the pain in our bums and saw the views ahead from our seats. On the slow climb up we s...

So we got the train to Mangalore from Canacona station in Goa which was tiny, the train tickets were only 50RS each and you could sit where you wanted. All this sounded good until the train pulled up. It was absolutely packed and we only just managed to wedge ourselves in the door when the train started to move! The first few hours of the journey were very uncomfortable, we had our rucksacks wedged between our feet and couldn't move, Kam was virtually hanging...