Kerala Part I

Ok so the further South I am getting the more frustrating internet has become... Hence I shall just put on bigger posts about Kerala. I am hoping this will save me seven hours of trying to get the photos uploaded or the browser open! In a way this is not fair to poor Kerala because this has been on of the most diverse and breath taking state? province? I don’t know... I just had a debate with the Pohms about this and I am not that much more assured of my choice. 

Sooo from Mysore I headed down to Fort Cochin which is an old town from way back when. It would be the perfect place to mow down on fresh fisheis and has badass “Chinese Fishing Nets” which look like something a pirate should have... a pirate or maybe me. 

We spent a lot of time in Fort Cochin wandering... which is in my top five favorite activites. We did eventually givin into a rick-shaw driver who was going to show us the sites.... Mainly as the do he took us to over priced tourist shops... BUT he did take us to a spice market which was cool... the were drying ginger all over the place and it smelt amazing! The cute old ladies served me a shit load of teas and a bought a bunch of spices for me ma!

Ginger drying in the sun

"Robbin Bastard" if you will

Just a pretty view of backwaters in Fort Cochin

We also took a look at the Mattatcherry Palace... built by the Portuges... not nearly as impresive as Mysore but full of artifiacts from pre-English times! Again no cameras allowed in there... Fair enough.

From Fort Cochin it was a mission on down to Alleppey... Time for houseboating in the backwaters. I have been looking forward to this since I was still sitting behind my desk in Edmonton wanting to take a hammer to a computer screen. It was amazing... the houses up and down the canals and lakes were really cool. I would love to stay in a house surrounded by water in the middle of no where. We anchored over night and had one of the more peaceful sleeps of my time in India. We did have a night time visitor in the form of one big ass mother fucking cockroach that our heroic crew caught and removed for us!... While in skirts!

Or boat actually came from behind all these boats quite a mission... well I just sat there but still

Nothing can quite describe how lovely it is to drink coffee while the sun sets in a boat in Kerala.

Right?!?!?!

The prawns! Massive and kinda cute!

This was our boat! Pretty cool! Best accommodation I have had so far!

Kerlala has been quite an active trip thanks to Kelly and Nicki, the lovely, proactive ladies  who have taken me under there wing and provided me with people to talk at, and more importantly toilet roll and candy!