We left Thekkady at 8 o’clock, through the cardamon mountains, along some coffee plantations. Some very nice views over the hills. After 3 hours we reached Kottayam. What a buzzeling city! After somehow 10 days nature, it was quite a shock, again. With repeatedly asking for directions, we find the right road out to Kumarakom, […]
The last breakfast at The Wind was kind of special: the day before a group of young men had arrived. When they went for breakfast, not enough seats for the other guest were available. As also plates. Or Salt. Or jam-jars. Or… Certainly a hotel with an amazing view, but internal… a bit proces improvement […]
First kind of hick up in the trip. We choose yesterday to drive today to the Chennar Wildlife Sanctuary. Next best thing beside Eravikulam National Park, which is closed. By coincident, I switched on my mobile data yesterday night – first hotel with no WiFi. Between the mails, which flooded in, I saw a mail […]
This morning, I went out early on the balcony. Enjoyed the changing morning colors, observed how domestic noises slowly took it over from the woods. Watched the sunlight fighting the morning fog. The kind of morning I like the most. Overthinking how much of real India we have seen so far (of course, leads to […]
Today we went up to Munnar. But I should start we the morning. No breakfast at the hotel, we decided to not go out first for a bite, but to ask our driver to stop on the road. Our plan didn’t work out that way. Luckily, I had my morning coffee based on my emergency […]
Quick check on our vouchers: no breakfast at the hotel. Quest nr. 1: find a place where they serve good coffee. Failed. Badly. Had a good breakfast, certainly we had. But the coffee… further no comment. Somehow I have some deja vu from Peru. Also a country where they grow very good coffee, but actually […]
Two days to cover. Even on vacations, days are sometimes too short. Sunday, again, we enjoyed our rooftop breakfast. An amazing view with the lake, the palaces, the hills across the lake. Down in the lake a old man took a bath, didn’t bother about the rubbish in it. Aside a woman started to work […]
We have two whole days in this beautiful city. Where to start with? The heat made the decision for us: the cool chambers of the City Palace. But first: rooftop breakfast. Nice view over the lake, a little breeze and the surroundings almost quiet (measured by India’s standards). We choose the small streets and staircases […]
The last breakfast at the homestay was special, again. Not so much because of the food, and certainly not because of the quality from the coffee, but because of the conversation and contradictions. It certainly is a family which deeply respects tradition and casts. It was far most the same routine as the day before: when we […]
First stop today was with a rural tribe: the Bishnoi. Bish stands for 20, No(i) is 9… Bishnoi is the tribe which has 29 rules to regulate life and protect the environment, for about 400 years. They are so successful for instance with wild life protection, that deer and other animal living near villages, not expecting any harm from […]