South India: Pictured are the Chinese fishing nets in Kochi.
We have been in Kochi and are now in the jungle after an 11 hour day of trains and non air conditioned busses. South India is very different in comparison to the north. It is very lush, green and quiet. But very hot and humid, 100% humidity and it made it hard to breath with the thick air in Kochi.
Kochi is a nice town on the west coast with lots of fish and cultural shows. They follow traffic rules and do not excessively use their horns. Our ears don’t know what to do with the quiet. We took a ferry to see the different peninsulas in Kochi. We had a great all you can eat lunch for $2 served on a banana leaf. The food just kept coming, served at our place out of silver buckets. Bottomless curries.
We are now in the jungle and took a hike today. Luckily I didn’t have a run in with the leeches but some did just small trickles of blood. There are wild elephants in the area and there are watch towers manned in the evening to protect the farmer’s crops from the elephants coming to raid them.
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