So I was weighing my options for travel from Kochi, originally I was leaning towards Varkala to cool off in the ocean. But then I thought, what else keeps you cool? Altitude. So here I am up at around 2100 meters altitude in Kodaikanal. I'll likely stay here a while to see if I can get some more studying done.
Anyhow, a quick recap of what's happened since Kochi:
- Bus to Alleppey, pretty much eventless.
- Local ferry to Kottayam, pinball-style (stopping at pretty much every solitary house stranded twixt water and rice-fields with anything resembling a jetty). Met some cool people; a Chinese family (only the daughter speaking English) that set off from Shanghai early January and travelling only by land had covered an amazing amount of distance and seen countless places, and a Bostonian that could top that visited 148 countries counting. Ended up at a surprisingly inexpensive Ayurveda resort with quiet beautiful surroundings (no treatments though).
- Bus to Kumily and the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary with it's Tiger Reserve. (The "Tiger" part should be taken by a grain of salt, apparently there are only two very shy tigers in the surrounding area and the locals laugh when they ask if you've seen the tiger yet). Stayed the night and early in the morning joined an guided nature trek through The Sanctuary (saw very few animals I haven't seen elsewhere in India but the place is truly quite beautiful).
- Headed on to Kodaikanal, thinking it shouldn't take long to get there, it's not that far off. That was a bit of a miscalculation, the roads are twisty and I ended up missing a connecting bus at Badhalakundu as it was full (to see just how full check out the photos linked to at the end of this post).
I'm sure I've forgot stuff, this is the third time I write this up (power keeps cutting out or connection is lost etc at these internet places).
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