Last day in India

Mamallapuram

Pondicherry

Kumbakonam at Jalal's

THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!

Madurai

Finally got to the temple: very big, very colourful, still wonder how the paint can stay on it.
I got really pissed off in there because they refused me the entry (forbidden for non-hindus) when they usually all think I am an Indian. They only wanna piss me off when they say that then, because it does not grant me any advantage: I have to pay my flight tickets the foreigner price which is 3 times what Indians pay, I have to pay the entry of all monuments 25 times more than Indians do and I can not visit Hindu temples.... there is something wrong in their reasoning? Do they think it makes my day brighter when they say I look like an Indian? Cause it doesn't, on the contrary, it drives me crazy!!! lol, voila ma vie de touriste en Inde....

Madurai:On my way to the temple

Bumped into an elephant on my way to the temple... lol I never had touched an elephant before and it is weird.... It has little thick hair! I thought the skin would be soft... Anyway I got harassed by the owner who wanted me to pay him 50 Rs for a couple of blurred pictures taken by a random guy in the street. I said: "no". Then I left (was too scared of the elephant anyway). Still gave a banana to the little elephant.

Cape Comorin or Kanyakumari

Headed for the very South of India where 3 different seas gather. Symbolic. Still, I am confused which ones because different sources give me different names but there is the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean for sure... Ooooh I am so bad. Anyway. There I was. This huge statue in the background is the of a very famous Tamil poet who wrote things a bit before Jesus was born. I read it: 133 little "notes"(about life, love, how to treat one's wife...) which makes the statue 133 feet high...

Took a 2.5h boat trip along the backwaters... Very relaxing and beautiful.

Kerala Dance

I forgot how they call that dance but this is a traditionnal Kerala dance. The show tells a story but what is important are the moves and the different expressions expressed by the face of the dancers. Impressive and kind of scary at the same time... lol
Watched the show in Kochi.

Kochi 2

Kochi is a kind of port so you can get fresh and excellent seafood!

Kochi 1

Kochi is in Kerala on the South West coast of India. Kochi (or Cochin) is a city made of two parts divided by a canal (big canal so must be a part of the sea...). Fort Kochi is the isolated part on the other side of this "canal". This is where I stayed... Really idyllic spot. On the picture, you can see Chinese fishermen nets. Need to describe how they fish, it is really.... different and I guess quite efficient.