February 1, 2014, Allepie India

We arrived by train yesterday and last night took a tuk tuk to a restaurant on a beach recommended in Loney Planet. Lots of foreigners.they only sold beer until 6:30 so we sat and had some Kingfisher beer and eventually had a great supper

The camels were on the beach

Today we took a five hour boat trip through the canals of Allepie. This is the Venice of India but it didn't look a bit like Venice.  A lot if the canals were narrow and the land between them was narrow. In behind some were enormous rive paddies. We even saw some men throwing rice for seeding.

The entire feeling was very rural and tropical.

You can see that it is the people that captivate me.

Also the birds

We had a traditional Kerela lunch by the shore; four types of curry, fried fish, boiled rice, served on a banana leaf and all eaten with fingers. It was delicious.