Khozhikode beach

The Beach

The beach is near the railway station

Bridge's to Kochi or cochin

With so many backwaters lot of bridges are needed.

The lights come on in the sea side building

From the ferry -lights come on as the night sets in

Jew Town Kochi

The Clock tower on the Synagogue(built in 1760)

Synagogue gate

The jew town in cochin - shop near synagogue

To know more about Jews in India read wikipedia. The synagogue in cochin is popularly known as the paradesi synagogue and was built in 1568 by the descendants of Spanish, dutch and European jews. Various conservation efforts are in place for the synagogue.

Chinese fishing nets Kochi

The fishing nets at the beach in cochin.
For more check wikipedia.

Worlds largest Varpu in Cochin

The worlds largest varpu is in this shop in Kochi.

Floral decorations for onam

It was onam on August 27th this year. And Kerala is the place to be when Onam is being celebrated. Floral decorations are an integral part of Onam festivities. We were lucky enough to capture this in front of a temple in Thiruvananthapuram. It depicts Yashoda with Krishna.

Onam is complete with onam sadhya the traditional Kerala meal...feast your eyes on how it looks.


Rice forms the main part of the food.

Art work on sale

The coconut monkey is really amazing. The imagination of the person who made it is appreciable. Who would have thought of using coconut shells for making such good artifacts.This is the lady with the lamp..Not the original offcourse.But still it portrays the essence of the "lady with the lamp"
The diversity of India never seems to stop amzing..

Gods own country!!

The picture below shows the beauty of Kerala as one enters kerala via Train. This picture was taken from Kanayakumari express. It is rather difficult to not like kerala. Everywhere you look you find coconut trees. However, the cost of coconuts remains as high as anywhere else!!! Most of Kerala's economy seems to be driven by tourism.

Kerala has many beaches to see. Some of the beaches near Trivandrum are the kovallam, Shangumugam (shanmugam!) and velli beaches.
The beach above is Kovallam beach..it is generally closed of at 6pm during the high tide season. coast guards will not allow you near the water after closing time. The water is clean compared to Velli, but has black sandy dirt. I am not sure if it was oil sludge...it looked more like natural black sand!