Monday, January 11, 2010
Reviving our inner Beatle - the sixties all over again at Kovalam Beach
We are as far south as either of us have ever been. We are a Kovalam Beach, well known hippie resort from the 60s and early 70s. All the clothes the Beatles made so popular then are on sale in the many stores along the Boardwalk and the easygoing life of the seasonal worker, someone who likes to chill and live cheaply but well in the off season is all here. The seafood is fresh and love is in the air. Of course we are channelling our latent hippie at a high end resort just off the main drag with a private beach and chilled martinis. All is as it should be. When we want to dip our toes into the life at Lighthouse Beach - a part of Kovalam - we have lunch at a place that does not have a liquor licence and that makes us feel positively giddy. Once again, Cameron channels Bill Murray in Lost in Translation. (I keep telling him this is a location joke but he loves it anyway - humour him for me).
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Our India
Cameron, Chris and Heather will travel to Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, during the 3 days before Alex arrives. We meet Alex and then set out from Delhi in the north. We travel mainly in Rajasthan, in what is called the Golden Triangle. We will visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, Jodhpur, Jaipur, often called the Pink City, Udaipur with a Palace that sits in the middle of a lake, and Pushkar, which every year has a big camel fair. Then Alex and Chris return home to university. Heather and Cameron continue and tour through parts of the south, starting in Chennai and Madurai, both in Tamil Nadu. We drive through the Western Ghats arriving in Cochin and the backwaters of Kerala. Mumbai ends our trip and home to Canada.
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