Mir and Mar go to India: Day 13

We leave the heat of Madurai, with conflicting emotions. The last two days have been an onslaught of noise, smells and dust, leaving a sense that this is an exhausting city to live in. The constant traffic, the slow moving crowds, the livestock in the streets, and above all, the oppressive heat, leave me...

Mir and Mar go to India: start of houseboat

We take the scenic route for the two hour drive from Fort Cochin to Alleppey where we pick up our houseboat for the next two days. Houseboats are like barges, only posher! They are flat bottomed, necessarily so because they travel through shallow waters so often; but they can also be very grand with upto...