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The Malabar Coast

The Kerala Backwaters:
from Kollam to Alappuzha

The digital camera has been an amazing source of fun for everyone, especially this group of kids in Kollam

Chinese fishing nets along the backwaters

Man with paddle and fishing line

Fishing with their feet (quite possibly)

The backwaters

Fishing

Religion is everywhere

Raft of empty coconut hulls-source of coconut oil?

Rather minimal freeboard

Smiles from everyone

String of Chinese fishing nets

Kim relaxing the day as we drift the backwaters

Fishing crafts of every vintage

Land of contrasts

Land of contrasts

A common scene-the daily wash

Swimming-universal pleasures

Brothers

Moving bricks

Moving ash for a lye plant?

Not much freeboard, especially given our wake

Moving plastic chairs-Land of contrast

School bus #1

School bus #2

Old doesn't mean feeble in India

Construction from a boat

Colorful grocery store

Fish for sale (note all the flies!)

Only once they saw the digital camera in action would they even allow to be photographed

Another fit man of the village

After taking the Backwater tour from Kollam we stopped overnight in recently flooded Alappuzha and then headed to old Kochi, an old port town that had a fun cafe and a relaxed ambience - right next to the hopping city of Ernakulam. We were there for the start of the Onam festival, one of the prime festivals celebrated in southern India.

Later we headed north to Delhi and then Rajasthan.

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