Kerala

After a couple of days on the beach in Palolem we caught a local train to Mangalore, the journey was fine until it got dark and various bugs started flying into the carriage biting us rather than the Indians who never seem to get bitten! We spent one night in Mangalore before catching another train to Calicut in Kerala and then a bus onto Kalpetta to see the Waynard Wildlife sanctuary. We hired a jeep for the day with some Germans, an English girl and a Polish girl which was a squeeze with eight of us packed into a tiny jeep but we had a great day. We visited a national park area and then the sanctuary itself where it was into another jeep. Apparently the sanctuary is home to a tiger, we didn't see it, but we did get lots of glimpses of elephants, bison, monkeys, and deer. The landscape was amazing and it was much cooler in the mountains than on the coast which suited us just fine!


Tucking into a delicous all you can eat thali meal, served on a banana leaf, at the national park.



A local train, not sure if the window bars are to keep people on or out!