Hello from Kochi - one of the big city of southern India. The place is flourish and known as the world's biggest rice supplier. The people here just look much happier than the people we can see from the north.
I can still smell the taste of local Chai. What they call the milk tea which we normally do but with extra spices that they call Chai Masala. The smell of the wheat from the grill is flowing in the air. The first smell of Indian seafood is in the town and the big fishing nets are just across the street where people enjoy the sunset.
The experience of witness the local gangs grabbing people's mobile phone openly inside the train station which opened my eyes as much as seeing all the slums like watching a movie. There are many more slums than what I expected to see. It is easy to be recognize with the big blue plastic coversheet over the rooftop from one block to one block. Tons and tons of garbage is dumped outside their doors or they actually collect those things. I still don't know the answer...
The past few weeks were great beside carrying those heavy backpacks outside or inside the station to look for the direction... and finally got it wrong and did it again and again. The thing is you feel like hundreds of people around you to offer different kind of rides and accommodations. Most of them were more about scam and so far we are still not trapped once. The worst offer was asking us to pay triple money for the rickshaw.
After the trip to the desert, the camel hurt my back so much and the scratch peeled off my skin which still takes time to recover. What I guess I got infected from a coughing old lady sat across me on the train, I believe it was the reason why I got the worst fever ever within these ten years time. That was actually surprised me as I haven't got any stomach problem but the flu.
Since my last post... we have already hit different cities and states. I am quite surprised about the big different between North and South in term of the culture, religion and the hygiene you may say.
The Southern India is absolutely a lot cleaner than the North. The people and the cities generally aware more of the hygiene and the affect of pollution. Beside the water bottle, I found out plastic is only used on something durable and can be used over and over again. For those one off plastic products ire mostly and may be all of them are recyclable. I am not sure about the cost but I can see the recycle industry is doing much better here than my city.
This is interesting to see Hindus is not as popular in the South. We basically see the cross or image of Jesus more than the image of Shiva. It would be the reason why makes such a big different between north and south. We don't see as many cow in the south... you don't see as much cow pooh in the south neither. The funny thing is some of the people like to put Jesus, Hindus Gods and any kind of God together. I guess... as long as they feel like the GODs they think would protect them... they are happy the worship.
Questions just pop up suddenly into your mind whenever you see something new to hit your curiosity.
I can still smell the taste of local Chai. What they call the milk tea which we normally do but with extra spices that they call Chai Masala. The smell of the wheat from the grill is flowing in the air. The first smell of Indian seafood is in the town and the big fishing nets are just across the street where people enjoy the sunset.
The experience of witness the local gangs grabbing people's mobile phone openly inside the train station which opened my eyes as much as seeing all the slums like watching a movie. There are many more slums than what I expected to see. It is easy to be recognize with the big blue plastic coversheet over the rooftop from one block to one block. Tons and tons of garbage is dumped outside their doors or they actually collect those things. I still don't know the answer...
The past few weeks were great beside carrying those heavy backpacks outside or inside the station to look for the direction... and finally got it wrong and did it again and again. The thing is you feel like hundreds of people around you to offer different kind of rides and accommodations. Most of them were more about scam and so far we are still not trapped once. The worst offer was asking us to pay triple money for the rickshaw.
After the trip to the desert, the camel hurt my back so much and the scratch peeled off my skin which still takes time to recover. What I guess I got infected from a coughing old lady sat across me on the train, I believe it was the reason why I got the worst fever ever within these ten years time. That was actually surprised me as I haven't got any stomach problem but the flu.
Since my last post... we have already hit different cities and states. I am quite surprised about the big different between North and South in term of the culture, religion and the hygiene you may say.
The Southern India is absolutely a lot cleaner than the North. The people and the cities generally aware more of the hygiene and the affect of pollution. Beside the water bottle, I found out plastic is only used on something durable and can be used over and over again. For those one off plastic products ire mostly and may be all of them are recyclable. I am not sure about the cost but I can see the recycle industry is doing much better here than my city.
This is interesting to see Hindus is not as popular in the South. We basically see the cross or image of Jesus more than the image of Shiva. It would be the reason why makes such a big different between north and south. We don't see as many cow in the south... you don't see as much cow pooh in the south neither. The funny thing is some of the people like to put Jesus, Hindus Gods and any kind of God together. I guess... as long as they feel like the GODs they think would protect them... they are happy the worship.
Questions just pop up suddenly into your mind whenever you see something new to hit your curiosity.