Ananda's Blog

We spent all day in the airport, waiting for the Aeroplane to Sri Lanka (which was 3½ hours late).

We spent all day on the beach and for lunch we went to Kumary’s.

We walked all the way to Adayam, then we walked along the beach and found big crabs in the rocks, with bodies the size of a small melon and saw a tiger stripy fish and fish like submarines.

We spent the day on the beach and I got buried twice.

I made an EXCELLENT Sand Castle.

We went to Kumari’s house with Lou Bottomly and her fiancée. Kumari is an Indian lady who cooks lovely food and everyone can sit around one table to eat. I had an excellent lunch on a banana leaf .

We arrived on the train in Varkala. It was very funny because we thought that we were going to Trivandrum and change train and go to Varkala. A man told us that we could go straight to Varkala but the ticket man said we couldn’t go straight to Varkala. Finally we arrived in Trivandrum, we asked a shop man if we could go straight to Varkala he said yes so we popped back into the train and finally we went straight to Varkala!!

Early in the morning we went to the temple. On the way back from the temple I had sugar cane juice.

We were in the hotel all day and at 23.00 we went on a sleeper train.

We got there at 8.45am from Madurai to Varkala. I slept about 5 hours.

We went on a long bus ride from Kumily in Kerala to Madurai in Tamil Nadu. There was a temple where I dropped a 1 rupee coin into one of the Elephant’s nostrils, then he put his trunk on my head and gave the 1 rupee coin to a person next to him.

All we did was go to a flower show and it was boring!

Lucky there’s a TV!!

It was raining and there were loads of power cuts. We went to a martial arts show named Kalaripayiattu.

Kalaripayiattu Fire Video

Kalaripayiattu Sword Video