First two days

So we've had a reasonably good first two days here in India. We landed at Trivandrum airport and had a long drive down to Kalyakumari in a very, very cramped car (we've got FAR too many bags!).

Surprisingly the hotel (Sun World) was nice and clean, and the food was good. We got there early morning slept for a few hours and then our driver for the 10 day tour (Anish) took us for a walk. We took a short ferry ride to a small island on which there was a temple (or a number of temples, we're not sure lol).

Afterwards we walked to the sea, finding ourselves and the most southern tip of India! The area was hit by that tsunami. Luckily it didn't seem to have been affected too badly, but we did see quite a lot of building work taking place.

Today we arrived at The Travancore Heritage in Kovalam. It's incredible! Massive green coconut trees everywhere, 2 swimming pools, huge rooms, a beach, good food...pretty awesome! We're here for two nights before we move on.

Apparently we're going to a planetarium tomorrow...should be interesting!

Edit:

Forgot to add that on the way to Kovalam we stopped at a 6.5 acre palace! It was made completely of wood, except for 1 stone section where they used to celebrate Navratri. The Royal Family in the 16th to 18th centuries used to live there. But then the British came and stole all the weapons...