I went home for Onam... home to Kerala. I don't want to bore any of the readers with the nitty-gritties of the trip, but what was otherwise lots of fun ended up being a nightmare, when I tried getting back to Bangalore from Cochin. 3 Trains and scores of buses... all booked to full capacity, and wait-listed for the next 3 months!

I'm suspecting foul play, and I think that touts are booking all the tickets in advance, so that we poor people buy tickets for black, paying four times the normal amount. I didn't do that though.. instead I ended up travelling from Cochin to Bangalore via Coimbatore, the whole of Monday.

The inertia was terrible, and sitting all day in the train caused certain unmentionable parts of my body to turn to stone. But otherwise, there was a certain charm to the travel. Esp. because I took some pics and made tiny movies with my digicam. Misty green Kerala in the rains... ummmm.

Here are some pics of the lovely place I come from:

1) View behind bars (I mean the train windows ;) )

2) A quick view of a temple

3)  Anamalai - a glimpse

4) Mountain that looks like an elephant

5) Palakkad Landscape

Ain't they lovely.... :D