At Cherai beach Indian women are wading into the water in their saree's.
So the last day in Kerala, we went to the beach. I relaxed in the sand. The Arabian Sea didn't look too appealing to do any swimming though. I passed on that.
The train ride home was very unexpected last night. I will share the details...
First of all, w got to the main train station in Eruklam station and found out that the train was leaving an hour before what we were told in Bangalore. Secondly, the only seats they had left were the 3rd class passenger seating. Imagine sitting on wooden benches next to many people without air conditioning and open air windows for 12 hours. No thank you.
We jumped on a air conditioned sleeper car and wished that maybe, just maybe we can be stowaways in this car. We had no idea that the fine for doing that is about $400 dollars. No, we didn't get caught, but we happen to be sitting in the seats that belonged to 6 Indian men, who were about our age. They were on some kind of balchelor holiday and were relaxed, and happen to speak really good English because they were all in the IT industry. The had an extra bed, which they gave to us to share. Then they arranged with the ticket master to buy another bed. They also bought us dinner on the train and gave us beer. I had a good time talking and laughing with them.
So anyway, we arrived in Bangalore at the awful time of 4:30am. Now i'm waiting to go to work. Next weekend, everyone in the group is splitting off and I think that I'm going to be heading North to Delhi and then to Agra to see the Taj Mahal.
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