Not all who wander are lost… J R R Tolkien

  We really had no plans about where we were heading in India, other than to have approximately three weeks in the South before heading to Rajasthan in the North for another three weeks.  Where exactly in the south we had no idea, nor had had any time to plan before arriving.  Hence it got rather confusing and exasperating due in part to the transport options – train or bus, distances...
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Our first week in India… the Malabar coast.

Our flight to India was via Kuala Lumpur with AirAsia, the low cost carrier we have flown with several times over the last few years.  Leaving Vientiane we had an eight hour daytime layover at Kuala Lumpur airport before our night flight into Cochin (Kochi) and we spent the majority of the time sitting in the airports McDonald’s restaurant. Now, for those who know us well, this...
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