No Problem For Those Who Are Happy To Eat 1 Or 2 Vegetarian Meals A Day (Around 6rs), But If You Belong To The Group Who Get Sick Of Cold Rice And Strange Looking Accompaniments, You Will Have A Hard Time In Southern India And Will Have To Dig Deeper Into Your Pocket.
Por Years The Indian Coffee House, Opposite The Ernakulam Main Ferry Station, Has Been The Most Popular Meeting Place. They Offer A Good Variety Of Inexpensive Indian And Western Food And A Good Cup Of Coffee. If You Really Like The Coffee You Can Buy A 200gm Packet For Lors.
The Bharat Coffee House In Bombay Road Is Also Not Bad And Is Run On Similar Lines. The Restaurant At The Hotel Sealord Is A Lot More Expensive.
The Pamdhalrestaurant Opposite The Grand Hotel In M.G. Road Is Quite Good. Don’t Be Put Off By The Ultra-Modern Decoration. Middle-Class, With Something For The Discerning Palate. (Cs)
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The Capital Of Kerala Has A Population Of 500,000, And Not Much Worth Seeing. It Is Rather A Clean And (For India) Prosperous Looking Town. It Is The Jumping Off Point For The Famous Kovalam Beach And There Are Flights From Here To Sri Lanka And To The Maldives.
Connections
There Are Direct Buses To Kannyakumari Among Other Places. There Is A Good Service In All Directions From Trivandrum.
To Say That The Beaches In Goa Are Overcrowded And That The Beaches At Kovalam Are Deserted, Is Nonsense. It Is The Opposite. Although The Beach Has Been Patrolled For Several Years In Kovalam, There Are Always Drownings.
I Liked Kovalam Beach Best Of All The Beaches In India. It Has Very Good Waves For Body Surfing (Or Drowning) -Four People Drowned While I Was There. Backpackers Tend To Gather At Lighthouse Beach Which Isfuli Of Hotels And Restaurants. It Doesn't Matter Where
Metropole, krishnarajasagar hotel (both of ritz group). Continental and tan-doori dishes. King's court, (jhansi laksh-mi bai road). Multi-cuisine. Dasaprakash, basic, cheap south indian food. Dasaprakash paradise, south indian thali and vegetarian food. Gun house, tan-doori chicken (opp. Mysore palace).
Kerala, With An Area Of 38,863 Sq Km (15,001 Sq Miles), Is The Second Smallest State In India After Goa. It Has A Population Of 30 Million, And Is Densely Populated. The 575km (357 Miles) Long Coastal State Was The First State In India To Elect The Communist Party To Power, In 1956. Since Then The Congress Party Has Been Re-Elected.
This Can Be Explained By The Fact That Only Approximately 50% Of Its Population Can Read And Write. On The Street, Practically Only Malayalam Is Spoken And Understood. Kerala Produces About 70% Of India's Spices, About 70% Of Its
Fees
Park Entry Is And Movie Cameras . No Charge For Ordinary
Cameras.
Eating
The Selection Of Groceries And Cheap Food
