India - Kerala

Hello everyone,

I've been in India, it's true. But I've only been in Kerala and cannot make any generalities over the Indian Culture. It's like being in Marseille and think you know all French!

Kerala is in the South of India. Rich region, lots of sea food, everything is cooked or prepared in coconut oil.
Lots of churches. The literacy rate is very high in Kerala. It seems a nice place to live...
Lots of fishermen... we went to see the fish market at 6.30 am... Amazing! Two ladies were fighting over coconuts! "I handover 3 coconuts to you 3 days ago..." (Thanks, Tony, for the translation). Surrealistic!
The boats are very nice, colorful! You see fish nets everywhere.

In Kerala, men wear sarongs: large tube of fabric tided around the hips. (I bought two... for the beaches... but couldn't wear them in India). These sarongs seem very comfortable. Men fold it in two and show their knees. Interesting, women don't show their legs... but men do. And you can see men peeing beside the roads very easily :) They just rise the sarongs... and it's done! Easy, fizzy!

However, if you are in a "single4ever" depression... you shouldn't choose Kerala for holidays! There is wedding advertising EVERYWHERE!!!
You can mostly see advertising for: jewelry, weddings (these two go together...) and... CEMENT! True! We took pictures of some ads... so funny... from our European pov!

We had Ayurveda massages. How can I describe them? It's like an hour of oily torture! They mass every part of your body (knees and belly tickled me!)
Once I had oil in my head. It's called Shirodara. You have a sort of sink above your head with don't know how many litters of oil.. and it flows into your hairs (took me three days to wash all the oil...) WOW! It seems you have like dozens of fingers touching your head! Hmmm! that was orgasmic! A whole new world of sensations! I understand why the Kama Sutra comes from this part of the world! These guys know a lot about providing pleasure! (for those interested... oil was all they provided me...).

And if you want to know more about Kerala... you need to come! This place deserves to be known!

Hope you enjoy reading this blog! Best of luck!

Rebeca