Kerala
Kerala
27/02/2013 10:39
The state of KERALA stretches for 550km along India’s southwest coast, divided between the densely forested mountains of the Western Ghats inland and a lush, humid coastal plain of rice paddy, lagoons, rivers and canals. Its intensely tropical landscape, fed by the highest rainfall in peninsular...
Cochin & Surrounds
26/02/2013 00:00
The venerable city of KOCHI (long known as Cochin) is Kerala’s prime tourist destination, spreading across islands and promontories between the Arabian Sea and the backwaters. Its main sections – modern Ernakulam and the old peninsular districts of Mattancherry and Fort Cochin to the west – are...