You have to get into an Indian mindset to appreciate India. As a western traveler it is very easy to be repulsed by the downsides – horrible dangerous roads, garbage, poverty, corruption – but there are delights all over the place that overwhelm all this – people, food, culture, history, fascination. 

On this trip we traveled from Fort Kochi and the Backwaters in Kerala for which the state is famous (India’s bayou perhaps) by train to Thrissur and Kannur and, for several days, never saw another non-Indian face before getting to Goa.

Here are some images of the Chinese Nets in Fort Kochi – Kathakali Theatre performed in elaborate makeup and costumes the same way for the last five hundred years – the Backwaters where life resembles any century before this one with washing in the open water and old people making ropes out of coconut husks – Shri Shantadurga temple festival near Ponda in Goa.