30 January
We rode the Parasuram Express train south to Varkala for the start of our beach holiday. This, a four hour journey covering 182km, was a new and enjoyable experience travelling chair class, an A/C aircraft style seating with continuous food, coffee and chai on tap from the the foodie wallah’s touting their wares throughout the trip.
The train snaked it’s way through a continuous landscape of palm trees and rice paddies then finally across the Kerala backwaters. We arrived at our destination for a cliff top view of the surf beach sunset overlooking the Arabian Sea.
We rode the Parasuram Express train south to Varkala for the start of our beach holiday. This, a four hour journey covering 182km, was a new and enjoyable experience travelling chair class, an A/C aircraft style seating with continuous food, coffee and chai on tap from the the foodie wallah’s touting their wares throughout the trip.
The train snaked it’s way through a continuous landscape of palm trees and rice paddies then finally across the Kerala backwaters. We arrived at our destination for a cliff top view of the surf beach sunset overlooking the Arabian Sea.
Varkala Beach
Sunset at the Blue Moon Cafe
We have landed in a place far removed from Indian culture, although noted for being a religious place where Indians come to scatter the ashes of their loved ones in the sea. What we found instead was an ethnic mix of mainly European new age and old age travellers, so baggy trousers, flip-flops, reggae music and dreadlocks appear to be de rigueur.
Our accommodation at Kerala Bamboo House Resort is a bamboo hut with a tin roof and open air shower, but here’s the nice touch, it is wi-fi enabled.
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