A trip on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in Tamil Nadu, India from Mettupalayam to Ooty – sometimes called The Ooty Toy Train. Beautiful scenery on this UNESCO World Heritage Site, which is truly unique and the only rack and pinion railway in India. We met some...
South India Highlights 2020 of our trip to Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in South India in January 2020. From the deserted village destroyed by a tsunami at Rameshwaram, the tea plantations at Munnar and Fort Kochi, in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil...
Ellangudipatti Sacred groves FollowFollowFollowFollow Silence Arriving at one of the sacred groves in the Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu is quite a surreal experience. We expected to be confronted by ticket booths and all the rest that you get in tourist sites in...
Chettinad villages and houses Villages and Houses FollowFollowFollowFollow Past glory Chettinad is a region in Tamil Nadu in south India which is made up of 70 odd villages that seem almost stuck in time. The name comes from the caste of traders, Chettiars, mostly...
Danushkodi is on the very far southern point in India, just 24 kilometers from Sri Lanka, on the island of Pamban, separated from the mainland by the Palk Strait. It shares the only land border between India and Sri Lanka, which is one of the smallest in the world at...
