Monday, April 6, 2009

March of the Elephants

We're in a town outside Thrissur (or Kochi, depending on how you look atit) in Kerala. The pace is slow out here, but the internet is even slower, so I have to make this quick.

In about 20 minutes, our taxi will be here-- we'll go to Kochi airport and fly out to Agatti Island.

Last night we went to a major festival about 25km away. It is an all-night thing, but we only went from about 10pm -1am. There were some extravagently decorated elephants, massive booming fireworks (such that we felt the force of the boom and the heat, though we were a rice paddy away) and frenetic, frantic drums and horns. There were a couple thousand people out there, though I am really bad at estimating crowds, so I will leave it at that. If I had the World's Best Camera, I would've taken the World's Best Photos, alas, I have but some blurry reminders. But pretty!

Really have to run. Thanks for tuning in.

2 comments:

  1. Hey Beautiful! Thanks for keeping us posted. love to hear the latest. if your blurry reminders are anything like the pics we saw from europe they'll be great.

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  2. i watched lots of sandlewood youtube videos today, and i was like, oooooh, a rice paddy.

    you are having a movie star experience.

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