THe 3 OCeans

As if one is not enough.....Jennifer, a Swedish actress called Sheshtin and myself get on the 8.30 train and head for the 3 Oceans...at the tip of India. It is where the Bay of Bengal, the Indian and the Arabian all meet...Kanyukamari, a pilgrimage place for Indians. The train journey there is ridiculous, how many people can you squash into one compartment? but not one smelt of BO...which was very impressive. Jennifer and I find ourselves a fancy hotel overlooking the ocean and head off to do all the tourist stuff...catching ferry's to islands, where they have built a massive statue (like Liberty) of a famous Tamil Nadu poet and then to another island where a famous Guru meditated...then on to the beach to watch the sunset. This was wild my snake park days in Muizenburg were never so packed...there were very few Westerners...and we were taking photos of them and they were taking photos of us!!! We had a wonderful dinner with a variety of delicious dishes and cold King Fisher Beer. You have to hide the alchohol..so sometimes you get a beer in a teapot....and the head of the beer in your cup is reminicent of a cup of CHINO! We set out alarm for 6am..because on a good day you can watch the moon set and the sun rise....every balcony was full...I thought our neighbour had a huge toothache and must have been up for hours...but Jennifer told me it is what the Seiks wrap around their head to keep their beard's in place..looked most painful to me! There were clouds in the sky so no moon...and suddenly the sun!....we slept for another hour. Then Indian breakfast, egg dosa (like an eggy pancacke) and masala tea. We decided to buy a cheap ticket for out return journey because with the expensive ticket we couldn't sit anyway! Well when you start at the end of the world the train is empty...till your horny college boys pile in and decide to take a hundred photos of you. Some of these 22 year old boys where sitting on each other's laps (none of them wanting to miss out on a white foreign lady!).....now come on boys! That doesn't turn a women on!! Actually they were fun and kept us entertained most of the way. We bought bottley vater! Chai! Koppie! and Vadda all on our journey so we didn't arrive home starving...as if....photos to follow...Happy New Year hope 2009 is filled with positive energy and lots of good changes.