Kerala

2 weekends ago we went to Kerala. Kerala is the south eastern region in India. It is supposed to be one of the most wonderful and best preserved regions in India. The beaches are amazing and it is simply green everywhere. There was a palm-tree every 2 meters.
We went on a backwater trip, which is a boat trip through natural and some artificial canals in the wild of this state. It was quite pretty but after a while it got really boring. We stayed on the boat for the night and had some good fish but the water was a bit dirty and in the end it wasn't really worth the price.
We also visited Varkala and Kovalam beach which were nice but overdeveloped. There were some really big eagles in the sky. The people don't really hunt them there, so there are many of them.
We went to the Neyyar Dam national Park. There was a huge dam and I climbed up a mountain with beautiful view of the landscape all around.
The last day we went to a beach close to Kochi called Cherai beach. There were many indians which came there and it was a good opportunity to blend in with the crowd, although this is nearly never possible.
The trip back to the airport was one of the most stressful ever. It was 40 km by bus which took us something like 3 hours. So in the end we had to take a taxi to be able to get to the airport 40 minutes before takeoff...