Kollam 11/10

On the train to Kollam we met a police officer that helped us a lot. He joined us in a taxi and helped us find a room in the middle of the night. We got a hole suite for only 37SEK. The next morning we took a tuctuc (small yellow taxi) to the Munroe island in the Ashtamudi lake.


This was our driver around the island, 65 years old without teeth :)


And one more crazy thing was that the taxi driver followed us in the boat, so he could drive us back to Kollam again (26 kilometers one way). So we put all our luggage in the boat and then without my notice, my bottle of 50cl rice wine (40+ alcohol %) from VietNam dropped out from my bag. And i bought it in a water bottle. So on the boat trip i saw the water bottle and was thinking it was the taxi drivers water, so i gave it to him and he started drinking it. After a while he started talking about indian water and smiled and pointed at the bottle, but we didnt understand so we just smiled to him too and continued the trip. After the boat trip (90min) our taxi driver drove us back to Kollams railway station. And there, when i saw his eyes and he looked really drunk and was very happy and touched my beard and laughing, then i figured out that it was my rice wine he had been drinking. So very lucky we got the hole way back to Kollam in safe :)


The colours of India :)

You never know what you can find on an india boat :)