Cochin Travel and Tourism Guide

7/8/07We Tuk-tuk’d back to Willingdon Island and the Hilton and were greeted by half a dozen employees at the front desk.  I told one of the women who we were and that we had an Hhonors reward stay and she said “Yes. Yes” and proceeded to give me a $109/night room.  I told her that it was a points stay and she looked at me with the same vacuous look as last week.  Luckily, Charles, the one helpful guy at the hotel showed up.  When I explained what was going on, he sa...

The bus from Munnar reached Cochin Edapally station around 10.30 AM. I wanted to get my cell phone back from the rickshaw driver. However, I could not find him at the place where he mentioned he would be. I tried to call on my cell phone but it was directly going to the voice mail. Most probably it would have run out of power. A couple of hours of effort trying to identify this person didn't quite help. I decided to leave it and move on. The disappointing part was that I couldn't call Annooz ...

Incredible India. More pictures still to come

Given the rather sheer brilliance of the place, I woke up very very early - around 7am and ran to the beach. Had a good morning swim, relaxed on the hammock listening to some music before heading to breakfast. Again, the weather was great, it was just excellent! I love this place!!! Breakfast was the usual - in a nice big hut with lots of people, Indian/continental buffet. The best part came after breakfast when we went to the internationally renowned Ayurvedic Centre for a complete body m...