If this really is the cleanest, most educated and pristine state in India, as its tourist brochures proudly declare, heaven help the rest of this place.
I arrive hear at midday today after 14hrs on a sleeper train that either tried to freeze me to death or melt me, but I survived. Visited Jewtown - Kochi today. Its the remains of a once prosperous Jewish trading community with roots going as far back as Roman times, well the destruction of the Second Temple anyway. Walking around you get the eerie sense that this is like one large cemetery/museum of extinct Jewish civilization, I guess the thickly accented German tourists helped create the ultimate "what if" tourist destination. You can almost hear them thinking to themselves, "We were so close...". Maybe I'm just sick in the head. The synagogue was an interesting place to visit, with its Belgian chandelier and handpainted Chinese tiles it wasn't your average shule. It was definitely different having a non-Jewish Indian man give a run down of the anatomy of the synagogue to a visiting group of Indian and Chinese tourists.
Well the temperature keeps rising so its off to another icecream stand for some refreshment.
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