Visiting sumithra in Trivandrum

As I haven't seen Sumithra for quite some time after see left Germany for US and then back to India I wanted to see her again and soon enough I took off for a long weekend and was going down south to Trivandrum by a night train. I didn't sleep that well the first time but one can get quite used to it. The change in landscape is quite dramatic: You go to sleep in the semi arid dry Tamilnadu and you wake up in a humid forested and green landscape with lots of coconut trees, palms, banana plants and rubber only interrupted by rice fields. Trivandrum was very nice apart from meeting Sumithra and her family (Nandakumar and the baby Shyama) it had a very intersting palace museum. Nandu took me out to padmanabhapuram palace -- an ancient Keralan temple and to Kovalam beach. Both very enjoyable.

Chennai train station	Chennai train station	first impressions of Kerala	The sleeper class carriages
many rivers	Ziegel?	Rice	Banana in front Coconuts behind them
backwaters	The train	One of the many stops in Kerala	more backwaters
farms and buildings along the railroad	farms and buildings along the railroad	farms and buildings along the railroad	more plabntations
Sumithra and her child Shyama	At night at the museum palace	At night at the museum palace	At night at the museum palace
At night at some other old building	At some dam with park	At some dam with park	At some dam with park
At some dam with park	At some dam with park	At some dam with park	At some dam with park
mimosa like tree with red flowers	At some dam with park -- surroundings	At some dam with park -- surroundings	the lake made by the dam
the lake made by the dam	the lake made by the dam	Jack Fruit	Rubber Tree
Rubber Tree	Some building at the dam park	Coconuts in front of my rooms window	Kovalam beach
Kovalam beach	Kovalam beach	Kovalam beach	Sumithra, Nandakumar and Shyama
Sumithra, Nandakumar and Shyama	Sumithra, Nandakumar and Shyama	Sumithra, Nandakumar and Shyama	K.-H.
K.-H.	quite different building style compared to Kalpakkam	more plantations	more plantations
ox cart -- I missed the elephant	The Padmanabhapuram palace	The Padmanabhapuram palace -- entry to the palace	nice door
kings chair	the chains are old lock chains	the ceiling in the knigs bedroom	the ceiling in the knigs bedroom
the kings bed	the kings bed	views of the palace buildings	views of the palace buildings
views of the palace buildings	views of the palace buildings	views of the palace buildings	views of the palace buildings
views of the palace buildings	views of the palace buildings	views of the palace buildings	The museum of the palace
The museum of the palace	The museum of the palace	The museum of the palace	door again
the center court	river on the way back	river on the way back	Shyama
Shyama	Shyama	Shyama	Shyama
Shyama	Shyama	neighbour house	Sumithra and Nandus (rented) house
The palce at Trivandrum	The palce at Trivandrum	The palce at Trivandrum	The palce at Trivandrum
The palce at Trivandrum	The palce at Trivandrum	The palce at Trivandrum	The palce at Trivandrum
The palce at Trivandrum	The palce at Trivandrum	The palce at Trivandrum	The palce at Trivandrum
The palce at Trivandrum	The palce at Trivandrum	The palce at Trivandrum	a funny lizard
a funny lizard	entrance gate to the palace park	park from outside	night scene on the road
night scene on the road	night scene on the road	At another beach resort -- frog