Kanyakumari

Friday 25/01/2013 - KANYAKUMARI  (Cape Comorin)

- Bus journey from Trivandrum to Thuckaley and to Kanyakumari,
- Visit of Kanyakumari, the most southern place of India.

Thuckaley.

A strange church in Tuckaley.

Padmanabhapuram Pulace (Thuckaley), the largest wooden Palace of India.

Foreigners pay a lot more their entrance ticket, but may bypass the very long queue!

These chairs are that wide, to accomodate the ministers sitting in lotus style. 

In this room, the generous king invited each day 1000 of his people for a free lunch.

Uniform for those who did not listen well, I believe.

Kanyakumari.

Virgin Goddess Kummary Amman Temple (island on the left hand side),

and the Thiruvalluvar Statue (island on the right): India's Colossus of Rhodes.

"Polly Pocket"-looking Gandhi memorial,

Inspired and designed by Hindu, Christian, and Muslim architects.

Fishing boats.

Evening activity of the fishermen: playing cards.

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