There once was a giant continent called Gondwana '. If we could go back sometimes just 400 million years by the time would be the place where we stay just about in the area of the 40th Degrees south latitude and staying between the zeroth and the 10th longitude East Longitude, a little further south than the Cape of Good Hope today. Only 250 million years later had the almighty about us and other plans with Gondwana split the Indian subcontinent from the African plate and sent it slowly to the northeast. The entertainment's sake it was with much noise and bang firework rockets to the non-geological fraction of our readership will not get bored. So far so good ... the Indian subcontinent cruised to say nearly another 240 million years aimlessly gene Northeast by Tethys (that's called the sea at that time) until it docked at virtually the Eurasian plate and assembled at to its current postition. That made it something like "click" sounds strange, but Sun As a result of this not too friendly encounter between the two plates gabs again crash bang and a lot of firework rockets ind form of volcanoes and earthquakes and all of those precious geological Geschmarrns.
It happened so at the time, and now again is the talk of the presence dear readers, that a small group consisting of 20 brave junior geologists from Erlangen, was given as two, have local knowledge these prices, on the wide Travel to India went to the study of the geological "Gewurschtels" (after Ferdl et. Al. 2009) have made to accept the two continental plates lusitgen time with it.
At this point, I refer you a little further down in our blog and dare a jump further ahead to the second part of our trip ... any that with geology: D
story so far ...
... after we left the beautiful idyllic palm-lined sandy beach in Palolem (I would rename it in Palm Olem) I will here summarize views expressed in short form. In the following, I apologize if I avoid some in the English language but that has currently in the brain as wide made ... sometimes we talk just like a little three in English until we remember that we all understand German.
made from Palolem from us on the journey continues to be more precise head South to Calicut, Gerda times 9am train was ertfernt of us. We arrived at 5 am in such a clock, fortunately we were able to train on + / - sleep beds, and mounted as described below even the mountain-sprinter-I-go-with-my-feet-never-the-accelerator bus to finally arrive after a long journey in Kalpetta. Kalpetta is not Calcutta and is located in Wyanad district in the Indian state of Kerala.
Kalpetta is a beautiful small busy place a little further up is located on the apparently quite rare should stray tourists. All the more irritated we were when we met at our hostel on massive other German students. This should, however, prove to be advantageous for us as we met a couple in our age Stuttgart that we were riding together on 'safari' through the jungle.
We did so with a jeep through the wilderness to past thundering waterfalls, vast tea and coffee plantations, mines filled with dangerous snakes and other deadly animals (tigers, elephants, monkeys (cute small), dogs, cats, cows, Buffalo, Flughoernchen, etc.), the steep cliffs to climb as high as the clouds are not present in the evening exhausted but with asleep to a wealth of Gelaendeerfahrung be met again in the brooding warm night.
After this formative experience, we had to say: Good bye and again of our two companions to them yet again on the train further south to Kochi just apply again next to our sleeping compartment.
Arrived in Kochi to not re-7h unanstregenden train we were on the island of Fort Kochi "a nice little shelter and met us for a beautiful sunset on the first with the Stuttgart Abdenessen. can extract curious events of the evening further down from Christopher's column.
After a night pouring rain as I have never seen before was a wonderfully sultry day we to wander around the city took advantage and makes some small purchases. It was again time to say goodbye to our two Teilzeitgefaehrten from Stuttgart to continue our journey towards the south vortzusetzen and drive to the train to Kottayam where should we start from a ferry in further adventures.
But for this part of the journey dear readers, I need you, unfortunately, a
postpone other times as the night falls and I have another appointment with the mosquitoes in my fluffy cozy little bed.
It is as good as night and greetings to Germany.
To be continued ...
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