Kanyakumari - Cape Comorin

Im now at the very southern tip of the Indian continent. Three oceans meet here; the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. It's about 5.30 pm and Im about to go and see the sunset and moonrise, it supposed to be very fantastic here!

I came here last evening about 6 pm. My train from Chennai reached Trivandrum around noon, I then had to wait for a connecting train down here at 3 pm, it took 2,5 hours to get here.
Its not a beautiful town at all, but there is a nice temple here and The Gandhi Memorial where an urn containing the Mahatma's Ashes are kept. It is called the Vivekananda Memorial and lies on a small island. There is a boat service there, but of course I missed the last boat out today. Maybe I will try to go in the morning before I leave this place again. It is not very much else to do here. Its a pilgrimage town, so there are busloads of Indian tourists, not so many foreigners.

I was planning to see the sunrise this morning too, but I must have been way too knackered after the train journey, because I slept till about 10 am. Not quite sure where I will go tomorrow, maybe Varkala Beach, but have also heard about some other beaches further north, so I might just skip Varkala and go straight to Kollam and the backwaters instead? Time will tell I guess.

Uhm (one hour later). Im back, it is cloudy and about a million Indian people crowded together on the small area where you can watch the sunset. So I left after a short while. Not my lucky day Anyway think Im just gonna leave tomorrow morning, the sooner the better.
By the way, I was passing some time earlier today and was trying to figure out why Indian bus drivers drive as they do.I came to the following conclusion:

The 10 rules of Indian bus driving...

• There is no such thing as a full bus!

• Always use use the horn, preferably every 20 seconds and hold it down for as long as possible. If it gets tiring lifting your hand on and off the horn, just rest your arm constantly on the horn.

• When overtaking another vehicle, make sure you do it before a curve (the sharper, the better), a hilltop, or to make it really exciting, at the same time as another bus coming the opposite way is also overtaking a big vehicle!

• Always start driving before people get properly on or off the bus.

• Don't tell any new passengers that hop on he bus along the way, where you are going, until it is too late for them to jump off, in case they were on the wrong bus)- they will then have to pay you to let them off again, since they did such a silly thing as going on the wrong bus??!

• When driving down very steep and curvy hillsides, always accelerate before the curves, especially at night.

• Don't stop for pee-breaks until half the bus is begging you on their knees to stop. Then let them off at the roadside bushes.

• Chew paan, cough and spit as grossly as you can, regularly out the window.

• Drive fast over any bumps...hm...or better, just drive fast as a general rule...

• If there are small things in your way like; goats, cows, people, cyclists or motorbikes, just blow the horn, don't even think about using the breaks. If they get hit, it is their fault, since you already warned them with the horn (nevermind the fact that the horn would probably frighten any living thing to fall off the bike or off their feat for that matter)!