Checked out of the hotel at 9:00 am. Misplaced my watch and was convinced it had fallen somewhere in the luggage. I let the hotel staff know about it and half way to Kazicode they called to let us know that the watch has been found and they will bring it to the airport on our departure day. I am curious as to where it was, since both looked everywhere.
We had to make a small change in plans. The Arthripally Falls are pretty dry due to a dry winter so we decided to skip it and go to the elephant sanctuary instead.
Took the car ferry across the mouth of the inlet, a very smooth and quick process.
The drive was through villages and small communities the scenery was quite pretty but it stil was long and tiring.
We arrived at Guruvayoor and went into the elephant sanctuary. A very interesting place, there are about 40-50 elephants which people have donated to the temple. The temple itself is rather famous but we decided to skip it due to the long lines.
Manilal took us to Krishna Inn for lunch. It was an excellent vegetarian restaurant, with generous portions and we shared a very tasty Chettinad style mixed vegetable curry. Sudip was concerned that it would be too hot for him but turned it was not.
After lunch we drove on and
reached The Gateway Hotel at around 3:00 pm Interestingly the local pronunciation of Kozkcode sounds very closed to its anglicized version Calicut.
Another beautiful hotel with typical Taj hospitality.
Freshened up a bit and went down for tea with pakoras and cookies and then for a short walk in the well kept grounds.
As usual Sudip found a Bengali server and manager and tea and snacks became complimentary.
Back to the room and after a short rest went downstairs for dinner around 7:30 PM.
I kept changing my mind every time the server brought up a new dish much to his merriment. The restaurant staff were fore warned about my shellfish allergy and they keep making wonderful suggestions for me.
Finally settled on calamari pan roasted with Kerala spices and Sudip ordered the prawns cooked in Kerala spices
Split a Kingfisher, a popular Indian beer, while waiting for our meal.
The dinner was truly delicious but way more than I could eat so regretfully I had to quite a bit untouched.
A wonderful day but l long and another tomorrow, so retiring early for tonight.
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