A soulful journey through south India: Tamil Nadu and Kerala — theguardian.com

A trip to south India is a soul-stirring experience. The southern cities teem with life: grand hotels, cosmopolitan clubs and bars, and street food stalls selling work-of-art snacks scented with coconut and cinnamon. The colourful regions of Tamil Nadu and Kerala are home to some of India’s most elaborate and holy temples, as well as incongruous white French and Portuguese churches, the legacies of colonial eras. Wild elephants roam the area’s nature reserves, while Kerala’s mesmerisingly beautiful backwaters open out into mighty lakes, where wickerwork houseboats and canoes glide through the water almost in silence.

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