After breakfast we left the backwaters again; first by boat to Alleppey. From here we should have taken a public bus to make it back to Kochi – however with buses going unusually infrequent and always full (presumably due to some trains, that had gotten canceled earlier on), we ended up on private transport back to Kochi … where it all had started two weeks earlier.

Six of us (including myself) made it to the airport early the next morning to catch a flight up to Delhi – for the second part of trip up North …