We took yet another bus, heading to the state of Kerala. There were riots at a certain part of the border so we had to take three extra hours to avoid them. We arrived at a town called Kovalam. We walked around for about 30 minutes in the dark, asking in at different hotels to see if they had room. None of them did, not even the ones in the very back alleys. A tuk-tuk driver came and said he knew three hotels that had room. Two of them were full, but the third, located on the out-skirts of the city, apparently wasn't full. He said that it would cost us 30 rupees for 20 kilometres. We were all like 'Ouuu! Yay! Great price!' But we should've known better. When we arrived it had room, but when we paid the guy he said we misunderstood and that it was 30 rupees per kilometre. Total rip-off. We were satisfied with the room at first, but in the night we discovered bugs - not bed-bugs, but bugs all the same. In the morning me and Mom got up early and and took a walk on the beach. It was nice, but even if other tourist were swimming and saying it was totally 'clean', we weren't about to take our chances. We went back to the place and woke Dad and Birch up, bringing them back to the beach. We lounged around for a couple days and then headed off to Alleppey, where we were going to spend New Years at a place called Green Palms Homes.
-Allie
-Allie
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