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Yes, they are truly beautiful.

It’s one of those places in India that everyone is supposed to go – and the idea is that you hop in a houseboat or launch and cruise about in the quiet, lush canals, whilst the good people of Kerala make their livings on, by, and in the water.

So… we did just that.

Distributed across this huge area of lagoons and waterways are thousands of Chinese fishing nets. We spent the day drifting past these elaborate skeletal contraptions that are designed to lift the catch straight out of the water.

But most of the nets we saw seemed rather deserted – presumably the stocks are falling – and the only working nets we saw were those on show in the main, tourist-friendly port of Kochi.

(Of which more to come. As you can see I’m desperately trying to whittle down our Flickr holiday backlog before we dash off again.)