I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 719.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about beaches and temples, fishing nets and

Vasco de Gama, tea plantations, and the backwaters,

as we go to Kerala, India.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Kerala. I'd like to welcome to the show Mary Ellen Ward from breathe dream go.com and

India for beginners.com and Mary Ellen has come to talk to us about Carola

India.

Mary Ellen, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much for having me and we were just discussing the fact that we've known each other since probably about 2010.

It took us a while to try and figure that out as we're in that kind of it's been so long sort of things.

But it's great to talk to you and I think a number of people suggested when I said I wanted to do Carla, oh have you talked to Mary Ellen and I thought, oh you were so right.

Because what's your connection with Carla?

My connection is mostly with India in general and Kerala we're talking about today, but I've been traveling to India since 2005 and my blog

Specialises in focusing on India not specifically in Kerala, but Carol is just one of the many states that I've been to many times

and it is actually one of my favorite.

If I had to rank them, I think it would definitely be in the top three.

So blogging about India for 15 years and then only recently started doing tours, which is that second

URL we mentioned India for Beginners.com.

But why should someone go to Kerala?

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