India ~ Kochin

We flew into Chennai, but had to take a train from the east coast to the west to meet up with Gunnar and Jo in Kochin. So our first night in India was spent on a train. Not a bad way actually to start the trip considering we arrived and midnight and our train left a few hours later. We were able to relax in the so-so comfort of we'll used sleeper car enroute and make our first Indian friends...We didn't spend too much time in Kochin, but the highlight here was watching the fisherman using chinese fishing nets (or so we're told they're called ~ irrelavant to the fact that we're in India!). How they work should be self explanatory from the picture. Basically they drop huge nets into the sea and lift them (requiring at least 4 people) and hope that there are fish swimming by when they do so. In short, it didn't seem to work to terribly well... :)

And here is a picture of Gunnar and Jillene helping to lift the nets. They caught sweet f#$k all... :)