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Vagamon was a photographer's delight right from the road from Cochin airport!
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Cocoa pods growing wild by the roadside
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A closer look at the cocoa pods
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Did I mention photographer's paradise before?
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Wake up and smell the coffee!
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My driver-guide was going overboard in photographing me
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A hidden waterfall by the roadside
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It was just a trickle but heavenly
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I politely declined the offer to bathe in that waterfall
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My guide was photographing me all the while
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A rubber plantation by the roadside
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Ah, latex! Rubber tapping on a tree
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Rubber tapping in Kerala
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The plantation continues across the road
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Rubber is one of Kerala's chief crops
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That's the Toyota Innova I had all to myself
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We meet a state bus head-on: it was a tight sqeeze
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My guide insisted I photograph this funky looking tree
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A wild Brugmansia/ Trumpet Flower tree by the roadside
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A free ranging turkey by the roadside
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Wild cattle, my guide assured me
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Seeing that guy in the background I doubt if these are really wild
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Typical Kerala tea shack- too close to the road for comfort
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A free ranging Cattle Egret near a rubbish heap
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A waterfall by the roadside- many of these occur during the monsoons
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A tea plantation across the lake
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Photograph this, this a 'wild banana' plant, my guide urged me
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Lovely fruit of a type of palm
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A coffee stop by a beautiful lake meant more photos of me by my guide
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My guide wouldn't quit!
