Thattekkad - Wednesday 4 & Thursday 5 November Our driver, with his air-conditioned Tata Indigo car, arrived promptly at 9.00a.m. We’d already had another enjoyable breakfast on the terrace at the Fort House Hotel and paid our bill, so left straight away for our 100kms drive to Thattekkad. It took almost an hour to leave the city of Kochi and emerge onto the less-busy country road. There, greenery surrounded us in the form of rubber plantations, fields of small pineapple plants, and coconut groves. The car would be with us for the next 11 days, as would our 26-year-old driver, Jino Thomas, a Christian from a small town 60kms from Kochi, employed by Rent-A-Car Kerala through whom I’d arranged the hire by internet. Jino had never been to Thattekkad before. Inevitably, we took the wrong road
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