Sunrise at KK (6.00 am) Morning starts early in Kanyakumari - 5 am, to be exact. Sun rises at 6.00 am, so we need to get ready before that. The sunrise viewing place was around 10 mins walk away. We were about to step out of the hotel when the doorman said: "Sunrise? Where you go? Press 5 in lift. Full terrace, yes. ×÷₹#@" The last few were not cuss words but expressions in Tamil which probably meant, where do these funny tourists come from. So up we went and peered eastward in the dim light. Sun was still hitting the snooze button. The sky was slowly turning pink when we realised that the piece de resistance , the V Rock (and also the T Rock, one must be fair) was not visible at all, probably hidden behind one if the buildings in the foreground. We looked at one another and rushed down to go to the view point - and joined a veritable stream of sunrise hounds, let loose like the dogs of war, pouring into alleyways, into seaward nooks and crannies, baying for orang...
A month long travel through the southern states of India.