After leaving Sadanah forest we caught the overnight express train from Villapuram to Kanyakumari. It was an easy 10 hours and when we woke up in the morning we had arrived. I instantly liked Kanyakumari, it had a very laid back feel. A little seaside fishing town. There were huge numbers of pilgrims visiting the holy temple of the virgin sea godess and the place where Ghandi's ashes were scattered into the sea (Ghandi is quite literally a god in India and rightly so). We spent 2 nights here enjoying the scenery and numerous bazaars. The beggars were a little much at times, but there's not a lot you can do. If you give money to one you kind of feel as though you are discriminating by choosing one person over another. It's a really terrible feeling. How are you meant to decide whether one person needs it more than another? So I just employed the general rule of if I happened to have small change in my pocket they were in luck. Putting this aside there were some cool items you could buy such as shells that had messages etched into them. Overall I thought this town was well worth the visit.
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