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| | Spice up at Kochi, India |
 | | Kerala is a mere frond of a state, long and narrow, green and fertile - 15,000 palm-sheltered square miles in southwest India, rimmed by mountains called the Western Ghats, washed by the Arabian Sea and laced by an idyllic tangle of lakes and streams known as the Backwaters. |
 | | We were picked up at our hotel, the Brunton Boatyard in Fort Cochin, which faces a channel plied day and night by an endless parade of ferries, rice barges, fishing boats and oil tankers, for an eye-opening trip across the water to Ernakulam. |
 | | The Hindu, a national newspaper, reported recently that people in Kochi "are on a meaty binge," and some of the local vegetarian restaurants have closed. |
| www.tourismofindia.com /newsletter/kerala.htm (1286 words) |
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