Had another awesome muesli bowl with cold milk at Sea Splendor and then headed off to the beach again. We didn’t want to stay the whole day today though so after a milkshake at 14 we went back to our room to continue reading and slacking in the shade.

After lunch and some slacking we headed to the cliff for a cocktail at sunset. Let’s just say that the whiskey sour I got did not meet the awesome sunset. It was however almost a sixth of the usual Swedish price 😉

Today we had a long day at the beach, starting around 11 (Sea Splendor’s breakfast muesli is great, but they sure aren’t fast preparing it). Sunbathing, swimming and reading iPad until it overheated in the sun. We enjoyed yet another sunset and decided it was due time to leave the beach.

We went in to Varkala Cliff after refreshing, which had much more restaurants but also bouncers and hawkers. Prices weren’t that bad but it reconfirmed our luck with finding Odayam beach (not mentioned in Lonely Planet, how about that?). After eating and using some Internet we headed back, unfortunately the Riksha-drivers went to bed early so we walked for some 20 minutes at least before a driver picked up us and took us home to First Place.

As to balance the previous days ranting the content of this day can best be described by the picture above. We had a nice, and fairly priced lunch at the beach and bumped into some of the Swedes who mentioned a temple festival later which we thought we could check out.

The Shiva festival had all the standard ingredients, a few food stalls, dancers and drummers, elephants and lots of locals having a good time. One thing that we hadn’t seen before was the competition between two villages in a sort of a traditional game. The idea was that first you build your wooden horse/tower – around 8 meters tall and then you let each team carry one side of the horse while trying to knock it over to/on the other team. To use the now in India quite commonly used phrase – What could possibly go wrong?