Strange things happened on Monday between Trivandrum and Alleppey. The Beauty and the Beast team were seen in a tea stall, preparing their own chai and some Vikings were spotted cruising along the palm-tree lines in a rickshaw instead of in a long boat in the Norwegian fjords.
The Rickshaw Challenge Malabar Rampage 2016 has finally kicked off Monday morning, after a last briefing by The Travel Scientists. Participants dressed up in crazy-cool costumes – one way to make points and get ahead of the competition. You can soon check out the scores of each team here. Some might have regretted their costume choice, like the Team Butt, Sweat and Tears, wearing inflatable sumo ringer suites, which make for a great sauna, or the Beast from Team Beauty and the Beast, who were sweating already in the early morning hours under their shaggy masks. Thankfully, they still had enough persistence to manage the day’s first challenge: making chai in a local tea stall with flying colours and fully dressed up.
The second challenge – taking a photo with a cow – proved to be a bit more difficult, since cows are not the most cooperative photo subjects and tend to simply walk out of the picture.
On their way along the Malabar Coast the teams visited Varkala Beach, a paradise almost free of tourists, with just a few stalls, where our adventurers could take a rest forget about the hustle of the Indian traffic for a while, burry their feet in the sand and enjoy a freshly made coconut shake.
Finally, all of our teams arrived in Alleppey, some earlier, some a few hours after dark, but all unharmed and excited from all the things that happened to them en-route.
The greatest (and hardest) challenge of the day was to fix a hammock between the palm trees, enjoy the slight breeze and stay forever in Kerala, finally understanding why it is also called God’s own country.
05Apr
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Malabar Rampage 2016 – Day 3: Trivandrum to Alleppey
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