VARANASI the religious capital of India

This city of a little less than 1 million people is right inbetween Delhi and Kolkata upon the banks of Ganges river and has BOTH the northern lack of interest to things physical AND the southern lack of interest to things intellectual.Only in this city did i see wild monkeys,freely running around in real closeness to humans.Not in the city itself,only upon the railway station.They are completely unafraid of humans there and my guess is Varanasi population is SO much less dangerous as the city is the centre of religious life in India,hinduism believing monkeys to be holy animals along with cows;as such they may NOT be hunted/wasted etc and are given full freedom of action.I never saw them in Kolkata,wher i lived for a long time though,where I guess they would become an easy prey of this free no expense meat source of local people.About food,and i had seen caffee repertoir there often on numerous occasions-all of publically available food is mostly vegetarian and is completely compliant with hindu requirements of no meat eaten;but in certain spots it IS possible to eat meat/fish etc;THAT food exists simply ONLY for meateaters.Once i decided to feed a fruit to a monkey upon the Varanasi city railway station so i threw it towards them,and 1 of the monkeys(sized like a 6 year old boy and behaving alike too,yet much more active,even as seemingly not at all interested in humans)immediately snatched the fruit and started eating it right upon that very spot,some 10 metres away from myself.This amazingly free wild animals' behaviour i witnessed only inside of Varanasi while i had been to many large India cities as well.1 more VERY extreme an experience in Varanasi was when we(me and my local friend i met in a Kolkata paying guest hotel)entered a small hindu temple of his own choice.The temple wasnt looking anything special to me as i entered it,from the outside i mean.I personally would never chose to enter it as the entrance to it looked like a very normal place with no original things around it;but my local friend knew what exactly was he doing.The main deity in it made upon me the MOST exquisite impression of ALL different countries' deities i ever saw,and there were many.Only my album ''Temples'' that holds photoes from ukrainian churches mostly,contains like 200 photoes from the insides of churches.I remember that Varanasi temple deity being of a small 5 years old child size,situated upon the level of one's eyes and covered in very nice clothes with its surroundings giving the largest spiritual experiences of ALL the temples i had ever been to,and those were many in different countries.All in all Varanasi is like a large 'natural reserve' or a National Park,a pure and unobstructed in any ways immense home for religious people,all behaving like a natural reserve animals would with weird changes to the very same principle of behaviour in those.I saw this same special feeling to hindu deities in some Puri religious families' homes i was passing by in the east coast holy city upon its main streets(had been to Puri at the very start of my India travels for an entire day in 2011),but there right before a home entrance a small palm sized deity always was installed while more official and grand looking Varanasi houses never had this feature to them,the city being grand and pretty strict in architectural detail with no weird looking details like small deities before a private home in sight,the way homes of Puri religious people always look.Puri is a much smaller than Varanasi town upon the north-eastern coast of India,also very much dominated by religious people.When off the temple deity observation(the most striking 1 of all I saw in different temples in India and I had been to many)i was immediately approached by the temple priest,a very thin,seemingly emotionally emaciated somewhat nervous and seemingly rich on internal intellectual expreriences nice gentleman,all clothed in weird local clothes,who was looking nothing like any always officially looking Ukraine priests do(i saw many of them there while making temples' photoes),but who reminded me a long time refraining from food university professor,who suddenly sank into childish activities with loss of ALL understanding of the world outside of this particular temple his eternal home.The priest,because he was acting like one would,suddenly and unexpectedly approached me with amazing quickness of step,asked me several weird questions after which he just AS quickly disappeared from view,questions that looked very strange considering that situation,obviously recognizing a foreighner,among which i recall the country i live in and the name of my mother.Temples in Varanasi are both grand looking and very numerous,much unlike Puri city ones,where they are much smaller with a micro deity a religious home entrance;the rest of Puri town purely dominated by normal indian locals.In Varanasi though the ENTIRE city is perfectly dominated by religion of hinduism and its intricacies to the point,where religious stop even considering the reality outside of temples/religious centres.1 more feature of city life i never witnessed in any of other cities of India or another country too,were public cremations,happening inside of a somewhat less sounding,yet a city suburb(not in its centre yet not upon its outskirts too),which can be freely watched by any passer by.Hinduism believes that the owner of the body had simply departed to live in another body,leaving this useless body behind into this new better life condition.I happened in that place completely unexpectedly while roaming the city streets freely,looking for new impressions.Recognizing this amazing situation immidiately,I myself could not leave untill watching it start and even then into unfolding of it at lenght,SO interesting was watching this cremation unfold before my own eyes-the very weird show one can never ever witness in any other world spot,including TV as well.Not simply a small place,but a comparatively active suburb of a large city to this,even as not its central part.This was not in any crematorium,one all closed from everyone able to see it at all as it is in most every cremation ground,but inside of the city and even not upon an isolated street,but a busy active one.The dead body is brought in to the cremation grounds upon a normal hospital stretcher the way ill people are transported,it is then fully clothed in exclusive local clothes and with fresh flowers around it,just as Indian tradition prescribes it.After this a priest spent around 15 minutes in a ceremony with pronouncing the guy's great qualities i'd guess(all in hindi and so completely not understandable to me),after which the same priest opens the fire with simple matches;they start a smaller shred of paper or a matter;the shred is put then to the stretcher with the body upon it;the fire quickly envelops the body as it had just been profusely covered with easily flammable liquids,those that smell like cerosene,but very profusely;all well seen to maybe 100 people,gathered at that spot for watching the CEREMONY unfold.To the description of the YES ceremony,even as a very standard ''joke like'' looking 1,you must add that NO nice looking paraphernalia or exquisite presents/things are ever in use in it and all is looking like JUST a simple life process going on(the way a kitchen cooking of a dish normally does).Seemingly much accustomed to similar shows watchers of that ceremony show no sign of ANY feelings like crying or sorrow and simply watch it all while standing at the place.As the strong fire immidiately envelops the body(previously richly covered with things flammable from a large canister with petroleum like smell),along with the heavy smell the vaporizing from the fire dead body was emitting,just AS disturbing for an outsider(locals around didnt seem to mind it in the least though)was the sight of a human body burning,to the brain this time,because the smoke wasnt THAT heavy as to block the vision off very effectively,even as dark fumes were vaporizing in quantities.Unlike upon other funeral ceremonies i was witnessing none around was showing ANY signs of displeasure/horror/any abnormal action from this show;all the watchers had been reacting to it as to any other not really important a public action.The hardest thing to come through during the cremation(the thing that also finally made me leave the otherwise exclusively interesting show i never even suspected was possible to ever see)during the happening is the heavily injuring you smell of the burning body,which is not resembling anything else i recall.Well,the most common idea of that smell is given by a burning plastic materials,as i recall that was also what burning of a corpse did to it,JUST what burning of plastics does to them;that same disgustingly nasty and eating you alive inside smell of burning plastics,just that the smell isnt chemical at all,as with plastics it is,but "natural",yet just AS disgusting or much more so nevertheless.It tends to kill off your nose and churn your brain inside too.Even as i myself,turned completely over with that smell after maybe 20 minutes of watching it all unfold,was finally leaving the show in progress as my nose was now refusing cooperation,ALL the other watchers remained visibly senseless,looking averagely and glued to the show with what i percieved as weird grim determination to be upon that very spot to the very end of the ceremony unfolding.Its also hard to shake that smell off yourself even once the cremation is over/you are off the watching of it-THAT nasty is the smell!I left the cremation finally exactly because the smell became too disturbing to hold through the ceremony for any longer.None else of the present was leaving this show though,obviously determined to watch it to the very end,and i guess also well used to cremations' smells.Here MOST of other places the public behaviour reminded me of that in the Riyadh the Saudi Arabia capital airport,where people acted like machines that had no live feelings(EXACTLY the same impression involved here)but only mechanical functions to perform-the very same mechanism-like complete support of the ruling the brain idea to bring the people into the spot.Cremations are held ever in the same city spot and multiple very similar small coal heaps were showing how often had the place been used for the purpose.Similar coals' heaps showed me that SO many similar cremations had been performed here previously.The results of previous cremations,they were a little paler by colour,thats all.After the cremations finish the resulting ashes are supposed to be thrown out into the holy to Hindu worshippers Ganges river;which i didnt witness personally.According to the normal hindu belief the soul then simply leaves this body and then becomes attached to a new 1;so why bother about the details of its next existance?What IS done in river Ganges(Varanasi has exclusively nicely architecturally managed ghats;saw those and even bathed in 1 of those ghats;other bathers all looked like religious people with enough physics to river bath and there are NOT many of such there;is bathing and i myself had even once bathed there.Surrounded by more businesslike people than upon numerous Kolkata ghats i also frequented as in that city.Ganges river in Varanasi is crossing the city into about two similar by size halves,and it is easy to cross it by swimming too for a good swimmer;not that i DID notice anyone doing this though;and i mean NOT for like an excellent swimmer was it simple to cross the river,unlike in Kolkata West Bengal,where it isnt EVER possible to cross the river aswim,both because of the great distance to the other shore(only houses visible there,no human siluetthes percievable at all,SUCH is the distance to that other Gabges shore there,and even more so because of a strong current that is quickly moving in the river' middle.Currents,seen well at their power as they pull some tree branches towards the sea,are THAT strong as to pretty easily divert even strong muscular swimmers off their determination to cross the river in Kolkata West Bengal.The other shore of Ganges river here in Varanasi is clearly visible and easy to reach,unlike it is in Kolkata.The strenght of the Kolkata Ganges was percievable when it moved along the river middle some tree branches.The speed of the middle of Ganges river in Kolkata is like a half of the speed of an average car that passes city streets.The current there would easily take a swimmer off the course and too far away too,so none ever attempted this feat of crossing it there.The quantity of people,taking a bath in the Varanasi ghat was considerably smaller than in the Kolkata ghat(river spot for bathing)i bathed twice during each day around Kolkata,but not seriously smaller while the Ganges river was much smaller in width,less dangerous for crossing it to the other river shore.The decorations of the Varanasi ghat were of great quality,all nicely managed architecturally and also scrupulously worked over,with numerous engraved signs in a local language,i guess the hindi one;Kolkata ghats never holding any of such details to them even as MUCH more populated by swimmers.The Varanasi ghat i was bathing at(only once as ALL the time i spent in Varanasi was from 1 morning to that very day's evening,my Ganges valley local friend circling the city around me;was not even close to the simple spot for just bathing I frequented when living near Kolkata,with signs for swimmers well visible.Ghats are always well and meticulously cleanly kept,in both cities,have no garbage or else such similar displeasing things around,are all in an amazingly clean condition,and only once I saw a disruption to this rule(had been bathing in Ganges twice each day when staying in a Kolkata paying guest in 2011)in the Bally town West Bengal ghat(a VERY much not a central spot and even more,a provincial NOT centre connected at all 1),when close to it a corpse of a brought by the river current cow was laying partly decomposing.This sight was both disturbing and very much uncommon-i used then to bath in many spots around Kolkata for the fun of it-youth takes its own,i was 39 in 2011 the year of my India travels and in an excellent physical condition to that,which was making me perfectly capable of walking around a city for 3 hours at least non stop and NOT needing any break to the foot travel to that,EXACTLY what i had been actively busy BOTH in India and in Haifa Israel too often as well.The decomposing cow corpse was seen during one day only and disappeared the very next day though and this case was the ONLY disruption to the otherwise clean and with a medicinal area induced worked over spot's conditon,THAT spotlessly clean and well kept had been the indian bathing river spots.It isnt that the shore wasnt dirty-it was BUT the ghat itself was spotlessly clean always.Varanasi city structure is very well managed,has no mismanaged areas at all,is with numerous very nice architecturally perfectly worked over buildings,the words to describe which shortly would be GRAND and MAGNIFICENT.Varanasi city structure being efficient so much more than the Bombay city one is,and Bombay is a MUCH more important to India city than Varanasi economically and has maybe a twenty times larger importance to the country economics and i guess is 10 times larger by population too.Speaking of Bombay,where i spent once close to a full day awaiting a train to elsewhere as i never liked that city(currently listed as Mumbai after a new religious dominated government decided to rename it though),it reminded me simply a lot of nighttime housing to comfort daytime workers of complicated industries' styles,something,completely abscent in the lazy sleepy style of Kolkata city.My OWN impression held that if you wished to work and earn real cash your city in India was definitely Mumbai;if you wanted to lead a completely religion dictated life your city was Varanasi,if you wanted a lazy sleepy no action at all life it was Kolkata etc.Hinduism itself(funnily still a MUCH stronger force around India than anything else is)lets everyone get overbusy with his OWN occupations,not interrupting into those AT ALL.This very similar attitude does also Israel hold to life,and both India and Israel in reality are the only mostly religious countries with secular influence over average life strictly avoided and showing itself as ''the real life fact''(it never is in realtiy of life nevertheless)only inside of TV and other public shows like the politics from the country capital etc.The thing is even ''as babies play on''(capital politics here),REAL men are much busy with REAL things to do;and those ''real things'' are EXACTLY the sort of a show i witnessed as a Varanasi religious cremation-those are amazingly banal yet taken crazily seriously SIMPLE DAILY LIFE events.I witnessed this myself on numerous occasions as i live in Israel.

SENSITIVITY

This very important for myself quality is definitely connected to vegan feeding.The capacities that it brings include very delicate operating with each of life things with much better solutions to each of the topics along the way,because only your sensitivity will tell you to stop once some bad level of an activity is finally reached.Those people that do not possess high sensitivity will miss the brink,after which a particular activity becomes poison and in this way all that activity will be less effective/more damaging the body as it then starts to produce side effects/complications none really wants inside.ALL the foods i consume are eaten here in an undercooked state,not even close to the boiling point,heated to a particular degree only,which increases the amount of live undestroyed by boiling vitamins and minerals very considerably,which,in turn,makes the condition of organs more alive/filled with very much live vitamins/minerals66 and,accordingly,more sensitive to different things.This in turn increases the speed of those organs being well tired of even simple activities,as the brain then needs to react to those things much more seriously.This situation reminds me the difference of sensitivity between my left well doing wrist(small 1)and my right one,which had recently come through a complicated break down as a result of a road accident in several places and now,post factum it all,is much more sensitive to my own fingers and so the rest of things too,than the left 1.This additional sensitivity means undoubtedly additional activity,which the brain then needs to conduct through the right wrist nerves,in this way increasing the work the brain does with the right wrist.One more interesting outcome of it all is that the later by time passing did any bodily parts come into existance the more sensitive are they.As the general rule as I notice complicated life experiences,bone breaks etc,lead to additional participation of the brain itself in the activity of the just injured body part.The exact point of the former trauma is always doing the worst interestingly while the bodily matter right after it and adjacent to it is increasing after that trauma several times more.Thats just how the organism had managed to start reacting to numerous traumatic experiences of its past-by surrounding the just severely damaged body part with numerous other ones of that same sort that DO keep working well,adding to those neighbours of theirs what the damaged parts themselves fail to get into their orbits.Again,this effect of replacing what had just been damaged with newer boosting up with life members of the 'bodily trade' is a proof of the necessity sensitivity holds inside of us.hich is the least sensitive to things are thighs and if you noticed which body part is always in the worst condition(in most cases the problem with them is under the skin,which shows bad condition of the matter below),in most humans that lead no sporting connected life,it is also thighs.Bodily matter right under the thihgs' skin is the most unhealthy one,showing not smooth 1(fingers' type 1)but curd like uneven formation of the matter.This unhealthy thighs' condition is a sad norm among most of people over the age of 40.On the other hand,experience shows us that the most sensitive bodily part are the hands and the fingers especially.No bad condition is ever noticed for fingers,no curd like formations but muscular ones only.The point of this excursion into human anatomy is that the less sensitive you are the more damaged your health will be with time.Human body is built so as to send additional 'reinforcements/improvements/changes of sorts' into the body parts that DO request or demand those and NOT into the body parts that fail to register existance of complications inside of them.And this is why the least sensitive and so requesting improvements thighs are minimally worked over by the ever existing/active inside of us police like forces that attempt to always coordinate things and fix complications,arising with the body.The more sensitive will you be the less problematic the condition of your physical body is destined to be as well.Lately all my food is cooked only till it reaches a much smaller degree of heating up than the boiling point. SEASHORE CHANGES Whenever do i either leave or approach the sea for whichever reason,but from 200 metres to the shore itself,i need to frequently stop for a break as i easily develop heavy breathing and i have this rule,which demands from me to stop in whatever am i busy with till the very moment heavy breathing is finally off.The reason for this phenomena is the sizeable changes of enviroment,surrounding anyone that is closing on/leaving the sea.The area,which is directly over and closest to the seawater itself unlike areas that are relatively afar/away from it holds completely different circumstances and these can influence any human in ways he might only feel once his sensitivity levels are pretty high/developed.Seawater undoubtedly is different from the pure air that surrounds us averagely.It tends to evaporate into the air sizeable quantities of vapour that contains sea water in quantities,and the further are you from the seashore itself the less is this sea vapour influencing you.Vapour quantity(it contains smaller and smaller quantities of seawater the furthern from the sea are you)though is easily/quickly retreating into nothing as you are leaving the sea outwards;taking off into nothing also the sea quality;and this very sudden yet sizeable by the seashore fall of seawater qualities is exactly what produces the above mentioned heavy breathing.Even as the brain itself(i am simply speaking this very brain)is never touched by similar changes for its own(and as the result also the good of the entire organism)good,my lower parts the lower bodily functions/organs notice these minor changes very efficiently and react upon them accordingly;the entire system of my organs changing its sizes/qualities/capacities the more the further from the seashore had i just gotten.I simply have the levels of my sensitivity AS developed as to yes show me the resulting changes;still,every human being passes similar changes of his internal organs whenever does he leave or approach the sea,this gigantic specialized bio/purely organic mass that is SO much a larger system than a particular human being ever is.Such sensitivity,along with its worse life pieces like needing to stop amazingly frequently as leaving the sea,also has its better sides.For instance,i never need to consider when to yes stop doing any thing in life for a break as this very heavy breathing tells me when EXACTLY am i to stop for a break;people that do NOT have/never listen to such body precautious warnings are able,let us say,to get their brains wasted in ultra complicated highly detailed brain activities everyone nowadays is easily exposed to;without any idea that this effect actually IS happening to them;any highly sensitive human being though does get such a very clear warning;and this exact gift of ''warning from my subjects below''(if you care and try to manage them correctly and always,you will ever have it on)is a very efficient way to avoid greatest life complications,and exhaustion and resulting dying off of never recreating themselves neuro brain cells is exactly the prize you will be enjoying with sensitivity.As whichever is the prize you are seeking out in your normal life activities(we all work over certain life fields wee seek perfection in),never is this prize allowed to destroy/diminish in size the very motor of what is it you are doing in life,and that is the brain itself the main manager of the organism.Whenever do you encounter heavy breathing and other significant homeostasis complications though you must stop right away what is it that causes these;those that do not follow similar ''safety regulations'' will suffer health complications;and people that DO try to enhance sensitivity/efficiency of life/best actions' results must be prepared to act accordingly;in the above mentioned case of approaching/leaving the seashore that is stopping for a break AS soon as heavy breathing is on;and i stop in my ways always even as none else is acting that weird from the outside way. IN PRANAYAMA High levels of sensitivity are 1 of more interesting and less mentioned results of constant doing pranayama exercises.This indeed must take a considerable time to appear,but the levels,in which your own system then participates in making day-to-day decisions of smaller character are pretty high and you never have to worry about just when to stop in a particular activity type as your body then suggests it IS time to stop;in this case when i develop heavy breathing(a regular spot in time,where i must stop doing pranayama).I sometimes read in works of other yoga specialists that this or thhat a number of rounds/cycles of pranayama or number of exercises is exactly what IS recommended;however,i myself never need such denominations as my own very body suggests the exact moment i must stop by signs like heavy breathing;definite and undisputed spots in time,where i just have to stop;i personally find such results as this body limitations as the best ever way to accertain the exact moments,in which i must stop doing yoga/pranayama exercises.Others may tell you what works for them;but in your OWN case(each case has to be somewhat different just as each human's weight just HAS somehow to differ from that of another human being)you need to accertain the very exact time moments,where you need to stop just to avoid overheating of the system,and yoga CAN even dangerously overheat your body machine/system of your different body parts.Sometimes i read about people that produced for themselves bad internal injuries while doing yoga exercises for TOO long;this will never happen if you AS simply as just allow your own system to warn you beforehands about the dangerous overheated levels of exercising it is approacing;and ''heavy breathing pretty easily achieved'' IS 1 thing that will be around you if you simply do pranayama for a very long time;never seriously dangerous to your health,pranayama though can bring you such wonderful presents you will never regret with time.

KOCHI,Kerala,southern India

I was to Kochi town in Kerala state India in 2011 for a full month somewhat after in general i concluded my aquaintance with the West Bengal area up the Ganges valley;and just to take a look at southern India and how does it look/feel,i went there as well.My idea at that time was that south India holds circumstances,better than those of the Ganges valley(this was not correct at all as i found out).I rented there a small apartment on the 2nd and last floor of a 2 story separately owned private house,which was situated upon its continent part.Now,Kochi is divided into 2,separated by a bay,parts-the penninsula 1 and then the "continental " 1,the central 1 being the penninsula 1(with both nice old architecture and complicated technology,a port etc)while the continental 1 holds mostly living quarters of local people.A long penninsula exists by the shore in that area,and thats probably how people started to inhabit the area once.As the habitation started,it was localized to the penninsula itself,but with time going and the settlement growing up in size the continent by gthe penninsula's line got inhabited as well.All of Kochi continental part is comparatively newly built,while the penninsula itself part holds older times' structures.Transportation between these 2 city parts is made by small speedy ships,which go each approximately with a 50 minutes break between each other and constantly move around.Thats just the time and no more,required to have the small boat,of like 50 people having on board when filled completely(and some went with even less than 50 people on board),and having like 30 averagely,to get collected anew.The amount of sunlight in the southern India there is amazing,i never saw this in any place i had been to unless when in Sri Lanka.Vegetation in south India is something extraordinary by height and size,something i didnt see even more south,in Sri Lanka,fauna also being in a higher condition,what to speak about the famous Ganges valley,where grocery is much smaller by its height,yet much more numerous upon the grand sized local bengalese markets,probably because the population wants to deal with grocery so much more up north in the valley than south upon the always hilly/and up the continent becoming even mountainous in the south of India)no valley in sight small hills all of Kerala state is upon.The numbers of fruits and vegetables,amount of kilograms of them upon markets too in Kochi are nevertheless seriously smaller than upon the markets in the Ganges valley,fruits themselves being more original and pŕicy and definitely less numerous.My own impression about this situation is that Ganges valley has people,mostly addicted to outdoors activities in sizeable quantities,while south Indian cities hold people,much more interested in home or office things to do and so the market is correspondingly abandoned in comparison,just as beaches are.Even as I did not discuss this topic with my home owners(unlike in my Kolkata guest house facility,where the owner was always friendly and could easily participate in socializing with his tennants),I could easily guess and seen that most of the family that allowed me to rent a room there was constantly occupied at home in small house chores,only the head of the family or maybe another person of the household being well busy elsewhere,most likely in weird complicated matters orientated offices in the small Kochi city of I would roughly guess no more than a 100 000 population.Some half an hour noth from the city of Kolkata, where I lived for approximately 1 full year with breaks inbetween,there was a constantly used ghat(an interestingly active for a 10 000 people i would say a town of Bally).Inside Kolkata itself the largest city of eastern India,about as short time upon your legs as 5 minutes walk from its main railway station Howrah,there also was a ghat a bathing spot,while the Kochi beach,even as yes existing,is situated a long way from the city,in a place to which only a separate train line is leading.I had the impression that locals are never upon that sea beach while foreighners sometimes DO go there.Yet it is mostly NOT used by people.To that Beach you must first take a specific bus root,an uncommon in Kochi one,through which buses pass pretty rarely,and get there after like an hour of a bus drive,all buses being old,made in 1970-es I would guess yet very well maintained by the technical part of the local garage of cars.All the local indian transportation buses,both in Kolkata and Kochi,were acquired from Soviet Union as are exactly the models,used there once,and are in a great active condition up untill this very day.One gets to the sea beach after maybe an hour in a bus and the roads there(remarkably NOT the way it is around Kolkata)are allowing the driver to have you very sufficiently thrashed around the moving bus to never ever wanna do the trip again.This Beach exists for mostly tourists that indeed ARE inflating Kochi in significant numbers,most of them europeans interestingly,unlike it is in Kolkata,where for all the very numerous months of living(close to one full year with breaks)I met no more than 10 foreighners and none comes there for tourism.In Kochi tourists spoke english AS much as some european languages and looked like constant around-the-world travellers would.While in Kolkata I only met proficient users of the American slank users(and very rarely to that)and Kochi mostly had european looking tourists instead.People simply normally prefer famous destinations like an excellent Beach of a very specific fruit and instead avoid very simply occupied folks of Bengal the area around Kolkata because sources of information about the places are mostly based upon specific destinations and not upon the main boons of Ganges valley natural richness I personally had been seeking in India.Going southwards from the Ganges valley by train(i circled upon those the entire Indian penninsula in 2011)i noticed this extreme height of vegetation southern India holds and also its suddenly dominant role in the area,in which the vegetation took over not AS many human interests as there are in both Bengal and especially the middle part of the Ganges valley.What IS interesting about Kochi is amazing lack of desire among locals to appear by the sea or lay upon beaches,which,by the way,are pretty remote from the town and mostly deserted too.Most likely because the local authorities despise or underestimate sea bathing,not giving it any attention to be developed and no serious size rivers are even existing in the south,the terrain being hilly,covered with wild looking and extremely prosperous grocery,very weakly and slowly transformed by humans into friendly terrain,and fully "controlled" by vegetation,which IS the master of that mostly uninhabited hilly area.Instead south India people are either busy at work in complicated activities or else lavishly spend their time inside of their homes in intellectual and other private life things like chatting around and home appliances management,at least this was my impression as I lived among locals myself for a complete month and could observe them a little.Outdoor life just isn't a thing to do for Kochi town inhabitants,i observed this during my numerous walkabouts around Kochi,most all of those upon my own feet,while in Kolkata it is the undisputed life topic number one to travel around the area for some time per day,people often intentionally finding the time for this.I noticed this upon my own numerous trips around the local Kolkata trains' system.I rented a small room upon the second roof floor in a private house there,owned by a well to do local family.They rarely left home,at least several family members always were inside their place.The family itself was numerous,keeping to its own self inside either the house the family nest or the work places they had.That goes along with Ganges valley people,actively and easily using both city ghats(bathing spots)on Ganges river,where whichever hour did i come-always several people were bathing,and of numerous local trains too, that allow passage among the Bengal province towns.Kerala(the south-western coast state of India)state(India is divided into like 20 territorial states-provinces by difference of populating them folks),where Kochi is situated,is very different from the Ganges valley in such respects and south India is much not like the Ganges valley area,which is densely populated and active in outdoor activities,home ones scarse.The percentage of south India inside of the common economics output of India must be very low.Markets of the small Kochi city are comparatively rare and small,their grounds not easy to cover upon own feet and flocked with badly managed vegetation bundles-out of curiocity i had been around NOT only the selling grounds,but the close-by areas of the market too.Some pieces of the Kochi market are not managed correctly and are nothing but put away and awaiting the attention of people flocks of grocery,just left to lay around by people.Unlike around Kolkata,where the amount of middle size dealers in small sales of things,needed at home daily,their number around Kochi is very small and grocery is more expencive in south Indian states even as more rare fruits are available in the south.I recall that Kochi had considerable sales of mangoe fruits,a fruit,I saw in Kolkata very rarely.Yet Kolkata fruits were cheaper in comparison.Mangoes were the local Kerala state grown,and had the price of magnificent altitude in comparison to Kolkata fruits' prices.The difference in prices between the valley and the slopy south shows that ALL is much cheaper in the valley,especially closer to the bay of Bengal and lower by Ganges river.Mangoes themselves were rare upon Kolkata markets,taking a small side of the entire selling and put much aside by very numerous fruits of sugarcane,bananas,coconuts(exclusively common and cheap in Kolkata)and different vegetables i never saw in Israel,but that were present in Kolkata in significant quantities.When i browsed variations of bananas for instance,i had the choise among like 50 different sellers of that fruit(upon one main city market only),all crowding a specific spot upon the main city market,and would bargain with them about the price for a while at first.Bargaining over the price of grocery is AS much a part of sales as coming to the market itself,finding a place for sales etc.Not so in Kochi,where the market is considerably smaller,holding maybe around 10 sellers of bananas for the entire town,sales going much weaker wwithout the constant huggling over the price this bizarre feature of immense Kolkata markets but with slow determination to simply do the job of selling foods off instead.The Kolkata markets are well kept and are very clean while the Kochi one isnt organized too well,is flocked with stored foods,much less clean and sanitary rules following,passage of foods around the market often blocking the sales themselves,while all seems so much more organized up north upon immense Kolkata markets.Also southern India fauna is much more notable,and exactly the way it is with flora,the fauna is much more in control of life around,people being only a part of the entire picture.The price of fruits and vegetables in south India is somewhat higher(no larger than twice the valley price)because the amounts of people that wanna grow this commodity is comparatively small,not because the food is harder to grow at all.Once as living in Kochi(south India,unlike the Ganges valley area,isnt interesting at all for browsing it by transpotation means)for a change i even used a local train to browse the life of a close by inland city without sea close to it,situated maybe an hour off the coast inland.Their life wasnt AS interesting as Kochi one was and the terrain was even more hilly and less valleylike,people visibly more active in stringent tasks that never do remind the slow lazy lifestyle Kolkata area possesses.The further are you inland(was there upon local trains too)and away from the coast in the indian south the more hilly/slopy and less valley like the terrain becomes,grocery of the land visibly taking over the entire life of the area and pressing humans out into the outskirts of the area, while in the Ganges valley the nature is under complete control and even some useful protection from the undisputed masters of affairs the humans.And as you pass those southern India high slopes(not the excessively high mountains as Himalayas certainly are as i was close to them too)you keep wondering just how much less human influence did touch southern India;as northern India and especially the Ganges valley is that much deeply developed while the train to take you south by the seashore is inbetween open sea and completely not worked over and wild forest.Once(funnily in India too this was rare and in Kolkata nonexistent at all)i saw an elefant upon town streets;the animal though wasnt at all a large 1,but rather a small 1 with all the markings of well nourished and cared about home animal;i impression was that the duo was very naturally looking and more like a part of the same family than master vs servant;homelike animals are seen from far away as either lazy or sleepy and such;this was exactly how did that elefant look-more of a home held dog than any other elefant i ever saw.And it was much smaller too;its owner looked like he was THAT comfortable around his animal as to work with it in 1 unbriken ansamble;fit physically to a weird extent,the elefant owner looked like a very flexible/capable physically and monkeylike person.Kochi in general is much a scene for weird actors like elefants,complicated schemes upon based intelligent companies including their workers etc;In Kolkata weird/looking unnaturally things are obviously frowned upon and things are generally simple and lazy;all anuimals(weird actions workers included actually)are kept away from the general populace,which hates their sight.Not so in Kochi,where weird acting entities ARE inpublic favour.Funny thing that such different by behaviour areas as Kochi and Kolkata are at all in 1 common country even.