Kerala (India )

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Travel story: Kerala (India )

Trivandrum
Legislative assembly of the State of Kerala. Kerala is different from the rest of India in many ways having been isolated from it by a range of high mountains, the Western Ghats. The "land of coconuts" has a long history of contact with the outside world starting with trade with Rome. St Thomas the Apostle came here in 52 AD and was followed by jewish settlers.

The Arabs and the Chinese also came to trade long before the Portuguese settled in Kochi in 1499.... More