Textile Candy Store

We are in Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram), the capitol of the southern state Kerala. The city has nothing of the allure of a capitol city, just your normal Indian chaos. We follow MG Road, as most main roads are called in every city or town in tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. Some luxurious western looking shops and offices are interspersed between little dark workshops and local produce stalls. Then we pass a big building spitting out saree clad ladies laden with big orange plastic bags; 'Vishnuram Textiles' I read. I gotta go in there! Inside there are four floors stacked to the ceiling with all different textiles; lunghis, dothis, sarees in silk, cotton or mixed, house hold textiles, too much to name. First we go downstairs where we select some beautiful checked lunghis, after we go to the first floor where they sell the silk sarees. I'm like a little kid in a candy store, overwhelmed by all these colours and gold embroideries. Harry is joking that he'll order a sea container for me, but I keep my cool and only select one spice coloured saree. We still have some more travelling to do and have to carry everything we buy on our backs.