The best thing to do in India is never give anyone a tip that asks for it. When I was there last year. I only tipped the honest people that didn't ask for it. Most of the time they didn't even want to accept it. The people that asked for a tip got nothing from me.
@Original Protestant so what! if they got better manners they would get a good tip they are beyond stupid if they think pressuring and being rude will get them more money.
Im from Kerala if you want to experience rich cultural side and wonderful beauty of india the first come to Kerala and southern states of India then travel to Northen states of India . North India is like more modern After going to northen part of India then go to northeast region like .
@@stephin1612 i am from U.P. settled in chandigarh, i visited kochi, thrisur , trivandrum etc in march 2014 .. kochi can put delhi to shame , southern part of India is also very modern. and yes the hotel room service was not much pleasing even in 3star hotels in kochi.overall it was so relaxing trip, life is hassle free in south and less chaotic , hence people are more well mannered there and still attached to cultural roots.
@@tubester4567 dont worry , you can have food from MacD , burger king , subway and taco bell in India, if you have hygiene concern. but that just a streotype what you wrote.
Kerala isn't a Christian state by any means, but it does have one of the highest populations per capita of Christians. Kerala is a very liberal state with a lot of religious tolerance, both today and historically speaking. largely due to the Communist party that you mentioned so often :) Same reason for the high literacy rate, do read up about it.
I am sorry Dale for that demand for more tip. Typically you would expect these incidents in tourist places especially with foreign tourists. But I appreciate the way you handled it with dignity without being rude or nervous, which shows how good a traveler you are.
@@nostalgiachannel318 An eye for an eye make the whole world blind.. Har tarah k log hain is dunia mein. Oro ko galat krte delh khud ko kyu galat karna.
Hi Dale I am happy to see you as always and now you are in Kochi. The city look a little different compared to other cities in India, it is crowded but people are relaxed and minding about their own business, probably Kochi is a tourist city. I enjoyed watching with pleasure. Thank you my friend again for amazing episode of India. Stay safe and healthy.
complains about the sign not being in English so he is not trespassing in 25:00 , 30:03 sees a sign in English clearly stating no trespassing - wonders how to get into the building regardless of the sign, then proceeds to call the local snitches and blame it on them being communists LOL
They have an old synagogue there. One of the oldest in the world we were told. You have to use your own strong legs . I think we took a boat over to the synagogue. Greetings from Norway
We do have oldest church than that of the Europe too as old as from the time of Saint Thomas the apostle but it’s been renovated a number of times by a number of people and lost it’s charm And the first mosque in the Indian subcontinent
In kochi Christians are mostly living there that is why you are seeing churches more.. But Hindus have highest population in kerala followed by Muslims and Christians.. But we Keralites don't mind religion and we giving no value to religion.. Fortunately rationalists are raising here💕
Other Vloggers: Do research about location..capture perfect moments ..go to famous places etc Dale: I will go on top of the tank and make it an interesting video.. Man you are awesome and funny🤣 ..just like a little kid always curious to explore everything around u..let it be tanks..empty houses or trees you find everything interesting. 🤩 😀 Nobody can stop u.💪
It pains me to see how bloody money minded my countrymen have become. Just ruining everything stop being beggars. Its like if you ask someone for an address they will want to charge you. Wh would want to visit such a country? Dale, apologies for such terrible behaviour.
Try filming prohibited areas and trespassing etc in right wing/fascist countries and see if they treat you better and welcome you. It'd be interesting to see if it's a "communist thing" to not want that happening.
Learned some first-hand description of Cochin in Kerala. Seems like a less crowded nice place with people able to communicate in English. Bit cleaner but they could do it better. I am from Sri Lanka but I learned about some places there from you. You have visited places in Sri Lanka more than any individual Sri Lankan. Nice videos.
Kerala is the most literate state in the country also the most developed I would say. Littering is a problem but much cleaner than other states in India.
I think what’s happening to the mirror is either oxidation of the reflective material, or delamination. Glad you feel better. Thanks for a great video.
When you were talking to that pretty girl and the two men around taking photos or videos god knows what made it look like u guys are filming a drama LOL
Mould is endemic in the tropics due to the moisture and temperatures. You see it the buttresses of the church and even the back walls of the posh Cochin club. The reason mould likes mirrors is because the backs of mirrors are coated in a substance designed to keep the silvering from tarnishing, but mould fixes to it and loves it. The glass steams up every time you have a shower and so mould + water = more mould which allows access to the silvering which tarnishes immediately. PS Clown man really made that little river trip .
Kerala is a hindu majority state 54% Hindu, 26% Muslims, 18% Christian peacefully coexisting. In general, Northern Kerala has more Muslims, Central Kerala you will find many Christians and southern Kerala has more hindu influences. However, you will find all of these religions everywhere in Kerala regardless of the district. In south India, all are peacefully living together with no conflicts compared to the northern parts of India.
Nothern part is poorer and had many invasions. Southern India was hardly invaded in its History, but for Northern India it all started from Darius in 512BC and ended with Partition in 1947. You know right close to 1 million people died during partition and none were from Southern India
Hi Dale, sorry to hear you weren't feeling well. That juice bar is so good. After seeing the fisherman asking for money for you holding a rope, it was so nice to see the Juice bar owner working hard and being so genuine👌 See you soon 😘
29:23 bro kerala is not a Christian state its all mixed & I think kochi has more church because in olden days the British & Portuguese people all came to kochi soo kochi has more church
Generally, this mirror damage is due to the heat and moisture in the bathroom. It often happens when there is no backing or caz of a worn-out mirror backing. Don't worry its not dirty, its just old.:)😅 So yeah ..anyways...good video !!!
Dale it's you who needs some self respect. Every guy paying 200 to him is none of your concern. Are you there standing the whole day to account for how much he is getting? He did not invite you in to ask questions. You were literally bombarding him with so much questions. You didn't even bother to tone down your thick Scottish accent when you were harassing him with your questions for 5 mins. You just expect him to understand you . Pls wake up your ideas. Not to forget you are the one definitely making much more money than him for your youtube videos. So pls be humble and respectful when you are in another person's country. Especially when you are from a country which was largely built from looted money from this country you are in.
30:30 I'm from Kerala... Lol obviously Kerala is not a communist state... Its as democratic and capitalist as any other state in India.... The Communist Party is just some mix bag of random communist values (more emphasis on economic equality and stuff) and mostly very capitalistic-ish and is just one of many parties in India (there are 2000+ political parties) . Its the most literate state and *arguably cleanlier than other parts of India... Besides visit all places in India, Kerala is just a nutshell... IN
message for every Indians don't do any thing for which India's image will be down in the world in front of foreign visitors. respect tourists with good gestures such that they will have warm & great experience in india.
That's Malayalam the language of Kerala. Southern Indian cities and their experience is completely different to Northern India! Kerala has equal amounts of Islam, Hinduism and Christianity. Christianity reached Kerala before Europe and Islam reached Kerala before it spread to most of Arabia. Look it up!
And that's eastern rite christianity and mappila muslim communities. The church he visited itself is a western christian church. Though 80% of Kerala christians as eastern rite christians these tourist often just visit the churches that came via Portuguese and British colonisations efforts and the native communities are seldom show cased. www.keralatourism.org/christianity - The Kerala govt here has done a brilliant job in creating a resource site.
In fact Kochi areas itself has many eastern Syro malabar and Jacobite Syrian/Malankara Orthodox churches but these folks will only visit western christian churches and show it as representation.
You don't need to apologise, it is really not much of a dirt but that beach is a intertidal zone, a intertidal zone don't look so beautiful even under Forth bridge in Edinburgh. It is a habitat for variety of coastal species. It is a good thing not a bad thing.
Dont apologize. India is a dirty disgusting place. Its standard like this. Otherwise you would have to apologize 1 billion times for everything wrong with your Country 😂
Im studying at kochi and this pandemic brought us all home and now im home(trivandrum ) and really miss kochi and especially fort kochi which was our top hangout site.. ur blog is bringing all the memories.. 💜💜
You could become a member of the Cochin Club but unfortunately, the security guard is neither going to know the know-how or have the language skills to help you. My uncle is a member there, and you could become a member, but I doubt you would want to pay the yearly membership and go through all the paperwork just to have a look :)
In the church the thing that above the seats is an olden form of cielingfan, it's ends are tied to a rope...It moves to and from when u pull the ropes..which brings the breeze..
I wish we learned to speak english like that. It would have been so much easier. Now I avoid speaking english, because I sound stupid when I do. If I learned to speak like you, I would have spoken it almost fluently. I am a Norwegian, and that english accent of yours (which I suspect is from Scotland) is so way much closer to our language than the London english we learned at school, and very few manages to speak without sounding completely stupid. I can try to speak scottish, but since it crashes with what we learned, it never works very well and I sound stupid. I guess I have to live in Scotland for a period to master it. But is english, and just as good as the crappy London english we had to learn, and that is impossible for us to pronounce correctly. And if we learned german as the speak in Switzerland instead of Berlin, it would have been the easiest language in the world. But no, those of us who learned some german learned the most difficult type for us to pronounce. I think it is the norwegian vikings that visited or invaded Scotland back in the days, that was an influence of the scottish accent today. You speak english as if you were speaking norwegian, almost. Scottish and norwegian must be relatively closely related, somehow. Kerala looks wonderful! Yes, Kochi looks like a very clean city, and very different from what I imagine cities in India to be like. I have never been in India myself, so I don't know anything other than from the telly and the internet, but what I have seen from other cities, is way more chaotic. You said, unfortunately the communist parties are the rulers in Kerala, or something like that. But maybe that is why it is such a clean and nice place, because of the communists. I would said, fortunate, the communists rule Kerala. It looks like they are doing a very good job, actually. Every society must decide for themselves if they want to be communist or not. So Kerala is communist, but so what? They have decided that for themselves, and if those who live there are happy with communism, why not? Now in the times of the coronavirus, Kerala have done a remarkably good job with little resources compared to many other places with much better resources (like the United States). Communism seems to work really well for them. So I support the system they have chosen, to me it seems just fine.
Kerala was 1st place in world were Communist party came in power by election. Also Kerala is not always ruled by communist party ,we have UDF party also. Communist party (LDF) come in powers in alternative terms only.
I don't think kerela is clean because of communism or any political party. It's clean because of it's people. Kerela has the highest literacy rate in India (I think it's 99% or 98%) and the lowest poverty rate, it's just natural for people living in a state like that to have conscience and morale to not litter their land. Anyway, the videos that you on the internet are true, they're Mostly from some north-central indian states. Unfortunately, the north central States and east Indian states have the lowest literacy rate and that's why their behavior like that. If you ever plan to visit india though, you should definitely start from Northern most indian states (Himanchal, Punjab, Uttrakhand, jammu) way less population in these states and beautiful scenic mountains. Same with southern most indian states too, mostly high literacy rate, greenery,clean cities and friendly people. Definitely avoid the central part of india, but most foreigners go to these states anyway because they have the most historically significant monuments.
Bro most people who are not native speakers think they cannot speak English since our pronunciation rules are inconsistent. You most likely speak much better than you think, and if you sound Scottish, have a cool accent.
Those Chinese fishing nets are the biggest tourist traps in Kochi. They haven’t used them to fish in ages and they are there specifically for ripping off tourists for money. It’s almost like a dog and pony show for tourists and usually involves money. You will end up paying a few hundred bucks for a tout posing as a poor fisherman. There you go, the first guy who latched on to you is the guy who is going to milk you a few hundred rupees.
I'm from Kerala and that yellow board near watertank area did say trespassing is not allowed. I was eagerly watching to see what would happen next. I'm happy that all went well. Cheers!!
I am from kerala, Kannur.....🔥 Its very nice to see that a foreigner talking about our place.. ❤️❤️❤️. . Don't give MORE money as tip... whenever any one ask more money you just complaint to tourist department..
Not everyone bro . Don't compare as a whole . The fishermen asked money because they are really poor thats why . But Kerala people are actually really friendly
gods own place?? nice joke..no wonder dale didn't give your comment a heart just like he all the other comments which he felt were genuine and deserved a heart.
Next time don't climb on any old indian building. Especially if it's a govt. one. This one looks like an old abandoned water tower. Never trust any govt. planned building. If it's old. It can cost your life.
You should know that kerala's government is ruled by world's first democratically elected communist government. Kerala's govt even got round of applause from UN for its effective fighting against covid 19. communism in kerala is more like peoplecentric-left-liberal-scocialism which value people over capital.
You really should pin the tower on Google maps and name it the dale Phillips tower. And start doing this for every place you visit when you find an obscure attraction
At 24.16 min " but unfortunately the communist party are the rulers, here in Kerala... " Why do you say "unfortunately"? The communist party is in power simply because the majority of people in Kerala voted them into power. This is democracy at work.
This is where humans should live...not in cities..just to go visit a mini waterfall or a beach we have to plan and plan n travel so far...city life is no life.
Great to see you in Kerala but communism in India is not the same as Russia - do some research, Kerala is the best state in India for health and education and standard of living
Professional vloggers: We want some good editing software, skim upto 15 min only.., camera equipments, paid music, etc etc... Dale: hold my beer🍺 that's fantastic.
Ok guys since a lot of people are asking in comments I figured it out. As a wee kid riding an elephant, dale was suddenly thrashed and thrown to the ground. bloody and beaten up dale looked up and saw Ginger Jesus in elephant pants who robbed him of his pocket money and vanished.
word brooo Half of my side is from kerala and I know what that shit means usually lmao, or maybe he winked cause he thought he was cool speaking english
I like to see your videos as I like your Scottish accent. I am from Sri Lanka by the way. Kerala places you have visited seemed to be nice. The guide was hilarious and you managed him very diplomatically. Going on the water tank was something I would not like to do in a foreign country as they might suspect you had different intentions, but it was adventurous. You may be the first foreign person to climb that water tower. That girl's reaction when you said she was pretty , was very natural actually. Good luck and all the best for people of Kerala where most people seems to speak English.
This fishermen answered all your questions and help you make more interesting video , and you man ask and ask a lot, then you treating them like beggars, they should actually sell tickets 🎫 they where simple hard working ppl honest and humble ppl. He was showing you his hands 🙌 where you jealous that he will make more money than you ? You know it’s not going to happen. Not nice man. I saw your other video when you just inviting yourself in to ppl home and showing how they live, how dare you ?showing on internet this ppl private life and then you are giving 10.000 rupees (1 dollar) in Indonesia 🇮🇩 again no respect for this ppl. Invaded ppl privacy and simply using them for your gains. Anywhere you go you are trying to make best deal for you even if you will buy 10 gram of Chocolate and eating 10 gram samples for free. 😐
most governments that claim to be communist historically have been very authoritarian & unpleasant to live in to say the least. when Brits think of communism we think of the USSR, Maoist China, North Korea, etc. as far as i can tell the CPIM in modern Kerala is nowhere near as bad as those; mostly fighting for worker's rights, anti-colonialism, infrastructure and progressive policies whilst still being democratic & avoiding excessive state ownership. but i don't think it's reasonable to expect Dale to be super well read on every local government of the cities he visits, so it's an understandable mistake to make imo.
