Desc: Inde du Sud, jardin aux mille senteurs: Directed by Eric Bacos. The trip begins in Cochin or Kochi: a town with Portuguese, Dutch influence.At the sea the fishermen use square dipping nets.Then back to the center of the town, the Jewish neighborhood, the Muslim neighborhood.We see the trade of the spices (cardamom, chilies,etc).Then we visit a place where the people of Kerala practice kalarippayatt, a typical martial art of Kerala.On a beach we see families taking a bath with their clothes.Then we travel through the Backwaters on board of a houseboat.There people live with theirs animals on small grounds between the lagoons and the canals.We see men playing drums for great ceremonies.Then elephants which been decorated..We go further to Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala.In the town we learn about Ayurveda medicine: the medicinal plants are coming from the mountains of Kerala.At Munnar we see tea plantations : in the region of Kumili farmers grow medicinal plants such as cardamom.Next Madurai with great temples, then Kanyakumari, the southern part of India with great monuments on two islands.We enter into the State of Tamil Nadu , the center of the Dravidian culture, for example great temple in Thanjavur.A stop at Pondichéry, a former French Colony, old buildings with French names and finally the end of the travel in Mahabalipuram, where there nice sculptures on stones.