Kalaripayattu is a 3000 year old martial arts that is said to have originated in South India. Kerala is considered to be a stronghold of this form of martial art. Naturally then, upon reading about the show in Munnar, we were excited and eager. Our hotel arranged the tickets for […]
A fishing village that the Portuguese took over in the 16th century, which then went to the Dutch in the 17th century only to change ownership once again, this time to British in the 18th century, Fort Kochi, without doubt, was an important region for trade in the pre-colonial and […]
Well, the disclaimer first. This is not an exhaustive list, since we have never been in Kochi long enough to dine at every good restaurant. But should you be there for a day or two, this list will certainly help you make up your mind if you too are a […]
Ah! How well prepared we go for this! Every time. Shopping. It’s with a missionaries’ zeal that we like to bring back local items, handicrafts, food items, every day things for the house or things for the garden from any new place, state or country. Upon finalising our Kerala roadtrip, […]
We had been on the houseboat cruise in Kerala’s famed backwaters before. That was in June 2007. We had set out from Kumarakom early one morning, docked for the night by a deserted strip of land, in the middle of almost nowhere, surrounded by water, reassured by the lapping of […]
We decided to stay at The Fog in Munnar, only because it was some 10 kms away (before) from Munnar town, which we knew would be terribly crowded and polluted. Villa houses turned into a sort of resort, The Fog is located amidst spice farms, in a complete no-commercial zone. Thankfully […]
Munnar, our first stop in our Kerala roadtrip, was to be a quiet retreat. It had been four months since our last holiday, and this, was our escape after all those months of mundane toil. Accordingly, we shunned the beaten track and went in for some soul-satisfying sorties here and […]
It has been long that we have been hooked on to roadtrips. Despite going on roadtrips to many countries around the world, the hunger seems to be only increasing…The last proper roadtrip was in Sri Lanka during the Christmas holidays of 2015 (Read: A Sri Lanka Roadtrip). In Austria this […]