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 […]
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 […]
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 […]