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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Kumarakom. In Kerala, God’s Own Country. I first heard about Kumarakom when I was still a student, the then Prime Minister (Atal Behari Vaypayee) had gone there to spend his year-end vacation and had written a series of articles called “Musings from Kumarakom”. Those were the days of limited media, […]