Kerala - March 6 - 10th
Vicki, Dave, Jason, and I went down to Kerala for a long weekend. Kerala was a totally different scene from Delhi - very green and lush with lots of palm trees! When we were out on the water it reminded me a lot of South Florida.
Jason and I at our first lunch in Kerala.
Since there was 4 of us they offered us the chance to stay on a two bedroom house boat for our first night. Below is a picture of our walk to the boat.
Vicki and I on the boat as it heads out to the backwaters of Kerala.
Our drivers and cooks for the trip.
View on the journey through the backwaters on lake Vembanad.
I was looking out at the water and caught this bird snatching a snake out of the water - thankfully I had my camera handy and was able to get a picture.
The sun beginning to set in Kerala.
Village life along the river.
More view of the backwaters.
More village life.
The houseboat (Kettuvallams) that we stayed on was the one on the left. It had two rooms that had a window unit type air conditioners. They worked quite nicely. The showers didn't work so in my opinion we were roughing it but it wasn't that bad. It was nice to spend the night on the river.
The second night we paid a little extra money and got upgraded to a villa that had a nice outdoor bathroom and our own private pool. It was really nice.
The shower was really outdoors!
Here is Jason sitting out on our little reading area out by the private pool.
Our pool view.
View into room from pool.
We took a sunset cruise the second night and these guys were playing music for us.
The Sunset.
Loveliness of the place enticed an English man, Henry Baker, who selected summarizing as his residence and built a bungalow with a beautiful garden, acquiring 104 acres of land from the then Maharaja of Travancore. This beautiful bungalow has now been modified into the 'Taj Garden Retreat'. Above view of main heritage house. Our first two nights were at this resort.
Nightly entertainment at the resort.
Jason and I in Cochin on the third night. We stayed this night at the Taj Malabar.
Pardesi Synagogue in Fort Cochin area. This is the oldest Synagogue in India.
The area around the Synagogue is called Jewtown. There were lots of neat shops and antiques.
Two of the things I noticed most in Kerala were men in skirts and palm trees. The skirts have a name but I can't remember it right now. Above is a guy in his skirt, riding his bike down the street.
The writing in Kerala is very different from that in Delhi - it is much more rounded. I actually felt out of place because not many people in Kerala speak Hindi - so the few words and sentences I know were usless. They seemed more inclined to know English than Hindi - it was interesting. Another thing you saw a lot of was the hammer and the sickle. The communists are the governing party in Kerala, and have beed for decades. In 1957, it voted in the first democratically elected Communist government anywhere in the world. You see the hammer and the sickle everywhere down there.
Vicki, Dave, Jason, and I went down to Kerala for a long weekend. Kerala was a totally different scene from Delhi - very green and lush with lots of palm trees! When we were out on the water it reminded me a lot of South Florida.
Jason and I at our first lunch in Kerala.
Since there was 4 of us they offered us the chance to stay on a two bedroom house boat for our first night. Below is a picture of our walk to the boat.
Vicki and I on the boat as it heads out to the backwaters of Kerala.
Our drivers and cooks for the trip.
View on the journey through the backwaters on lake Vembanad.
I was looking out at the water and caught this bird snatching a snake out of the water - thankfully I had my camera handy and was able to get a picture.
The sun beginning to set in Kerala.
Village life along the river.
More view of the backwaters.
More village life.
The houseboat (Kettuvallams) that we stayed on was the one on the left. It had two rooms that had a window unit type air conditioners. They worked quite nicely. The showers didn't work so in my opinion we were roughing it but it wasn't that bad. It was nice to spend the night on the river.
The second night we paid a little extra money and got upgraded to a villa that had a nice outdoor bathroom and our own private pool. It was really nice.
The shower was really outdoors!
Here is Jason sitting out on our little reading area out by the private pool.
Our pool view.
View into room from pool.
We took a sunset cruise the second night and these guys were playing music for us.
The Sunset.
Loveliness of the place enticed an English man, Henry Baker, who selected summarizing as his residence and built a bungalow with a beautiful garden, acquiring 104 acres of land from the then Maharaja of Travancore. This beautiful bungalow has now been modified into the 'Taj Garden Retreat'. Above view of main heritage house. Our first two nights were at this resort.
Nightly entertainment at the resort.
Jason and I in Cochin on the third night. We stayed this night at the Taj Malabar.
Pardesi Synagogue in Fort Cochin area. This is the oldest Synagogue in India.
The area around the Synagogue is called Jewtown. There were lots of neat shops and antiques.
Two of the things I noticed most in Kerala were men in skirts and palm trees. The skirts have a name but I can't remember it right now. Above is a guy in his skirt, riding his bike down the street.
The writing in Kerala is very different from that in Delhi - it is much more rounded. I actually felt out of place because not many people in Kerala speak Hindi - so the few words and sentences I know were usless. They seemed more inclined to know English than Hindi - it was interesting. Another thing you saw a lot of was the hammer and the sickle. The communists are the governing party in Kerala, and have beed for decades. In 1957, it voted in the first democratically elected Communist government anywhere in the world. You see the hammer and the sickle everywhere down there.
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