Saturday 3 October 2015

The Relishing Regions of the Karizmatic Kerala



Exploring Kerala is as swift and serendipitous as floating in its backwaters. In this article we have picked two intriguing regions of the state and delved into their unmatched ecstasies. 

Kovalam: best for beaches

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All Indian legends revolve around a Queen. In the empirical days before the Independence, Kovalam’s story featured a fishing beach, a modest queen, who found the region delighting and a fortress built for her as a monsoon treat. Year later, locals followed the queens’ footprints and started jaunting out to the top of the hills, and even the hippies were determined to be second to none. Now the trail runs past the palm groves to lodgings, waterfront restaurants serve up lip-smacking food and offer beach loungers and umbrella. 
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Hawa Beach near the lighthouse on the foreland is possibly the most energetic. Children lick ice candies from the kiosks by the beachside, toddlers unwind in their shorts and teenage girls are dressed up in kurta salwar, frolic in water, and revel in the sands. 

Alappuzha: best for backwaters

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At nighttime, the joints of a houseboats’ bamboo frame produce a scrapping, yet pleasant sound when battered with currents and millions of starts shine on the upper deck. When fishermen in a dugout canoe cross by, the waves gain a momentum. 


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Initially houseboats (Kettuvallams) were intended for carriage purposes, rice and spices were transported to Kochi, via 900 km of backwaters, canals, and tidal ponds. Nor their rooms used to be so luxurious; it’s just that with the passage of time the people recognized the economic potential of their olden form of transport. 

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Many things have changed, but you can still find women laundering clothes by the water’s edge and men voyaging in small boats and diving to catch mussels.  And toddy tapers float across the waters, early in the morning to the palm trees on the banks. Toddy is fermented from palm sap, popularly known as palm wine. 

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