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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