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Kollam Slideshow
Top Hotels in Kollam
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The Quilon Beach Hotel & Convention Centre Kollam
58 reviews -
Aquasserenne Kollam
49 reviews
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Club Mahindra Backwater Retreat Ashtamudi Kollam
63 reviews
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Club Mahindra Back Water Resort Kollam
7 reviews
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Hotel Sea Bee Kollam
5 reviews -
Nila Palace Kollam
3 reviews
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Nani Kollam
38 reviews -
Vijaya Palace Kollam
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Shah International Hotel Kollam
4 reviews -
Kumar Palace Kollam
1 review
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Palm Lagoon Resorts Kollam
1 review
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Comfort Regency Hotel Kollam
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Travel Blogs from Kollam, India
Bollywood here I come!
This is a top pick! Ok, so I'm not really going to Bollywood...but, was featured with two others from the Beach and Lake on the local news station after they interviewed many of us about the pollution in the lake/ocean and dead fish that had popped up the previous ...
Canoe Boat Tours around the Backwater Canals
This is a top pick! ... away from the dusty, loud, grubby cities. The island was gorgeous, serene and completely opposite to India’s concept of modernisation and progression. After Kollam we travelled to Alleppey, a city set around a grid of canals; the gateway to the ...
The Amazing Kerala Backwaters
This is a top pick! ... this experience was the lack of servants offering lobster and chilled white wine. Arriving in the village of Kollam, I was determined to stay and relax for a few days. Except I found one MAJOR problem. ...
Back Waters
This is a top pick! ... here tonight. We eat, drink and have a relaxing day and sleep under the stars. It rains about 5am and the covers come down so we don't get too wet. We head back to where we started and wait for the boat to take us to Kollam. To be continued. . . . ...
May Day, Kathakali, and Keralan Murals
This is a top pick! May Day meant that many of the stores were closed in Fort Cochin, Kerala, a democratic state in India with an elected communist government. As one of the "seams of the seasons," May Day was marked by street rallies and relaxing workers. On this day, I ...
Fishermans Friend
This is a top pick! ... chaos is hard to describe. It certainly doesn’t go too well with bikes but we will give it a good go. We reached Kollam with time to spare and found a hotel. We are really roughing it now, this room costs about a fiver and is ...
Backwater Cruisin' In A Canoe..
This is a top pick! ... of Ashtamudi Lake and near the vast Arabian Sea, Kollam is a tiny yet bustling market town in Kerala, South India. Also known as Quilon, Kollam is a favorite backwater haunt in Kerala and is known for its cashew, spice and coconut plantations. We ...
off we go........
This is a top pick! ... usually take 5 minutes... do not listen, not even to roadsigns they are always wrong! kilometers turn into miles and miles. Arrived in Kollam around lunch time, took rickshaw to boat jetty and got mobbed by people to buy this trip, buy that trip, come sit ...
Kollam
A bit of a roundup for the South of India.... We finished our time in the north with a day trip to Agra, where the Taj Mahal is. We saw all sorts - a mini Taj Mahal, some tombs, a red fort (same builder as the one we saw in Delhi). The Taj was really ...
Haywards 5000
...What can I say... arrived in Kollam in the evening, got some food, bought a couple of 'Haywards 5000's' (beers), then watched Kickboxer on Star Movies at the hotel. Left again in the ...
Ashram of the Mother
The French couple were 'haunted' yet again in the night and as a consequence decided to leave.A hotel attendant came to ask us if we required breakfast and when we said No he proceeded to tell us that our time was up in the hotel and we must leave on ...
Bus crash and a brief change of plans.
... met your mother’ and an argument with the waiter in a local restaurant, we went to bed with a pretty soured opinion of Kollam. However, the contrast of this crappy day made the following seem that much better and more enjoyable. Ellie will be ...
From Varkala to Kollam, and then a bit further.
We booked a cab for 11:00 to take us the 50+K from Verkala to Kollam, agreed price was 700 rupees. Off we went in the good old Austin Ambassador zooming along at 90 miles an hour (or that's what it felt like) as we passed everything in our way, ignoring ...
I'm taking a massage course!
... is Christian, as are many families here in Kerala, and Chandrika and Vijay have thus given their children "Christian names." Given India's national pride, when they are at school, they are not allowed to have "Christian names," just as the Muslim ...
Rice Boat Cruising
... insight into my own life. A country of over a billion people has given me a huge appreciation for space. Incredible & Intriguing India. Again, perspective into my own life and a new appreciation for freedom and the life of luxury that I have in Canada- ...
The Backwaters
... spent a night in Kollam and its nothing to write home about. What is though was the wonderful journey we took between Kollam and Alleppey. This was a boatride through the backwaters, an intricate system of canals and waterways that makes up most of this ...
Sisterly Love
We weren't haunted in the night, or maybe we just slept so well as usual that we were unaware of any weird night time goings-on. The ants had finished off all the hoovering of the food crumbs and had vacated our rooms by now. I walked out onto the ...
ekapadasirsasana
1/10/06 my roadblock in second series is ekapadasirsasana. Trying to do this asana is like trying to carry an elephant on my shoulders, or at least the mind gives me such an impression. Impossible. That word creeps into my thoughts whenever i ...
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Backwater peace with extra elephants
... This episode although frustrating, reminds me how naturally warm, genuine and helpful South Indian people are, even somewhere like Kollam which although isn’t exactly on the tourist trail, does regularly see western tourists pass through. The locals ...
Sweat pit of hell and the lovely backwaters
... ;After the peace of the backwaters we went back to the relative calm of the Hotel Nani and enjoyed movies and food. Tomorrow we're catching our transport to Kumily to visit the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary. Kollam. You will not be missed. ...
Allepy
We took the bus from Kumily to Kottayam, where we promptly boarded a public ferry for a supposed 2.5 hour journey to Allepy. Allepy is the main hub for backwater tours in KErala. The good thing is the season is finishing so there are not many tourists ...
Allepey, hell on earth
Bad place, very bad place and writing details is a pain not worth reliving. Needless to say we're out of here. We abandoned the idea of a houseboat after we looked at a couple. They were probably unseaworthy and we're really horrible looking. Shame. We ...
Houseboat in the Keralan backwaters
A houseboat trip was one of the things Em and I had read about before coming to India and both sorely wanted to do. It's a purely touristic experience and a luxury beyond our reach in the UK (or, at least, beyond enough for there to be something more ...
Quilon (Kollam)
Just a quick update to say we are safely back off the houseboat; Andy will tell all in a different entry which we will probably post from our next main destination as the internet access is painfully slow here, and we have forgotten the lead to upload ...
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21 st January 2009 Hotel Lake View, Kollam, Kerala, South India Very warm and humid Alleppey (aka Allappuzha - pronounced Alapoora) - Ambalapulai - Haripad - Kayankulum - Karunagapalli - Kollam (85kms) I've been very ...
Escape from fort Ashram
Amma: A complete lunatic who has convinced herself and somehow thousands of others that she is actually god. To begin with she was the reincarnation of Krishna (himself an avatar of Vishnu), but then changed her mind and decided she was an incarnation of ...