Green Palm Homes

West Chennamkary P.O., Alappuzha, Kerala, 688501, India | Hotel

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God's Own Country

A travel blog entry by ana.k

Home stay. Keralan style

We left Goa feeling fully chilled and looking much healthier. Now for the most exciting part of the trip so far, our first overnight journey on the famous Indian railways. We arrived at Margoa station at 2045 and it was chaos – pretty standard for an Indian station. Our names were not on the cabin list so there was a slight panic as we tried …

Keralan Backwaters

A travel blog entry by pilgrim143

On to the backwaters via a leisurely drive and several nice stops - Church, waterfall, rubber plantation - to a joke restaurant with an absolute double for Manuel - finally as threatened by Lonely Planet the menu was only some sort of list of what they may have once had.. The Keralan Backwaters are below sea level and involve a series of canals …

Sugar and spice and all things nice!

A travel blog entry by rosie_scarlett

We went on a morning walk with a few other guests and a guide called Binu. He was very knowledgeable about the local plants and life in general on the island we were staying on.

First, we saw a hibiscus plant, apparently you can use it for hair oil to keep your hair beautiful.

Second, we were shown a pepper plant. It looks like a …

Santa Claus is coming to town....

A travel blog entry by rosie_scarlett

We played with the girls until they went off to school.
In the afternoon we went on a 2 hour boat trip with the other guests staying at Green Palms.
It was very nice sitting on the roof of the boat.
We had a brilliant time!
In the evening some carol singers (which weren't at all like English ones!!) came and sang to us while banging …