Kumar Palace

T.B Junction, Kollam, Kerala, 691331, India | Hotel

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The backwaters of Kerala

A travel blog entry by aborder

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... miles of quaint canals, motionless with the odd duck rippling the water. Our guide paddled away and navigated us through the canals, under low bridges and we stopped regularly to observe plants, structures and local life. For most people living in the area, the easiest way to travel around the area is by boat.

It was fascinating watching local people of Kerala fish, grow crops and generally live ...

La vida Ashram

A travel blog entry by farokht

... matter." That was the straw that broke the camel's back. As Nick and I hop off the elevator, we couldn't contain ourselves any longer and busted out laughing. Once in our modest dormitory room, the two of us recount all the odd encounters with the white-uniform clad expat residences, whom Nick endearingly nicknames "the white coat mafia." A few hours into our ashram experience, we both felt like something was a bit off here, perhaps even on the verge of seeming cultish. We even jokingly ...

Backwaters with a bird-of-a-feather

A travel blog entry by farokht

... island, from where we walk through the tropical landscape and hop on our canoe. During the next three hours, our bamboo-stick-paddle wielding guide navigates us through some seriously beautiful scenery through the canals and backwaters. This was my first taste of the incredible diversity which India's landscape has to offer. After a week in the hot and often dusty plains of Tamil Nadu, the lush green tropical atmosphere of Kerala offered quite a contrast, and a welcome change. ...

Southern India

A travel blog entry by rose-and-david

... br> While we were shopping I bought some snacks for our bus drive to the next stop on our agenda-Mysore. My Masala Magic crisp packet informed me my heart would go Dhak Dhak as I tasted them, it did actually do that, but it was more to do with the tuk tuks cutting us up and the endless wildlife on the roads than any spices in the packet.

Mysore was extremely hot after the freshness of Ooty, but it also had one of the most beautiful palaces we had seen since the ...