Palm Lagoon Resorts

Vellimon West, Kollam, Kerala, 691511, India | Hotel

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The backwaters of Kerala

A travel blog entry by aborder

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... in such a peaceful and happy habitat. The only thing that may spoil your experience, was the deafening call to prayer playing over loud speakers that are wired throughout the canals. But in some way, it did add to the experience, you somehow knew, you were in Incredible India.

One of our last stops we saw three people dealing with coconut shells. They are dried, once dried are ...

La vida Ashram

A travel blog entry by farokht

... bet on who would be the first to sport the all white uniform.

We make our way back down to explore the compound. My first "holy smokes" moment was when I saw the recycle and compost station behind our building. Since setting foot in India, I could count on one hand the number of times I'd actually seen a garbage can. In all of the areas which I’d visited so far, garbage was typically thrown on the ground, accumulated into piles, and lit on fire. I thought I'd see pigs ...

Backwaters with a bird-of-a-feather

A travel blog entry by farokht

... bank, small village homes were intermittently nestled within unending rows of palm trees. What we assumed were large hawks would glide across the sky, periodically plunging into the water in pursuit of fish. Our guide would call our attention to a variety of vegetation, including jack fruit, pineapple, and mango trees, as well as the many prawn farms scattered throughout the channels.
The tour also included several stops, where we received a tutorial on the magic of the ...

Southern India

A travel blog entry by rose-and-david

... It was well worth the sweltering walk around its grounds and even more so when one of the guards said we could visit the royal elephants if we slipped him a few rupees.

From Mysore we caught a bus to Bangalore to catch our last overnight train of our trip. It was always going to be a mission, with a public bus, then a walk to the shuttle bus to take us to the station. As we pushed and shoved ourselves on to the bus for what we thought was going to be a 15 minute ...