Coir Village

... place, even though there was three canoes close together. There was one last 'cultural' stop, to see the local villagers making coir rope. I am all for culture and seeing how things are done.....but come on!!!! Rope!!!!! I couldn't bring myself to watch ...

... the two things we are going to see are a lime factory - the powder substance, not the fruit - and a coir maker in a backwater village. We are directed to our houseboat, a handmade, totally cute floating room with wicker furniture. Two oarsmen join ...

... look super simple and it was amazing to see how fast they could make long, sturdy rope. Further up the river we saw another village that dried out the coconuts before they are taken to a factory to extract the oil. After some fresh coconut milk through a ...

... seen so far (on a youth, day one, and oh so true): "I'm probably lying".  Best sign in English seen at a village restaurant: "Tipping box for cooking women".  So few words: so many meanings. The spice tour was OK but more ...

... immediate answers. The next hour we were busy answering him and soon it was time to dock. The driver was a resident of the local village and his house was a 5 minutes walk from there. He informed us that the cook would be on the boat all night and assured ...

... ;     What a day of unusual surprises!  We met our guide, Biju Joseph, and a boatsman, from Kumbalanghi Village Tours, at the waters' edge just outside our cottage.  A 75-year-old teak and bamboo longboat, easily fifty feet ...

... 'll probably meet again somewhere'. Together, the same afternoon we left Kochi on a nighttrip (as opposed to a daytrip) to the village of Erinjalakuda, 45km away, where one of Kerala's many pre-monsoon temple festivals was taking place. The festival was a ...

... for her to worry her pretty little head about.     In the afternoon we pulled ashore at a little village called Champakulam, which gave us the opportunity to buy from local crafts (we weren't interested because we're trying to travel ...

... Sydney and Corelli from Belgium on the tour. Such fun with our guide Saji bringing us through small backwaters of a quiet rural village on Munroe Island. We we shown first hand, cloves, cashew nuts, pineapples, chillis, curry leaves all in the wild. ...

... 'country boats' (very old wooden canoes) for a leisurely cruise down the very narrow canals to a local village. We saw ladies weaving coir ropes from dried coconut husks & other very basic crafts using very primitive equipment. Everybody especially ...

... leaves fresh from the banana tree. After dinner, it started to rain. The rain here has loud thunder and lightening. We docked at a fishing village for the night and slept in the boat. Here is the houseboat weblink ...

... and plenty of bird and wild life.  We saw a water snake, & amazing kingfishers & fish.  We stopped at a coir matting making village which is run as a co-operative, we're in Communist country here. We also visited a spice garden and it ...

... under our beds! In the morning we had a canal cruise around the backwaters, which was lovely :o) The rickshaw journey to the village where we started was interesting, as the crazy driver (who we noticed had an empty whisky bottle stashed under his seat!) ...

... , they did a great job. What a fantastic place. It is sort of a cross between Dutch and/or Portguese colonial architecture, an English village and all set in a tropical paradise. At least, that's what the Lonely Planet says and it is, for once, fairly ...

... instead of school buses to school. I met two girls who were very nice. The ten year old was named Kristine. We walked around the village of Covaculum, which is in Allepey. One store was selling rat traps - I think they have a lot of rats but I did ...

... view.  As we started coating down the backwaters, we saw palm trees all along the narrow canals.  Additionally, many village people were living in small houses along the water, and we saw them going about their daily lives showering or washing ...

... down the road from Kochi we boarded our dugout canoe and two men paddled us down the larger rivers. This tranquil view of Keralan village life was an idyllic experience. The mix of saltwater and fresh river and lagoons were lined as far as the eye could ...

... are the backwaters so today I had booked myself on a 300r country craft canal cruise at Munroe island - a typical backwater island village. So I joined a small group of other tourists, first by minibus to the area and then on a small wooden canoe/boat to ...