Ever since i had read Arundhati Roy's God of Small Things, it had always been my fascination to visit Kumarakom. Any Kerala-lite can easily identify with the characters of the story and their life style. The backwaters of Kerala are brought to its best splendour at Kumarakom. I got an opportunity early this year, when along with my family i visted this beautiful place. We roamed around the place, and had a great boat ride in the waters, and dropped down for a strol in the Pathira Mannal island. These are some of the snaps from the boat ride:
An house boat, starting a journey into the backwaters. Now this is making a turn in the narrow channel leading to the waters.
We had just entered the waters. All along the coastline at one end you can see numerous resorts enticing you to visit the land.
As the houseboats floats over the mystic waters
This is the entrance to the Pathira Mannal island
As we took a stroll in the island.
View of the waters from the other end of the island
We watched the Sunset as we made our way back to the shore.
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Dear Brinda
Really a nice blog and nice pictures.
Thank you.
Dhaneshwar
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Very beautiful photographs. makes me want to go there too.
Avinash
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beautiful.. kumarakom has been on my list of to-visit places for so long..hmm.. some day
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Maasha-Allah, I loved it. Amazing stuff.
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Beautiful shots.
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Thanks for a good travelogue.
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Good Pictures; The god's own country is so valuable in all means, but the people there doesn't evaluate its value, just rate down travelling through any other states which could show up such varient scenarios.
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Dear bindia george,
we had recently been to the same place and took a boat ride.
it was fantastic.
i have never seen such variety of house boats.and the sun set.....
and of course coconut lagoon was such a nice place...
very nice photographs .....
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Thanks Madhavi... Kumarakom is indeed a beautiful place.
Thanks "Unknown"... This was a trip we had made in the 1st week of January this year.. since then this lazy bones had been thinking of writing on it. Since a lot have been detailed on the net about this beautiful place and since i just spend only an evening there.. thought ill skip the detailed narrative.
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Photos are very good....Compensates for the brevity in the narrative...Your travellogue on Korea was very elaborate...Looking forward to more travellogues from Gods Own Country
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