Tag: Kerala

  • An Incredible India Evening!

    An Incredible India Evening!

    Wow!  That’s all I can say!  What an amazing time we had reliving our adventures in Incredible India! Planning for this evening was lots of fun.  As for every evening we host, we like to share the various foods we tried during our travels, and the flavours of India are particularly tasty.  We always practice preparing…

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  • This Land is Our Land!

    This Land is Our Land!

    After our amazing boat ride through the backwaters, we decided to do something else adventurous. We stayed on an island resort called Our Land in Alleppey, also known as Alapuzzah, and it was a great experience. Our Land resort was built on an island which was once the hide out of a fierce bandit! Luckily,…

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  • Indian Gondola Ride and Island- Part Two

    Indian Gondola Ride and Island- Part Two

    Do you remember how at the end of yesterday’s post, I said there was more?  Well here is part-two of our amazing backwater experience! As I mentioned previously, palm trees are essential to the villagers way of life.  Not only do they use the palm tree for their homes, furniture, and rope, they also use it…

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  • Indian Gondola and Island- Part One

    Indian Gondola and Island- Part One

    While in Kerala, we decided to have another girls day out and took a tour on the backwaters, which is a chain of canals and lakes that form 900 km of waterways throughout the state.  We woke up nice and early so that we could enjoy the tour during the cooler part of the day. Our…

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  • Fabulous Temple Festival!

    Fabulous Temple Festival!

    Elephants, musicians, and a long procession; if you can picture this, you’ll know what we saw when we attended a temple festival! Temple festivals celebrate the temple god. They happen all over Kerala once a year around late February, early March, and last for about 10 days. The festival we went to was in the…

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