Saturday, September 23, 2006

Back Waters - God's own Country


A real Stress remover. The endless stretch of the Lake. Calm, quiet filled with strange peace that fills your soul.

We started our journey through the back Waters of kerala at Kumarkom. Had an amazing holiday experience that is Kerala's very own.

I always wanted something extra. Something more than what should be sufficeient. May be a four hours of Boat Cruise could suffice, can give you an idea what the back Waters is. But I chose the exclusive option.

A house Boat exclusively for two of us. Travel thrugh the night in the boat. House boat equipped with Boat Captain, his assitant and a cook to feed you fish varieties. An Airconditioned Bed Room.

Our Boat left Kumarkom at 1230 Hrs and returned back to Kumarkom at 0930 Hrs next day. Alas, however you may wish, the actual boat journey is just about six hours. Boat stops at 1430 for food. Of course, a fry fish meal. Enjoy, relax. There is no hurry for anything. No destination to be reached. Boat Captain suggests a post lunch siesta and retires to his room.

Journey lazilily starts at 1600 hrs and the stops again at 1800 hrs at Sunset.


Boating is not permitted between 1800 hrs till 0730 hrs to permit fisherman to lay and remove their nets. Boat starts again in the morning and returns to Kumarkom by 0930.

In the evening boat was parked near some village. We had one and half hours stroll through the village and enjoyed all the attention. With that long walk we were again ready for our dinner in the boat. This time it was chicken and King prawns - ( Lobsters) . Boat was equipped with TV but we opted to listen to music through our Marathi CDs, Sudhir Phadake, Bhimsen,
Arun datey and what not.



What you enjoy is quiet travel. All green sceneary on both sides. Green and Green evrywhere. Lots and Lots of Coconut trees. The green and quiet has soothing effect.

A best journey for second or nth Honeymoon.

Also a best family journey with two bed room House Boat.




1 Comments:

Blogger CAR said...

Awsome pictures and great write up. Loved it. Finally I can now keep up with you guys! Baba, keep writting.

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