God’s Own Country

God’s Own Country, is a phrase that is used to refer to several places such as the Australia, United States, New Zealand, Kerala (India) and Yorkshire.[source: Wikipedia]. We have been to Kerala recently. We visited Kochi, Kovalam, Komarukam, Alleppey and Kottayam. When I looked out of the window from the car, on either side of the road, it was so green and very difficult to tell that there is infact a house behind it. They left so much place around their houses and planted so many trees. 

Kerala has a lot of coconut trees. It is not a hyperbole to say that there is no house without a coconut tree there. We stopped by the roadside to have some coconut water. We were shocked to know that the price of one coconut is Rs.35/-, which is more than twice that in AP where u hardly find any coconut trees. In the hotel, the menu price of coconut is 99/- Out of curiously, I asked my cab driver, when u have so many coconut trees all around why is the price so high? He said the person who climbs over the tree and fetches them charges a lot and hence the coconuts are costly. 

We have been to Poovar village where we saw the merging of river into the sea. It was a very different experience. The beach is called golden sand beach because the sand was really golden brown in color. We were there in the afternoon and the waves hit us so strongly that I hardly managed to stand inspite of holding onto Vijay. I have been to many beaches in India. But this one is unlike any other. You cannot go to this beach and come back without getting wet. I think the speciality is not because it is huge, but because it is a merger point. 

Anantha Padmanabha Swamy temple was very good, couldn't take a look at any gold though :P. I went into the temple with lungi on top of jeans :D. Women could choose either a saree or lungi.. I chose the later ;) 

Though the literacy rate is very high in Kerala, managing around without Malayalam was very tough. At the end of one week, we started talking to each other like - 'we eat, then we go', 'we no eat here. not good. we go hotel and eat', thanks to our cab driver.