Tag: kerala

Shades Of Green

Two words suffix the Fringe Ford logo  – ‘Get Lost’. And lost you are, at this 1912 British styled cottage in the middle of a 520 acre coffee estate, in a faraway land of drooping vines draped over trees, the thick undergrowth of coffee and cardamom plantations and a million shades of green. A veritable […]

Royal Dreams

There are two colours that I have always associated with Kerela: a cathartic green, owing to the verdant surroundings and a combination of virginal white bordered by a strip of dull gold. Swathed in this pale white and gold, the Kerala markets are suffused with the ‘Kasavu’ sari or the ‘typical white Kerala sari’, as […]

The India Festival Calendar: July–August

It’s that time of the year when the scorching summer sun makes way for the thick puffy clouds, and opens up many travel options for the monsoon lover. Celebrate the onset of the monsoon season and attend some of these exciting festivals. Watch the topography of the country explode into a thousand shades of green, with […]

Festival Of The Month:

  The 36 hours of Thrissur Puram glide by in a blink! One is consumed by the commotion on this day: devotees take to the streets, quickly filling the venue, Swaraj Maidan and the streets that lead to it, caparisoned pachyderms amble slowly to line up for the main function and dummers, pipers and the […]

The Indian Festival Calendar: Feb-March

A holiday in India can be safely expected to be brimming with wonderful vistas, architectural delights and compelling historical nuances, but there is something that adds even more fun to a trip – planning around a festival. Its best to understand the culture map of the country by visiting a destination during an important local […]

New Year Hideouts

New Year Getaways from Bangalore Now that the earth is still spinning smoothly on its axis and its end has been averted, go ahead and plan your New Year getaway as your travel instincts please. For those who live in Bangalore, there are plenty of options to celebrate spilling over to the next year. Be […]

Battlefield Punnamada

As the small town ofAlappuzhabids adieu to the resilient but cathartic monsoon rains, it embarks on the next arduous display of determination in the month of August – The Nehru Snake Boat Race. Peg the bone-drenching rain versus the grit of the oarsmen of the race and you would struggle to establish the stronger contestant. […]

Mahe

“There are no beggars in Mahe”, a gleeful Mr. Tayil Sadanandan erupts amidst the noise of the rain on my already weather-assaulted umbrella. Struggling to have someone speak to me about this elusive in detail, Mr. Sadanandan made my second attempt at Mahe absolutely worthwhile. Recently retired as the Superintendent of Education, he is currently […]

Fort Kochi

  In the times of well packaged holidays and brisk itineraries, some destinations have stilled managed to keep the indulgent spirit of travel intact. The charming town of Fort Kochi certainly is one of them. Apart from the affable status of being Cochin’s alluringly accessible namesake, Fort Kochi owns an illustrious past, being the melting […]

Discovering local-ness in India

Check Out from Hotels and Resorts The last half a decade has seen some radical changes in the notion of travel in India. While backpacking, single travel, ethically motivated travel and other such concepts have gained momentum with a wide audience, a much needed concept has brewed slowly but surely in some states of our […]