Malabar Musing and Mosquito
Kerala never fails to enchant, same case this time. This trip was special, and didn’t disappoint. A honeymoon in Kerala conjures up exciting images for most. Fed by scenes of coconut trees, boat races, backwaters, kathakali and karimeen, Incredible India is initiated in these popular iridescent images. For me, this trip was a homecoming of sorts. Born a Malayali, and a true one at heart, it was time to shed the Mumbaikar sheen and smell the land. We did four destinations and each sparkled in its own glory, juxtaposing different facets of the same Gods creation to exhibit different flavours of God’s own country. We saw a silent backwater holding its own against a roaring sea front at Poovar. We saw nature at peace with itself, disturbed only by humans at Kumarakom. We were closest to the heavens in Munnar, sometimes within touching distance. And at Cherai, we signed off an idyllic end to a trip of alifetime. As we touched down in Mumbai, a rather bumpy one in the state airline, it was a