Jun 01, 2006 10:28 PM
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If you haven't visited Kerala so far, you are missing something. It is called God's own country and beauty of this phrase is that when you visit Kerala, you are constantly reminded of this phrase. The Greenery and the cleanliness steal your heart. The tea plantations transcend you to another world. Begin with Trivandrum and visit Kovalam beach. Rather stay there. There is no other beach parallel to it in India. Visit Kumarakom. Oh! Kumarakom, the backwaters still keep calling me and I long for visiting this untouched and virgin place again. In Thekkady, when the motor boat takes you to the middle of river Periyar, you say, how peaceful and serene this place is! Elephants come to the bank to drink water and play and you watch in astonishment. Munnar! I have already begun feeling the chill in the air. At night, you can listen to the Malabar whistler. It is a bird and whistles exactly like a man. It was 3.00 am and when I heard the whistle, I thought a waiter was whistling at my partner. And the waiter told an infuriated myself that I was lucky to have heard Malabar whistler. In Munnar, there is a flower Neelakurinji that blooms after 12 years! And it is GOING TO BLOOM THIS YEAR IN AUGUST! Lastly, never miss Kochi, the chinese fishing nets, the jew street, the commercial capital of India. Kerala, I love you and promise that I will come again and again and again.......