Kerala Beach Wonderland Looms Large
We are in the southern state of Kerala and it is beautiful and super friendly. We were walking on a country road yesterday and someone pulled over, hands appeared out the window, hands were shaken, and the car drove off. Also, people have thanked us for visiting and everyone wants to know our good name and where we are from. So welcoming.
We stayed a few days at the Kerala/Kanala Beach House and it was so relaxing. A perfect antidote for the honking and pollution that goes with much of India. We stayed at a beachfront cottage and looked out over swaying coconut palms onto the breaking waves.
If you sat on the rocks in the morning you could see dolphins swimming by maybe 50-100 yards away and we now have one suitcase just devoted to shells. My plan is to tip the airline personnel to ensure that they never arrive in the US.
We spent one evening canoeing in a mangrove river. Soooo many birds to see and hear. We ate seafood for two meals a day and just lazed around and maybe swam a little.
We leave for mumbai tomorrow so we left the beach house for a place closer to the train.
Breakfast and dinner (lunch optional) were all included and since the beach was free, it was nice not worrying about money for a few days. It also has a nice mini spontaneous community because the 5 or 10 of us who are there at a time eat together and see one another on the beach, etc.
On the way out we stopped at a weaving cooperative. (Not only was it a cooperative, but Kerala State has a communist government to boot and there are hammer and sickles everywhere to show it) (But really they are pink and not red because they believe in private property and free enterprise.)
The looms looked like they were from the industrial revolution, huge heavy dark wood contraptions with lots of fast moving parts. All hand (foot powered). Whoosh click, whoosh click, click click click, they went as the men and women shot pieces of fabric up and down, back and forth.
Pictures will come once we get a better internet connection.
We stayed a few days at the Kerala/Kanala Beach House and it was so relaxing. A perfect antidote for the honking and pollution that goes with much of India. We stayed at a beachfront cottage and looked out over swaying coconut palms onto the breaking waves.
If you sat on the rocks in the morning you could see dolphins swimming by maybe 50-100 yards away and we now have one suitcase just devoted to shells. My plan is to tip the airline personnel to ensure that they never arrive in the US.
We spent one evening canoeing in a mangrove river. Soooo many birds to see and hear. We ate seafood for two meals a day and just lazed around and maybe swam a little.
We leave for mumbai tomorrow so we left the beach house for a place closer to the train.
Breakfast and dinner (lunch optional) were all included and since the beach was free, it was nice not worrying about money for a few days. It also has a nice mini spontaneous community because the 5 or 10 of us who are there at a time eat together and see one another on the beach, etc.
On the way out we stopped at a weaving cooperative. (Not only was it a cooperative, but Kerala State has a communist government to boot and there are hammer and sickles everywhere to show it) (But really they are pink and not red because they believe in private property and free enterprise.)
The looms looked like they were from the industrial revolution, huge heavy dark wood contraptions with lots of fast moving parts. All hand (foot powered). Whoosh click, whoosh click, click click click, they went as the men and women shot pieces of fabric up and down, back and forth.
Pictures will come once we get a better internet connection.
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