Kumarakom – Entering a Time Warp
By Sharmistha Sahoo
It was my bit opor-garai together with my husband’s start inward Kerala, fondly known equally God’s ain country, together with nosotros wholly agree! Leaving the hustle bustle of Mumbai, nosotros travelled to Kumrakom, Kerala inward the calendar month of August. Putting our fast lives on a pause, nosotros entered what seemed similar a fourth dimension warp. The trip began amongst a boat ride inward our solid boat along the breathtakingly serene Vembanad Lake.
The lake is dotted yesteryear palm trees on both the sides. We saw many houses of the locals yesteryear the backwaters. They all had their ain boats for commuting from 1 house to another. So exciting no? Everyday would live similar an adventure. Also, in that location were about schools on both the sides. We could fifty-fifty run across children studying inward their pocket-size classrooms. I would accept loved to live inward such a schoolhouse where the lake is your campus! We cruised through the lake together with fifty-fifty entered many pocket-size canals. And thus nosotros broke out into the huge lake out of the backwaters together with could run across the magnanimity of the Vembanad lake, which yesteryear the means is the longest lake inward India.
The entire sense was real humbling. To run across local people enjoying their lives inward elementary activities gave us an perspective together with the much needed recess from our hectic lives. After the idyllic backwater ride, nosotros made our means dorsum to our hotel.Next morning, I woke upward to the audio of photographic television receiver camera clicking, from the attached balcony inward our hotel room. My hubby was already up, taking inward the backwaters stance at the crevice of the dawn. I was fully mesmerized yesteryear the stance of backwaters from our balcony.
I couldn't believe the calmness that the stance was eluding. We could simply sit down in that location doing zip but gazing for hours.
After taking inward the stance equally much equally nosotros could, nosotros lastly bade goodbye to Kumarakom amongst a hope to supply shortly equally nosotros had left a slice of our pump dorsum there.
Author Bio: The writer is a banker yesteryear profession, together with is e'er craving to travel. She loves reading, writing, reviewing, photography together with ofcourse exploring novel places. She is documenting her life stories including her personal, go together with corporate life inward her blog
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