Koyilandy
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Koyilandy to Vallikkapatta
I left Koyilandy in the morning after celebrating Bavrah’s parents wedding anniversary. Hari, Bavrah, Aminta and Ashlin were travelling straight back to Hari’s house in Vallikkapatta. I wanted to explore Calicut some more and so caught the bus into the city and would join Hari and Bavrah later in the evening. It was a very hot day for walking around the streets of Calicut but it was a great place for shopping and people watching. For lunch I found a restaurant close to the centre which was rapidly filling up with dinners at 1 pm. I walked in a took a seat as the place seemed popular. There was no…
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Christmas in Koyilandy
I woke to another great Keralan breakfast of parathas, curry and puttu (coconut rice cake) and steamed bananas. After breakfast Bavrah’s mother took us on a tour of her garden. It is a beautiful garden with wide variety of orchids, other flowering plants and fruit trees. Mid morning we headed out to Kappad beach where the first European Vasco Da Gama landed on Indian soil in 1498. The spot is marked by a simple monument. Hari explained that there is a debate as to whether this site should be developed into a tourist attraction given that the arrival of Vasco marked the start of the western colonial rule over India.…
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Vallikkapatta to Koyilandy
I woke to a beautiful view from my bedroom in the Chirakkal house looking out across the paddy fields. Hari and I went for a short walk in the morning. We were invited for breakfast at Hari’s sister’s home who lives nearby. They had prepared a tasty traditional Keralan breakfast and I was able to taste some local delights which had been freshly prepared. After breakfast we returned to Hari’s home and his nephew Vishnu came over to say hello. The last time I saw him he was a young boy and now he is studying medicine in Trivandrum. After chatting for a while we packed up our bags to…
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