Come and dabble in the muddy fish pond
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Jan-28-2010
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When you are in a mood to get away for an unabashed merriment and relaxation in a far away land you let SLS Tour people know. They have the right trip and recipe for you.
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When you are in a mood to get away for an unabashed merriment and relaxation in a far away land you let SLS Tour people know. They have the right trip and recipe for you.
Total enjoyment or total freedom from formal shackles—pretenses-- would be revealing and refreshing. When you are in a land far away from your work place and native state this would be an ideal way to recharge your mind and body. The scheme is like this: Having booked for a week or so for a Kerala tour, you belt, boot and snap the backpack and come telling yourself you are going to let your hair down this time.
You choose a midland or plains in Kerala and select a peasant family to stay with. Most countryside of Kerala has paddylands, coconut groves, fish ponds, rivers, streams and backwaters. Stay with a peasant family which has registered with the Kerala tourism for home stay.
You will be practically a member of the family as long as you stay. Put on knickers, take a hook and sinker and go for fishing and swimming in the nearest pond or stream. If you are a great angler profitable fun awaits you. If this does not appeal you, join the peasant in his daily chores fertilizing, weeding, watering crops, or see how he struggles to climb a coconut tree to pluck the nut, or better still, give a try to scale the tall, slender and swaying areca nut stem to get the golden-hued bunch of nuts tantalizingly inviting you at the top.
Perhaps, you want to wallow in the slush like country kids do? Get into a muddy pond or watery paddy field and compete with herons and other winged predators catching fish. It’s a thrilling experience. Endless are the country life you could explore: Milking a cow or goat, traveling in an oxen cart or sliding lazily in a canoe in the calm backwater canals.
If you are lucky netting some fish your host will make the tastiest fish-dish you have ever eaten. Cleaned and dabbed in spices fish is bathed in the boiling coconut oil, the aroma of which would make your mouth water. Sit on the floor and get the oven-fresh fish served on a plantain leaf. It’s very healthy food. If you are not a teetotaler you could get a frothy glass of fresh toddy (if toddy unavailable, your favorite liquor is mostly available in Kerala). After the leisurely meal you relax and then probably borrow the peasant’s son’s bicycle and go around the nearest town or simply pedal around the countryside singing your favorite tune.
At night you join the household in talking shop—most Keralites understand English.
Know what herbal remedies they know to fob off common ailments. You could also visit one of the art festivals or temple festival if it is held in the vicinity. Or listen to the orchestra of the nightly creatures and get a refreshing good night sleep. You could shift the scene and hosts and enjoy the variety. At the end, you would be rearing to go with energy, widened horizon of mind, and a mind full of joyous memories.
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