A travel a year has managed to keep our family intact and as thick as ever. And due to this reason, we have seen to it that we always catch up so that we get together, wherever we are. All of us reside in one metro city or the other and hence whenever we want to take an out, we try to escape to wilderness or rather a natural paradise. This time we got on to various discussions on the WhatsApp group and decided to go down the roads of Kerala. Everything was booked through Holiday Mango Travel as we did not have any knowledge of the place except for the fact the destination had what we had been looking for. All of us set together in a time that we could reach the Trivandrum International airport around the same time for our Kerala holiday package. In a time span of an hour and a half, all of us reached the destination and we were picked by the driver.
It was around 3 pm when we had been driving on the roads of the capital city of Kerala. The driver followed the itinerary that had been set up for us and hence before heading to the residence of stay we would be visiting the Varkala beach. The roads were smoother than expected and we were pretty much impressed with how everything ahd been functioning from the view that we could capture through the windows. We reached the beach destination and got out. We had been in airport clothes but that did really stop us from dipping our legs in the sea. Quite a large number of people had been there, spending their evening there. We were in for some ice cream as there were some shops that had been around. We got some jackfruit ice cream for it was necessary that we taste what belongs exclusively to this land. And it turned out to be good as well. Quite some activities were taking place at the destination and we took a cruise along the place which intended the beginning of our travel. The fun had finally begun.
We caught the sun setting and decided to get to the accommodation. We freshened up, had some good food that as served to us and slept as the real traveling was to begin the very next day. We began the journey the next day after some sumptuous breakfast of dosa and sambhar and made our way to the first destination which was the Veli Tourist Village. The destination was a man-made location that had been made for the tourists. We reached the place and began walking inside where there were well-maintained gardens and other recreational beauty. There were quite a lot of stalls that had been set up inside where various articles had been hung up. The people who had been inside the stalls explained each of it to us. We reached the food zone and finally into the cultural zone sitting where we had the snacks that and watched the dances that were being performed. After a while, we got moving where we had just one more place to visit which was the zoo. After a quick walk inside the place, we got to see various animals that had been housed inside the premises of the zoo. The drive began after a quick lunch as we had to reach the destination before it was too late.
The journey began where we had been on our way to the destination that could ease us through its nature. And Kerala indeed had quite a lot of places that could embrace us with it. On one such road had we been where the destination on the other end was Gavi. As we were nearing the destination we realized that the place had all sort of greenery in and around that provoked us to roll down the windows and stare into the beauty of the place. On reaching the gem of a place, we took a tea stop and from there we directly got t the place where we would be staying for the night. The place had been more of a natural paradise. It was a homestay facility where we felt like there were enough around the premises of the accommodation to explore. We changed to nicer clothes that could keep us warm and walked to the owner of the place who had been very enthusiastic in feeding us with the lunch that they had made for us. After food, we decided to take a walk around the destination.
Gavi was absolutely a scenic delight to the eyes. We spend quite a lot of time staring at the hills and the greenery that spread out. Most of the people residing in the place had agriculture and cattle as their main activity. Every received us with a smile on their face while we had been mind gobbling on how the people here lived without malls and junk food. It was indeed a forest haven where the Periyar tiger reserve made the place more famous. After a quick walk through the place, we decided to sightsee and set off on a driver where the driver dropped us at Kachumba. We were in for a boating expedition here where not a lot of tourists had not been there as it was nearing evening. Walking at the destination had been more fun than indulging any activity. The night went by where we had been busy setting up a campfire and enjoying the stories that the owner of the hometsya had for us.
The next day we set off again into the wilderness of the Gavi Forest. An array of birds made various sounds from the destination. We also got to sight few of them who had been quite busy feeding on the food that they had found from the forests. Kingfishers and woodpeckers passed by as we walked through the place. The exotic trees and plants were introduced to us where they had a medicine found from most of the plants there. Half a day of ours was what we had the most in our hands to explore the place. And when we had been returning to the accommodation, we also got to see elephants who had been crossing the roads and making their way to the wilder forests. The journey of ours that had begun from the airport had to be reverted as the Kerala tour package had come to an end. The return journey had again been a long driver where we took every bit of the land of Kerala before we got back to the hometown.
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