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Facilities
- Table Tennis,
- Badminton,
- Cricket,
- Volleyball,
- Basketball,
- Indoor games like carroms and
chess.
- Canoes, wind-surfing,
- Walking tracks, bi-cycles
- Internet and other communication
facilities
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner will
be with the family and other guests. Food is mostly in the
traditional Kerala style.
Activities
- Browse through the Family Archives. This treasure-trove of old family documents, letters and photographs was put together for the younger generation of the house to understand their roots and touch the past.
- It also houses rare documents and papers forming part of Kerala's social fabric of the last two centuries.
- The archives include old cooking vessels, farming tools and other curiosities of the house which are no longer in use.
- Fish in the family's farms or in the surrounding lagoons/canals using traditional 'Choonda' (fishing rod). Learn to cast fishing nets in the Kerala style.
- Learn Kerala cooking. Learn 'Parayil Duck Roast' and 'Karimeen pollichathu' from the family recipe book.
- Swim in the village pond.
- Watch the coconut climbers at work with the crop, which is picked every 45 days.
- Help with the feeding of prawns during the farming season
- Take a bicycle tour of the village. You can even walk through the village and soak up the ambience of the place.
- Learn the traditional techniques of making coir.
- Row in small country boats through the village canals. Visit other nearby islands.
- Take a 'serenity cruise' at sunset - a slow boat ride through the Kaithappuzha backwaters and through the lagoons surrounding the island.
- Visit the 'Healing garden' on the family's estate, where many local ayurvedic medicinal plants are being cultivated and preserved.
- Visit the island's ancient places of worship. Known for their unique architectural styles, they include three churches built by the family, the oldest of which is almost two centuries old.
- Play badminton, volleyball, table tennis, chess and carroms. You could even join in a village cricket or football game.
- Do absolutely nothing if you choose to! You can relax on the 'Kulir Kallu' (a cooling stone) at one end of the house with a book, laze on a hammock with lots of tender coconut water to drink
- Visit Cochin, the commercial capital of Kerala and a world centre for spice trace.
- Walk around Fort Cochin and soak in the ambience of the historical area.
- Visit the historic Synagogue on Jew Street and the antique market around it.
- Take boat trips around some of the
beautiful islands in Cochin.
- See the Chinese fishing nets - still used the way they were centuries ago.
- Ayurvedic therapy on prior consultation and appointment.
- Houseboat rides through some of the most beautiful waterways of Alleppey.
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