Travel with me - Trip to Allepey, Kanyakumari, Poovar beach and Kovalam in KERALA (With video clips inside)

I visited Kerala few months back and also uploaded 2 parts of my travel posts while my time there. After that I fell sick due to stomach ulcers and had to leave steemit for 2 months. After my come back I again started to post what I usually do, i.e, my philosophical poetries, articles and forgot about this third part of my travel experience to Kerala.

I found this half written post in my drafts recently and thought to post this now. For all those who haven't seen my previous posts, or even if they did see and want to refresh now, have a look here and here.

So after being to Kochi, Munnar and Thekari, we were on our way to Kovalam beach when we came across a tea factory in Pattumalay.

The tea from here goes to overall India and is quite popular.

It was quite boring so I didn't click more photos :P

After that we saw this beautiful church on our way and we couldn't resist to get down and take a visit.

And here is my beautiful mom :D

Then we went to Alleppey which is called the Venice of the east because of the beautiful backwaters it holds. The backwaters are unending. One can go for boating there all day and it would still not end. Here are some pictures of me while boating in Alleppey.

And here is the beautiful view from my boat.

This place is famous for house boating. This was a house boat I clicked to show you guys.

There is an interesting story I want to share with you guys. There was some occasion the day we reached Alleppey so the boating was too much expensive that day then the usual days. Now I am one of those who try to save money wherever I can. So I came up with an idea.

What those people were doing were that they were charging the same amount for ONE family. No matter if the family consisted of 1 person or 6. So they weren't charging for per person, but one family. So I started looking for another family to make a deal with them. It took about 10-15 minutes and I found a couple who was also looking for another family to divide the prices. :P

Then we enjoyed the boating together at half the rate. Hehehe :P So if you ever go a place where you find tourism business looting you, you can use this trick. LOL.

And Here am I again, relaxing and enjoying the views.

There was not much to see in Allepey so we stayed there for one day only. Then we headed towards Kanyakumari which is the end point of India. On the way to Kanyakumari, the views were pretty amazing.

Here are a few :-

For the first time I saw Red bananas in my life !!! They are quite yummy :D

And look at these see shells and dried starfishes !!

Here I am at Kanyakumari beach. Behind me is the Rock memorial of Swami Vivekanand.

We had to take a ferry to visit the memorial.

The memorial was a quite and peaceful place. Wasn't much there though to watch except some statues of Swami Vivekanand.

Here I am with a candid picture of mine showing the peaceful blue waters behind me.

And this one is not a candid of course :P . Hehehe

Then we went to Poovar beach. Now the story of Poovar beach is pretty amazing. What happened on the way was quite hilarious. The thing about reaching Poovar beach is that you have to take a boat to reach there and there is no other option. Well this is what our driver said !!! But alas, thanks to GOOGLE MAPS. :P

We saw a way to reach Poovar beach through road. But our driver tried his best to agree us for the way through backwaters but we were very careful after the scam done with us in Thekari. If you read my previous post you would know what I am talking about. Yes. The JEEP SAFARI scam.

So we told our driver to just drive as per the google maps. He would obviously otherwise received a share had we agreed for the boating passage to Poovar beach. But we broke all his dreams :P. He kept on saying again and again that "the water passage is the best one. That's the only good thing about Poovar beach. You shouldn't miss that. I don't know the way by road, etc etc." But we ignored all his efforts and told him to do what was said.

Finally we reached Poovar beach and it was not as good as we heard of it !!

The sand on the beach looked artificial, there were no food stalls or shops, (Yes its a big requirement :P) it wasn't a well maintained and cleaned beach. And the worst thing, we weren't allowed to enter the ocean !!!

Yes, I don't know why is Poovar beach so damn famous ? The beach is deep right from where it beguns so no body is allowed to enter the water. I even heard that some people died there previous years because the water pulls people back quite strongly not giving them enough time to swim back and save themselves. So the entry was restricted.

We had nothing to do there except FEEDING THE CROWS!!!

Can you imagine. :P This is what we did there !!!

Though the views suddenly turned beautiful at the sunset and luckily our experience at Poovar beach didn't turn out to be that regretting !!!

And luckily I was able to click a cute crab :D

Next and final day, I was all set to go to KOVALAM BEACH.

So I headed out to this beautiful place and it became my favourite. May be because I love beaches and water more then hills and mountains.

The Kovalam time was the best time of mine in the overall Kerala Trip. Though I got severe sunburns because my brother didn't check that the sunscreen he bought was not waterproof :P

Then we climbed the lighthouse at the beach for an amazing view !!

This is how Kovalam beach looked from the top !!!

Amazing isn't it?

Here are some more of my pictures chilling out on the Kovalam Beach :-

Here is a selfie with my brother @kkprashantkk. He isn't that regular on steemit but atleast I was successful in motivating him enough to make an account here :P

And I couldn't miss writing my name on the sand obviously :P

And here is my mom giving a selfie pose :D

And here our trip to Kerala finally came at a hault !! We headed back to our home with the sunburns as a memory of Kerala. LOL.

And after getting back home, I got severe stomach ulcers about a week later because of the food of Kerala. So if you visit there ever, be careful as they put Imli in everything and all their food is mostly sour !!!

It might suit some people but it didn't suit me, may be because we stayed there for 12 bloody days !! That was to much for my stomach to handle.

So that's all for today.

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