---Kettuvallam

-- Motor Launch

-- Chinese Fishing

-- Society

-- Village Procession

-- Coir

-- Copra

-- Market

-- Kochi (Cochin)

-- Dance

-- Kovalam

-- Fish Dinner

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Kerala is one of those places the locals call “God’s Own Country” and keep a straight face. It is indeed beautiful, India’s version of a trip to Tahiti. With a host of superlatives to their credit — India’s lowest birth rate and highest life expectancy, highest literacy rate, lowest AIDS rate, and so on — Keralans are justly proud.

In these pages we travel by kettuvallam and motor launch, visit backwater villages, have a fish dinner cooked over an open fire, witness a village procession, take a look at coir and copra processing as well as traditional Chinese dipnet fishing, watch Kathak and Kathakali dance performances, visit a street market, look at Keralan society, stroll around Kochi (formerly known as Cochin), and see other sights of the fabled Malabar Coast. Finally, we relax at Kovalam Beach.