We're leaving the Olavipe Homestay tomorrow morning. Our hosts have been so very welcoming and accommodating and the food has been superb.
We will be staying on a Houseboat/Rice Barge for a couple of days and then we're flying North to Mumbai on Tuesday. Until then we won't have WiFi so this is the last post for a while and its all 'pretty flowers'
Kerala isn't known as God's own country' for no reason. Its so very fertile and lush and its not just the spices, coconuts and bananas which grow well - the local flowers here are beautiful .. here's just a few we've come across when walking around the 'farm' Homestay today, and these are almost 'incidental' just growing like weeds in places
this next one is not so much a flower as what looks like a chestnut with a spiky case. Inside there are some bright red berries which are crushed and used as the dye with which ladies add the red spot to their forehead (so Anthony told us)
We will be staying on a Houseboat/Rice Barge for a couple of days and then we're flying North to Mumbai on Tuesday. Until then we won't have WiFi so this is the last post for a while and its all 'pretty flowers'
Kerala isn't known as God's own country' for no reason. Its so very fertile and lush and its not just the spices, coconuts and bananas which grow well - the local flowers here are beautiful .. here's just a few we've come across when walking around the 'farm' Homestay today, and these are almost 'incidental' just growing like weeds in places
this next one is not so much a flower as what looks like a chestnut with a spiky case. Inside there are some bright red berries which are crushed and used as the dye with which ladies add the red spot to their forehead (so Anthony told us)
Lovely Sue. Did they smell nice as well as looking pretty?
ReplyDeleteThe frangipani was gorgeous Di - highly perfumed. I don't think the others were particularly fragrant though.
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