KUMARAKOM on the Vembanaad Lake
God's own retreat in God's own country. Prime Ministers, sports stars , la-di-dah socialites all squeeze in a kumarakom- holiday , like ,the little black book is not really dishy enough without this entry in it. The name is all over the place so much so that we were almost driven to put in a three day retreat there. If only to find out what all the noise is all about. Ah ! believe me, all that noise is fully justified. Kumarakom is verily God's own de-stressing resort ! Multi starred fancy spas jostle with faux-rural ( reverse snobbish) hutments. Plenty of lodgings to choose from. We settled for the middlepath . A nice colony of wooden houses on stilts sprouting amidst a maze of artificial canals meandering through thick copses of aged trees. Set far away from the highways. Run by the Tourism Department of Kerala. On the bank of the Vembanaad. Silent. Cool. Cut off from the world. Perfect. The Vembanaad Lake is a wonder. Almost like a sea. Did nothi