Entering Heaven thru Allepy and Munnar
It was the long weekend during Gandhi Jayanti of 2014. We had four off-days from office in our hand and were a group of four people to travel to a tourist destination around Bangalore. We decided to visit Kerala for a vacation and planned to visit Kochi , Allepy and Munnar on a road trip. We started from Bangalore late night at 11 pm of Wednesday and planned to reach Allepy by 11 am the next morning. We had booked a two bedroom house boat for a day. It cost us around 13k as it was a long weekend. On any normal weekend the price for a two bedroom house boat was around 10k in 2014. The road till Coimbatore was awesome with wide and cleanly built highways. From Coimbatore till Palakkad the road condition is average and from Palakkad till Thrissur , the road is awful. As You cross Thrissur, the highway state improves and is a lot better till Kochi. One thing that you can notice as you drive across the roads of Kerala is the cultural difference of the villages of the state fro...