Being One With Nature

 8th day of #Blogchatter daily write challenge  

In a recent blog, I had mentioned the importance of enhancing the happy hormones in humans for leading a fruitful, healthy and happy life. One way you can do that is to spend time amidst nature. Kerala is known for her natural beauty that attracts tourists from all over the country and abroad. Although I am basically from the state, I have not visited most of the tourist attractions of "God's own country". Tourists go gaga over the backwaters, the hill station of Munar and the wild life at Thekkady forest among others. Having studied my graduation and post-graduation in Chennai and subsequently moving to Karnataka for work, my visits to Kerala were limited to the home town Kochi. 

It was only in October 2017 when we visited Kochi and nearby areas as a part of the India Poetry Circle (IPC) members get together that I had the opportunity to witness the magnificent Athirapally falls (Location for many Indian films including the block buster Bahubali-1) . On that occasion we also travelled in a house boat on the backwaters in Alleppy. Recently, I got to see more of the beauty of this area when we visited Chertala in connection with a marriage proposal We stayed at the KTDC run Kumarakom Gateway resort. The trip provided wonderful moments to experience nature from the comfort of the resort that had its own old world charm. Here are some pictures depicting the captivating beauty of that area. 

  

I am no travel blogger. In the hands of ones more adept and experienced, grander pictures could have been taken. By the way, the proposal for marriage for which we stayed at the resort and visited the boy's house fructified. My daughter in law Niranjana's sister Amrutha's wedding with Harinath happened on 8th December 2022 at Bangalore followed by a reception on 11th December at Cherthala.