Field Notes from Kerala
Practical guides, local insights and travel stories from Kerala and South India. Written by Benjamin John of Green Earth Trails, organising journeys here since 2008.
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Munnar
Eravikulam National Park sits in the high range above Munnar town, a stretch of rolling grasslands and sholas at around 2,000 metres…
Thekkady
Thekkady rewards travellers who slow down. It is one of the few places in Kerala where two full days feels right and…
Houseboats of Kerala Backwaters
A Kerala houseboat is one of the most photographed travel experiences in India and one of the most poorly understood. Almost every…
Thekkady
In the dim low light of a cardamom plantation in the hills above Thekkady, the air is heavy with a smell that…
Kerala literature travel
Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water opens in 1900, in a small Saint Thomas Christian household near the backwaters of central Kerala,…
Kerala slow travel
Almost every conversation about Kerala hospitality starts in the same place. CGH Earth. The group has been on the ground here since…
Local Kerala life
There is a particular kind of traveller who comes to Kerala and does not want to see everything. They have done their…
Alleppey
For most travellers, Alleppey is a single night, on a houseboat. That is the standard experience and for most Kerala itineraries it…
Founder, Green Earth Trails. Kerala travel specialist since 2008.
Field notes from a small Kochi-based operator running private and small-group journeys across Kerala and South India. Honest about what is worth doing and what is not.
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