Chinese Fishing Nets

Chinese Fishing Nets in Kumarakom, Kerala, India is one of means of fishing.
Using local products like fishing nets and Bamboos mechanics fundamentals applied by local fisher men to make their day to day life easy. It is about 20 meters wide and 10 meters in height.
While heading towards Kumarakom from Cochin you need to pass a big bridge over the Vembanad Lake.
One can see lot of Chinese Fishing nets installed on the banks of these shallow water lake.
These nets are lowered using the lever and pulley mechanism for very short time. The fresh catch fish in the low lying backwaters is caught in these nets.

Coconut Country Kerala

Kerala, India is known as coconut country. As Italy is famous for Olives, Kerala is famous for Coconuts and its products. Coconut tree is also known as Kalpavriksha, in costal parts of India because of its ability to amply provide for human needs.
It ranges from food to coir products.  Heres picture of coconuts getting dried. These will be churned in the mill to produce oil. Few of them will be shredded, packed in tin and exported abroad.
Each and every part of coconut tree is used for some purpose or other.
To name a few

• Coconut - coconut water, oil, food, savouries, currys etc
• Leaves - Roofs, Brooms, 
• Tree trunk - coir products - matresses, artifacts etc
• Coconut shell - fuel, artifacts

Kerala cusine is dominated with various food recipes prepared from Coconut and rice.

Each household in Kerala must have big garden in back yard with lots of coconut trees.

Local Life in Kumarkom Kerala

Any article on Kerala, India is usually talks about the backwaters and its scenic beauty.
My take on ""What makes the place beautiful is its local life !!!"
So thought of devoting this article on the Local Life in Kumarakom.

The localities stay in small houses lined on the banks of the lake. Their staple diet is rice and freshly caught fish from the lake. The rice is grown in the paddy fields located on islands. One can spot the paddy field workers working in the fields while enjoying the boat ride. Since their farms and houses are located on different islands they use small boats to commute to and fro.

Kumarakom, Kerala

Kumarakom- Back water lake destination in Kerala, India. It is located at 40 mins to 50 mins drive from Cochin Airport.
Since its surrounded by the Vembanad Lake all over. Choosing to  stay in house boat or hotel facing the lake is the best option. You will love enjoying a cup of tea or coffee or might be beer, watching the silver lined coconut trees  on the banks of the island.
The activities are as follows:

• Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary
• House Boat Stay
• Boat Ride in the Back waters

Best time to visit Kumarakom is from October to February. 2nd week of December to 1st week of January being the peak season where all the rates are doubled up.
The scenic beauty of Kumarakom can be described in no words. Therefore adding more pictures to this post makes more sense.