Grandmas Home Stay
Pala, Kottayam, Kerala.

Grandma's Mansion is more than just a home stay. It's a home where you can be yourself while experiencing the quintessential pleasures of malayalee lifestyle. Through out your stay, you'll quite comfortably forget the world and discover a life in complete bliss and peace.

Grandma's Mansion is a 100 hundred-year-old ancestral home of Thankamma Joseph family. This double storied house boast the grandeur of Gothic style of architecture. Every room in this wooden mansion portrays uniqueness in style and character, making your stay a pleasant memory for a lifetime.

Grandma's Home Stay is peacefully set in the serene environs of Pala in Kottayam district, amidst abundant native flora and fauna. It's about one and half hour's drive from Cochin International Airport . Reaching here itself is an extraordinary experience – a drive alongside of free-flowing rivers, lush paddy fields and coconut groves.

Grandma's Mansion is more than just a home stay. It's a home where you can be yourself while experiencing the quintessential pleasures of malayalee lifestyle. Through out your stay, you'll quite comfortably forget the world and discover a life in complete bliss and peace.

Grandma's Mansion is a 100 hundred-year-old ancestral home of Thankamma Joseph family. This double storied house boast the grandeur of Gothic style of architecture. Every room in this wooden mansion portrays uniqueness in style and character, making your stay a pleasant memory for a lifetime.

Grandma's Home Stay is peacefully set in the serene environs of Pala in Kottayam district, amidst abundant native flora and fauna. It's about one and half hour's drive from Cochin International Airport . Reaching here itself is an extraordinary experience – a drive alongside of free-flowing rivers, lush paddy fields and coconut groves will soothe your eyes and relaxes your mind. All around Grandmas Home Stay, you will see- elegant and enchanting Kerala village life. The pace of your life out here can be decided entirely by you – slug in the comforts of your cozy room with a book or take a stroll in the plantation or along the riverside, or just get out to discover the umpteen wonders of the gods own country.

Activities you can do at Grandma's Mansion are immense and breathtaking. Get an insight into the Kerala way of life – see the traditional harvesting, go on a fishing trip and interact with the local folks, watch toddy (it is the fermented sap of the coconut tree) tapping and taste it, or simply stroll around the plantain and coconut groves, local landmarks, temples and markets.

Discover your surrounds and befriend with native flora and fauna. Trekking and rock climbing are just for adventure geeks. Try your hand in rubber tapping and tree climbing and local cookery. Check out the pollination and processing vanilla.

Take a dip in the Meenachil River and get refreshed. Try fishing with the fishing rod in our pond or in the river- You can also engage yourself in various indoor and outdoor games according to your liking. And if you're still craving for fun, there are a lot of other things that await you.

Clove is a small, reddish-brown flower bud of the tropical evergreen tree Syzygium aromaticum of the family Myrtaceae, important in the earliest spice trade. Strong of aroma and hot and pungent in taste, cloves are used to flavour many foods, particularly meats and bakery products. The clove tree gland-dotted leaves are small, simple, and opposite. Flowering begins about the fifth year; a tree may annually yield up to 34 kgs of dried buds. The buds are hand-picked in late summer and again in winter and are then sun-dried. Cloves vary in length from about 1/2 to 3/4 inch (13 to 19 mm). They contain 14 to 20 percent essential oil, the principal component of which is the aromatic oil, eugenol.

Cinnamon is light brown in colour and has a delicately fragrant aroma and warm, sweet flavour. Cinnamon was once more valuable than gold. In modern times, cinnamon is used to flavour a variety of foods, from confections to curries. In processing, the shoots are first scraped with a semicircular blade, then rubbed with a brass rod to loosen the bark, which is split with a knife and peeled. The peels are telescoped one into another forming a quill about 42 inches long and filled with trimmings of the same quality bark to maintain the cylindrical shape. After drying, the quills are rolled on a board to tighten the filling and then placed in subdued sunlight for further drying.

Cassia is the dried husk (bark) of a small, bushy evergreen tree. There are different varieties of cassia, obtained from different species of Cinnamomum and originating from different sources. Though there is a generic likeness in the aromatic properties of the various species of cassia, they do exhibit differences in some respects. Cassia bark is a popular ingredient in foods, beverages, perfumery, toiletries and cosmetics, while the oil of cassia finds extensive application in liquors and beauty products. Cassia is often used as a less costly substitute to true cinnamon. In India , cassia is mainly grown in the high ranges of the Western Ghats .

Chilly is the universal spice of India . Chilly is an essential ingredient of Kerala curry, which is characterized by tempting colour and titillating pungency. Its fruit appears in different sizes, shapes and colour. The fruit size of some varieties is more than hundred times that of others. The shape may be elongated or round and distal pointed, blunt or sucked in. Corrugated, leathery or smooth maybe the touch on outer skin. It may look like a bird's eye or a small orange fruit. Colour varies from blue, green, orange, red, yellow, violet, cream white to near black.

Cardamom is known as the Queen of Spices. It is one of the most exotic and highly prized spices. Indian cardamom has a history as old as human civilization. The dried fruit of a herbaceous perennial, cardamom is grown mainly in Kerala, on the shady slopes of the western Ghats. Warm humid climate, loamy soil rich in organic matter, distributed rainfall and special cultivation and processing methods all combine to make Indian cardamom truly unique in aroma, flavor, size and color tempting parrot-green. Cardamom oil is a precious ingredient in food preparations, perfumery, health foods medicines and beverages.

Pepper known as called the King of Spices, is one of the oldest and best-known spices in theworld. India has always reigned supreme in the production and export of this most exotic and sought-after spice. Indian pepper had a profound influence on the European economy of the Middle Ages. Many western countries owed their prosperity to this spice, which fetched them a very high price. Easily the finest in quality anywhere, Indian pepper is grown in the monsoon forests along the Malabar coast in South India . Here, a combination of natural advantages and organic techniques produces bigger, better-shaped, more aromatic and flavor-full berries.

Munnar | One day tour
Munnar is breath takingly beauteous and most sought after tourist destination in this part of the world. At an altitude of 6000 ft in Idukki district, Munnar is home for enchanting lakes, pristine mountains, sensual streams, scabrous rocks, wooded valleys and wavy grass hills, unending expanse of tea plantations, and exotic species of flora and fauna.

Kumarakom | One day tour
On the banks of the Vembanad lake lays the sleepy little village of Kumarakom . 13 Kms from Kottayam, this enigmatic village offers exotic sightseeing, boating and fishing experiences. The Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary is one of the most important attractions of the place. House boat cruise along the Vembanad Lake is one of the most rejuvenating experiences in a lifetime.

Vagamon | One day tour
3500 feet above the sea level, Vagamon, an enchanting hillside village is a haven of tranquility. Roughly 100km from Cochin , Vagamon is surrounded by the greenery of tea gardens, beautiful meadows, deep puzzling valleys and dales. The grass covered hills, velvet lawns and the cool mountain air make Vagamon a perfect holiday retreat, that will rejuvenate you for a lifetime.

Thekkady | One day tour
On the banks of Periyar Lake , Thekkady is the only sanctuary in India where you can have the unique experience of viewing wildlife at close quarters. Nature's bliss and the pride of Kerala Thekkady is all about dense evergreen, moist deciduous forests and rarest wildlife including sambars, tigers, gaurs, lion tailed macaques, Nilgiri langurs and more.

Cochin | One day tour
Cochin or Kochi is the commercial capital of Kerala and has long been eulogised in tourist literature as the 'Queen of the Arabian Sea .' Strategically located on the east–west sea route, Cochin is Kerala's major port, boasting of one of the finest natural harbours in the world which forms the hub around which the city revolves–a fact the world's sea trade seems to have known for long. .