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By Palmland Tours | Kandath Tharavad |
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| A homestay to experience village life in Kerala. South India. | |||
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| Kandath Tharavad is the place to experience the village life of Kerala. The house set in a rustic village outside Palakkad Town takes you back to a by gone era. Away from the busy traffic and into a countryside that is absolutely quiet and calm. Tharavad is the place to experience the village life of Kerala. The house set in a rustic village outside Palakkad Town takes you back to a by gone era. Away from the busy traffic and into a countryside that is abso- lutely quiet and calm. The morning walks with the fresh bre- eze blowing against you and the evening starlit skies in a silent surrounding are some of the treasures of this abode. |
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Kandath Tharavad the ancestral
home of the Kandath family is set in the lush rice paddies of rural
Kerala in South India. The house is a two hundred year - old gem of
domestic architecture constructed primarily of mud and teak.The house
was built in 1794 by Bhagwaldas's Great Great Grandfather,Mr.
Kuppavelan, a landowner and money - lender. Situated in Thenkurussi
Village in Palakkad, the nearest town, an equidistant two-hour drive
from Cochin airport to the West or Coimbatore to the East. Five
generations have lived here, as evidenced by the five ancestral stools
in the Puja Room. |
| The Most striking feature of the house is the frontal raised area ("Purathalum") with grand bulbous pillars fashioned in teak at each corner rising to glorious carvings of elephants, snakes, fish and dragons. The floor is covered in natural dyed tiles of ochre, terracotta and blue. It was here until Bhagwaldas's Grandfather died in the seventies that the serious business of money - lending took place - most of it tiding the locals over between rice-crops. |
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No more than twenty feet away from the front purathalam where the men would congregate is another raised area at the rear of the house for the ladies to gather. It was acoustically contrived that no word spoken by the women could be heard by the men and vice-versa.The two areas are diagonally separated by a reception chamber in which there is a "Nadumuttam" or open area in the center. You can stand under this and see the stars. It is created by four roofs (now tiled but once palm thatched) descending into the room to shoulder height allowing monsoon rains to plash into a central sunken area below. Kandath Tharavad is an Ettukettu (Ettu-eight: Kettu- Block) structure having not one but two such areas, Built according to the principles of Vaasthu Shastra ( ancient science of architecture). |
| The principal sunken area is where a goat is still slaughtered annually on Ancestor Day and its meat offered to the forbears in the Puja Room before family and friends make their feast. All doors in the house are low, narrow and stepped, constructed with teak hooped with brass. The theory is that whoever the visitor, any entry to the house was impossible without them according respect in the form of a low bow. The bedrooms have ensuite facilities. But the whole emphasis of the house iesis on its cool and airy public areas. |
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Our facilities includes Four naturally ventilated rooms with ensuite facilities, Cuisine: Authentic Kerala Cuisine -Vegetarian & Nonvegetarian, ATelephone available, Laundary Services, Doctor on call, Bicycles available, AIRPORT/ RAILWAY STATION TRANSFERS and Beer and Wine can be arranged. |
| A morning visit to the corner
tea shop to share your world with that of villagers over a tumbler of
tea or an evening walk through the village and through the green
paddies to watch the sunset are some of the past times you will enjoy.
If you are keen on the Kerala cuisine the cook is always ready to fill your appetite with a variety of dishes both special and authentic. |
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| Room | AP | CP | |
| Deluxe Suite | |||
| Deluxe Semi Suite | |||
| Double Bedrooms Standard | |||
| Single Occupancy | |||
| Extra Bed | |||
| All rooms are Air Conditioned. | |||
