India: Coconut Lagoon Resort in Kerala

We loved our resort in the backwaters of Kerala...Coconut Lagoon. I highly recommend this resortt. I will let the pictures tell the story of everything we did on the resort! Enjoy!!!

Coconut Lagoon Resort!!!

There were tons of butterflies everywhere! I loved it!!! 

More butterflies...

...and more butterflies!!!

The backwaters of Kerala

Pretty flowers

A houseboat in the backwaters

Lilies in the backwaters

Around the resort...

We had to take a boat to get to the resort

Flower

The endangered cows on the resort 

Our bathroom with a tree in the middle!!!

Another view in our bathroom!

There were tons of fireflies

I love this picture!

Around the resort

Decorations on the grounds

Shama caught me in my tabla lesson. It was hard...my teacher told me I needed to practice more! :)

The tables

On our sunset cruise

The sunset 

Shama had to capture all the varieties of pickled veggies and fruits

India: In the mountains of Munnar, Kerala

From Goa, Shama and I traveled to Munnar, Kerala. We passed some random waterfalls along the way. We had quite an adventure getting to our cottage/hotel in Munnar. We thought we had a 4 hour ride but our hotel ended up being over two hours past the city of Munnar in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. It was quite a scary experience and we were so happy to make it to the hotel after the last stretch of broken road in a random worker's jeep in the pitch dark! Check out what we did once we went back to Munnar!

The waterfalls on the way to Munnar

Our cottage in Munnar

The cabbage patch :)

The farm workers in the tea plantation

The dam

The lake off the dam

The men in Munnar

Growing tea leaves

The streets of Munnar

Shama in the clouds of Munnar

An endangered goat in a national park in Munnar

I can't be in the south of India and not have a yummy dosa!

India: Goa here we come!!!

I'd never been to Goa before so I really wanted to go there on this trip. We spend two nights at the Taj Fort Aguada - the first night we were so exhausted from our first week in India that we hung out at the pool and walked around the Fort then went back to our room and never left...we even ordered room service because we were too tired to go down to the restaurant. It worked out well because we were rested for the next day - we toured Old Goa, hung out at the pool, had dinner and drinks at Baga Beach, and then hit a club. We were exhausted the next morning when we had to catch the bus to our early morning flight to Kerala.

Stairs at Fort Aguada

Shama at Fort Aguada

Fort Aguada

School of fish

"The Thinker"

Church in Old Goa

Same church in Old Goa

The streets of Old Goa

Church in Old Goa

Another church...

Inside the church

The view of all the churches we saw 

Church on a hilltop 

On the hilltop

The pool at our hotel - Taj Fort Aguada 

The Taj Fort Aguada Lobby

India: Next Stop Mumbai!!!

I plan to finish out my India trip this week and next (hopefully!!!). The next stop on our trip was Mumbai. I had never really spent time there before so I loved it. We spent time with Shama's family and Sheetal and her family. Check out the sights we saw...

Nariman Point 

Sunset at Nariman Point

Queen's Necklace

The Taj Hotel with the new dome post-attacks

The Taj Hotel with the new dome post-attacks

The Four Seasons rooftop with Sapna, Shama, and Sheetal! :)