3 Day Kerala India Cooking Holiday with Kumarakom Boat Cruise in Kottayam

Keralan food and cooking class

Learn to cook the most delicious food in India. You can watch and participate in the kitchen while the cook prepares your meals. Get recipes of your favorite dishes. You can enjoy great food from our homely kitchen and have a great time cooking with our family.

Kerala backwater cruise experience

Since ancient times Kerala has used its lake and canals as a water network for transporting men and material. Being aboard a houseboat is tranquil, stressless adventures where you will see the beautiful Kerala keep passing by. The houseboat cruise down the mystical backwaters of Kerala is indisputably an experience of a lifetime.

Besides being a cultural heritage, the houseboats (boat-houses) of Kerala offer an innovative kerala holiday idea. The country houseboat in kerala is referred to as 'Kettuvallam'. These eco-friendly Kerala houseboats are made from local materials like bamboo poles, coconut fibre, ropes, bamboo mats, carpets etc.

Usually kerala houseboats are the giant country crafts that are as long as 60 to 70 feet. While aboard the houseboat in Kerala, you may enjoy the facilities of a star categorized hotel. Basically a houseboat is well appointed with an open lounge, one or more bath attached bedrooms and a kitchenette.

Kerala house-boat is generally manned by a crew, consisting of a cook, guide and oarsman. Lazing and relaxing on the sun decks is one of the most popular activities on the boat-house in Kerala. Traditional lanterns take up the place of electricity on the houseboat. On the boat, you may enjoy the serene surroundings along with savoring the traditional specialties of Kerala. Fresh seafood adds to the sumptuous Kuttanadan meals available on the Kerala houseboat.

A boat ride into the countryside offers a close look at rustic kerala village life-skiff-fishermen launching their cockleshell boats, large flocks of domesticated ducks waddling down to the water from thatched houses on the banks. Women, neck-deep in water, with their waist-length hair heaped in a crown, catching fish with their feet, aimless cattle grazing in lush pastures, white lotuses floating here and there in small, shallow ponds.

The tourists on the houseboats may relive the authentic life in the villages of kerala. These kerala houseboat or the taxis on the backwaters of kerala pass through several towns and villages of Kerala. The Vembanad Lake forms the largest backwater stretch in Kerala. You may enjoy Kumarakom, Alleppey or Alappuzha, Kottayam and Kollam on the houseboat while enjoying backwaters of Kerala.

Coconut Creek Homestay Cooking Vacations

Kerala homestay is a program promoted by Kerala Tourism Department, which allows tourists to Kerala, to live in a Kerala home and get to know the culture and lifestyle of this land in a better way. Feel at home, is the concept which gave birth to the practice called Homestay.

Tourists who travel and reach far away places always find it hard to get accustomed to the culture of distinct places. Living along with the natives, in their own houses and environment, helps travelers to know the lifestyle, language, cuisines, religion and every aspect of the local culture, in the best way possible.

Coconut Creek, a typical Kerala Homestay which has bagged the award for the Best Kerala Homestay from Department of Tourism, Government of Kerala is the pioneer in promoting Kerala Tourism. It is a Kerala Govt. approved Homestay, accredited with the highest Diamond House' rating.

The main attraction is that it lies next to the famous Kumarakom backwater creek. That itself makes it distinguishable and attractive. Coconut Creek can be called a true Kerala Homestay, since it is located in a village, on 4 acres of land filled with typical Kerala crops like coconut, mango, banana, jackfruit etc.

In the vivid beauty of nature blended with the welcoming breeze of the Kumarakom Lake, Coconut Creek, gives freshness through out the day you spend here. While returning from Kerala you will surely carry along a bunch of memories about this sweet Homestay, which you will always love to cherish.

Coconut Creek home-stay is an exotic haven of tranquility in a beautiful creek of Kumarakom Lake. Spread across 4 acres, the ambience here is typically Keralite, facilitated with every modern convenience.

Coconut Creek, the Kerala Homestay has several features different from other similar places. Another major advantage is that many other tourist spots are lying adjacent to it. So it will be easy for the guests to reach their desired destinations at the earliest.

It is well connected to other tourist destinations in Kerala like Alappuzha, Kochi, Munnar, Thekkady, Periyar and Kovalam. All the assistance required will be provided by the well educated and good mannered members of Coconut Creek's family at any time.

• Back water cruise: We arrange Kerala backwater cruises on country boats, motor boats and speed boats
• Fishing in the lake: This will be an unforgettable experience which you will cherish for long in your memories if not forever! You can not only watch but try fishing on your own using methods used by locals even centuries back.
• Houseboats: We arrange for you houseboats in Kumarakomwhich will take you closer to real beauty of the Kerala backwaters.
• Village safari: We also arrange village safari so that you can see for yourself the real life of the common Keralite.
• Visit to ancient churches, temples and other places of interest: We arrange visits to places of religious interest like the Ettumanoor Temple, the Thirunakkara Mahadeva Temple, St.Marys Church Bharananganam (where rest the mortal remains of St.Alphonsa), St.Marys Church Kuravilangad (believed to have been built in 355 AD)
• Visit to Bird Sanctuary: You can visit the bird sanctuary in Kumarakom, which is home to rare migratory birds.
• Visit to Kottayam for shopping: We arrange for your shopping of handicraft and other items at Kottayam.
• Visit to the farm: Coconut Creek farm homestay is located on an area of 4 acres of land which is filled with typical Kerala crops like coconut, mango, small banana, jackfruit and many more. If you are lucky enough to visit us at the right time we will definitely let you try the natural taste of Kerala.
• Visit to the Museum: Situated at Kumarakom is the only one of its kind Bay Island Driftwood Museum.

Optional tours

Coconut Creek's added on feature is that we have a separate travel wing which is operating from Kumarakom and Kuwait. It conducts several activities like tour and holiday or vacation packages in Kerala, taxi rental, Ayurveda massage treatments, hotel reservation in different destinations like Cochin, Munnar, Thekkady, Kuttikanam, Kottayam, Kumarakom, Alappuzha, Varkkala, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kovalom, Wayanad, Kanyakumari and many more wonderful tourist destinations in Kerala.

• Ayurvedic treatment: On request we will arrange for your Ayurvedic Treatment of any kind through Registered Ayurvedic Institutions.
• Herbal Beauty clinic (only for ladies): For the fairer sex we have a Ayurvedic herbal beauty clinic to take care of your skin with the help of ancient Ayurvedic beauty recipes.

• 2 nights accommodation in deluxe double room
• Daily breakfast, lunch, dinner
• Backwater cruise for 2 hours
• 2 cooking classes
• Airport transfers from and to Cochin

• A reservation requires a deposit of 55% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.