Coconut Lagoon Kumarakom
COCONUT
LAGOON , is our attempt to capture the essence of the Kerala
experience and then offer it in a unique setting.
Nothing has been added that does not already belong. And
if the comforts of life enter (as they must), they do so
in a way that leaves the harmony around them
undisturbed. Before you is the great Vembanad lake,
rippling under the vault of an impossibly large sky.
Sunlight sparkles on her waters, tearing the reflection
of a passing houseboat into crystal shards. Darter birds
go about their fishy business. Your nostrils fill with
scent- laden ozone. To a timber and tile mansion that
seems to belong to this earth, but to another time. If
you left the comfort of your hammock for a closer look,
you'd see that it is an authentic reconstruction. Some
of its timbers are 200 years old. They were moved here
piece by piece, a legacy of the tharavads of old Kerala.