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Kodaikanal

2013-05-20T06:03:28Z

updated listing Hotel Gurupriya

Kochi

2013-05-20T04:12:32Z

Kerala

2013-05-19T10:14:40Z

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2013-05-19T08:32:42Z

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 * <sleep name="Lilly's Valley Resor" alt="" address="17/178 Sivanandi Road" directions="1 1/2 Km from Heart of town or 15 Mins walking" phone="" email="" fax="" url="http://lillysvalley.com" checkin="" checkout="" price="">Lilly’s was the very first resort to be built in Kodaikanal back in 1982 by Mr. Raj A. Sukumar, who felt the place resembled somewhere in England he had seen.</sleep>
-* <sleep name="Hotel Gurupriya" alt="" address="17 Laws Ghat Road" directions="Near Zion Matriculation School, 1.5 Km from Heart of town or 15 Mins walking" phone="+914542 41136" email="info@hotelgurupriya.com" fax="" url="http://www.hotelgurupriya.com" checkin="" checkout="" price="Rs.750/- onwards"></sleep>
+* <sleep name="Hotel Gurupriya" alt="" address="17 Laws Ghat Road" directions="Near Zion Matriculation School, 1.5 Km from Heart of town or 15 Mins walking" phone="+914542 241136" url="http://www.hotelgurupriya.com" checkin="" checkout="" price="Rs.750/- onwards" lat="" long="" email="info@hotelgurupriya.com" fax=""></sleep>
 * <sleep name="Hotel Sunrise" alt="" address="8/62, Post Office Road" directions="Near Post Office" phone="+914542 241358" email="kodaihotelsunrise@gmail.com" fax="" url="http://www.kodaihotelsunrise.com" checkin="" checkout="" price=""></sleep>

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 *<buy name="Isidore Art Palace" alt="" address="Jewtown" directions="next to the Synagogue" phone="" url="" hours="" price="" lat="" long="" email="isidore@vsnl.com">Will reliably ship stuff outside India. Bargain hard.</buy>
-*<buy name="Galleria Synagogue Art Gallery" address="Jewtown" phone="+91 484 2222544" directions="walk down from the synagogue">Showcases art work from many different local artists. Prices are reasonable, and they very often have exhibitions showing some amazing art work from the region.</buy>
+*<buy name="Yousuf Art Gallery (previously Galleria Syngagogue Art Gallery)" address="Jewtown" phone="+91 484 2222544" directions="walk down from the synagogue">Showcases art work from many different local artists. Prices are reasonable, and they very often have exhibitions showing some amazing art work from the region.</buy>
 *<buy name="Cochin Crafts Antique Shop‎" address="Jewtown" phone="+91 484 2221927‎" directions="walk down from the synagogue">Good collection of crafts and antique shops.</buy>

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 ====Cinema====
-Malayalam Cinema is a popular local entertainment option. It tends to focus on social realities, and avoids the glitz & glamour prevalent in the Bollywood and Tamil movie industries. If you want to watch a Malayalam movie in a local theatre, be aware that there is no sub-titling, except for those movies nominated for out of state awards. [[Trivandrum]] hosts the annual '''International Film Festival of Kerala''' which focuses on Asian and Latin movies.
+Malayalam Cinema is a popular local entertainment option. It tends to focus on social realities, and avoids the glitz & glamour prevalent in the Bollywood and Tamil movie industries. If you want to watch a Malayalam movie in a local theatre, be aware that there is no sub-titling, except for those movies nominated for out of state awards. [[Trivandrum]] hosts the annual '''International Film Festival of Kerala''' which focuses on Asian and Latin movies, while [[Kochi]] hosts ''Kochi International Film Festival'', mostly screening selection of world cinema and prominent Indian movies. Now a days several film societies do host regular movie festivals.
 ===Traditional dress===
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 Kerala cuisine is distinctly different from food elsewhere in India. The major difference that one can easily notice are dominance of rice as staple food and popularity of non-vegetarian dishes. Unlike other parts of India, the Kerala society do not emphasis on any religious dietary taboos or restrictions. Thus various beef and pork dishes take a key position in Kerala cuisine without any societal taboos. Seafood gets a lion's share in typical Kerala's cuisine and lavish use of coconut (in form of coconut oil, coconut milk, powder or paste) gives a distinct taste. Since spices are abundant, one can find its lavish use in most of dishes, making many fiery hot. Pepper, Cardamon, Cloves, Ginger, Chilies are common to most of the dishes.
-Food in Kerala tends to include a variety of spices and most of them are extremely fiery. Kerala also has its own fair share of famous vegetarian cuisines and normally only vegetarian foods are taken during festival days, particularly Onam
+Food in Kerala tends to include a variety of spices and most of them are extremely fiery. Kerala also has its own fair share of famous vegetarian cuisines and normally only vegetarian foods are taken during festival days, particularly Onam. However Jains will find hard in vegetarian selections, as most of Malayalee vegetarian dishes comprises tubular and root based vegetables as well as lavish use of garlic and onions. Jains need to look out for Jain special food, normally available in key cities or near Jain temples.
 Kerala's cuisine is divided into four basic regional styles, according to ingredient availability and historical influence: [[Malabar#Eat|Malabar]], [[Central Travancore#Eat|Central Travancore]], [[Southern Travancore#Eat|Southern Travancore]], and [[Central Kerala#Eat|Central Kerala]]. Although all four styles can be found throughout the state, the food will be most authentic within each given region.
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 === Non Vegetarian ===
-Kerala cuisine takes emphasis on non-vegetarian note, with multiple cuisine styles for almost all kind of meat. While Chicken, Duck, Beef, Mutton are the most popular among non-vegetarians, pork and lamb meat are taken as special festive cuisine. Its not uncommon to see rabbit, pigeon and quail meat based cuisine in some parts of the state. All meat are normally marinated heavily with spices before cooking. Pan stir frying (roast), deep fried and curry boiled are some of the popular cooking styles.
+Kerala cuisine takes a greater emphasis on non-vegetarian note, with multiple cuisine styles for almost all kind of meat. While Chicken, Duck, Beef, Mutton are the most popular among non-vegetarians, pork and lamb meat are taken as special festive cuisine. Its not uncommon to see rabbit, pigeon and quail meat based cuisine in some parts of the state. All meat are normally marinated heavily with spices before cooking. Pan stir frying (roast), deep fried and curry boiled are some of the popular cooking styles. Kerala is one of major state in India, which is extremely beef friendly, with no social/religious taboos attached to it. Beef is the second most popular meat, after chicken and used widespread.
 ===Breakfast===
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 * Unniappam, (''a fluffy deep-fried rice-bread mixed with ripe bananas similar to the Danish Æbleskiver'').
-* Pazham-pori, (''plantain slices covered with a fried crust made of sweetened flour'').
+* Pazham-pori, (''banana fritters'').
 * Kozhukkatta, (''rice dumplings stuffed with a sweet mixture of molasses, coconut'').
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 === Juices ===
-*'''Juices and shakes''', Kerala being a tropical state, tropical juices and juice cocktails are very popular. Almost everywhere, small juice stalls selling mango, orange, pineapple, lemon, water melon and other juices etc can be found. Milk shakes mixed with Ice-creams is very popular and one of the best way to beat the Kerala summer heat. ''sharja shake'' and ''chikoos'' are popular milk shakes mixed with various fruits and fruit flavour ice-creams.
+*'''Juices and shakes''', Kerala being a tropical state, tropical juices and juice cocktails are very popular. Almost everywhere, small juice stalls selling mango, orange, pineapple, lemon, water melon and other juices etc can be found. Milk shakes mixed with Ice-creams is very popular and one of the best way to beat the Kerala summer heat. ''sharja shake'' and ''chikoos'' are popular milk shakes mixed with various fruits and fruit flavour ice-creams. Kerala has its own popular lime mojito, known as ''Kulukki Sarbat'' which is extremely refreshing made of lime mixed with crushed ice and sweet syrup.
 === Alcohol ===

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 * <see name="Thirumala Devaswom Temple" alt="" address="Mattancherry" directions="" phone="" url="" hours="" price="" lat="" long="" email="" fax="">Built on 5 acres of land by the Gowda Sarawatha Brahmins with Lord Venkateswara as the main deity. It is famous for housing the second largest brass bell in Asia. The North Gopuram is fully roofed with copper.</see>
-* <see name="Ernakulam Siva Temple" alt="" address="" directions="at the centre of town, near the Durbar Hall Ground" phone="" email="" fax="" url="" hours="" price="">Has three temples within its complex.</see>
+* <see name="Ernakulam Siva Temple" alt="Ernakulattappan Kshetram" address="" directions="at the centre of City, near the Durbar Hall Ground" phone="" url="" hours="" price="" lat="" long="" email="" fax="">Ernakulam Shiva Temple is considered to the Main City temple, with its presiding deity, Lord Shiva respected as Lord of the City. The temple comprises of 3 temples, the Shiva Temple, a Tamil temple for Lord Muruga and Kannadiga Temple for Hanuman.</see>
 * <see name="Aluva Manalpuram" alt="" address="" directions="" phone="" email="" fax="" url="" hours="" price="">Famous for the annual Shivarathri festival on the banks of the Periyar river.</see>

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 ====Ticketing====
-Beware that trains tend to fill up early and booking tickets online can be wrought with complications due to poor quality websites that often do not list all trains and sometimes require repeated attempts to book successfully.  Allot yourself plenty of time and frustration to book any train tickets.
+Beware that trains tend to fill up early and booking tickets online can be wrought with complications due very high number of users. Railway department is expanding the IT Infrastructure with a great rate to improve customer experience. Please plan your travel well in advance to have a smooth journey.
 Tickets are available from counters at most railway stations as well as directly from [http://www.irctc.co.in/ Indian Railways' '''online reservation service''']. Rail passes are also available, and are called '''Indrail''' passes.
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 [[Image:Indian Train.jpg|thumb|Indian man buying a Chai (Tea with Spices) from a train window.]]
-One day before the departure date of a train the '''Tatkal''' quota seats become available.  This allows tourists who like to plan a trip as they go to book seats closer to the day of departure, for an extra fee. Even with this extra quota (about 10% of the seats on a train) it can sometimes be difficult to get the train you want when you want it.
+One day before the departure date of a train the '''Tatkal''' quota seats become available. It opens at morning 10AM on the previous day. This allows tourists who like to plan a trip as they go to book seats closer to the day of departure, for an extra fee. Even with this extra quota (about 10% of the seats on a train) it can sometimes be difficult to get the train you want when you want it.
 ====Meals====

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 [[Image:Sadya.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Kerala sadya]]
-A typical sadhya consists of piping hot parboiled rice with popular Kerala vegetarian dishes like '''olan''' (''a dish of pumpkin''), '''avial''' (''an assorted mix of all vegetables'') , '''injipulee''' (''a ginger & tamarind flavouring''), '''kaalan''' (''made of yam and yogurt''), '''thoran''' (''pan-fried vegetables sprinkled with grated coconut''), '''kichiadi''' (''roasted cucumber in yogurt''), '''pachadi''' (''a sweet dish made out pineapple or grapes mixed with sour yogurt''), '''kottukari''' (''a mixture of few vegetables like raw bananas or pumpkin or potatoes, pan fried mixed with a spicy tomato puree curry base'') etc. In some sadhyas, options like '''potato stew''', '''masala curry''' are served. The '''sambar''' (''a watery all-Vegetable curry'') and '''parippu''' (''lentils, either mashed or curry form'') along with ghee are served as the main entrée'. Normally 2 to 3 spicy pickles called as '''achar''' are served.
+A typical sadhya consists of piping hot parboiled rice with popular Kerala vegetarian dishes like
-Other assortments include '''pappadam''' (''fried Lentil-flour paper-thin bread''), along with banana chips and jaggery sweet, served as main appetisers. Towards the end of sadhya, '''rasam''' (''similar to mulligatawny soup made out of pepper and tomato water is served, which is good for digestion'') as well as '''mooru or sambharam''' (''spiced buttermilk'') are served. Bananas are also taken as a final note to end the elobrate sadhya's main course. The desserts includes '''payasam''' (''a sweet porridge-like, made of jaggery or sugar along with rice, cereals, fruits depending on what type of payasam'') as well as '''boli''', a sweet flour bread, which looks similar to an omelet, along with a banana and sometimes '''unniappam''' (''sweet fried rice flour dumpling'').
+In some sadhyas, options like '''masala curry''', '''vegetable special curries''' are served.
 Normally sadyas are served on lunch time and normally will be pure vegetarian. '''Onasadhya''' (''served on the Onam day'') is the most famous, due to having more than 30 curries and an elobrate range of special payasams. Many leading hotels and restaurants now serve smaller versions of sadhya as part of a regular lunch offering. In Malabar, sometimes, fried-fish or chicken curry constitute part of the sadhya, as the  Malabar sadhya does not have a vegetarian tradition.
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 ===Seafood===
-Seafood is available all over Kerala and is part of regular Kerala cuisine. In regions bordering the backwaters and lakes traditional cuisine includes fresh-water fish such as karimeen (black pearlspot), prawns, shrimps, kanava (''squid'') and many other delicacies. Cooking styles include ''Pollichatu'' (spicy marinated fish, wrapped in banana leaf and steamed until cooked), ''roasted'' (pan stirred roasting method), ''deep fried'' as well as ''curry boiled''. In most of the parts of Kerala, various varieties of sea fishes are extremely popular and consumed regularly in afternoon lunch mostly fried or curry or both. Another popular option is fiery hot fish cooked in chilly curry served along with 'kappa' (''tapioca'') or rice. Steamed and mashed tapioca flavoured with turmeric served along with spicy fish curry or mashed chilly gravy is a favorite among Malayalees, particularly those in rural areas.
+Seafood is available all over Kerala and is part of regular Kerala cuisine. In regions bordering the backwaters and lakes traditional cuisine includes fresh-water fish such as karimeen (black pearlspot), prawns, shrimps, kanava (''squid'') and many other delicacies.
 === Non Vegetarian ===