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| Pothananjilickal, the
sprawling home stay about an hour ( 40 Kms ) from
Cochin enroute to Alleppey is situated at a quaint
little village called Thanky. Pothananjilickal means
"the abode by the hollow anjili tree”.
There is a mammoth anjili tree (Artocarpus Hirsutus)
with a hollow in its wood towering above the house
and myth has it that the anjili is at the most appropriate
place and that when one tree withers away during
the course of time, another takes its place and
believe it or not, that tree also sports a hollow!
The hosts are Mr. Alex G Anthraper , his wife
Susy and children, Jeevan and Jwala. He is a chartered
accountant and she a renowned culinary expert.
The children are college going. Though they live
in Cochin, they maintain Pothananjilickal meticulously
and almost every weekend they go and unwind there.
The hosts have now decided to entertain up to
6 people at a time and have set apart a wing of
the house for home stay. |
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| Picturesque Thanky lies
nestled between the National Highway – 47
and the Arabian Sea in the Alleppey district of
Kerala, India. The village is inhabited by friendly,
simple people of mixed faith. Though Malayalam is
the local dialect, almost all understand English.
The village is crisscrossed by canals and lagoons.
The main cultivation is coconut and rice. Fishing
is an important occupation. Local handicrafts include
coir products, dried grass products etc. Several
temples and churches dot the village. Major tourist
locations of kerala – Alleppey, Cochin, Kottayam,
Marari Beach etc are easily reachable by rail or
road from here. |
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Altitude
Temperature
Rainfall
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Languages
Clothing
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At sea level
20* - 32*
June to August
September to May
Malayalam, English, Hindi
Light Cottons
+5.5 G.M.T |
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