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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After being on the road for two weeks, 27 bloggers who travelled the length and breadth of the state as part of the tourism department’s Kerala Blog Express initiative returned home on Wednesday with new friends and memories in the form of photos, tweets and blogs.
At the start of the journey, many of the bloggers’ observations hovered around the usual — gold, coconuts, ayurveda and banana.
Mumbai-based Roxanne Bamboat, who writes under the blog name thetinytaster, says: “In these two weeks I’ve discovered plenty. Kerala is obsessed with bananas and coconuts. I think they’d bathe in it if they could or don’t already. Everything on the menu has coconut. Not that I’m complaining, but at some point I’m going to stop enjoying the copious amounts of coconut. They adore gold and are freakishly obsessed with it…”
Then blogger, Ivan Henares from the Philippines, broke away from the usual coterie of thoughts and listed out his top 10 reasons to visit Kerala. He said the ready availability of budget flights from Manila via Kuala Lumpur and Singapore is a big plus to visit the state followed by the tourist visa on arrival at Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi airports, which allows Philippine passport holders to stay up to 30 days in the country.
Between the constant tweeting and instagramming, the pressure to be unique was real, and Anita Bora, one of the seven Indian bloggers, stood out contorted when she asked her fellow bloggers to strike yoga poses with her so she could introduce them to the world via her blog, Just A Little Something. She even got Dina Rosita from Indonesia to pose for a picture despite having hurt herself “and is carrying a huge scar from a fall – a memento from the trip”, writes Anita.
Italian Emanuela Siracusa, who is always travelling, lets his pictures do the talking. “The moments I enjoyed the most where those spent photographing fishermen on the beach, or people in the streets,” he writes in www.emanuelesiracusa.com. Edgar Alan Zeta-Yap from Cebu, Philippines indulged in a bit of antique shopping at Jew Town and bought a mancala game. He says: “This game was introduced to Southeast Asia by South Indian and Arab traders in the 15th century, as ‘congklak’ in Indonesia and ‘sungka’ in the Philippines.”
And after two-weeks on the road, some of the bloggers haven’t had enough of the holiday so much so that they are extending it and are off to Goa.
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