ÿþ<html> <head> <title>musings on olavipe :: homestay :: indian kerala tourism :: paradise island :: activities :: </title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function MM_reloadPage(init) { //reloads the window if Nav4 resized if (init==true) with (navigator) {if ((appName=="Netscape")&&(parseInt(appVersion)==4)) { document.MM_pgW=innerWidth; document.MM_pgH=innerHeight; onresize=MM_reloadPage; }} else if (innerWidth!=document.MM_pgW || innerHeight!=document.MM_pgH) location.reload(); } MM_reloadPage(true); // --> </script> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <div id="Layer1" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; width:153px; height:94px; z-index:1"> <div id="Layer20" style="position:absolute; left:296px; top:968px; width:256px; height:12px; z-index:22"> <div align="center"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666">c</font><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666">opyright &copy; 2003 olavipe.com</font></div> </div> <div id="Div2" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; width:153px; height:94px; z-index:1"><a href="Index.html"> <img src="images/pageTitle1.gif" width="188" height="148" border="0"></a></div> <div id="Layer2" style="position:absolute; left:188px; top:0px; width:101px; height:74px; z-index:2"><img src="images/pageTitle2.gif" width="162" height="148"></div> <div id="Layer3" style="position:absolute; left:350px; top:0px; width:96px; height:112px; z-index:3"><img src="images/pageTitle3.jpg" width="164" height="148"></div> <div id="Layer4" style="position:absolute; left:514px; top:0px; width:161px; height:52px; z-index:4"><img src="images/pageTitle4.jpg" width="266" height="100"></div> <div id="Layer7" style="position:absolute; left:10px; top:237px; width:150px; height:12px; z-index:7"><a href="Index.html"><img src="images/homenew.gif" border="0"></a></div> <div id="Layer8" style="position:absolute; left:10px; top:274px; width:153px; height:15px; z-index:8"><a href="history.html"><img src="images/historynew.gif" border="0"></a></div> <div id="Layer9" style="position:absolute; left:10px; top:310px; width:129px; height:13px; z-index:9"><a href="homestay.html"><img src="Images/homestayexperience.GIF" border="0"></a></div> <div id="Layer10" style="position:absolute; left:10px; top:347px; width:116px; height:15px; z-index:10"><a href="things.html"><img src="images/thingsnew.gif" border="0"></a></div> <div id="Layer11" style="position:absolute; left:10px; top:384px; width:116px; height:3px; z-index:11"><a href="making.html"><img src="images/Makenew.gif" border="0"></a></div> <div id="Layer5" style="position:absolute; left:550px; top:112px; width:90px; height:60px; z-index:12"><img src="images/musings.jpg" width="110" height="97"></div> <div id="Layer6" style="position:absolute; left:280px; top:720px; width:492px; height:230px; z-index:13"> <pre><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#003366">The house and its laid back guardians, the stone lions, would have some stories to tell us if they could speak. But as things are, they are content to bask some more in the sun each day and keep an indulgent eye on the family, keeping their sense of serenity at the changes and modernizations each generation has brought in. There are so many things to do here (if you feel up to it in a day interspersed with so many meals!) There's table tennis, basketball, football, cricket, boating, tree climbing, fishing& and if you are bored with all these 'usual' things to do, you can always dream up new things, sitting on the sun- warmed 'kulir kallu'. Welcome to Olavipe - my island in the sun!</font></pre> </div> <div id="Layer12" style="position:absolute; left:648px; top:240px; width:96px; height:73px; z-index:14"><img src="images/infants.jpg" width="120" height="115"></div> <div id="Layer13" style="position:absolute; left:248px; top:240px; width:384px; height:1px; z-index:15"> <pre><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#003366">The house has had a mini zoo - an ancestor loved animals - with bears and parakeets and dogs beyond count. It has seen numerous weddings and births, games of table tennis, cricket, football, and thousands of pretend games played by generation after generation of children on the white sands of the 'mittam' (the front and back yards of the house).</font></pre> </div> <div id="Layer14" style="position:absolute; left:272px; top:368px; width:40px; height:16px; z-index:16"> <pre><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#003366">The dining table is long and stretches on, to hold all the food for a family hungry after a day's work and play. Fish in a hundred different avatars, duck, vegetables and poultry raised and grown within the Thekkanat grounds, all cooked to perfection, to satiate the appetite of a truly 'foodie' family.</font></pre></div> <div id="Layer15" style="position:absolute; left:192px; top:464px; width:422px; height:105px; z-index:17"> <pre><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#003366">The palm leaves rustle and keep you company while you laugh. The waters twinkle in merriment. The golden' lion guards' raise an amused eyebrow and turn the other way leaving you to enjoy your mirth undisturbed. Warm feelings of family and its intricate ties surround you and include you not as an outsider but as one of its own. Welcome to Olavipe the gift of the waves, and Thekkanatt Parayil, the ancestral house of the Parayil Tharakans. A house used to laughter echoing through its tiled passages - through one, into the other - till at last the sound is set free into the wild and carried on by the waves and the birds. Welcome to the happy house. The Parayils have lived in this house for more than a century. </font></pre> </div> <div id="Layer16" style="position:absolute; left:616px; top:464px; width:127px; height:91px; z-index:18"><img src="images/fly_in.jpg" width="150" style="height: 112px"></div> <div id="Layer18" style="position:absolute; left:616px; top:584px; width:101px; height:59px; z-index:20"><img src="images/sunset.jpg" height="118" style="width: 152px"></div> <div id="Div1" style="position:absolute; left:96px; top:720px; width:112px; height:59px; z-index:20"><img src="images/pookalam.jpg" style="width: 168px; height: 216px;"></div> </body> </html>