ÿþ<html> <head> <title>things to do :: olavipe homestays :: kerala tourism :: paradise holidays :: kerala</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"><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:464px; top:104px; width:183px; height:18px; z-index:12"><img src="images/thingstitle.gif" ></div> <div id="Layer6" style="position:absolute; left:219px; top:199px; width:402px; height:116px; z-index:13"> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000066"> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify">Take a village walk and make new friends as you go along!</li> <li style="text-align: justify"> Take a bicycle tour of the villages nearby. </li> <li style="text-align: justify"> Fish in the farm canals -  village style . See local fishermen cast their swirling nets in the backwaters.</li> <li style="text-align: justify"> Watch coconut harvesting every 45th day. Summon a willing  guru to teach you the art of climbing a coconut tree! </li> </ul></font> </div> <div id="Layer12" style="position:absolute; left:416px; top:352px; width:184px; height:88px; z-index:29"> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000066"> <ul><li style="text-align: justify">Help with the feeding of prawns during the season.</li> <li style="text-align: justify"> Family boatman can take you for a slow boat ride through the Kaithappuzha backwaters  idyllic!</li> </ul></font> </div> <div id="Layer13" style="position:absolute; left:224px; top:496px; width:337px; height:161px; z-index:30"> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000066"> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify"> Visit the market nearby and shop for village products. The local tailor can be persuaded to run up something for you overnight.</li> <li style="text-align: justify"> Spend time around the farm. It is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna. There are goats, cows, rabbits, ducks, chicken and emus.</li> <li style="text-align: justify"> Browse through the Family Archives - a treasure-trove of old family documents, letters, photographs and rare documents highlighting Kerala's social fabric of the last two centuries.</li> <li style="text-align: justify">The estate s lagoon is safe, even for the novice, to row a canoe and feel the serenity of the waters.</li> </ul></font> </div> <div id="Layer14" style="position:absolute; left:384px; top:760px; width:336px; height:112px; z-index:16"> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000066"> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify"> The house is equipped for table tennis and various indoor board games. You might even be invited to join a village cricket match in progress.</li> <li style="text-align: justify"> The house has a well-stocked library for all ages. </li> <li style="text-align: justify"> Relax on the 'Kulir Kallu' (cooling stone) at one end of the house with a book, laze on a hammock - or just revel in the pleasure of doing nothing!</li> </ul></font> </div> <div id="Layer15" style="position:absolute; left:248px; top:1200px; width:448px; height:15px; z-index:17"> <div align="center"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">copyright &copy; 2003 olavipe.com</font></div> </div> <div id="Layer16" style="position:absolute; left:584px; top:392px; width:107px; height:67px; z-index:18"><img src="images/foodTable.jpg" width="200" height="98"></div> <div id="Layer17" style="position:absolute; left:629px; top:217px; width:87px; height:79px; z-index:19"><img src="images/drawers.jpg" width="150" height="142"></div> <div id="Layer18" style="position:absolute; left:264px; top:352px; width:133px; height:89px; z-index:20"><img src="images/fishing1.jpg" width="150" height="111"></div> <div id="Layer20" style="position:absolute; left:672px; top:528px; width:39px; height:36px; z-index:22"><img src="images/road3.jpg" width="49" height="75"></div> <div id="Layer21" style="position:absolute; left:728px; top:600px; width:23px; height:47px; z-index:23"><img src="images/road4.jpg" width="48" height="75"></div> <div id="Layer22" style="position:absolute; left:224px; top:1083px; width:104px; height:60px; z-index:24"><img src="images/herbs1.jpg" width="150" height="101"></div> <div id="Layer24" style="position:absolute; left:384px; top:944px; width:390px; height:184px; z-index:26"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="000066"> <b>Other inviting possibilities</b>: <ul> <li style="text-align: justify"> From Olavipe, you can take a day trip to Fort Cochin and saunter through the historical area or shop for antiques.</li> <li style="text-align: justify"> Ernakulam, the commercial capital of Kerala, is an hour s drive from Olavipe.</li> <li style="text-align: justify"> Take a day cruise on a houseboat from Alapuzha. The drive takes about an hour.</li> <li style="text-align: justify"> Kumarakom, the well-known tourist destination and bird sanctuary is easily accessible. </li> <li style="text-align: justify"> A nearby village has a traditional Ayurvedic practitioner. Consult him for Ayurvedic treatment or ask for an Ayurvedic massage</li> </ul> </font> </div> <div id="Layer19" style="position:absolute; left:229px; top:768px; width:144px; height:151px; z-index:27"><img src="images/road1.jpg" height="200" style="width: 144px"></div> <div id="Layer23" style="position:absolute; left:568px; top:624px; width:80px; height:34px; z-index:28"><img src="images/actfly_out.jpg" width="150" height="102"></div> </body> </html>