Lakshmi Hotel & Resorts Kumarakom, Kerala, India

Lakshmi Hotel & Resorts
Kumarakom North P.O., Kottayam, Kerala - 686 566
Email: lakshmiresorts@hotelskumarakom.com

As the monsoon winds bring rain to the shores of Vembanad Lake, the earth is transformed. This is when a myriad insects, frogs and toads emerge. Then the young ones are born to feast on the boundary of the green mangroves and paddy fields and the backwaters reverberates with the mating calls of the innumerable water birds .The monsoon is a season of plenty and of magic. Streams. Lagoons, brooks break their banks and provide nourishment to springs and shrubs that sprout from every available space.

Kumarakom is a charging emerald peninsula jutting into the ever-effervescent Vembanad Lake, with the fresh waters of the lake running into the main land making a labyrinth of lagoons, brooks, canals and waterways. The backwaters thus formed are home to a variety of species of both fauna and flora. They are rich with marine life namely the exclusive 'Kumarakom Karimeen' (pearl spotted fish), Konju (tiger prawns), Njandu (crabs), Chemmeen (prawns) and many more.

Water birds and migratory birds are aplenty and the mangrove shores and the renowned bird sanctuary form their niche.

This is Kumarakom - undoubtedly the most fascinating tourist spots in Kerala, God's Own Country. Kerala has achieved the renown as one of the must see places on earth .The national Geographical traveler lists it among the 50 most beautiful places in the world. And Kumarakom is the paradise within the paradise .A traveler's delight with its never ending paddy fields, meandering lagoons and backwaters, mangroves nesting birds of a hundred varieties and slender coconut palms standing here, there and everywhere.