Through My Lens

This year was not the same for me as was earlier. Earlier i used to go for my vacations in the month of December, but this year due to some domestic work my December trip was not done in 2014.As soon as my son’s summer vacation started we started to think there has to be a change from this routine and we decided to go for a relaxed day or two and then for some heritage site which can be covered in a short span of time. This was the month of May 2015 and i started the search for a place to relax first and soon my friends suggested Chikmangalur.Soon i started to look for the places where i will be able to stay comfortably and i soon found this place called Thippanahalli Home stay. As all do, i too visited Trip advisor and other reviews and took advice from some of my friends about the place and i got some good and some average comments. But what made me to think was this was not a hotel but a home stay and i wanted to test this homestay outing and experience it out in this short

              A magnificent wooden palace of the 16th Century, Padmanabhpuram Palace is a fine specimen of Kerala's    indigenous  style of Architecture A Kerala palace in Tamil Nadu, surprised?  Padmanabhapuram Palace is located in  Padmanabhapuram Fort in Kanyakumari  district, Tamil Nadu, but the palace and  its surroundings are owned and governed by the  Kerala State. The place called Padmanabhapuram  was the capital city of the erstwhile Travancore  kingdom. At a distance of about 60 km from  Thiruvananthapuram and around 20 km from  Nagercoil, this palace is located against the  backdrop of the Veli Hills that form a part of the  Western Ghats. The Padmanabhapuram Palace The palace was built by Iravi Varma  Kulasekhara Perumal, the ruler of   Travancore in 1601 AD. It was also  called Kalkulam Palace.                                It’s said that after the Kulachal war in 1741,  the King Marthandavarma rebuilt this palace to  its current state. The