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| 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
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| 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),
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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.
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