About Kumarakom

About Kumarakom popularly known as the rice bowl of Kerala. The village of Kumarakom is a cluster of little islands on the Vembanad Lake in Kerala, a state in India. Kumarakom, located on the Southern coast of India enjoys a proportionate tropical weather. If you see about Kumarakom is a pictorial, unsoiled village.

Boating and fishing facilities are available at Kumarakom. International Holiday Packages on the houseboats, traditional Kettuvalloms, are an out-of-this-world experience at Kumarakom. The major backwater stretch is in Kottayam district

Kumarakom is also a habitat to several migratory birds which are attracted by the availability of a safe nesting area provided by the trees and a close source of food and water Kumarakom is rich in natural life and provide picturesque scenery, as well as supporting a large collection of wildlife species. Visitors the chance to get closer to the habitats of these birds without destroying anything of their delicate ecosystem. Birds are what Kumarakom is perhaps most famous for.

History Kumarakom:

In 1878, the marshy mangrove on the bank of the Vembanad Lake was cleared and replaced by coconut plantations. The person in the wake of this maneuver was one George Alfred Baker of Essex who had arrived in India sixty years earlier to take up missionary work in Kottayam. The Englishman was so awestruck by the splendor of Kumarakom that he settled here and made Kumarakom his abode.

TOPOGRAPHY

Positioned 14 kms from Kottyam and around Kuttanad region lies about Kumarakom popularly known as the rice bowl of Kerala. A huddle of tiny islets on the Vembanad Lake, Kumarakom is a pictorial, unsoiled village. An incredibly stunning ecstasy of mangrove forests, pea green paddy meadows and coconut coppices intermingled with enthralling waterways and canals. Kumarakom, located on the Southern coast of India enjoys a proportionate tropical weather. Nature has poised its magic to perfection here. Copious luxuriant coconut palms lining the rivers bow to look at its likeness on the shimmering rivers. Ubiquitously, nature is unsurpassed.

The flourishing pastures and the countryside life are interspersed with the beautiful Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary. Stretched across 14 acres, the bird sanctuary is a desired haven of migratory birds and a bird lover's paradise. Teals, egrets, darters, herons, teal, waterfowl, cuckoo, wild duck and migratory birds like the Siberian stork that live there in teems are an enthrallment for guests. The finest way to watch the birds of the Kumarakom sanctuary is a boat trip round the islets 16 km west of Kottayam on the Vembanad lake. The Sanctuary teems with local waterfowls and over wintering migratory birds such as the Siberian storks. Boats are available for backwater cruises in the lake.