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Kadamakuzhy,Vallakadavu, Kattapana,
Thekkady, Karala, India. Ph: +91 04868 224271
Reservations: + 91 8606332011, + 91 9446130252, 8606309508 |
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Get
imprisoned in nature-
yet sleep in the lap of luxury
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History
of Idukki
and Kadamakuzhy |
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Rooms and their description:
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an idea of what
to expect at various seasons |
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Cardamom, the
distinctively
pungent aromatic spice.
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Browse throgh
some
of the snaps of
mayapott |
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Mayapott – Unique History |
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History of Idukki and Kadamakuzhy |
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The region today known as ‘Idukki’,
of which the cardamom hills form a part, was
in the kingdom of the Cheras, who ruled on
both sides of todays state border. The Chera
kings of the Sangam age practiced koottuvazhccha,
where the several branches of the royal family
had equal rights to the throne, with the oldest
male member among all of the several branches
reigning over the kingdom, from wherever his
branch had its seat. Thus the capital changed
from place to place, with each change in the
monarchy, and one of such capitals of the
Chera kingdom during that age - Kuzhumoor
- is believed to be the present-day town of
Kumili, at the eastern edge of the ghats,
where
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it drops off steeply to the flat lands of
Tamil Nadu. Within memory, the region was
under the Thekkumkoor rajahs, who were since
subjugated by Marthanda Varma of Travancore.
The Travancore kings granted the fief to their
vassal, the tamburan (lord) of Poonjar, who
controlled much of the region at the end of
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and the British were everywhere making inroads into the hills. They bought or leased the rights to the land from the feudal lords or from the princely state, to log the vast stretches of hardwood forests, and set up plantations of tea, coffee, rubber and spices.
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This sparked interest in the hitherto unnoticed
forest 'wastelands' as a source of revenue
to the state coffers, and the princely state
of Travancore took an active part in the opening
up of the region. Several dams, and all of
their ensuing infrastructural netwrok - roads,
electricity and the like came into the district
at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The story goes that while Maharaja Sri Mulam
Tirunal of the Travancore royal family came
to Kumili to personally supervise the construction
of the dam on Mullaperiyar river. One day
while he was there, he felt thirsty and a
shepherd called Ankur Rawthar gave him milk
hot from the udder of the sheep. The delighted
Maharaja gave him title over extensive forest
land which his descendants in time sold to
other land owners in Tamil Nadu. This was
probably the beginning of formal title and
land records in the Cardamom Hills area.
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Geography – physical
geography, terrain, vegetation, climate,
etc.
The building of Mayapott Bungalow
The house at Mayapott was completed in
April of 2004. There was this spectacular
place at the very end of our property, which
was very special to my father, and he'd
always wanted to build the plantation house
there. So when I came back from America
and set up practice, he told me what he
wanted. It took a lot of thinking about,
because the place had to be just right,
but we finally got started in January, 2001.
It took us more than 2 years to build, because
we couldn't do it with drawings and measurements.
The entire structure is fitted to the terrain
and the topography, and not
the other way round. It incorporates and
includes all of the natural features of
the site the huge rock, the boulders, the
stream, everything .
History
of Pottamkulam family
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