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Queen Cardamom I love Cardamom. I love Cardamom so much so that I had to write about it.   Cardamom is known as the “ Queen of Spice ”. Queen Cardamom Let’s take a look at the description of a Queen A Queen is personified as a female and most powerful of her kind, superior and dominant. A Queen is the sovereign ruler and described as royal, grand, supreme and majestic. Even in a game of Chess the Queen is the most powerful piece.   Rightly so Cardamom dominates many emporiums of spice and the “ Queen of Spice ” is a fitting title. What exactly is Cardamom? It is an exotic spice which has a very distinctive fragrance and taste . Cardamom has been around forever it seems, however its origins are from the Western Coastal regions (Kerala) in the South of India and parts of Sri Lanka and Asia.   Cardamom is actually the tiny black grains with a burst of flavour embedded in little pods.   Cardamom pods are delicately hand harvested after appro...

Why we will visit Kerala again... Life is a picture, focus on the positive, develop from the negative, if things don't pan out the way you expected it, take another shot! Usually we manage our travel and hotel bookings as well as our itineraries quite well on our own, but when we decided to visit Kerala a few years ago, we decided to book a tour package including accommodation through a tour operator based in Kerala. Our decision to do this was based on the fact that a holiday to Kerala, especially during the festive season (which is peak season for tourism) was expected to be really busy with loads of travel and as tourists in a foreign country, safety should be an important consideration. Kerala is huge! Travelling within Kerala itself involves a number of site seeing tours across the various towns and the distance between some of the towns are between 3 to 4 hours of travel by car. The scenic views while driving from town to town is a part of the culture experience one sh...