前の記事にも書きましたが、最近旅づいていて、いろんな場所を訪れています。
中でもケララの北部にあるPALAKKAD（パルガート）がいたく気に入ってしまいましたので今回はPALAKKADの旅日記です。
As mentioned in my previous post, nowadays I've been roaming around places in Kerala and I'd like to introduce about a place called Palakkad which knocked me out.
このPALAKKAD、どんな所かというと、田園風景が広がる、一言でいえば「田舎」（語弊があるかな…）なのですが、マイナスイオンたっぷり、のんびりするには最高の場所でした。
田舎育ちの私にはやはりこういう場所が落ち着きます。
そして、このPALAKKADは、地球の歩き方にもロンリープラネットにも紹介されていなかったので
日本ではかなり知名度が低いと思われますが、訪れる価値おおありです。
Palakkad is a place full of greenery where you can see paddy fields and palmyra trees all around. It is more like a rural area more than a city and perhaps because I grew up in the country side, this place made me relax a lot.
Even if it has the seventh largest population in Kerala, you can not find the place to be introduced in Lonely Planet nor Chikyu no Arukikata(major travel guide in Japan) but I strongly recommend this is one of the highlights of your trip to Kerala if you would like to feel the living of the country side.
友人夫婦がこのPALAKKAD出身で地元に帰るから一緒においでよ、と誘ってくれたので、
ノコノコついて行ったのですが、これが思いのほか遠かった！
列車で揺られること7時間…更にバスで30-40分、到着かと思いきや今度はバイクで20分ほど走る…。
本来ならば、トリバンドラム駅からパルガードまで一本で列車があるのですが、
彼らのお家はパルガードの一つ手前の駅であるトリチュールに近いとのことで、トリチュールで下車して、そこからバスとバイクを駆使することになったのです。
夕方5:30にトリバンドラム駅を出発して、パルガードのお家に到着したのが夜中の１時。
…体力がないと行けない場所です。
The trip happened suddenly. My two friends(husband and wife) accompanying me at the concert in my previous post, both happened to be from Palakkad and they were planning to go home for the weekend and bring back some rice and vegetables harvested. They kindly asked if I would like to join their trip and I said, "Why wouldn't I" and, like that, the next week, we were on our way.
From Trivandrum it took about 7 hours by train then transfer to a bus which is around 30-40minutes drive, and after that, ride on a bike for 20 minutes.
My friends house is closer to Thrissur a train station before Palakkad so we got off the train at Thrissur. Depart Trivandrum station at 17:30, arriving at my friends place around 1:00 after midnight. It was fun, but at the same time exhausting a bit :p
泊めてもらったのは旦那さんのご実家なのですが、ご両親とお兄さん夫婦が住んでいるとのこと。
いつもご両親が使っている部屋をご親切に貸して頂きました。
つかの間の睡眠の後、６:００に起床…のはずが寝坊して７:３０に友人に起こされやっと目覚める…。
The place I stayed is the husband's parents house. The parents live together with my friends elder brother, spouse and their 2 year old son. They were so kind to lend their parents bedroom for me to stay. A short sleep and I was supposed to be waking up at 6:00 I couldn't, so my friends aroused me from sleep.
くんくん…いい匂いがする…とキッチンとを覗いてみると…お母さんがご飯を作っているではないですか。
急に覚醒。単純です。
I t was just time the mother was preparing breakfast.
バナナの葉や木くずを燃料にして料理する台所。
横にはガスコンロもあり、併用して使用しているそう。
This is part of the picture where you mainly boil rice. Fuel is mainly banana leaf, chips of wood, coconut shell, and whatever which is applicable.
Next to this, they have a gas cooker.
彼らは代々農家だそうで、おうちのすぐ裏に田んぼを所有しています。
They come from a long line of farming family. Their farm and paddy field is right behind their house. Everyday I had tea at the paddy field which was one of the moments I loved.
玄関には溢れんばかりの稲。
Harvested paddy at the front yard.
飼っているニワトリがつまみ食いしていました。
The rooster and the hen were nibbling the paddy :)
朝ごはんのイドゥリもお家で収穫した米を使っているそう。
自給自足が夢なのでこれはまじでときめきました。
イドゥリ大好き、気づけば１０個ぐらい頂いていました。少しは遠慮したほうが良かったかな。
Yeah! Breakfast time! The rice used for making idli is from their field. Self-sufficient living is my dream...I had more than 10 of them and the potato curry and sambal accompanying the idli was tasty as well.
ご飯の後はお庭のガイドツアーBY旦那さん。
このお庭凄くて、フルーツやらスパイスやら野菜やら至る所にありました。
After having breakfast, my friend took me to a little tour in their house.
More than a yard, it seemed to be like a little farm to me since they had fruits and vegetables everywhere.
ブラックペッパー（黒胡椒）の実
黒い実の前の状態は初見だったのでこの時相当感動しましたが、この後どこでも見受けられることを知り、そのうち見向きもしなくなります…慣れって恐い(^^;
Seed of black pepper.
It was my first time to actually witness a pepper seed before black so this was very impressing but afterwards I didn't feel anything when I found it because they were everywhere...
ブラックペッパー（黒胡椒）の木。こんなにたくさんなっていると有難味みがないかも…
The leaves of black pepper.
マンゴーの木
シーズンになるとわんさか実るそう
A huge mango tree. This picture was taken from the rooftop.
You can have a hole bunch of them at the season.
ドラムスティックの木
南インド料理には必須のお野菜です
Drumstick tree. Ditto as the black pepper, I got used to it after a while :p
Drumstick is a vegetable frequently used in South Indian dishes.
オクラ
Ladyfinger in front of their house.
This is a popular vegetable as in Japan too.
パパイヤ
Papaya tree. I wonder how they pick the fruit...by climbing the tree?
グリーンチリ（青唐辛子）
Green chili. This is more spicy compared to the green chili(Ao togarashi) in Japan.
次はご近所さん。
Next, we headed to the neighbors.
牛の飼料に
Straw to feed the cows.
どでかいカボチャ
Enormous pumpkin!!
更に隣のご近所さん。
Another neighbor.
ゴム農家だそうで、お庭一面ゴムの木。
They are a rubber farmer. All of the trees in the picture a rubber trees.
さてと、朝ごはんも消化できたので、次はみんなで車でドライブです。
Now the food I had is digested so we will go to a fun drive and discover more about Palakkad.
次の記事へ続く…
To be continued...
中でもケララの北部にあるPALAKKAD（パルガート）がいたく気に入ってしまいましたので今回はPALAKKADの旅日記です。
As mentioned in my previous post, nowadays I've been roaming around places in Kerala and I'd like to introduce about a place called Palakkad which knocked me out.
このPALAKKAD、どんな所かというと、田園風景が広がる、一言でいえば「田舎」（語弊があるかな…）なのですが、マイナスイオンたっぷり、のんびりするには最高の場所でした。
田舎育ちの私にはやはりこういう場所が落ち着きます。
そして、このPALAKKADは、地球の歩き方にもロンリープラネットにも紹介されていなかったので
日本ではかなり知名度が低いと思われますが、訪れる価値おおありです。
Palakkad is a place full of greenery where you can see paddy fields and palmyra trees all around. It is more like a rural area more than a city and perhaps because I grew up in the country side, this place made me relax a lot.
Even if it has the seventh largest population in Kerala, you can not find the place to be introduced in Lonely Planet nor Chikyu no Arukikata(major travel guide in Japan) but I strongly recommend this is one of the highlights of your trip to Kerala if you would like to feel the living of the country side.
友人夫婦がこのPALAKKAD出身で地元に帰るから一緒においでよ、と誘ってくれたので、
ノコノコついて行ったのですが、これが思いのほか遠かった！
列車で揺られること7時間…更にバスで30-40分、到着かと思いきや今度はバイクで20分ほど走る…。
本来ならば、トリバンドラム駅からパルガードまで一本で列車があるのですが、
彼らのお家はパルガードの一つ手前の駅であるトリチュールに近いとのことで、トリチュールで下車して、そこからバスとバイクを駆使することになったのです。
夕方5:30にトリバンドラム駅を出発して、パルガードのお家に到着したのが夜中の１時。
…体力がないと行けない場所です。
The trip happened suddenly. My two friends(husband and wife) accompanying me at the concert in my previous post, both happened to be from Palakkad and they were planning to go home for the weekend and bring back some rice and vegetables harvested. They kindly asked if I would like to join their trip and I said, "Why wouldn't I" and, like that, the next week, we were on our way.
From Trivandrum it took about 7 hours by train then transfer to a bus which is around 30-40minutes drive, and after that, ride on a bike for 20 minutes.
My friends house is closer to Thrissur a train station before Palakkad so we got off the train at Thrissur. Depart Trivandrum station at 17:30, arriving at my friends place around 1:00 after midnight. It was fun, but at the same time exhausting a bit :p
泊めてもらったのは旦那さんのご実家なのですが、ご両親とお兄さん夫婦が住んでいるとのこと。
いつもご両親が使っている部屋をご親切に貸して頂きました。
つかの間の睡眠の後、６:００に起床…のはずが寝坊して７:３０に友人に起こされやっと目覚める…。
The place I stayed is the husband's parents house. The parents live together with my friends elder brother, spouse and their 2 year old son. They were so kind to lend their parents bedroom for me to stay. A short sleep and I was supposed to be waking up at 6:00 I couldn't, so my friends aroused me from sleep.
くんくん…いい匂いがする…とキッチンとを覗いてみると…お母さんがご飯を作っているではないですか。
急に覚醒。単純です。
I t was just time the mother was preparing breakfast.
バナナの葉や木くずを燃料にして料理する台所。
横にはガスコンロもあり、併用して使用しているそう。
This is part of the picture where you mainly boil rice. Fuel is mainly banana leaf, chips of wood, coconut shell, and whatever which is applicable.
Next to this, they have a gas cooker.
彼らは代々農家だそうで、おうちのすぐ裏に田んぼを所有しています。
They come from a long line of farming family. Their farm and paddy field is right behind their house. Everyday I had tea at the paddy field which was one of the moments I loved.
玄関には溢れんばかりの稲。
Harvested paddy at the front yard.
飼っているニワトリがつまみ食いしていました。
The rooster and the hen were nibbling the paddy :)
朝ごはんのイドゥリもお家で収穫した米を使っているそう。
自給自足が夢なのでこれはまじでときめきました。
イドゥリ大好き、気づけば１０個ぐらい頂いていました。少しは遠慮したほうが良かったかな。
Yeah! Breakfast time! The rice used for making idli is from their field. Self-sufficient living is my dream...I had more than 10 of them and the potato curry and sambal accompanying the idli was tasty as well.
ご飯の後はお庭のガイドツアーBY旦那さん。
このお庭凄くて、フルーツやらスパイスやら野菜やら至る所にありました。
After having breakfast, my friend took me to a little tour in their house.
More than a yard, it seemed to be like a little farm to me since they had fruits and vegetables everywhere.
ブラックペッパー（黒胡椒）の実
黒い実の前の状態は初見だったのでこの時相当感動しましたが、この後どこでも見受けられることを知り、そのうち見向きもしなくなります…慣れって恐い(^^;
Seed of black pepper.
It was my first time to actually witness a pepper seed before black so this was very impressing but afterwards I didn't feel anything when I found it because they were everywhere...
ブラックペッパー（黒胡椒）の木。こんなにたくさんなっていると有難味みがないかも…
The leaves of black pepper.
マンゴーの木
シーズンになるとわんさか実るそう
A huge mango tree. This picture was taken from the rooftop.
You can have a hole bunch of them at the season.
ドラムスティックの木
南インド料理には必須のお野菜です
Drumstick tree. Ditto as the black pepper, I got used to it after a while :p
Drumstick is a vegetable frequently used in South Indian dishes.
オクラ
Ladyfinger in front of their house.
This is a popular vegetable as in Japan too.
パパイヤ
Papaya tree. I wonder how they pick the fruit...by climbing the tree?
グリーンチリ（青唐辛子）
Green chili. This is more spicy compared to the green chili(Ao togarashi) in Japan.
次はご近所さん。
Next, we headed to the neighbors.
牛の飼料に
Straw to feed the cows.
どでかいカボチャ
Enormous pumpkin!!
更に隣のご近所さん。
Another neighbor.
ゴム農家だそうで、お庭一面ゴムの木。
They are a rubber farmer. All of the trees in the picture a rubber trees.
さてと、朝ごはんも消化できたので、次はみんなで車でドライブです。
Now the food I had is digested so we will go to a fun drive and discover more about Palakkad.
次の記事へ続く…
To be continued...
