I particularly noticed a lot of fruit stalls or shops, many of which exclusively sold fruits only. Unlike fruit stalls in cities of Maharashtra, these were not temporary or portable stalls but proper permanent shops and a whole lot of them. The fruits were also well arranged. Most carried the local bananas of different varieties (small, long, green, yellow, orange-red), and also other fruits like grapes, apples, oranges, etc. Of course bananas were in plenty as there are a large number of plantations, big and small, visible all along the roads we traveled. Bananas could also be found for sale at other local shops. Banana plants can also been seen growing in the 'wild'.
There were innumerable local coconut vendors or stalls in the open along the road sides. They sold green coconut water. The guy simply chops of one end of the green coconut to create a small opening to the coconut inside and then inserts a straw. This is one of the most fresh and nutritious drink you can get. So aerated drinks did not get much attention from us. In addition to coconut vendors, pineapple vendors were also doing brisk business serving pineapple slices peppered with salt-chili powder mix.
Many tourist attraction places had small shops with handicraft items. There were wooden carved items like monkeys, cars, jewelry boxes, kitchen items, etc.
In my next post, I will put some pictures of the greenery in Kerala that we saw.
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