Discover Your Roots
An exciting journey to trace your genealogy in Kerala.
- A private journey off the beaten track. Discover the real life and inner workings of Kerala.
- Visit local the temple/ church/mosque – the local festivals and events.
- Meet real people, see interesting places, and click amazing pictures.
- Stay at some of the best hotels and resorts and enjoy the full spectrum of what Kerala has to offer with houseboat trips, hill resort stays, virgin beaches, wildlife…
- End up meeting people who will be happy to take you into their hearts and homes as their very own.
An exciting journey to trace your genealogy in Kerala
Have you had this feeling that there is something of Kerala and Malayalees (people who speak the language Malayalam) within you? Keraleans are reputed to be one of the most dispersed ethnicities in the world. It is usually a joke among Indians that one can find a Keralite anywhere across the world, and even on the Moon!
Educated, proficient in languages, with a modern outlook and with a history of over millennia of contact with the outside world, Keralites are indeed gone out to the world to seek employment and fortune. Today they can be found as leading doctors and nurses across Europe and North America, the whole of the Middle East, across Far East (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia…) and in Australia. You can find them in Russia, Mongolia, China… Wherever there is a good job that pays well, requires intelligence, diligence, and hard work, you will probably find a Malayalee on the job.
Naturally, with time many of our people could have lost touch with their families and relatives back home in India. Everyone has a need to know where they came from. It will fill a hole deep within you, help you discover your heritage and rich family traditions. So welcome to a journey of discovery – of finding your true self. It will be an interesting jaunt doing a Sherlock Holmes, picking up clues, checking out hunches. It will take you to interesting places you never imagined deep within rural Kerala off the beaten track and far removed from the Tourist circuit.
You can witness the real life of people; meet those who you discover are indeed your distant relatives – those who could perhaps remember your parents very much, even today and can give you aspects about their childhood and life that you never ever knew. It can be an emotional roller-coaster, so be prepared for it.
WanderNow can make arrangements for all your travel and stay, wherever you go within Kerala. All you have to do is to have a broad plan and outline of your travel and the time period. If you need, we can arrange a local guide and translator too.
They will look up land records, government records, take you to your ancestral village, seek out your paternal or maternal homes (“tharavadu”) that your parents or forefathers belonged to and seek out your relatives.
You could find your parents’ siblings or cousins who you never knew existed. You will get to know where you came from. And will discover the real you.
