Dewalokam is the ancestral farm of Alilakuzhy family an ancient Syrian Christian family of Kerala. The family runs this organic farm with plenty of unusual trees and plants, many of which have medicinal uses.
The word Dewalokam may be translated into “Paradise”. The concept is to retain the world as it was created by God, full of fruits and vegetables, milk and honey all produced organically without pesticides or chemical fertilisers.
The family is passionate about food and traditional Keralan cooking and the farm’s professional chefs will lovingly prepare three meals for you everyday, which is included in the price of your stay.
Secluded haven
The area is tucked away beyond commercial rubber plantations in a secluded haven. Bounded by a tranquil river and nature reserve, you can choose to be as active or as relaxed as you wish, away from the bustle of cities.
This is a place where you can truly wind down, swinging in the hammocks dotted between the trees on the estate or floating gently in the freshwater pool.
Choose from eight spacious air-conditioned rooms in the main guest house overlooking the river and forest beyond the Nilgiri mountains. More privacy is offered by the three rooms in the Nalukettu cottage with an open-air shower in an inner courtyard within each room.
Guests are offered a visit to the local village and the local schools. They can interact and offer voluntary services. More significantly, you are the guests of 26 staff at Dewalokam from more than 20 different families in the village.
A true farm experience
Dewalokam is in the midlands (spice belt) of Kerala, the centre of spices for thousands of years. The farm has a rich collection of all spices like pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, ginger, turmeric and so on.
This farm is not a tourist centre at all. Jose and Sinta, farmers by tradition and teachers by profession, started taking in guests to stay with them, because their elder brother Fr. Paul Alilakuzhy visited the family farm with his friends in Germany. Soon, friends and family encouraged them to open the farm for paying guests.
For Jose, though he was a Professor of English Literature at Mahatma Gandhi University, his first love is agriculture after his late father Joseph Paily. They have won the Best Integrated Farm Award from the Government of Kerala. Jose will be glad to take you around the farm and show you all the fruits, vegetables and spices and explain the theory of organic farming which they have been practising for generations.
Organic and Sustainable
Sustainable Travel is the motto of Dewalokam. Bio-diversity is maintained with the help of choice ayurvedic herbals and a variety of native fruit plants.
Dewalokam is an organic farm that produces fish, meat, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables. Chemical fertilisers and pesticides are not used here. The produce is purely for in-house consumption and not intended for the market. Hence, the demands of the market do not have any influence on the farm and its products. The guests are welcome to see and experience the abundance and diversity of mother earth here.
The organic waste produced here is recycled with the help of fish, fowls, animals and a compost unit. Cooking fuel is produced with the help of a biogas plant and solar energy is tapped for the water heating system. The farm produces much more than it consumes.
The taste of Kerala
Using fresh ingredients, picked daily from our farm, our chefs will take you on a culinary journey through Kerala’s delicious traditional food. Breakfast is fresh fruit, freshly squeezed juice and eggs from free range chickens. Toast is served with honey from the farm’s bees and its own delicious Arabica coffee. You may add a Keralan speciality like dosa, appam or idli.
Lunch and dinner are traditional Keralan dishes such as thoran (fragrant dry curry made with coconut and different vegetables), fish moillee (often made with the splendid kingfish, simmered in tomato, ginger, coconut , curry leaves and chilli) and tandoori chicken made in an authentic tandoor.
At least once during your stay you will experience the traditional Keralan meal served on a banana leaf, the sadya. It is traditionally eaten by every Keralan during the spring harvest festival of Onam and on other special occasions.
Fat grains of Keralan rice accompany at least ten separate mini dishes, all vegetarian, providing an extraordinary array of tastes. Each taste is balanced following the principles of Ayurveda, promoting equilibrium and a sense of well-being in mind and body.
The chefs will be delighted to show you how your food is prepared in the farm’s spotless state-of-the-art professional kitchen and will share with you their recipes, tips and cookery secrets.
Free Activities
- Spice Walk
- Bamboo Rafting
- Forest Walk
- Village walk
- Cycling on the Village Road
- Swimming in the Fresh Water Pool
- Swim in the River
- School Visit
- Visit Thommankuthu Waterfalls
- Shop like a Local
- Visit the Temples
- Birding
- Spotting Butterflies
- Cooking Demo
- Watching the Extraction of Honey
- Milking the Cow
- Rubber Processing
- Gain hands-on Experience in Organic Farming
- Photographic Holidays
- Painting Holidays
Paid Activities
- Yoga
- Ayurveda Treatments
