SPIRIT

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We are discovering people, whose spirit can inspire others.

INTERVIEWS

Spirits are our local experts who share their stories with us and based on them we arrange your travel in style!

AYURVEDA TRAILS

STORY

TRAVEL THEMES

Life is like a book of mysteries, we do not understand if we do not travel.

PLACES

Stories written by our local spirits connect not only places on the map.

CALENDAR

Experience every day of the year in different rhythm & pace.

VIDEO & PHOTO

That's the way we see it!

AYURVEDA JOURNALS

STYLE

ART & STYLE

Your individual style is your artistic signature.

ARTIST AND THEIR STORIES

Only in madness one can truly create.

KOCHI MUZIRIS BIENNALE

India's largest contemporary art exhibition.

AAZHI ARCHIVES

Art Exhibition Sea - A Boiling Vessel.

INDIA IN STYLE

Travel collection inspired by Art & Ayurveda. Created out of passion as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals.

If you decide to travel and explore the world of ayurveda or if you search for healing solutions to your health problems, we will connect you with our team of ayurveda and travel experts and design your individual programme.

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Dear Future Me II.

CGH EARTH

A TRIBUTE TO INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT.

The human spirit has the extraordinary capacity to find positivity during hardships. Some have found it in reading, others in cooking or gardening. ‘Dear Future Me’ is a virtual time capsule on social media that lets us look back and remember the good.

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I’ve always had a home garden but found it very difficult to bend down and tend to the plants and remove the weeds. So, I gave it up. Now, since I spend a lot more time gardening, I have become more accustomed to the labour, and I am a lot more interested in gardening. I’m not going to give up again.

Thomas Dominic, Director, CGH Earth

CGH Earth, owned by the Dominic family of six brothers, began in 1957 with Casino Hotel on Kochi’s Willingdon Island. Founder Dominic Joseph’s family was previously involved in farming and plantation. In 1988, the company went through a transformation under the leadership of his son, Jose Dominic, when it won the contract to reconstruct and operate the government-owned hotel on Bangaram Island in Lakshwadeep. The responsible tourism approach adopted at Bangaram Island Resort is visible across CGH Earth properties in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karnataka. Kerala’s ancient wooden mansions were carefully dismantled for the backwater retreat at Coconut Lagoon in Kumarakom. Spice Village, beside Periyar National Park, was inspired by the dwellings of the native Manan tribe. A palace was transformed into an Ayurveda retreat, Kalari Kovilakom. A pioneer in Kerala for best practices in tourism, CGH Earth ensures that almost everything that goes into a property is procured, crafted or manufactured locally. Food has been a strong point right from the start at the still-running Casino Hotel; even today, CGH Earth’s hotel restaurants gather travellers and locals around its tables.

CONDÉ NAST TRAVELLER INDIA, 8 ICONIC KERALA BRANDS APPROVED BY AMMACHI AND APPACHA

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Hi, I'm Shijith, and I work at Casino Hotel in the Housekeeping Department. My busy schedule hardly gave me any time to pursue my passion, which is photography. During the lockdown, I found the time to discover beauty in the simplest of things and capture it with my camera.

Shijith, Housekeeping, Casino Hotel

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I love sketching landscapes inspired by the beauty of Kerala. I guess my deep connection with nature finds expression in my art as my concepts are usually green pastures, water bodies, trees, and wildlife. And I love experimenting on canvas as much as I do with food.

Mathai Thomas, Executive Chef, Eighth Bastion

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My vegetable garden and family of rabbits made me happy during these tough times. I have been growing vegetables for my family and selling the rest to Spice Village. It is something that CGH Earth encouraged me to do a long time back. Today, it is something I take great pride in along with my work.

Tresa, Housekeeping, Spice Village

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I made a model of a boat using just scrap wood and bamboo material lying around. I work in the Engineering Department, so it was fun to do something creative during this time. I’m thrilled to share my model with you.

Sivakumar V. Nair, Senior Tradesman, Engineering Department, Wayanad Wild, A CGH Earth Experience

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One thing I spent my time doing during this lockdown period, that brought me happiness, was when I captured some good photographs of nature and other objects in and around Casino Hotel. I've realized that photography is not just about capturing good memories, but also feeling happiness too.

Sappan, F&B Service, Casino Hotel

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Creating a Terrarium is one of my passions. This process takes a very long time and you need a lot of patience. I did my first work in 2012, and then whenever time permitted. I had some time on my hands during the lockdown and hence did a couple of them. Mobile Photography is my other passion. My gallery is always filled with photographs of the nature around me.

Syamjith, F&B Manager, Casino Hotel

MESSAGE FROM CGH EARTH HOTELS

Join me and my friends at CGH Earth as we share stories and photos of the activities that are getting us through these hard times. Add your stories in the comments, and please post them on social media tagging @CGHEarthExperienceHotels and using #DearFutureMe #MeAndCGHEarth, so that we can add your adventures to our social time capsule.

#MeAndCGHEarth #COVID2019 #Coronavirus #CGHEarth #DearFutureMe #Quarantine #QuarantineGoals #Silverlining #BeActive #TogetherWeCan

TAGS: CGH EARTH HOTELS DEAR FUTURE ME INSPIRING STORIES PHOTO STORY CGH EARTH AYURVEDA KERALA INCREDIBLE INDIA

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CGH EARTH

CGH Earth Hotels & Resorts create travel experiences that let you explore nature, community and culture intimately. These experiences are themed around you - your awareness and aspirations!

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02: When was When

ATHEENA WILSON

If there’s anything that I have stolen from my grandmother’s shelf of knick-knacks is a spoonful of pickle and some sweet and sour sarcasm. And yes, thanks to that I landed a job as a writer in a magazine.

79 IN TIME
01: Prologue

ATHEENA WILSON

You wear a saree only when you become a woman.” It sounds like a sentimentally wise thing to say, but let me break it down to you. In other words, it also meant, “When you’re ripe enough for the marriage market.”

Raul Zurita: The Sea of Pain

KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE

Chilean poet and featuring artist at the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016 on the possibility of an artistic response to the human crises of our time, including the refugee crisis surrounding the conflict in Syria. The sea, which became a grave for hundreds of people, including children.

THEYYAM: RED GODS

RAKESH ANAND

Theyyam is a vibrant and colourful form of ritualistic worship that is deeply rooted in the culture and traditions of Kerala, India. This living tradition involves elaborate rituals, music, dance, and vibrant costumes that bring to life the divine spirits being invoked.

HOPE OF THE DANCER

RUKMINI VIJAYAKUMAR

A new beginning is always infused with hope. Life is full of moments that we believe to be beginnings only because of the presence of hope. A physical symbol of these moments of hope is the flower. The films attempts to capture the emotion of these beginnings.

DRAVIDIAN CATHARSIS

YANNICK CORMIER

Dravidian Catharsis is the fruit of this deep immersion in the culture, the theatre, the traditions, and the soul of this mythological universe of the Tamil people. The powerful presences of spirits and living gods are embodied under masks.

PSYCHEDELIC FOREST EGGS

NITIN DAS

Legend says that somewhere deep in the forest of the Himalayas is a strange bird that lays psychedelic eggs. Eating them will give you highly vivid hallucinations. The indigenous shamans believe that these visions are from your past life.

LAST PLAYLIST

NITESH NOOR MOHANTY

Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away this year on 28th March leaving behind a legacy of innumerable musical compositions that'll keep him alive in countless hearts across the world. However, I'll always be haunted by the fact that I couldn't let him know that I'm still alive because of his music along with many more.

and I asked

GILBERT XAVIER

Search for the questions to the answers written on the skin...and i asked. am i connected to the deep inside you? with the invisible roots from the layered skin of you? all the energy you transfer to the heart of your thoughts?i asked again am i still connected?

01: Ayurveda in Travancore Kingdom

PRINCESS GOURI PARVATHI BAYI

If you expect stories which starts: Once upon a time, there was a princess... stop reading. Her Highness Princess Gouri Parvathi Bayi of the Travancore Royal Family will introduce us very modern and open minded view on today's Kerala society and ayurveda.

ORIGIN NARRATIVES

AAZHI ARCHIVES

Stories of communities about origin, spread and apocalypse being presented through episodic memories, narrative and visual texts, travel writings, murals, divine objects, church paintings, and songs provide a dense and myriad repository of historical and artistic imagination.

IN OUR VEINS FLOW INK AND FIRE

SHUBIGI RAO

This edition of the KMB 2022 embodies the joy of experiencing practices of divergent sensibilities, under conditions both joyful and grim. There is optimism even in the darkest absurdity, and this is what leavens the direness of our time.

IN HIS PURSUIT

KR SUNIL

KR Sunil goes beyond his frames to explore and discover soulful human stories. In this journey, he pursues a long forgotten life, that of a Tamil boy who endured the worst in a journey to Kerala. As the World Cup fever peaks, here is a story.

THE BIRTH

VIMAL CHANDRAN

Presenting to you the most exciting project that we have worked on this year! A short film shot entirely on phone, this project has been a dream & after a lot of anticipation & hard work from all of us here, we are super duper excited to finally bring this to you!

SOMEDAYS

NITESH NOOR MOHANTY

Nitesh Noor Mohanty is a visual artist who works at the fluid intersection of arts, culture, communication, media and self-reflection. His theoretical interests are also wide, often inquiring about the roots and fundamentals of art history, storytelling, and philosophy.

Life & Times of Amrita Sher-Gil

MUSEUM OF GOA

Amrita Sher-Gil, considered the mother of Indian modern painting, became known as the Indian Frida Kahlo. With her paintbrush she explored the sadness felt by people, especially women, in 1930s India, giving voice and validity to their experiences.