This ‘Travel Matchmaker’ Helps You Find the Right Homestay Across India

When was the last time a vacation felt like reliving a childhood adventure?  Your next trip to the Kuruvinakunnel Tharavadu homestay in Kerala’s Kottayam is bound to feel like it.  For one, you can spend time poring over a family genealogy chart that the host, Louis Kuruvilla (62), maintains, going right back to 1770.  When you aren’t doing that or feasting on typical Kerala specialities, you can take a torch down to the underground cellars where dried pepper continues to be stored, just as it was, centuries ago, in this 400-year-old home.  The people of the Edamattom village have always lo...