Wayanad- Banasura island resort

I know I did not blog about our blissful Malaysia and Singapore tour. Somehow I felt the photos told the story there. But I definitely want to tell you about the Banasura Island resort in Wayanad. This is our annual tour with Hari’s colleagues and families. It’s a beautiful concept in amazon. I love the company for this. Every year, the company sponsors an annual outing to its employees with families. We usually go for a two day tour to a good resort- one year to Yercaud (Grand continental), one year to poovar island, Kerala. This year, it was to Wayanad for three days.
I’d tell you why I love the concept of the tour. You get to enjoy the tour while a bunch of enthusiastic and efficient colleagues take care of the planning. The whole tour is a suspense trip. It’s a boon for busy families like us ;)
You get to meet your hubby’s colleagues and families every single year and have fun with them. This will not happen without such a concept!
They bulk book such nice resorts that we will never spend so much on a stay when we tour as individual families. Also, you can customize a lot of things with the resort due to the bulk booking. The resorts are so nice, you can simply choose to stay and enjoy the resort, not even go out touring. Even if you go out touring the hotel arranges bus for the large group and you are jolly and free 
Over to Wayanad. We went to Calicut by train. The train route to Calicut itself was so beautiful. So lush green that each scene looked like a wall paper. From there, the hotel had arranged mini bus transportation to their resort in Wayanad.
The entire resort was booked for amazon and rooms were chosen using lots. There was a honey moon villa, twin cottage, naalukettus, luxury rooms and deluxe rooms. We got the naalukettu as a couple who got it in the lots were unable to make the trip. Whoever owns this resort has a true blessing to his credit. I have never even imagined a resort that could be in such a scenic place. Or I had never even imagined a place that is so, so, so, so scenic…. Water, mountains, greenery, what not.. I still could not get it off my eyes.
Naalukettu was surely one of the best rooms. It was a single room with two room sized balconies- one overlooking the beautiful mountains and the other overlooking a beautiful stream of water. The aesthetic antique wood themed interiors with two swings were..well..too much for us..
We had already planned to spend most of this trip relaxing than touring around wayanad. Anyways, the resort was far away from tourist destinations. The first evening, we went to a nearby lake and did speed boating there. Well, nice experience, but nothing compared to the resort itself.
The hospitality of staff was unbelievable. Especially, the manager Binoth was smiling all the time and waiting to accommodate our every request. Other staff were equally polite and dying to help. (I wish they’d get rid off the coconut oil in their cooking though) We spent the evening with bajji, TT and carrom board. After dinner, we had a good sleep.
Next day, we decided not to join the touring gang and spent the day lazing- Hari massaging and me TT playing. In the evening, Hari and I walked through a small green road- typically reminding of the “Road not taken” by Robert Frost. It was most beautiful and fresh with the rain drops. I do not remember a more beautiful place where I have walked. We walked for a while. As everything comes with a cost- we discovered a few leeches on Hari’s leg and on my face. We decided to return 
Night was spent with some guys drinking and us playing dumb charades.
The next day, we walked to the water stream very close to the resort. We passed through the same road we walked the previous evening, but it was only a little less beautiful without the rain drops. A few had opted out of it for fear of leeches. But we decided to brave it this time with salt. There was a small trek down to the stream and man, the stream was gorgeous. Two leech bites on me and one on Hari were removed with salt. It was all worth the sweet sounding rush of water we bathed in. As it rained, the water level and force increased in front of our eyes. Then, the guide advised us to leave the place. We reached back, played some more TT and left the lovely resort.
No one had a heart to leave. The resort was so secluded that the employees had to travel 8 KM to buy even veggies. But what do we care as guests? We could go on forever 