The gateway to Kondai Lip Resort welcomes you across a narrow canal fringed by palms. Brick colored cottages built of laterite and wood with wooden gables, tiled roofs and verandahs are set amidst tall palm and coconut trees, tropical plants and cropped grass. The cottages are all over a hundred years old and were once traditional homes that have been translocated and rebuilt. Designed in the vernacular style once popular in Kerala, with interiors in wood and furnished with all modern amenities, the cottages look out at the canals and are set around the landscape