
Palace in Alappuzha
A single painting stopped me mid-step. Forty-nine square feet of earth-toned brilliance — Lord Vishnu reaching down to rescue an elephant king from a crocodile's jaws — glowing on the palace wall as though the artist had only just set down his brush. That painting, the Gajendra Moksham mural, is reason enough to find your way to Krishnapuram Palace. But it's far from the only one. Tucked into the Alappuzha district of Kerala, this 18th-century palace was built under the patronage of Tra...















