Spectacular crawling along the backwaters of Kerala

What should I say about the life long experience of crawling along the backwaters of Alappuzha in a traditional houseboat? I am struggling to select an ideal word to describe the whole things. Anyway the common English words like extra ordinary, terrific or spectacular fails to do the job.

It was around 4 o’ clocks in the evening when we started the journey in a private house boat. You cannot just find these kinds of houseboats, locally known as kettuvalloms, in other parts of the globe. We can feel the real hard work and handsome of amount behind its construction. A normal houseboat measures around 100 feet in length and a width of 12 feet in the middle. The raw materials are natural things like bamboo mats, bamboo poles, and coconut materials and so on.

Sorry, I am deviating from the subject. We started our crawling along the beautiful backwaters very slowly. My houseboat has total five A/c bedrooms with all facilities! We have provided the inner facilities like Television, kitchen, balcony, toilets, and a small conference hall. The overall facilities of houseboat have been made in such a manner that one should applaud the real brain behind this.

We all very impressed with the food, especially the delicious local fish curry and fish fry cooked in the houseboat itself. The houseboat stops at fixed shops beside the shore where we can have some shopping as well. We have provided four staffs in the houseboat, a driver, a chef, and two cabin assistants. They are professionals by all means and no introduction needed for their services.

Eco tourism is at best here. Nature blends man and there are no artificial things. You can watch many houseboats crawling along the backwaters with foreign and domestic travelers. Just breathe hard and experience fresh air that definitely makes you fresh. Another breathtaking scene is the picture of paddy land on the other side of the water. Hundreds of families living there with

The picturesque scene of paddy land on the other side of the water draws everyone. There are hundreds of families living on the shore and the backwater tourism is the major source of income. It is very nice to see women and children fishing using a local trap. A guest in a home, just waits for 5 minute, and will come back with a fresh fish fry! This is not a story but a routine here.

Now I can say that spending some dollars on the houseboats of Alappuzha is not an extravagancy, but a learning kind journey to real life blend with nature.