Alappuzha, India Travel Blogs

House Boat ... DO IT!!!
Dec 27, 2006 (5 photos)

... the boat.  The next group was booked for 11am.  They kicked us off at 10am the next morning - an hour earlier the planned.  Welcome back to India, Brittany.  We strapped on our backpacks and headed to a nearby beach to hang for the day.

Kerala - Peace, relaxation... and the Mozzies!!
Nov 24, 2008 (10 photos)

Kerala Backwaters...... Our next stop brought us to a small scale Ayurvedic resort set on the backwaters. After another hair raising journey in a taxi ignoring traffic lights and on coming traffic we arrived in one piece. Of course Mish slept most of ...

Kerala - Alleppey - Day 20
Mar 13, 2008 (19 photos)

Was picked up by the owner of the houseboat this morning and taken by rickshaw to the docks where the boat was moored. First impressions of boat where good, a beautiful vessel which you could easily live on full time, has everything you could ever need. ...

American, Russian and Indian are on a boat
Dec 23, 2007 (16 photos)

The back waters of Kerala were nice, but not the hyped up experience every guide-book suggests. I ended up sharing a boat ride with Sean and a super fun Moscow couple - Andrew and Merry. We spent 22 hours chit-chatting about world travels, stuffing ...

Kerala - Kochi/Alleppey - Day 19
Mar 12, 2008

... on the bus, it's only a short 65km ride which takes around one and a half hours to this primary backwater town. Alleppey (Alappuzha) is very different to Kochi, the best way to describe Alleppey is that it's more Indian than the European feel of Kochi, a ...

Alleppy / Alappuzha
Feb 12, 2006 (8 photos)

On Saturday 11th February 2006 we headed south by train to Alleppy or Alappuzha as it is also known. This was our first trip by train. Just a short one of one hour at the princely sum of 27 Rupees each which worked out to be 35 pence each. Goodness knows ...

The backwaters
Jan 14, 2008 (11 photos)

My train was supposed to arrive in Allepy at 3am, so i sat myself in the carriage with a policeman at about half two, waiting for my stop. He very worryingly sat very close to me then began massaging my hand. I know its common for Indian men to be rather ...

Backwaters, Backhanders and Back to Basics
Oct 26, 2006 (6 photos)

Another 13 hours on a train later and I find myself in Alappuzha, Kerala. Kerala is a small state in the south of India, and in recent years has become the place to hire a rice barge and discover the backwaters Indian backwaters. It was of course ...

Alleypey et la porte des backwaters
Apr 26, 2009 (25 photos)

Dimanche 26 avril Apres une matinee a savourer une derniere fois le calme de Fort Kocki, nous nous sommes separes a grand regret de notre compagnon de route, Stefano, qui a decider de remonter sur Goa le lendemain alors que nous prenions le bus ce jour ...

Kerala Backwaters
Nov 4, 2009 (19 photos)

We arrived in Alleppey or Alappuzha as it has been renamed after British rule and squeezed into one rickshaw for the short journey to Johnsons Nest. There we found the said owner, Johnson who was a bit of a cross between an Indian Rastafarian with red ...

Backwaters!!!
Feb 16, 2009 (11 photos)

Heute gings dann weiter Richtung Sueden, weil wir ja in 5 Tagen in Trivandrum sein muessen um unseren Zug nach Goa zu bekommen Als naechste Station stand Alleppey auf dem Programm, was in erster Linie der Startpunkt in die Kerala Backwaters ist. Wir haben ...

Keralan backwaters
May 2, 2009 (8 photos)

... are on a houseboat, floating in the famous backwaters of Kerala.  The place we are right now is also called the Venice of India.  It is comprised of many little islands and canals, and the local villages have a water taxi system set up.  We ...

Backwater journey
Feb 20, 2009 (3 photos)

... the view that Chris is being a wussy... We'll see who has lost the argument by the end of March I guess! Anyway, Alappuzha is a middle-sized town on the edge of the backwaters and a great base to go and explore the waterways and smaller canals and ...

Apr 25, 2009 (12 photos)

Get on the bus, comrade
Feb 17, 2008 (11 photos)

... claim that Udaipur is "The Venice of India").   As is clear in the pictures, this area is "The Redwood Shores of India." Anyway, back to the bus rides.  The buses here work great.  They go everywhere we need to go, they're ...

Keralan Backwaters and so on...
Jan 24, 2009 (21 photos)

Hey everyone, this will be quite a short one, just to tell you a little about the Keralan backwaters, on which Brownie and I enjoyed a 4 hour private boat cruise yesterday. Theyre basically a 900km network of canals and rivers and lagoons, they ...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Jan 22, 2009 (8 photos)

... another 2 nights and then its on to Madurai. . More about Alleppey though, its pretty much 'a slice of venice in India' as lonely planet describes it, and so its a town built around two main waterways and then lots of little canals and ...

Cochin (Kochi) to Alleppy
Feb 15, 2008 (34 photos)

... beautiful- a glimpe into life on the backwaters)  Kelly and I chatted and we learned about their trip and adventures in India.  They had gone to Rajasthan as well, but had stayed in homestays and only occasionally booked guided tours.  They ...

Pooppallys on the backwaters
Feb 16, 2008 (15 photos)

... Mark and Kelly - egg curry, boiled bananas, tea, coffee, and toast with pineapple jelly (possibly the best thing I've had in India). (PIX OF BREAKFAST)  We've really enjoyed getting to know them and hanging out with them - they're really fun and we' ...

Day 23: The Sea, The Sea
Apr 3, 2008 (6 photos)

... days in Kerala in a hotel with a pool by the beach. The three and a half hour drive to Alleppey (also known as Alappuzha) took us the 1000 metres back down to sea-level, through mountain passes where the hillside dropped dizzyingly from the edge of the ...

Day 25: Messing about on the backwaters
Apr 5, 2008 (13 photos)

... , sweet-sour, banana curry (which bears absolutely no relation to the ghastly 'navaratna' fruit and veg kormas on offer in North India). Later in the afternoon, Cameron found a comfy spot in which to nap while Rob and Verns were served Masala Chai as the ...

Day 24: Shopping and swimming
Apr 4, 2008 (7 photos)

We have been in India for over three weeks now and we are finally getting a perspective on the cost of things. We caught a tuk-tuk into the centre of Alleppey today and before setting off agreed a price of 50 rupees (about 60 pence) for the 15 minute ...

Backwaters and Mountains
May 29, 2008 (1 photos)

This was really just a staging point to get the ferry from but the town itself reminds me of Amsterdam (an Indian version obviously) in that it has lots of little canals and bridges. I opted for a local ferry to Kottyam so that I could see the "real ...

(Not) "The Venice of Asia"
Sep 6, 2008 (14 photos)

... - known as the city of water and considered by many to be one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world. Alappuzha (or Alleppey) - known to Emex as a town of polluted waterways and considered to be a bit of a hole that doesn't really set the ...

... and this one
Jan 26, 2009

20th January 2009 Venice Castle (yes, really), Opp DTPC Office, Alappuzha, Kerala, South India.  www.venicecastle.com Kanjirapalli - Alleppey (40kms)   See entry for 21st.

Backwater tur
Mar 8, 2009 (20 photos)

Hej Alle Nu har vi vaeret paa backwatertour - noget af det bedste vi har oplevet her i Indien. Vi havde en luksusbaad, med en kaptajn, en kok og en tjener. Man foelte sig helt kongelig. Nedenunder var et spisebord, et tv, samt to stole. Ovenpaa var der ...

I'm On A (House)Boat
Sep 15, 2009 (19 photos)

... was a heavy fog so we could not see too much.  Traveling around down here, I have noticed that many places in South India seem even less developed than North India, which is not really saying much, but it just looks like a lot of the landscape here ...

Boating
Mar 15, 2009

My blog entries are getting stupidly long and taking too long to write and that is exactly why they are so far out of date, this one for example I am writing two months out of date. How can I possibly write about how I felt If its that old, therefore I am ...

Alleppey
Mar 25, 2009 (4 photos)

Known as the Venice of India, Aleppey backwaters is amazing. Canals are the common way of circulating in the city. I met this nice Chilean guy, Pachito at the guesthous I stayed at. He was a bit confused by all the Gods in the hinduism religion and ...

God's Own Country
Mar 7, 2008 (3 photos)

We arrived in Alappuzha (more commonly known as Alleppey) on Friday with the sole purpose of renting a houseboat for the day.  In Lonely Planet, it's listed as one of the "top 10 things to do before you die" and now we understand.    ...