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Alappuzha Slideshow
Alappuzha
Travel Blogs from Alappuzha, India
Alleppey, Kerela
... have ever felt! (Someone then ruined it by telling me it was probably because sewage usually warms up the water). But this nice India family came over to hang out on the beach with us too. They were totally enamoured with white people and just ...
Alleppey
... a surprising lack of tourists as well. We stayed at a hotel which had a bar (naturally) and were supping in the tourist area (India area only by invitation) when we met a couple of bona fide Indian aristocracy. They were Tarigans who are a caste of Indian ...
sugar and spice and all things nice!
We went on a morning walk with a few other guests and a guide called Binu. He was very knowledgeable about the local plants and life in general on the island we were staying on. First, we saw a hibiscus plant, apparently you can use it for hair oil to ...
Boating
My blog entries are getting stupidly long and taking too long to write and that is exactly why they are so far out of date, this one for example I am writing two months out of date.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 ...
... and this one
20th January 2009 Venice Castle (yes, really), Opp DTPC Office, Alappuzha, Kerala, South India. www.venicecastle.com Kanjirapalli - Alleppey (40kms) See entry for ...
The adventure in Kerala
... have shut due to big Hindi festival of Shivas. Anyway we are well and all having lots of fun, learning loads about India and it's people. More to follow. Love to all. Update... so after an overnight sleeper train to Ahmedebad and ...
God's Own Country
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 ...
Kerela state - part 4
... days at a small family resort called Malayam Resort (recommended by Rikshaw driver - good word of mouth, not in the LP Bible) after the houseboat trip, a really relaxed peaceful frinedly place. Allepey is defianelty recommended if you ever vist ...
Beautiful Backwaters
We've had no internet access for a while now, but anyway here's the next travel update. We moved on from Kochi to a place called Alleppey where we hopped to arrange our houseboat through the hotel we were staying at. We managed to do so (thanks for the ...
Backwaters of Kerala
... people and made our stay here unforgettable. Raj had been feeling a little unwell over the last few days and when we reached Alappuzha I was also feeling some of his symptoms. Subhash kindly took us to a doctor. This was an ex army doctor and thankfully ...
Good Bye India
... one!) and went to see an old synagogue built about 500 years ago. It belonged to one of the only and oldest Jewish communities in India. We stopped for chai and then did a 40 minute walk back to the hotel. After a few more chai's and a nice dinner ...
Love boat at Alleppey !!!
This trip should have been for one night only but as soon as we stepped on the boat we loved it so we booked for another night. We would have stayed more but one day was already over our daily budget :( The boat's structure is that of a ...
Houseboats and Backwaters
I'm now in Kerala - the very environmentally "green" state of India. You can't even buy Pepsi or Coke anywhere in Kerala because of the pesticides in them (dad......you'd hate it!!) Kerala's most famous for its huge number of rivers, backwaters & ...
Alleppey
We arrived in Alleppey at 2pm after two ridiculously sweaty bus rides from Kumily. We got a rickshaw straight to Johnson's Guest House which was recommended to us by Em's mate Helen who had been there a couple of years ago and really raved about it. The ...
Brother on board!
... the ladies pool. Despite being fully clothed Rachel and I still felt like we were in a zoo. Conors defiantly enjoying the randomness of India with trips to the Internet to talk to girls and ventures to the juice shop at 1am……….Oh yeah I ...
Lemon Tree
If you stay in Alleppey and don't hear this song you haven't been to the Lemon Tree. The lyrics may sound sad but they are oh so true...and it makes me laugh. Lemon Tree ....Fools Garden I'm sittin' here in the boring room It's just ...
Quilon, Kerala
we left Chennai last night around 7:45 p.m. and took a sleeper overnight to Kerala. Our ticket was for Kochi but we slept through the stop and only woke up an hour later at 7:30 a.m. So we made lemonade from lemons and decided we would stay on the ...
Allepey
Greetings from Allepey, the Venice of India. Or so they say. Yes, it has canals, but what it lacks is architecture, great Italian food, and, well, Italian men. This area is where the backwaters are located which are a series of ...
Houseboating on the Keralan backwaters, Alleppey
... without anecdotal incident, however (as most of India seems to be) and we were presented with a situation which probably best sums up India as an experience: Our ferry was leaving the wharf at 9.30 am and at 9.15, a ferry pulled into the wharf and ...
Day 26: Water water everywhere
We decided to visit the famous umbrella shops of Alleppey and only belatedly worked out that, as it was a Sunday, most places were closed. Fortunately, even though the umbrella shops were shut, we managed not to return empty handed. Vernee went on a ...
Bliss on the backwaters
... or by a quick trip to the ticket counter. Luxury buses with a/c and arm chair like seats had spoilt me. Here in India it wasn't so simple, plans could not be changed in a whim, buses were windowless and embarkation was a ticketless fight for a ...
Next stop along the backwaters
I'd enjoyed Kollam but it was time to move on so I got the passenger boat to Alappuzha / Alleppey. It was also possible to get the bus but the boat was far more scenic and relaxing - especially with only 2 passengers going up to 4 when Mark and Emma ...
Lemmon tree...
"I'm sittin' here in the boring room It's just another rainy sunday afternoon I'm wasting my time, I got nothing to do I'm hanging around, I'm waiting for you But nothing ever happens and I wonder....." I’m back at Lemon tree….something has ...
Tranquil backwaters and a tale of tiger prawns
... and a cook, and in addition to the peaceful tropical surroundings, the food was divine. The best food we had experienced in India at that point. The cook made some fantastic Keralan vegetarian and fish dishes. In particular, he made us a snack to have ...
A Slow Boat Back to Alleppey
... us to study the locals’ way of life and take in the beautiful scenery. It was so different from anywhere else in India, being totally relaxed and relatively quiet, away from the chaos that permeates much of the country. Our day passed much too ...
Keralan backwaters
... set of for a backwater cruise, all the guidebooks list it as a must do, so we did it. Comparatively to everything else in India, backwater cruises are verge on the ludicrously priced, so we bartered hard and paid the penalty. Our two day cruise was nice, ...
(Not) "The Venice of Asia"
Venice - 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 ...
Kerala
... of India. Many people said it was the un-India India. I'm not sure what they meant by that. It is very much still India, just hotter and greener. The people aren't quite as pushy but I'm guessing it's really because there aren't quite as many of them and ...