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Alappuzha Slideshow
Alappuzha
Travel Blogs from Alappuzha, India
Les Backwaters
Jour 5: Ici, tout est TROP BEAU!!!! Je crois que les photos parleront plus !!! (elles arrivent bientôt d'ailleurs car connexion pas terrible ici..) Nous sommes émerveillés tous les deux par ce que l'on découvre: Un havre de paix, un paradis sur ...
All aboard the houseboat!
... night. The following morning we had a massive breakfast before heading back. It was a lovely way to spend our last day in India. After disembarking, we jumped in a taxi to Kochi airport (a very confusing airport!) to catch our next flight - to Kuala ...
Backwater journey
... of 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 ...
Backwater tur
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 ...
Cruising the Backwaters of Kerala
... taxis are still used and few, if any, cars are in the villages. We started our "backwaters" adventure in the town of Alappuzha (we kept calling it "A-la-palooza") or Allepey, which was unfortunately only good as a starting point for our adventure. Our ...
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Dear Readers, We are currently wasting our time in a jam-packed internet cafe that can't handle the volume of it's clients, mostly skyping travelers. Internet is miserable here and we can't seem to open the travelpod webpage. To write this right now, we ...
Day 18 of Andy and Suez Great Adventure
Day 18 of Andy and Suez Great Adventure Day 18 starts exactly the same as 17, container ships waking us from our slumber and then down to breakfast. A quick pack up and then it's down to the waiting Mr John to whisk us off to the next part of our trip. ...
Great weather for Ducks
The houseboat trip through the Keralan backwaters was always going to be bittersweet. This was a trip that Nick and I had planned to do together and I felt his absence keenly. There is no doubt that this is an idyllic, romantic getaway. Traditional rice ...
Day 19 of Andy and Suez Great Adventure
... of interest. The birdlife here is quite good - kingfishers, herons, egrets etc and the usual ducks and chooks. But a lot of India's rice is grown here and there were paddy fields on either side of the rivers. The people in the villages dotted along each ...
A little house on a boat
Cool vintage taxi, 77 year old driver - felt like driving miss Daisy on the 4 hour taxi journey that should have taken 2. All the bad reviews about shaddy houseboats were quickly quashed when Jobhi (captain) and Radesh (chef) took us to our boat. Air ...
Kerala Backwaters
We travelled a bit further up the coast where we went inland to the keralan backwaters - a network of canals where people live and from what I can see - grow rice! we took a boat for an hour to the house where we would be staying, a bit more like a guest ...
Alleppey
Les 'backwaters' de Kerala no decepcionen a ningu que les visiti (A no ser que la meteorologia faci la guitza i no et deixi disfrutar-les adequadament, com he sentit a dir que li ha passat a mes d'un) ni que sigui a costa de fer activitats orientades ...
Radneesh, Rajneesh and Nitheesh...
... in the world. I remember one of our guides, Shine, explaining that only the largest, most sophisticated cities in India had any type of sewage treatment. Thank goodness for our Steripen water purifier.... Nitheesh grilled the marinated prawns ...
Cruising the Backwaters
Lonely Planet lists this as one of the 'Top 10 Things To Do Before You Die' so who are we to argue? Of course, some time in the past the houseboats were authentic converted rice barges (kettavallam) and there were just a smattering of travelers ...
House boating the backwaters
When we arrived at our house boat it was just Wow! We have a double story house boat with 6 bedrooms with en-suite and large living area with comfy chairs. The scenery of all the house boats on the water ways with lush greenery was magnificent. We ...
Lazy Boat ride
We were sad to leave Varkela but got up really early to take the train to Kollam. At the train station there was this guy all pimped out in pink jeans, pink plaid shirt and huge aviator sunglasses who thought he was the shit! we couldn't stop ...
Exploring the backwaters by houseboat
... them a way to get last minute train tickets. They were very happy as it one of the things they most wanted to do in India! The following day we headed back to Fort Kochi and stayed at a lovely homestay called Sonnetta which was recommended to us by the ...
Alleppey
Alappuzha (Alleppey) Have been told many times now how beautiful the back waters of Kerela are so treated ourselves to the 22 hours trip in a private house boat with only 3 crew members and yourselves. Sounds pretty ideallic, and at times it was, but ...
Sarah and Dan recreate the Raj
... we got here, its been too easy. In my smug know-it-all fashion I thought ‘go to Kerala first, ease into India…. Big mistake, I don’t think this is even India! Not even close. Apart from random western freak-out yesterday ...
w752
... On the evening we tried the typical Kerala clothes they were there. 071229 - Saturday Went to the south tip of India where 3 oceans meet. They had a huge statue on an island there which we visited. Weighted 7 000 ton, so it ...
Lazing around on a boat
We left Cochin and travelled an hour and a half by car to arrive at Alleppy, where we were catching a house boat to travel around the backwaters of Kerala. When we arrived I was amazed to see just how big our house boat ...
Backwater cruising
... has good figures on health, education and equitable income distribution. We flew from Bangkok to Mumbai and then caught a domestic India Airways flight to Trivandrum, Kerala’s capital near the southern tip of India. Although not a huge distance from ...
all by ourselves, with Gill & Kay
... . John sat in the front and three girls in the back. It was a sports bra and brown trousers occasion!! People in India have a different style of driving. They just toot the horn if they are going to pass, and pass they do!! Room or no room. ...
Escape from Amma's
... a passenger boat from Amma's to Alleppey ( nicked named Little Venice for its network of waterways), and experienced a journey through rural India at its most beautiful. It felt as if we had stepped back in time, slowly chugging past small waterside ...
First stop in India
... For the mosquito net?! They inspected them closely And muttered a lot But at last gave them back Reassured, no terrorist plot! So India next What will we find As we leave Sri Lanka Far behind? Better accommodation?? Perhaps ... but then ... Our first ...
A little piece of Heaven in God's Own Country
Just to show where the backwaters are! Details in next ...
Cruising the backwaters of Kerala
(There are pictures to go with this blog - just having some technical problems - check back again soon to see some lovely shots of the boat and backwater scenery) One of our main reasons for visiting Kerala was to explore the backwaters by converted ...
The Backwaters
... roads. However, when the rain picks up, thick metal shutters are pulled down, which combines with the steamy Southern India temperatures to create a fairly effective roasting oven. Luckily, on this day, we piled in quickly, grabbed some ...