Guest House Alappuzha

... so we were lucky to escape with our lives and a few red itchy welts about the nether regions. We awoke the next morning at our guest house to a delicious breakfast of coconut and banana pancakes. We headed into the town to try and buy a laptop. We were ...

... it's more Indian than the European feel of Kochi, a little more chaotic and a lot more bustling.   Found a cheap guest house in the centre of town and then organised a backwaters trip on a houseboat for tomorrow around the Alleppey ...

... canal tour in a canoe, before heading to Alleppey. Alleppey was one of our highlights in India, so far and we had a great few days a Johnsons guest house. Our "Eco-Room" was the size of a barn and out the back of the house , so we had a bit of space to ...

... We met with him to talk about it, and although his boat was out that day, we would be able to see it the next morning. His guest house was full, so he took us to his friend's place where we got a fantastic room for a great price. He seemed like a genuine ...

We were due to leave Kumily on 29 December but were told there was to be a state wide strike that would affect roads. The guest house owner advised us that we would need to leave by 4.00 a.m. so we could get to Alleppey before the strike began to have an ...

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 ...

... so this narrowed down our choices. We looked around a few and negotiated prices however no one would go as low as the R3500 that the guest house owner was offering. We also spoke to a travel agent who assured us that this was a very good price. So it was ...

... as watery highways before the advent of roads.  On arrival at the bus station we were accosted by a local with pictures of his guest house which looked fine, so off we went to "Daffodils Homestay" and decided to take his offer of the room.  ...

... There we found the said owner, Johnson who was a bit of a cross between an Indian Rastafarian with red henna dyed hair! His little guest house was pretty basic but we had already decided that it was to be for a night only as we were going to head ...

... , using long poles to reach up a wooden frame to hang them on. A local man who worked part time in a bar near our Government Guest House invited us to meet his family (see pics), so we went to his house a few kilometers out of Alleppey to meet his mum, ...

... 8 poppadoms!!! I tried the sweet chai (tea) too but didn't really like it! Next we went to the boat stop to get back to the guest house but it never arrived . We were then told that there was a boat strike. So we had to wave other boats down to get back. ...

... a dusty busy town with not much to sightsee. We arrived just after lunch so had a wander around the town then hung out at our guest house in the evening. We hadn't got in mind a place to stay so our driver suggested a place. The room they showed us was ...

... links up a vast area with many areas only reachable by boat. We stayed the night at Palmy residences, a bright and very well kept guest house. The next morning we were met at the guest house by our boat driver for the Back waters. All started well untill ...