Alappuzha is an important backwater destination attracting
several thousand tourists every year. Cruise along the palm-fringed
water ways of Kerala in a luxury house boat is the most
enchanting holiday experience in India today. In this world
of simple pleasures, you'll skim past ancient Chinese fishing
nets, water lilies, lush paddy fields, coir villages, rustic
homes, temples and coconut groves.
Innumerable lagoons, lakes, canals, estuaries and the deltas
of forty-four rivers make up the 900 km backwater network
of Kerala. The back waters mainly cover four districts of
the state-Kollam, Kottayam, Alappuzha and Kochi. The largest
backwater body, the Vembanad Lake flows through Kottayam
and Alappuzha districts and open out into the sea at Kochi
port. |
