Alleppy Backwaters

Spending a vacation in Alleppy backwaters has been a very long

dream of ours. Well, to be exact since our honey moon. The

Honeymoon plan was to stay at Munnar and then spend a few days

at Alleppy, which was washed out because of flood in Alleppy!

We had been longing to visit Kerala backwaters since then. This holiday season, at last we set out our journey to Alleppy.

We reached Alleppy on 2nd Oct by train. We had booked a suite in Palm grove lake resort in Alleppy in advance. The resort was around 4 km from Alleppy town on the banks of Pun

namada lake. The resort is situated amidst the natural greeneries and the view of the lake from our cottage was amazing.

The resort had a few Hammocks where we were relaxing during the day..

Next to the resort, we found a place were House boat was being built. We went there and saw how the House boat(Kettu vallam )

was being manufactured.

Next day around 11 AM we started to our House boat boarding point, which is a place called Kainakkary. The place was around 15 Km from Alleppy. Most of the boats start from Alleppy town itself, unfortunately our boat was starting from this remote place. Kainakkary is a village in Kuttanad, better known as the “ Rice Bowl of Kerala ” is famous for its paddy fields. On the way we could see large collection of paddy fields stretching out to eternity .. Now we were feeling happy about boardng the boat from this tiny green village.