Allepeey - Sightseeing

Alleppy Sightseeing

This water city is just two hours away from Kumarkom. This city gives you a chance to stay on waters for one night. It also gives you an option of selecting a houseboat having 1 room to 5 rooms (deluxe to super deluxe rooms).

1. Houseboat Stay

Once you check in your houseboat the journey to this beautiful city begins. In the beginning of the journey we will meet many other tourists who have also just begun the journey. Along with them you will encounter various types of houseboats, ranging from houseboats with balcony, decorated and many more. You will have around 100 houseboats sailing near you. And just like a traffic jam on road, you might experience a traffic jam of houseboats on certain routes.

As the houseboat moves, you reach the interiors of these amazing backwaters and you are away from the busy city LAND life. Here you will see a small village which lives on waters. No land and land vehicles exists for them. They just had their huts or houses on the banks of the backwaters. Their entire transportation is waterways.

En-route this ride, along with the beautiful view, one will also see the routine life of the villagers whose life is hooked to these waters. At one side you will find housewives getting their daily groceries on a small canoe, one side you will find students waiting at the bank to catch their School Ships to reach home from school. You will also see Public Ship stops and Public ships carrying local people from one part to another. You will surely encounter different types of canoe used by the locals. They do not believe in any Merc, Honda, their status is defined by the type and size of the canoe used.

If you are in a houseboat, it will stop at one of the corners for Lunch. You will get dal, chappati and an authentic South Indian Vegetable. The motorman and his helper prepares the food for you. The ride again starts after the lunch and now to the other side of the village. Along with the local life of the people, you will also encounter various types of birds. You can also get a chance to see birds picking up their prey (fish) from water. Also, a view of Sunset will be worth remembering. For all of this you need to sit in the main room and strain your eyes to locate something new every moment.

I would say that if given an option kindly do not stay in the houseboat. Though it has an amazing experience, the rooms of the houseboats are generally small and in the night it halts at one place. When the houseboat halts, it gets occupied with all mosquitoes and insects. I suggest you can stay in a hotel in Alleppy and take a full day ride of the boat available there. These boats are comfortable. They have proper chairs on them to sit. Again there are few varieties here.  

I must say this place is really the,'Venice of India'