Backwaters

Published: August 29th 2011Asia » India » Kerala » Alleppey
May 25th 2011

Alappuzha was where I had arrived when I saw my first solid sign of the coming monsoon - it bucketed down. While taking shelter I met some medical students, two Englishmen and one Australian girl. I ended up spending the next 2-3 days with them on a house boat, floating around Kerala's backwaters. We had wanted to go through the backwaters on one of the traditional houseboats which were man... Read Full Entry

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