Described as the Venice of the East, Alleppey (now called Alaphuza, but no local calls it that :) is a beautiful place of backwaters, coconut trees, paddy fields and complete silence if one chooses so. The resort, I was staying in, was a very interesting collection of wooden rooms, bamboo rooms, tree houses and normal rooms. I experimented with the tree house there first, but found it too cramped up and moved to the bamboo room. Really nice place to stay, completely different experience than normal life I arrived in Alleppey, unsure of whether I would be doing a houseboat trip (didnt make sense doing it alone). But the place I was staying at had lot of tourists (think I was the only Indian there) and I met Isabelle and Wolfgang, two travellers from Germany, who
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