On the way to the backwaters

House boat!

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March 11th 2008
After breakfast we headed downs to the water to see if we could organize a houseboat trip! From the bible we had learned that houseboats were the best way to see the backwaters of Kerala. We arrived at the jetty in a rickshaw and were immediately bombarded with the usual touts trying to get our business. AFter checking out one companys proposition we walked around for another ten seconds and were ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more