The Venice of India
February 15th 2009 I am in Alleppey at the moment, which claims to be the Venice of India because of the 900km of back water canals which it connects to. Not so much. It is still quite a cool city, lots going on but not overwhelming as I expect the big cities are going to be. Definitely not Venice though! Something about the rickshaws, total disregard for traffic laws and burning garbage everywhere tipped me off.
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