All about Kerala Backwater, Houseboat and Its Cruise Gist

Posted by Anoop Gvt
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Jul 25, 2012
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Have you ever imagine how the backwater is created or how long will these houseboats made of simple wood planks with coir coconut robes would last? If you are curios or if you have not think off or know about it let me give you brief idea all about the backwater, its sites, attraction and houseboats.

Thousands and millions have experience backwater tour in Kerala (more), they just come for a day or two see the places around and wind up their tours with a just a day or two tours and they only think it to be a tour to look around and hang out for backwater nearby attractions and stay along but within it there are lot more opportunity and facilities embedded around it and people less think of exploring or experiencing them.

Backwater

Unlike any other lake the backwater of Kerala is of course a lake but it’s a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea formed by joining up of numerous canals and lagoons of both man-made and natural and remains throughout the year as it is fed by 38 rivers too from the other side. The reason why though there are other numerous beautiful lakes in India, it is given more importance in tourism field as it gives wonderful opportunity by enjoying tour in the relax manner and that too with an chance to visit maximum 4 to 5 destinations simultaneously. If you take up houseboat cruise from Alleppey, you will get to enjoy even Kumarakom and other neighboring places such as attractions in and around Kottayam, Kollam and other sites. Almost all the major districts and city are all included under the backwater attraction site even Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram prominent cities of the state and so one of the very good opportunity you get from backwater tour is that you not only get chance to see the wonders and beauty of the landscape and nature alone but it also gives you chance to know the lifestyle and their culture.

Houseboats

The uniqueness of the houseboats of this place is that it not only gives luxury accommodation stay and tour facilities but at the same time makes you feel the beauty and pleasure of riding on traditionally mix modern home boat. The boat is made of simple planks of jack-wood tied up together with coir and coated with a caustic black resin made from the boiled cashew kernels and if maintain can last even for generations. Today it serves as one of the best travel option to enjoy the backwater tours with more complex facilities and amenities by creating comfortable well furnished rooms with kitchen and toilet along with balcony for angling and thus houseboat cruise have become the top attractive tourist activity at present magnetizing more than a thousand clients almost every year.

Kerala tour packages (more) has option to experience its travel to all visitors, it is worth experiencing if you have not been or if you have not explore all as there are countless attractions in and around the backwater and so a day or two or even for a week touring will not be able to cover the whole wonders of backwater. Travel time to time from one destination and next to the other site and cover once in a life time this amazing backwater wonders of Kerala. for more visit: http://www.keralahouseboat.org

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