Backwater houseboat cruise
A converted rice barge with a bedroom, a cook and a deck, cruising Vembanad's canals and mooring overnight beside a paddy field.
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A converted rice barge with a bedroom, a cook and a deck, cruising Vembanad's canals and mooring overnight beside a paddy field.
A three-hour state ferry across Vembanad Lake and up the canals, through exactly the same landscape as the houseboats for a fraction of…
A punted canoe into the narrow canals that houseboats are too big to enter, past coir-spinning yards and duck farms.
A fishing-village beach 15 km north, quieter and cleaner than the town beach, with palm groves behind and boats drawn up on the sand.
A wide beach with the remains of a 137-year-old sea pier, a lighthouse behind and the usual Kerala sunset crowd.
An 18th-century Travancore palace holding the Gajendra Moksha mural — one of the largest single-panel murals in Kerala.