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Houseboats - An Experience Beyond Imagination!


You might have heard about house boats from different sources.But do you know how an experience in a house boat can be? House boats reflect the beauty  of backwaters. Lets understand what a house boat is and how the experience in a house boat will be.

Kettuvallam is a house boat wide utilized in the Indian state of Kerala. The normal kettuvallam is especially used for promoting Kerala commercial enterprise. Within the Malayalam language "kettu" means that "to tie" and “vallam means that boat – both together create the native name "kettuvallam”.The house boats were accustomed ship with rice and spices and different merchandise between Kuttanad and therefore the poultry port. it had been a three-day affair in those days. A customary house boat, that can be concerning one hundred feet long,can carry the weight upto thirty tons, concerning the maximum amount as 3 huge trucks will carry.
A Snap of a houseboat in the backwaters

 Kerala was placed among the `50 destinations of a lifetime' by National Geographic traveller in an exceedingly special collectors' issue discharged  before the flip of the millennium. Quite 900 kettuvallams ply the backwaters.

Alappuzha is that the bastion of house boats. There are some a hundred and twenty of them, well maintained and formed as luxury liners there. The house boats have the look of a luxurious hotel: well-furnished bedrooms, trendy hygienical bathrooms, cosy living rooms, a stunning room and in some cases even a balcony for fishing. The crew of a kettuvallam includes 2 oarsmen and a cook. Fresh food is made available in houseboats for the tourists. Tourists will take daily cruise or a nightlong keep in an exceedingly hoy. Most tourists choose to keep nightlong in an exceedingly hoy or kettuvallam because it offers a holistic backwater experience.


A common sight in the backwaters are the Chinese fishing nets or Cheena vala. These fishing nets  are mounted land installations for fishing. Large mechanical devices hold out horizontal nets  across a specific area. Every structure is a minimum of ten metre high and includes a cantilever with an extended web suspended over the ocean and enormous stones suspended from ropes as counterweights at the opposite finish. Every installation is operated by a team of up to 6 fishermen. Whereas such nets are used throughout coastal southern China and Indochina, in Republic of India they're largely found within the Indian cities of Kochi and Kollam (District of Kerala) , wherever they need become a tourist attraction. 

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