This is a houseboat, the traditional way to see the backwaters. You can rent them for days at a time and have someone cook for you etc. There are over 200 houseboats to choose from. They are beautiful, but expensive, and they are large enough that you cannot navigate some of the smaller more peaceful channels with them. We opted to take canoes instead.
We walked to the public jetty to get a boat across and go into town for snacks. This is Leigh, Katrina and I on the edge of the waters. To get there you walk along the rock retaining wall the whole way, past many people's homes. It's a lovely walk and you get to see true bits of India-little huts that have Cartoon Network on TV in them. :)
These are the canoes we took out on the waters. We managed to navigate into a small canal that was so wonderful and beautiful. It was peaceful and was like walking down a small neighborhood street because it was lined with homes and people out doing laundry or feeding their goats and cows. I don't have pictures because taking my digital camera in a tippy boat didn't seem prudent. Lo and Behold I couldn't have been more correct. The bottoms of the canoes are completely curved, there is no flat part. One minute Graham and Leigh were paddling along just fine and the next Katrina and I here SPLASH! and their boat had ejected them into the water - just a quick tip and dump and then righted itself. The natives on the shore laughed and laughed, but then three rescue boats and about six men came out and managed to empty their canoe of water and picked them up and placed them back in their boat again. It was hilarious!
The sunset over the backwaters. I think it speaks for itself.
This is a houseboat, the traditional way to see the backwaters. You can rent them for days at a time and have someone cook for you etc. There are over 200 houseboats to choose from. They are beautiful, but expensive, and they are large enough that you cannot navigate some of the smaller more peaceful channels with them. We opted to take canoes instead.
We walked to the public jetty to get a boat across and go into town for snacks. This is Leigh, Katrina and I on the edge of the waters. To get there you walk along the rock retaining wall the whole way, past many people's homes. It's a lovely walk and you get to see true bits of India-little huts that have Cartoon Network on TV in them. :)
These are the canoes we took out on the waters. We managed to navigate into a small canal that was so wonderful and beautiful. It was peaceful and was like walking down a small neighborhood street because it was lined with homes and people out doing laundry or feeding their goats and cows. I don't have pictures because taking my digital camera in a tippy boat didn't seem prudent. Lo and Behold I couldn't have been more correct. The bottoms of the canoes are completely curved, there is no flat part. One minute Graham and Leigh were paddling along just fine and the next Katrina and I here SPLASH! and their boat had ejected them into the water - just a quick tip and dump and then righted itself. The natives on the shore laughed and laughed, but then three rescue boats and about six men came out and managed to empty their canoe of water and picked them up and placed them back in their boat again. It was hilarious!
The sunset over the backwaters. I think it speaks for itself.
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