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Alleppey, India


Kerala feels a bit like another country from the rest of India - altogether a bit more relaxed. Which is very welcome. Still rubbish roads and driving, but a bit less chaos, litter, spitting, and the smell of sewers is not so prominent, or maybe my nose has just got used to it. Anyway, our still-crippled rig rolled into Alleppey today and we were deposited onto a houseboat for an overnight tour of the famous Keralan backwaters. I was kind of imagining an Indian version of a meandering canal boat ride along the Grand Union through central and northern England, but actually it was a bit dull. The waterways are very wide and quite busy with boat loads of other tourists and freight, and although the palm-fringed banks were quiet attractive, the scenery really didn't change at all. The Lonely Planet has it as one of their top 10 things to do before you die. All I can say is that if I shuffle off my mortal coil with that on my Top 10 list, I'll be asking St Peter for my money back. It was a perfectly pleasant trip, with a very impressive thunderstorm, but I just don't think I'll be waxing lyrical about it 6 months down the line.

permalink written by  phileasdogg on October 14, 2008 from Alleppey, India
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