Overview
Who doesn’t love to take a break from the hustle of everyday life and there is no better place than to enjoy a brief holiday in Alleppey? Leisure along the Kerela’s backyards is an enduring adventure.
With a bevy of temples, churches, replete with astonishing backwaters, lush green forests, abundant wildlife, and magnificent hills, and enormous Houseboats, this is no less than a heaven. The House Boats are also perceived by the name of Kettuvallam with a clear definition, Kettu and Vallam meaning securing country boats, respectively. They employed these Kettuvallams to transport rice, spices, and alternative valuables in earlier times between Kuttanad and Cochin port. They say Alleppey to be one of the oldest planned towns in India. It has a beautiful looking narrow Canal lying between all the greenery. The simplicity of this town is reflecting in people bathing and washing clothes, vessels at the banks of this tributary along with Paddy farms all over the place.
We recognize Alleppey as the "Venice of the East", along the banks of Vembanad Lake. This commercial town has got its appellation from several certain attractions, like a maze of canals and a network of bridges. The most famous articles like yam, yarn, mats, and a ton of other products are manufactured using coir, the retted fiber of the coconut husk available in abundance all over this town. Thousands of tourists visit and purchase these handmade high-quality products along with the famous black pepper from here. Such a peaceful atmosphere along with magnificent scenery makes you left to settle down here away from the polluted cities.
Route -
Cochin - Alleppey - Cochin
