Alleppey — Kerala's 'Venice of the East' — is shaped by its intimate relationship with water. The backwaters are a working transport network of ferries, canoes and rice barges threaded through a landscape that has farmed below sea level for centuries.
The essential experience is the overnight kettuvallam✦kettuvallamThe traditional rice barge of Kerala's backwaters — teak hull lashed with coir rope, famously without nails — reborn as the private houseboat that…Read in the glossary ↗ cruise: sunset and sunrise on the water, dinner cooked aboard, and the villages going about their business on either bank.
Signature Experiences
- ◆Overnight houseboat cruise on Vembanad
- ◆Canoe rides through palm-lined canals
- ◆Village life along the waterways
- ◆Sunset over the rice paddies
Optional, By Arrangement
- ◆Shikara ride in the quieter channels
- ◆Coir-making village visit
- ◆Alleppey beach and lighthouse
- ◆Backwater cycling through paddy fields
Where We Place Our Guests
- Private luxury houseboat on Vembanad Lake
- Punnamada Resort
The Table
- Kerala Sadya served aboard
- Fresh backwater seafood
- Coconut-rich coastal cuisine
Curator's Advisory
The overnight cruise is the whole point — and ask your captain to favour the narrower canals over the open lake in the afternoon; that is where the life is.
Journeys Through Alleppey
