If staying in houseboats in Kashmir is a great attraction for tourist visiting north India then a visit of Kerala Backwaters on India tour packages is incomplete if it is not matched with living in a Kerala houseboat. Matching with an extensive expanse of Dal Lake offering a natural flow to house boat in Kashmir then the long extended chains of canals that even goes in length upto 1500 Kms and interlinked to network of 44 rivers, lagoons and lakes are prefect stream and water bodies for Keralahouseboats.
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| Kerala Houseboats |
This vast expense of canals that you will observe on Kerala Backwater tours with an expanse of India tour packages are sometimes are either manmade or the other time are naturally formed water bodies that has been in use for constant support of traffic of men and materials even before the arrival of modern means of transport like land and air transport being operational in Kerala. One such water transport form popular in the state was been known as 'Kettuvalloms' that terms as to be wooden planks tied together with coconut ropes and painted with cashew nut oil outside. They are 70 to 100 feet long and 15 to 20 feet wide. And it is that Kettuvalloms forms a basic platform for KeralaHouseboats.
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| Kerala Backwaters- Kerala Houseboats |
Thus cargo boats converted into present day houseboats are huge barges are actually now a days are being used for leisure trips on Kerala Backwater Tours. In earlier times a single Kettuvallams had the capacity to carry out tons of rice and spices. A Kerala houseboat can bear weight upto 30 tons. To offer a comfortable stay during India tour packages a part of traditional Kettuvallam gets converted into a restroom and Kitchen with the help of bamboo are coir. Meals are cooked onboard from freshly cooked fishes obtained from the backwaters.
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| Kerala House Boats |
Present day houseboats are having all the means of modern luxury for visiting traveller. They are fully equipped with furnished bedrooms, modern toilets, cozy living rooms, a kitchen and even a balcony for angling. As most of the boats are poled by local oarsmen, some are powered by a 40 HP engine. Boat-trains – made by joining two or more houseboats together are also used by large group of visitors and tourists.
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| Kerala Houseboats |
Made in unique design use of local and eco-friendly materials like bamboo poles, coconut finer ropes, bamboo mats, carpets etc., these Kerala Houseboats have single room, double room, triple room accommodated with private balcony with comfortable chairs. On Kerala Backwater Tours you will see a perfectly balanced man and nature with a stay in Kerala Houseboats. On India tour packages on Kerala Houseboat you sail through and across villages, schools, temples, churches, market and other places.
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