Alleppey Tourism

Tourism in Alleppey It is best known for houseboat cruises along the pastoral Kerala backwaters, a network of balmy canals and lagoons. The city’s Mullakal Temple features a historical design. Alappuzha Beach is the spot of the 19th-century Alappuzha Lighthouse. Punnamada Lake’s snake boat races are a well-known annual event. If you happen to visit Alleppey during August (or harvesting season in Kerala), you can observe the much envy Snake Boat Race. Alleppey also serves as an important access point to the enthusiastic ‘Nehru Trophy Boat Race’ in Kerala. Kayakers during their exciting voyage, can also visit local villages, walk through paddy fields, interact with villagers, enjoy with the beautiful birds watching and nourish in several other activities in Alleppey.

Alleppey is naturally beautiful. The calm of a cruise along the town with just the soft swishing of the waters serving as the background music is an intensely calming and rejuvenating experience. One of the most incredible experiences that Alleppey offers is the luxury of staying in a houseboat in its backwaters. Enjoying a night stay on one of these houseboats certainly has to be a memorable thing to do in Alleppey at night. Alleppey has an astonishing past. The present town owes its existence to the sagacious Diwan Rajakesavadas in the second half of the 18th century, district of Alappuzha figures in classified Literature. Kuttanad, the rice bowl of Kerala with the endless stretch of paddy fields, canals with lush green coconut palms, was well known even from the early periods of the Sangam age. History says Alleppey had trade relations with ancient Greece and Rome in B.C and the Middle Ages.

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