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Chennamkary is a village in Kuttanad Taluk in Alappuzha District of Kerala state, India.
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- Houseboating
- Meeting Thomas
- Coconuts
- I First Returned in 2014.
- Home to Stay
- Peaceful Paddling
I spent 24 hours cruising the lakes and channels of Alleppey on a traditional thatched roof Kettuvallam houseboat. There were a few hundred of these 100 foot long by 13 food wide vessels then. There were no restrictions on their movement. They could motor throughout this area of India where the Arabian Sea meets fresh water. Estuaries, channels and...
This is when I first met my friend, Mr. Thomas Zaccharia, a village elder in Chennamkary. I was not sure of his age but his sageness was evident. He loved meeting me and my friends and had all the patience in the world for our questions. He knew, and stopped to greet, everyone we met on our walk. This included school children on their way home to t...
Thomas talked to us of the importance of the coconut tree and told us that the word Kerala literally translates to land of coconuts. He invited us to take a closer look at the fruits and we saw that as one bunch of coconuts was ready to harvest, there were others just sprouting and more in the various stages in between. He shared that every 40 days...
I brought a large group and once again booked an overnight houseboat trip for them to enjoy. In just a few short years though, the houseboat industry had gone from charm to harm. Where there had been a few hundred houseboats there were now closer to a thousand. They were restricted on where they could cruise and their diesel fuels were polluting th...
And so, that is how Pauli-Ann and I ended up at Green Palm Homes in September of 2016. I could not get that idea of a night under the stars, breathing tropical flowers and falling asleep in the lap of Kerala’s backwaters out of my head. Thomas is very good with the power of suggestion. This time, instead of just eating Anna’s delicious food, we got...
Pauli-Ann and I walked to the water’s edge. Thomas and a friend waited in his ancestral dugout canoe, oars in hand. We climbed in and settled in comfort to circumnavigate the channels surrounding Thomas’s village and farm. In the main channel, water taxis and buses, ferries and those ubiquitous houseboats sped by us. We waved and soaked up the gold...
India: Chennamkary Island - Backwater Village Life in Kerala. Written by Minor Sights. What? A small green island in the heart of Kerala's backwaters, with nothing to do. Paradise on earth? Why visit? The backwaters are one of Kerala's main attractions.
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Green Palm Homes, Chennamkary: See 291 traveller reviews, 220 user photos and best deals for Green Palm Homes, ranked #1 of 1 Chennamkary B&B / inn and rated 4 of 5 at Tripadvisor.
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- Kainakary Pooppally Road, Chennamkary, 688501, Kerala
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