Imagine you are looking at the greens stretched bountifully in front of your eyes. You close your eyes and let your mind walk over the lush corridors to reach the solitary coconut tree, heeling just over the setting sun. Suddenly, you hear people yelling at something. Impetuously, you open your eyes only to find a wooden boat (perhaps, because it looks like one you have seen earlier), sailing over the green gardens with an ebony coloured man standing on the aft. Is it a boat? Is it a car? You ponder upon this question until you realize the magic of Alappuzha backwaters.
As your car drives past the labyrinthine waterways, see the myriad colours reflected in the tiny spaces that the water hyacinth has meagerly left for the sunlight to drip in, along with evanescent echoes of water lilies, of a birds wings or the brilliant hues of the tropical sky that peep through the veil. But it is not only the charisma of backwaters that attract tourists from all over the globe to this trivial town of Kerala, but also the man-made islands which are equally famous for hundreds of migratory birds and the native toddy that is served to its guests. It is a land that encourages gigantic snake boat races and painstakingly perfected coir and carpet métier. It is a land with its never-ending panorama of lush green paddy fields, palm fringed canals, mirror still lagoons, picture book lakesides and long sandy beach is known as the Venice of the East, the best Backwater tourism destinations in God's Own Country.
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