Alappuzha Boat House Packages We have seen that Alappuzha and its sourrounding villages are blessed with its wide spreading backwater bodies. The major mode of transport was always voyage. So different types of boats can be seen here in Alappuzha backwaters and rivers. These boats ranges from Alappuzha rice brages to duckgrowers wherry. They have been sharing their joy and tears with Alappuzha backwaters for centuries . Alappuzha rice barges had a substantial role in the history of Kerala ,particularly of Alappuzha . A rice barger is a huge cock-boat. It can carry upto 35-40 tonnes of cargo. When Alappuzha was a major port, these rice bargers played a vital role in the economy of Kerala. They carried pepper,copra,timber etc…..from the valleys of the eastern ghats up to the port of Alappuzha .Graduallly the importance of Alappuzha descendeed and Cochin became the major port. Roads were build throughout and the relevence of such huge boats had nochance. Nevertheless moving cargo by these huge Alappuzha rice barges is still profitable. As military boats changed into Alappuzha luxury racing boats, so the Alappuzha rice bargers became boat houses which are used as luxurious voyage vessels .They are known as Alappuzha boat houses or Alappuzha house boats . Avail A/c or non A/C as you wish. This one is defined for budget class travelers The Alleppey house boats are fashioned out of Artocarpus timber (bot : artocarpus indicus) The strong heavy wooden planks can with stand the challenges offered by Alappuzha back waters and monsoon. Long wooden planks are connected together by means of coconut palm fibre and coir. No nails are used .Once the 'chassis' is built it is time to build its stylish luxurious body. The contours of the body are like the roofs of traditional Alappuzha back water homes. The decoration is with bamboo mat, coir, palymra leaves etc…….. Commercially these boat houses (house boats ) are classified as: a) Standard boat house b) Deluxe boat house c) Premium boat house d) Honey moon boat house e) Luxury boat house f) Punting Boat House a) Alappuzha Standard Boat House An Alappuzha standard house boat is a good looking vessel to cruise Alappuzha back waters and lagoons and rivers and canals…….. . It is mainly meant for a budget class tourist. It doesn't mean that it is mere a standard boat. Usually an Alappuzha standard boat house is an old fashioned boat.Inspite of its old fashion an Alappuzha standard boat house looks very pretty. There are a lot of things to be enjoyed in an Alappuzha house boat with beautiful decorations of palmyra leaves and bamboo mats is the example of original Alappuzha architecture. A standard boat house offers you a comfortable cruise on the back waters of Alappuzha with in your budget. In fact the eternal beauty of the back waters and lagoons provides vision which is of the first water. With chowries of coconut palm leaves, a cruise in an Alappuzha standard boat house fetches limitless joy which cannot be expressed by words or alphabets or sounds. A limited facilites can be availed . The lunch and dinner menu is with fish and chicken. An Alappuzha standard boat house provides facilities equal to a 2 star hotel. Fan will be there but only limited hours of A/C can be availed . Two types of fruits and lemon juice are common in an Alappuzha standard house boat. You can enjoy the beauty of Alappuzha back water even if you are a budget class traveller, quite reasonably. Visit us - at Alappuzha boat race b) Alappuzha Deluxe Boat House Enjoy the Alleppey backwaters in a deluxe style. A beautifully furnished vessel- The Alappuzha deluxe boat houses are ready for you. Actually only a cold fish can ignore the beauty of Alapuzha back waters where the lake water and coconut palms sing in a low but enchanting style. We have seen that you can get Alappuzha deluxe house boats with one to seven bed roms. It offers a 3 star facility while you relish the Alappuzha backwater beauty. A/C will be provided from 8.30 PM to 6.30 AM if you feel a little disturbed by the equatorial Alappuzha humidity. Better facilities are given in an Alappuzha deluxe houseboats. The Alappuzha back waters are pandamic with flocks of ducks and its grower follows in a magic wherry which can just occupy a man. And you would watch it from your Alappuzha deluxe boat house. An Alappuzha deluxe house boat is a luxurious strong huge boat marvellously decorated with palmyra leaves and bamboo mat. It may remind us of chinees architecture, some times. Watching an Alappuzha deluxe house boat in Alappuzha backwaters would be a wonderful experience .Sitting in an Alappuzha deluxe house boat one can enjoy eternal beauty of Alappuzha backwaters. Throughout its shore, by summer, you can avail fresh ripen mango directly from the trees. Variety of species of mango trees are seen in the Alappuzha backwater villages. With mango fruits and tender coconut water one can survive with out any other food or drinks for months. The wide spreading backwater wind itself has a sweet taste. Usually an Alappuzha deluxe boat house is buit with balcony. It offers an ariel view of the wide spreading beauty. Alappuzha house boats with out balcony are also built. If you want to cool your mind and body Alappuzha backwater will provide you cool brezee.Even in a non-A/c Alappuzha deluxe house boat one can definitly tipple the endless beauty of Alappuzha backwater and the sweet and highly nutrious tender coconut water.A/c is also provided in an Alappuzha deluxe house boat. When you dock your Alappuzha house baot under a palmshade and it the tropical sun disturbs you a bit, you can ask your crew to turn on the A/C . An Alappuzha deluxe house boat serves you, as you wish to be served. The food and drinks in an Alappuzha deluxe house boat is of better quality. A prosperous fruit basket with four type of fruits is available. An Alappuzha deluxe house boat , as we have seen , usually has an upper deck facility. You can get it on demand .Attempting an uper deck voyage through Alappuzha backwater is fantastic as you came all the way to her linidge and she has arranged chowries and breeze and drizzle for you ! – Flesh and blood cannot ignore it for sure ! Even a cold fish would be a poet here in the Alappuzha backwater villages. c) Alappuzha Premium Boat House It is agreed by all that a satisfied mind is a real feast. The great poets John Keats and Yeats looked for peace of mind somewhere in the shades of Arabia and on the lake Island of Innissfree. As a matter of fact , as human beings, we are acquainted with unhappiness, are not we ? . To our way of thinking the Alappuzha backwaters made to over come such aconfusion .It would dedicatly councel you with its toungueless voice. When one is left high and dry, they can think of Alappuzha backwaters to rejuvenice themselves. This eternal beauty can never be adequetly rendered in laungages. Feast your eyes and you can just loose yourself in the viels of the dawns of Alappuzha backwaters. These pandamic Alappuzha backwater borne many boats which fullfill entire human needs of Alappuzha backwater villages.As we all know, ducks are water birds and wide spreading water bodies and pandamic paddy fields backwaters and villages are the perfect habitat for these pretty birds. It is not at all easy to graze flocks of ducks in these Alappuzha backwater. A duck grower in Alappuzha uses a magic wherry. it can just accommodate 50-55 kgs.watching a duckgrower sail a wherry is as good as play.The story of Alappuzha backwaters boats starts right from this duck growers wherry. The Alappuzha backwater villagers made play of various kind of boats. They have the knack of designing water vessels and these boats includes Alappuzha rive bargers,luxurious racing boats and different types of other boats. The huge Alappuzha rice barges were used as cockboats which can ,at a time, carry a substantial amount of cargo.After loosing the role as cock-boats,the Alappuzhabackwater rice barges joined as key members of the tourist sector of Alappuzha. Then onwords they are called Alleppey boat house or Alappuzha house boat. One cannot , at all, play down an Alappuzha houseboat in the backwaters of Alappuzha. An Alapuzha premium house boat is a fantastic,launche used to cruise Alappuzha backwaters villages. It is made up of Artocarpus wood (botanical- artocarpus indicus) The indegenous art of building of Alappuzha house boats is well recogonized. After the body is made, she is decorated with wood, palymra leaves, bamboomat, coirmat to change her to a royal and loyal luxurious boat of Alleppey backwater. Where on earth, one cannot ignore it! The bamboo art in an Alappuzha Premium house boat is of firstwater. It provides facilities which equate with facilities in a 4 star hotel. Some times in Alleppey backwaters you may feel little hot. In an Alappuzha premium boat house you can enjoy A/C day in and day out. A high class menu with fish and chicken on dinner and lunch can be enjoyed in an Alappuzha premium boat house. What an Alappuzha premium house boat ! A Premium house boat has many features,eg, you can conduct a conference in it while you cruise the coconut lagoons or a birthday party can be arranged in an Alappuzha Premium boat house. I the backdrops of enchanting Alappuzha backwaters .A wedding reception in an Alleppey Premium boat house would be remembered for a long time. An Alappuzha Premium boat house is a perfect tool to freakout along the Alappuzha backwaters coast. Its living area is glass covered to ensure comfortable A/c operation. A prosperous fruit basket with six type of fruits and tender coconut can be enjoyed in an Alappuzha backwater Premium house boat - Never miss it! d) Alaappuzha Honey moon Boat house A Honey moon may occur once in our life. It is something significant in your life which would remembered throughout your life. That is to say a honey moon should be enjoyed by all means. It is sure that the backdrops of a honey moon must be, what we call dreamy. It should give you peace of mind which cannot be artifically created .A honey moon is manifestation of dreams.It may come across as ironical why man celebrates honey moon .Still we are hot able to explain it, we know that such wonderful experience cannot be avoided.A honey moon is not just roaming or rambling aroundwith your mate, it is something which grows to eternity. Alleppey backwaters and backwaters villages are the perfect destinations to enjoy your honey moon. Your mind is full of blossoms. Probably homosapien is the only creature who can call to mind the events he witnessed. Alleppey backwaters are exclusively made for celebrating a honey moon. These Alleppey backwaters are referred to as true heaven on this incredible planet.The philosophers of India say that our body and mind are not different, notwithstanding they are two organs of what they call 'you'. When your mind gets delighted it will enhance your physical body as well .So it very inevitable to keep your mind out of distributing matters when you enjoy your honey moon .The positive energy created here in Alleppey backwaters shall donate its virtues to you and you will realise living is more than beautiful! The presece of pandamic Alleppey backwaters gives you such wonderful experience when you enjoy your honey moon here in Alleppey. After all a honey moon is the beginning of a new life. Enjoy it in style! The Alleppey backwaters will always fall in with your taste . we in Alleppey often backupon these endless Alleppey backwaters , whenever we are down in the mouth and obiviously get rejuveniced. When you are in Alleppey backwaters, your privacy…… the emerald chowrie of coconut palm……….. time shall never hang heavy. The heavenly experience at your back and call! chalk out a plan to turn in Alleppey for a honey moon backwater cruise. A honey moon boat house in Alleppey backwaters is a bold, huge vessel tonnes of payload capacity which royaly and beautifully and efficiently cruise the backwaters of Alleppey. As she is a queen, she is decked up to host such pairs like you.An upper deck facility offers you entire privacy for sure. A privacy ,admits coconut palms and lagoons, to be called to mind for good !. A tropical Alleppey honey moon boat is a well decorated 'Alleppey rice barger. Various species of bamboo… coir ………..palmyraleaves………ornamental decorations fashioned out of coconut shells………… , In short a real queen you can adore,call her 'Alleppey Kuttanadan' backwater queen with full time A/c, warm water facilites and many more…….. To call in Alleppey honey moon houseboat means nothinhg but be with delightful feelings. e) Alappuzha Luxury Boat House We have already understood that the huge Alleppey rice barges never gave up after loosing its upperhands as cock-boats. They never sat and cried remembering their Halcoyn days as major cargo carriers. They got all dolled up and got on with Alappuzha backwater tourism. An Alappuzha luxury boat houses is the ultimate word of backwater tourism in Alappuzha.Its elegant blackbody perfectly matches with the blue green Alappuzha backwaters .It has its own features. Sitting in the balcony an Alappuzha boat luxury boat house is a heavenly feeling .The lake, panoramic paddy fields, sometime emerald, sometime golden why on earth the Alappuzha backwater sourrounding we see, as if she were a sorceress. Throughout your Alleppey backwater cruise you would be spell her incantations. An Alappuzha luxury boat is fashioned out of artocarpus timber,(bot .artocarpus indicus) and decerated elegantly and luxuriously with palymra leaves, bamboo mat, coirmat, brass and glass. In an Alappuzha luxury boat house you will be served in a stylish manner with a fruit basket having seven types of fruits. As you wish you can have A/c day in and day out. An Alappuzha luxury boat house has many peculiarities of her own. She is often equiped with a canoe to cruise interior canals in Alappuzha backwaters villages. She offers you warm water facility with bath tub. For sure an Alappuzhabackwater village cruise in an Alappuzha luxury boat house is one of the main events to be done before joining the great majority. An Alappuzha luxury boat house would show you a world of good to our wandering experience .With delicious sea foods and chicken besides traditional vegitable meals of Alappuzha. Enjoy it… You can select from a variety of packages which includes old age boat house package with homestay , honey moon boat house packages,package exclusively for students and researchers , wedding reception boat house packages , Conference boat house packages, family boat house packages,Alleppey boat racing day boat house packages and many more……….. To know about the nuts nad bolts of it visit our page Alappuzha backwater boat house packages. In fact, all these boat houses , rice barges, snake boats are the parts of Alappuzha backwater village tradition.It would be far reasonable to see what is Alappuzha backwater. f) Alappuzha Punting Boat House A punting boat house is a heaven for a wandering amateur tourist. In fact, not as at all a joke, is a heavenly experience. The tourist himself will have to spare his sweat to move on water. Premium experience but not premium facilities. Take your life as it comes! Punting needs no bio fuels no motor only you and a long bamboo pole. What you do you mean by punting ?. Punting is nothing by but a technique used in back waters of Alappuzha to create a motion on water . A punter stands with a long bamboo pole by which he hit muddy underground of water, the vessel moves in the opposite direction. Welcome, Alappuzha punting means cruising back waters by your sweat not by fossil fuels. (read our page Alleppey food and beverages )

Shikara Alappuzha Shikara is comparatively smaller than a house boat. We can take that for granted, as if a shikara were a pick up van on the roads and has been serving the tourists of Alappuzha as a taxi does on land . A Shikara offers seating capacity for four men to twenty men. It is truly meant for cruising remote Alleppey back water villages which are not accessible by huge vessels. One can enjoy , terribly we mean it , shallow water cruise which call to mind the Amazon deep forest canals and would be a feather touch for one's bleeding heart by the ogling and hectic humanity as it allows a very close sight to the back waters , you can even dip your hand into the cool wonderful liquid what we call water, the back waters of Alappuzha in a shikara is quiet worthy. In a shikara you can closely watch the rustic lifestyle of back water villages absolutely genuine in its class. We Alappuzha boat house has our own shikara back water cruise packages with full of variety by all means , as follows : You can open your cruise at any time . Normally we start at early hours, enjoying the lake waters lapping sound; the sun is about to rise; scarlet horizon lies above the back waters; the Lotus is a bride before the rising sun; cool gentle breeze, very very thin veil of the dawn, you cannot try a word picture which reflects the beauty, as much as you cannot make a man understand fully, about sweetness; you only feel it as it is the embodiment of your mother's love which extends even the other side of the grave Never miss it! You can have your breakfast at any time; have it when you wish Menu : exclusively traditional Alappuzha Kuttanad food ( for more details read our page Alleppy food and beverages ). We suggest vegetable food you will enjoy it no doubt . You row towards east and there lies the real sap of Allapuzha shikara cruise. Shallow and narrow canals will manufacture entirely different images and you are exploring Alappuzha Kuttanad in its true sense. Now get ready to tolerate the Alappuzha equatorial sun , right then we serve Alappuzha Kuttanad Toddy – A refreshing Kuttanad palm drink ( For more details read the page food and beverages). Since it is noon , sitting under a coconut palm shade you can now enjoy Alappuzha Kuttanad 'oonu" ( lunch) . No time to spare as you are being invited by the passion of beauty of interior Alappuzha back water villages. Now it is time to witness an Alleppey back water sun set and your tea gets ignored as you are getting yourself lost in the reddish ripples of Alleppey back waters. Attempt a halt for it is not as safety as we think .You are now about to have a short roaming in an Alleppey back water paddy field village. After wards you can approach your river side home stay with thatched roof and a few candles which try in vain to erase the night. You can have your bath in the river. By 8 O' clock your 'Athazham' (dinner) would be ready. Enjoy your night , sweet dreams! Get up early in the morning so that you would not miss another crack of Alleppey back water dawn. Missing it means missing yourself . Around half past nine you can reach the destination where you started . Alappuzha Motor boats Motor boats ranges from five seats to one hundred and fifty seats can be availed . If one choose a motor boat cruise they cannot enjoy an overnight stay and they have to to have their food and drinks only on jetties . An Alappuzha motor boat cruise simply offers a wandering through waters of Alappuzha, however, these boats dominated by the early stage of the thriving tourism of Alappuzha.

Kerala houseboats

Allappuzha is a coastal village with backwaters and lagoons was called Alleppey by the English, was once the capital of trade and business in Kerala. We, Alappuzha boat house, never try to decorate ourselves as the leading tour operators in Alappuzha. We only like to post ourselves, what you call Amateurs, however, we ensure unforgettable holidays worthy to those who simply ramble and enjoy the beauty of this incredible green planet. Thus we call ourselves 'Devotees of beauty'. We offer wide range of cruise opportunity across the backwaters, lagoons and canals. Boat houses, Punting boathouses ,wide range of country boats including duck growers' wherries, speed boats , water scooter………… We are pioneers in boathouse engineering and we offer: Study classes for boat house engineering , buying and selling of boat house and country boats, fishing practice, swimming practices , coir manufacturing classes , in short everything related to backwaters and lagoons in Alappuzha. We realize that you are not our costumer but our host, hence we serve you comfortable homes stays , resorts on lake side, river side and own beach. And delicious , nutrious vegitable and non-veg dishes with marine and fresh water fishes, prawns , shells……… So it is truly delightful to be with us whenever you are in Alappuzha! Welcome always! Even at midnight! . A boat house is a large vessel used in the waters of Alappuzha for tourists; ironically, it was not designed and introduced for tourists. As Kerala has a unique landscape with prosperous fresh water body, your endless mercy the almighty! It is so easy to move bulk cargo through water. To manage efficient heavy cargo moving, in olden days, huge water vessels were introduced which float royally and worth fully, through the waters of Kerala; a land fondled by raindrops. Those vessels were named "Kettuvalloms" or "Kuvuvalloms" are the ancestors of what we call 'houseboat' or boat house, in these days . Legend: Kettu – Knot, to tie etc ….. Vallom - Boat Kevu - Cargo, goods etc….. Vallom - boat Boat house engineering We have seen that a houseboat is, technically, a Kettuvallom.Body of the Kettuvallom is fashioned out of timber from artocarpus wood ( Anjili- vernacular) ( Scientific name : artocarpus indica). The timber is made into sheets of 5-6 cms breadth, then both the ends of these sheets are hold together and fastened with coir, so as to form the shape of a boat . The amazing factor about it is that coir is used to tie these sheets. Coir- Alappuzha own palm fiber is a wonderful substance , it can withstand decaying under water for many years, heavy wooden strips are used as bones of the boat . Once the structure is got fabricated accessories are fitted in order to transform a "Kuvuvallom" into a premium luxury launch exclusively for tourists. Alappuzha boat house tourism Aldex Huxley says "Man is an amphibian who lives in two worlds the given and the home made" . When he feels tired by the home made life he, spontaneously, looks for the given one for his genius is cheek and jowl only with the lap of Mother Nature. Alappuzha house boat tourism is exclusively a destination to heal the wounds of the hectic humanity. We open creative opportunities to cruise many back water villages. One can roam through the deserted bunds of paddy fields where variety of species of plantains under palm shades; a gathering of eternal beauty and you ! Alappuzha house boat tourism mainly targets cruise back water villages, coconut lagoons, rivers and canals. In Alappuzha house boats we serve traditional Alappuzha 'Kuttanadan' foods and drinks- a highly recognized delicious and nutrias menu. One can enjoy back water fishing, swimming and by twilight a comfortable home stay between paddy fields and back waters, and obliviously a candle light dinner with Alappuzha fresh water prawn Besides huge vessels many other options are available for a tourist and they can be :