The Adventures of Sam and Caroline: Alleppey houseboat tour

One of the most fun things we did in India was take a houseboat cruise through the Kerala backwaters. We went down to Alleppey to do it. Here was the view from driving in to get to the houseboat:

Here is Sam in the bedroom of the houseboat, which was much bigger and nicer than we were anticipating:

They gave us homemade limeade when we first got on the boat, and we went upstairs (yes there was an upstairs!) to drink it and enjoy the view:

Then the cook made us lunch, which as Sam mentioned in his earlier post was a bunch of stuff we had never seen before:

Especially these things:

We had so many amazing views. Also, the moon was out:

Here is a view of the canal structure of the backwaters:

Here is a cool building we passed:

Here is an artsy picture that I took of a knot on one of the ropes on the boat. I'm proud of it:

Here is some fried banana that they brought us for a snack:

And here is a banana that Sam picked when we stopped for the night. It oozed some sort of sap and didn't seem ripe, plus I was being careful, so I didn't eat it. Look how small it is!

Here is a view of the sun starting to set from our parking spot for the night:

Here is the tree that the banana came from:

Sunset over the next boat over from us:

We got off the boat at the parking spot and took this picture:

Here is Sam in front of our boat:

There were some geckos in our dining area, and we had a lot of fun watching them hunt little bugs. They sneak up on the bug and then WHAM get it with their tongues. And they were a very white color:

Alappuzha is the other name for Alleppey, and Kochi is the other name for Cochin. The first one is the Indian name, and the second one is the British name.