Eco-friendly Houseboats
The traditional Kettuvalam or backwater houseboats use to slowly work their way across the backwaters to the rice ports of Alappuzha and Cochin to tranship their rice for export. Today, most houseboats simply chug along with either noisy outboard engines or large diesels that throb throughout the boat. Our Eco-Kettuvalams eschew the internal combustion engine for the tides and the brawn of our crew who push and punt you along these narrow, traditional canals in Cherthala District which sits between Cochin and Alappuzha off Lake Vembanad.
