Flamingo Cruise, Alappuzha Kerala, India - 688001
The houseboats of Kerala are giant country crafts measuring up to 110 feet and up to 18 feet in width. In the early period, they were converted from big wooden boats known as ‘Kettuvalloms’ which were used to carry materials and provisions from major towns and ports to the interior places and to carry spices, tea, pepper, coconut and similar materials from the interior places to the ports for exports. With the advent of mechanised transportation like lorry and other goods carriers which are very