5 January

Pictures from our previous evening’s canoe trip up the proverbial creek.

With Paddle...

and without

The Kerala backwaters are a labyrinthine chain of brackish lakes, lagoons, rivers and canals covering an area of some 900km along the Malabar Coast, they have been compared to the Bayou in the States, (without the crocodiles) and a breeze block version of Venice. These analogies fail to explain that the village communities here haven’t changed that much over time.

Fishermen working their nets at sunset

Laundry...

and an evening scrub in the backwater bath tub

A  working rice barge

A rice barge converted to a tourist houseboat