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Backwaters
Kerala’s greenery is probably the most
attractive feature of the 'God’s Own Country', but you’ll get
short of words when its comes to expressing your boat cruise
experience on the backwaters of Kerala. Mirror-still lagoons,
picture book lakesides, palm-fringed canals and tiny shimmering
rivulets, that’s backwaters of Kerala. Backwaters offer excellent
opportunities for Keralites to indulge in resplendent water
carnivals and regattas like the Nehru Trophy Boat Race at Alappuzha
(second Saturday of August every year), the Rajiv Gandhi Boat Race
(last Saturday of August
every year), the Indira Gandhi Boat Race at
Kochi, and the Aranmula Uthirattathi Boat Race. These have become
major tourist events with visitors from India and abroad in
attendance. Besides these big boat races, hundreds of colourful
regattas are held on different lakes and their branches. In August
and September, coastal Kerala reverberates with the gentle melody
and foot-stamping rhythm of the age old strains of boatmen – the
famed boat songs (vanchipattu) charging the entire atmosphere with
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