Before breakfast we took a walk to Alleppey beach, which was a nice looking beach, quite undeveloped, but with lots of local couples and groups walking along the water's edge. After breakfast back at the homestay, we were given a tour of the new homestay belonging to the owners of our current homestay, that was due to open the next day. From the looks of it there was more than a day's work left to do - but there was a lot of activity from the horde of builders on the site, hopefully they made the deadline!
We were picked up around 11-ish and taken to our houseboat which we were to cruise on for the next day or so. The boat was very nice, with a seating area and dining table at the front, and a nice bedroom with a view of the water.
The trip was very enjoyable, slowly cruising the lake and canals around Alleppey - along with the hundreds of other houseboats doing pretty much the same thing!
The service was fantastic - coconut juice on arrival, and huge Kerala style lunch and dinner, some walking (where M tried to climb a coconut tree and failed dismally) and a short canoe trip, and then to sleep looking out the window over the water.
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