Alleppy, India – January 14, 2014

This morning was a long drive of about 4 hours.  We crossed the mountains and dropped down into the low lands.  Sue and I boarded a houseboat with a captain and a cook with us as the only passengers.  We sailed onto the Vembenad Lake, the largest lake in India, and in the canals surrounding the lake.  There are hundreds of these houseboats on the lake.  Some houseboats have one, two, four, six, and up to ten bedrooms.  We saw a number of extended Indian families on the larger boats.  We stopped at a fish market along the shore and purchased two tiger prawns for our dinner.  They were monsters!!  It was like eating an entire lobster.  We are feeling VERY spoiled with a boat to ourselves and two men catering to our every need.  It is beautiful here and it’s just too bad we have only 24 hours to enjoy such leisure.