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Backwaters

There are many prominent backwaters in Kerala. The Kuttanad backwaters are famous within Kerala. Kuttanad is synonymous as ‘the rice bowl of Kerala’. The specialty of the lushly covered Kuttanad backwaters is the ability to provide the best boating rides the state can offer. The most interesting fact about the ‘rice bowl of Kerala’ is that most of the rice fields lie beneath the sea level.

The Kuttanad backwaters sail past beautiful banana plantations, yummy yam, and charming cassava besides the perfect paddy fields. Luxury houseboat cruises or even canoe rides are offered through such awesome scenery. These surroundings are so romantic that they can transform even the most uninteresting person into a near William Wordsworth.

Kuttanad backwater is one of the significant places in the world due to its farming pattern. Here the farming is done below the sea level. The inland waterways flow higher than the land level and this is an astonishing feature of this land.

Kuttanad is the nucleus of the backwaters and the countryside is charming with its waterways plantations. Kuttanad is a widespread water logged area lying below the sea level.

Another significant thing of Kuttanad is that the three rivers Manimala, Achankovil and Pampa intercross the Kuttanad. The main mode of transportation was water only till recent times and very recently only buses and trains have started plying frequently.

Kuttanad is a unique landscape such that missing a boat trip is highly impossible. The natives as well as the tourists find the boat trip to be irresistible. The paddy crops wealth is the hub of the backwaters. There is a 75 kilometer glittering network of canals, rivers, lagoons, lakes and streamlets between Cochin and Quilon and also beyond Thiruvananthapuram is the Kuttanad backwater is analogous possessing a land of canals.

Travel tours to Kuttanad backwater displays an opulent bouquet of scenic Kuttanad backwaters which is referred as the rice bowl of Kerala. This place has the attractions of being the water world of Kuttanad and tourists flock in search of diversified pleasure to Kuttanad.

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