One of Kerala’s most popular delights is to navigate its charming, narrow back water channels. Bisecting paddy fields and lined with palm tress, the canals get narrower as the journey advances into the remoter reaches. Land transport to such places is all but impossible. The sparse local populace live in small houses on the slithers…
Houseboats are to Kerala what gondolas are to Venice. Choosing which houseboat to travel on though, can be a tricky business...
Fresh paw-prints in the mud, the size of my own footprints, and deep claw marks into the tree bark, told us we were in the presence of greatness...
