A rickshaw picked us up at 10am from the bus station and brought us to a village on the outskirts of town. It was quiet and there were hardly any people, except the women who work in the shrimp packing factory nearby.
A boat was waiting for us on the banks of the lake and the boatman punted us through a small canal that led to another lake surrounded by coconut trees and fish pens.
It was our day to feel like "royalty." We didn't have to do anything, everything we needed was in the boat.
We picked this backwater trip because it is the antithesis of the boat trips in Alleppey. Aside from being a quiet place with just 2 boathouses making the trip every day, the lights on the boat are solar-powered and we didn't have a noisy motor polluting the air and the water.
