Appely and Houseboating Indian style...

So... we left Kochin fairly quickly and made our way to Appelley ~ referred to as the 'Venice of Asia'. Here the thing to do is to explore the backwaters and its many canals taking in the way people live their lives in this area, and more than anything its beauty. There are cheaper options, but we decided to splurge a bit since the the 4 friends were just reunited. So for a day and a half the 4 of us were shown around the backwaters on house boat below (a bargain at any rate ~ but it cost us less than $100 per couple). All the food was included and we had a crew of 2 whom basically drove, cooked, and cleaned up after us. The boat was nothing short of decadant; so much so we had to share some pics of it...
Gunnar enjoying his cocnut drink served to us when we got on the boat...

And below is just a taste of some of the sites we took in...

Jillene sitting in the captains chair...


A picture at sunset... lets not kid ourselves, we were beer in hand from the moment we got on the boat.... we got on at 11, and this was at sunset. As you can see I was really cooperating with Jillene as she attempted to take a nice sunset picture of me.
This one might be a little better...


Jillene felt it neccesarry to share how the night ended for me. Fast asleep on the bow of the boat... just catching up on a little jet lag! :)Jilllene also felt it neccessary to share how ones feet looks at the end of the day when travelling India wearing flip flops...