Backwaters

This is the final stage of our Village Ways holiday - on the Backwaters of Kerala. We stayed on a houseboat and visited many different villages along the way.
  • DSC 1019 Chinese fishing nets.
  • DSC 1030 The only other boat we saw while travelling.
  • DSC 1037 Local villager on the inland Lake.
  • DSC 1044 the home mooring of our boat
  • DSC 1047 A cookery lesson on the boat
  • DSC 1054 The cooking instructor
  • DSC 1062 Local children
  • DSC 1067 Warm shnshine
  • DSC 1071 our living room
  • DSC 1079 the boat
  • DSC 1083 afternoon on the boat
  • DSC 1089 Our boat
  • DSC 1096 Judy relaxing on the boat
  • DSC 1101 Local woman
  • DSC 1103 shop keeper
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  • DSC 1110 local woman
  • DSC 1112 These children were playing cricket and I distracted them
  • DSC 1114 Coconut Fibre
  • DSC 1118 Making ropes from coconut fibre
  • DSC 1124 visiting the mobile fish monger
  • DSC 1130 Ceremony occuring 40 days after the death of a man from the family
  • DSC 1137 Now the women participate in the ceremony
  • DSC 1152 local boy where we stopped for lunch one day
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  • DSC 1179 Boats that require their annual canopy refit
  • DSC 1187 Temple festival
  • DSC 1190 temple statue
  • DSC 1194 Makeup applied, now the mental preparation
  • DSC 1202 makeup being applied
  • DSC 1208 the performance
  • DSC 1210 Temple festival decoration
  • DSC 1227 weaving large cocnut fibre mats
  • DSC 1228 coconut fibre strands for weaving
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  • DSC 1236 now the weaving
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  • DSC 1250 new canopy being worked on
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  • DSC 1266 Judy
  • DSC 1274 Christian church
  • DSC 1295 apparently these women get paid for sitting here!
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  • DSC 1313 Chinese fishing net
  • DSC 1322 local children
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  • DSC 1353 fishing net at night