Boatrides

A Ride Through the Kerala Backwaters

The word that keeps coming to mind when I remember my trip through the Kerala backwaters in India is "languid." I took three kinds of boat rides through these tropical waterways in south India: canoe, motorboat, and house boat. The canoe was my favorite because of the slow pace, the steady rhythm of the paddles, and being close to the water in the damp heat.