{"id":484,"date":"2022-10-12T13:56:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T13:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2022-10-12T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T13:56:58","slug":"kerala-houseboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/kerala-houseboat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Houseboat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pleasure of sailing through <a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">Kerala&#8217;s backwaters<\/a> is unique. If you haven&#8217;t, now is a great time to do it for a small portion of what it originally cost. You could board any house boat of your choosing, cruise the cool, calm waters of our renowned backwaters, have a good time, and return home the same day or the next morning after spending the night out on the water.<\/p>\n<p>House Boats are enormous, leisurely going, exotic barges built for pure pleasure travel. They are contemporary iterations of the classic Kettuvallams. The words &#8220;<strong>kettu<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>vallam<\/strong>&#8221; both refer to tying. Before, rice, spices, and other items were transported between Kuttanad and the Cochin port using these Kettuvallams. In those days, it lasted for three days. A typical house boat, which may be 100 feet long, has a carrying capacity of 30 tonnes, which is equivalent to the weight of three large vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Coir knots are the only thing that keeps a <a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">house boat&#8217;s<\/a> hundreds of beautiful yet sturdy jackwood boards together (not a single nail is used). Then, a caustic black resin made from cooked cashew nuts is applied to this structure. And it endures for ages. The native carpenters make house boats using age-old principles and methods. For this, &#8220;Anjali wood&#8221; is employed. Our houseboats typically measure 70 feet long and 15 feet wide in the middle. Some of Kerala&#8217;s tempting houseboat packages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pleasure of sailing through Kerala&#8217;s backwaters is unique. If you haven&#8217;t, now is a great time to do it for a small portion of what it originally cost. You could board any house boat of your choosing, cruise the cool, calm waters of our renowned backwaters, have a good time, and return home the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}