Kettuvallom

Houseboats called `kettuvallom’ in the local language meaning `knotted boat’, the modern day houseboat is a reincarnation of the traditiona...

Houseboats called `kettuvallom’ in the local language meaning `knotted boat’, the modern day houseboat is a reincarnation of the traditional canoe used to transport items of daily home use from the mainland to homes cut away by the winding waterways known as `backwaters’.

The term backwaters are used to denote a network of canals and waterways stretching two hundred kilometers from Kollam in the south through Alleppey and Kumarakom in Central Kerala up to Kodungalloor.

A Kettuvallom in Kumarakom - Alappuzha

  Alappuzha and Kumarakom is famous for its house boats (kettuvallom).