Kumarakom is not just houseboats and lush greens. There is more to it. A walk through the villages.

Kumarakom is not just houseboats and lush greens. There is more to it. A walk through the villages.

Kumarakom is not just houseboats and lush greens. There is more to it. A walk through the villages.

Kumarakom is not just houseboats and lush greens. There is more to it.  Our photographer Anand Alanthara captures the beauty of the villages and the simple life they live on the Thiruvarpu – Kumarakom backwaters. 

Every house has a boat. Every person here - both young and old row these small boats. And they help each other. 

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Water, water everywhere and then there are fields too. Coconut trees marking the boundary.

Helping hand. Photo: Anand Alanthara

Small, young, everyone goes one place to another on a boat. And they are not scared of the rain or the water. 

The lakes and the feilds. Photo: Anand Alanthara
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As the sun sets over Kumarakom, people and birds, retire for the day. 

This fifth grade child is in a hurry to pick up his grandfather and head home. As he cruises the waters, his grandfather beams. 

The hues of sunset. Photo: Anand Alanthara
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Old fashioned way of heating water for the evening bath. You will not see this often in Kerala now. 

Heading home. Photo: Anand Alanthara

If you want to view all this, you have to take a boat ride from Kumarakom to Alappuzha

Say cheese. Photo: Anand Alanthara