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6 Orte zum Besuchen in Alappuzha
Auch bekannt als Alleppey · Venice of the East
Alappuzha earned the nickname 'Venice of the East' from Raja Kesava Das, the Diwan of Travancore, who laid out the town in the late 18th century by cutting two parallel canals to move cargo between the backwaters and seagoing ships anchored offshore.
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- Beste Zeit
- Nov – Mar
- Benötigte Zeit
- Etwa 2 Tage
- 12 Stunden Besichtigung
- Zielflughafen
- Cochin International Airport (COK)
- Nächste Station
- Alappuzha railway station (ALLP)
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Top-Aktivitäten in Alappuzha
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Alappuzha Backwaters & Houseboat Cruise
Alappuzha's backwater circuit puts close to 500 licensed houseboats, known locally as kettuvallams, onto Vembanad Lake and the narrow paddy-field…
5.5 hrs
2Freier EintrittStrand
Alappuzha Beach & Pier
Alappuzha Beach fronts a pier that has stood in the Arabian Sea for more than 137 years, a cast-iron and timber structure originally built to load…
1.5 hrs
3Kulturerbe
Alappuzha Lighthouse
Alappuzha Lighthouse has warned ships off Kerala's low-lying coast since 28 March 1862, when its original optic from the Birmingham lamp-makers…
45 min₹20 für Inder
4Palast
Krishnapuram Palace
Krishnapuram Palace houses Kerala's largest single-panel mural, the 154-square-foot Gajendra Moksham depicting an elephant king's salvation by…
1 hr₹20 für Inder
5Freier EintrittStrand
Marari Beach
Marari Beach takes its name from the fishing hamlet of Mararikulam, roughly 11 kilometres north of Alappuzha town, where a stretch of coast that…
2 hrs
6Freier EintrittKirche
St. Andrew's Basilica, Arthunkal
St. Andrew's Basilica in Arthunkal holds a 1647 statue of St. Sebastian pierced with arrows, carved in Milan and shipped to this fishing coast some…
45 min
Karte der Orte in Alappuzha
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Tagesausflüge ab Alappuzha
Lohnt sich, wenn noch ein Tag übrig ist — die nächstgelegenen zuerst.
34 km · 1h
Kottayam Town
Kerala's rubber and spice trading hub, with the Rubber Board headquarters, CMS College (founded 1817), and boat jetties at Kodimatha giving access to a quieter, less touristed stretch of the Vembanad backwater system than Alappuzha's own canals.
40 km · 1h
Kumarakom & Vembanad's Eastern Shore
Kumarakom sits across Vembanad Lake in Kottayam district, built around a bird sanctuary supporting more than 20,000 waterfowl and a cluster of backwater resorts quieter than Alappuzha town's own houseboat jetty. Reachable by road via Changanassery or by a slower, more scenic boat transfer across the lake.
53 km · 1h 30min
Fort Kochi & Kochi Harbour
Kochi's Chinese fishing nets, Portuguese and Dutch-era streets, and Mattancherry Palace make a full day trip north, most comfortably done by KSRTC bus or taxi rather than the slower backwater ferry route.
Über Alappuzha
That canal grid still defines the town today, and it is also why Alappuzha, rather than any other Kerala town, became the launch point for the houseboat industry that now dominates its economy: roughly 500 licensed kettuvallams, converted rice barges built from jackwood and coir rope, work the surrounding canals and Vembanad Lake year-round.
The town sits on a narrow coastal strip between the Arabian Sea and Vembanad Lake, with the sea-facing side anchored by Alappuzha Beach, its 1860s pier, and an 1862 lighthouse, and the lake-facing side built around the KSRTC bus stand and boat jetty on VCSB Road. Alappuzha railway station connects the town to the Ernakulam–Kayamkulam coastal line, and Cochin International Airport, roughly 85 kilometres north, is the nearest major airport. Inter-island and inter-town KSWTD ferries remain the cheapest and often fastest way to move around the wider backwater region.
Beyond the houseboats, Alappuzha's identity is tied to Punnamada Lake's Nehru Trophy Boat Race each August, one of Kerala's largest single-day public events, and to Kuttanad, the below-sea-level rice belt to the south where the Thanneermukkom Bund holds back the sea each dry season. The best months to visit are November through February, after the northeast monsoon clears and before the pre-summer heat sets in; July and August bring the fullest, greenest canals but also the highest chance of rain-related cruise disruptions.
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