We got to Alleypey, unfortunately I
wasn't feeling great. I had drunk the filtered water in Kumarakom
rather than make the waiter go and get me a mineral water bottle.
“It's fine. It's filtered. I drink it all the time” So by the
time we got to Alleppey I pretty much insisted on the first place we
saw that had a toilet.
It was only afterwards that I noticed
the cockroaches. The guy who ran the 'homestay' would disappear for
large amounts of time and the water did not run. I spoke to the other
residents who were a group of sweet but very very stoned Swedish
backpackers.
“yeah... he's just here... Oh...
wait... he went out. Yeah... An hour ago.”
“Does your water work?”
“Oh... That's why the toilet doesn't
flush”
We stayed there a night and then booked
ourselves into a hotel. With a pool. On the roof.
I'm getting the feeling that both Hazel
and myself are pretty shitty backpackers.
The following day we booked a day trip
in the backwaters being punted up and down the canals by a local man
who would occasionally point at a temple and mumble “temple”.
Being pushed around on a boat for 5 hours is an incredibly relaxing
way of spending the day and I would heartily recommend it.
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