Alleppey really comes alive in the heights of the rainy season, when it serves as the venue for one of Kerala’s major spectacles – the Nehru Trophy snake boat race – Second Saturday of August every year with magnificently decorated long boats, with raised sterns designed to resemble the hood of a cobra. More than enthusiastically powered by up to 150 singing and shouting oarsmen, scores of boats take part, and Alleppey is packed with thousands of spectators. Other events at Payippad and Aranmula also display the strength and rhythm of oarsmen who set the backwaters of Kerala on fire.
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