{"id":27512,"date":"2017-02-02T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=27512"},"modified":"2017-02-02T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T06:27:09","slug":"trivandrum-to-get-backwater-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/trivandrum-to-get-backwater-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum To Get &#8216;Alappuzha Model&#8217; Backwater Tourism Circuit By Connecting 3 Lakes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon you will able to go on cruise in Capital&#8217;s backwaters as District tourism promotion council (DTPC) has introduced a tourism circuit connecting three lakes in Trivandrum.<\/p>\n<p>The three lakes include Kadinamkulam -the biggest inland water body of the capital district, Anchuthengu and Akathurmuri lakes. The project offers boat cruise through the backwaters and visit to historical monuments such as Anjengo Fort, light house, Asan Memorial, Kayikkara, and historic places en route to south of Varkala. You will also get to visit some uninhabited islands and taste some of the traditional delicacies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The circuit involving three lakes with Perumathura as hub is being worked out on the lines of the backwater circuit of Alappuzha.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The circuit involving three lakes with Perumathura as hub is being worked out on the lines of the backwater circuit of Alappuzha.\u00a0 The circuit will involve a three-hour cruise from Kadinamkulam Lake to Akathumuri.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27167 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/Houseboat-Kerala-768x440.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Starting from Kadinamkulam Lake, the cruise will cover Perumathura bridge, Muthalapozhi, fishing harbour, Anchuthengu Fort, Anchuthengu light house, Hanging Bridge, Asan Memorial and Ponnumthuruthu (Golden Island), a privately-owned island in Akathumuri lake, and conclude at Nedunganda Onnam Palam.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A one-way ride in a seven-seater boat will cost \u20b91,200 each an hour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DTPC has 6 bats including two seven-seater safari boats, two six-seater speed boats and two four-seater speed boats. A one-way ride in a seven-seater boat will cost \u20b91,200 each an hour.<\/p>\n<p>As the backwater system is connected to sea through the opening of the sandy bar at Perumathura, there&#8217;s also a potential for organizing angling trips out into the sea for interested tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon you will able to go on cruise in Capital&#8217;s backwaters as District tourism promotion council (DTPC) has introduced a tourism circuit connecting three lakes in Trivandrum. The three lakes include Kadinamkulam -the biggest inland water body of the capital district, Anchuthengu and Akathurmuri lakes. The project offers boat cruise through the backwaters and visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-27512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27515,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27512\/revisions\/27515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}