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Cruising in Style on the Ultimate Eco-Trip in Kerala STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANIELE AUVRAY
the night before, and its majestic silhouette was already quite impressive to look at, but not quite the same as when discovering it in the first golden rays of a morning sun. “Sumitra� as I learn later, was part of a fleet of 12 former rice barges made from the anjali variety of the jackfruit
wood which were born again in the form of cruise vessels for tourists wishing to immerse themselves totally into the beauty of the surrounding nature in the backwaters of Kerala in South India. Cruising in one of them is the ultimate eco-trip, as noth-