Kerala backwaters, Allepey, houseboat

So the next day we left our beach paradise and Manu drove us north to Alleppey, the starting point for the famous Kerala backwater tours...

We arrived at our starting point to this...




You can see in the 2nd pic the "living room" in the front of the boat.. behind that is a private bedroom with bathroom. So onboard was me, Jason, the cook, and the driver (more on him later...)

We chilled for a while... (notice how high the ceiling is above my head... will be important shortly...






So after an hour or so we pulled over on the banks to have lunch made for us by the cook...



Jason asked the cook what kind of fish this was, and the cook looked at us like we were crazy and said "lake fish", meaning fish from the lake we were on!



Shortly after lunch I got sick (must have been the "lake fish"!
I was sitting in the front of the boat to get some fresh air and Jason was directly behind me. The captain went to turn from the wide canal into a much smaller narrow canal. He seriously misjudged the angle of the turn and ended up hitting on of these concrete pillars... All of those metal rods were vertical before the crash



The canopy came down right across my back. The seat in the front right was where I was sitting



Side view, including all the local villagers who came to see what the fuss was about...



And our story ends when I was taken to the local hospital to get Xrays ($3.20) and a pain shot ($1.75). This is the washup sink in the "surgery room"!