Very heavily laden dugout canoe carrying sand/gravel on the Backwaters of Kerala Southern India.

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Kerala is India's most advanced society : A hundred percent literate people. World-class health care systems. India's lowest infant mortality and highest life expectancy rates. The highest physical quality of life in India. Peaceful and pristine, Kerala is also India's cleanest State. The Kerala Backwaters are a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast (known as the Malabar Coast) of Kerala state in southern India. They includes five lakes linked by 1500 km of canals, both manmade and natural, fed by 40 rivers, and extending half the length of Kerala state. They were created by waves and currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats Vembanad lake is the largest of the lakes, covering an area of 200 sq km, and bordered by (), Kottayam, and Ernakulam districts.

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Size: 5120px × 3413px
Location: Kerala backwaters ,Allepy,Southern India
Photo credit: © maurice joseph / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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