Medical Tourism in Backwaters of Kerala

Backwaters of kerala are a must visit destination and an ineveitable part of every kerala tour package itineary. Just like every other country the medical tourism package is clubbed with a tour package of visiting destination. For years houseboat cruise in the backwaters of kerala find its place in almost every medical tourism package. Back waters of Kerala form a complex network of the channels, rivers, lakes, lagoons, estuaries and deltas spanning more than 1800 kms. A carefree cruising along any of the back waters is a memorable voyage of the discovery, one which takes to you after a landscape always changing where the remote villages lead to the vast right ends of the peaceful countryside, which lead to their turn to activate cities.

Described as Venice of the east, Alleppey, with its complex labyrinth of the narrow water ways, is at the house with a various variety of the life of animal and bird. A turn of boat with Kuttanad carries you by the fields or the north of rice plantation greens to the somnolent village of Kumarakom on the lake Vembanad where you can observe the local fisherman of skiff throw their boats of shell of hull and coconut fibre workmen skilfully to weave coconut banks in long cords on axes stretched between the palm trees; talk with people of village; canoe in the quiet lagoons and generally appreciate the languishing step of the rural life.

I think that it would be an innovative step to provide minor treatments in the houseboats or along the backwaters of kerala. So the medical tourist don't have to travel to reach the houseboat if he is opting to have meagre treatment which can be done in a houseboat itself. I meant to say that a small clinic with basic facilities to cater to the minor medical tourism needs of the tourist. I am not sure about cons and implications of this backwater health tourism but this can be thought of by the people who are in the kerala travel industry.