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Extract from the Alappuzha Travel Guides:
Under its former appellation of Alleppey,
ALAPPUZHA
, roughly midway between Kollam (85km south) and Kochi (64km north), is another romantic and historic name from Kerala's past. It was one of the best-known ports along the Malabar coast, and tourist literature is fond of referring to it as "Venice of the East", but while it may be full of interconnecting
canals
, there the resemblance ends. Alappuzha is a bustling, messy town of ramshackle wood and corrugated iron-roofed houses, chiefly significant in the coir industry, which accounts for much of the traffic on its oily green-brown waterways.
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