Travel Tips for Allapouzha

--Not the loveliest town ever, but the UAE bank is a solid place to change money, and the Kream Korner isn't bad for dinner.

--You can trust the people who walk up to you randomly on the street and offer hotels, boats, cars, as much as the people in the tourist offices. Somewhere along the way -- perhaps in Europe -- I got the idea that this wasn't so smart, but it seems to be a fairly effective way of getting things done here.

--We stayed at the Gowri, phone number: 0091477223637 and it was clean, inexpensive, and had really friendly staff.