Shree Mahavir Courier Branches in Alappuzha

About Alappuzha — A Brief History

Alappuzha also called Alleppey sits on the Kerala coast about halfway between Kochi and Kollam, and is the most famous of Kerala's backwater towns. The town was founded in 1762 by Raja Kesavadas, the Diwan of Travancore, who designed it as a planned port with a network of canals running parallel to the coast earning it the nickname Venice of the East. Many of those canals are still in use today, with houseboats, small coir-laden country boats and tourist kettuvallams (rice barges) gliding along them.

Alappuzha sits at the heart of the Kerala backwaters, the long network of brackish lagoons and lakes that runs parallel to the Arabian Sea coast. The Vembanad Lake, India's longest lake at 96 kilometres, stretches north from Alappuzha to Kochi and hosts the famous Nehru Trophy snake-boat race every August, when 100-foot wooden chundan vallam boats with crews of over 100 oarsmen race for a heart-stopping prize. The town's beach, the Mullakkal Rajeswari temple and the seafront pier are the older landmarks.

Alappuzha is also widely known as the coir capital of India. The processing of coconut-husk fibre into ropes, mats and rugs is the district's traditional industry, and the Alleppey coir cluster supplies coir products across the world. The local economy also includes paddy farming in the Kuttanad below-sea-level rice belt, fishing, tourism and the small Alappuzha port. Shree Mahavir Courier's Alappuzha branches handle the daily run of coir-export dispatch, hotel and houseboat-tourism mail, paddy-trade papers and family parcels for the town and the smaller settlements like Cherthala, Mavelikara, Kayamkulam and Haripad every working day.