Kerala Tourism
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Kerala Festival Tours
Nehru Trophy Boat Race Festival
Nehru Trophy Boat Race is the most famous of the boat races of Kerala. This
annual regatta is held on the Punnamada Backwaters of Alappuzha district
on the second Saturday of August.
The event is a commemoration of the visit to this place by the late Prime
Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, in 1952.
The spectacular races features magnificent snake boats or 'Chundans'.
The boisterous and rhythmic boat songs or Vanchipattu work the spectators
to a state of frenzy.
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