Kerala Houseboats are country boats that were used in the early days for the transport of goods from the isolated interior villages of Kerala Backwater area to the towns. Kerala houseboats size vary from, about to 95 feet feet in length and a width of around 13 feet to in the middle for one bedroom houseboat and , big houseboats with up 107 feet long and up to 19 feet wide. The materials that go into the making are all local and Eco friendly bamboo poles, coconut fiber ropes, bamboo mats, coir carpets etc. The main wood used for construction of houseboat is "Anjili."