My family paid $300 for a night on a private two-bedroom houseboat in southern India. We spent the day sailing the backwaters of the river city of Alleppey, and were served three meals. We've spent the holidays hiking volcanoes in Indonesia, traveling by train through Vietnam, and swimming in the Indian Ocean in Madagascar. This past Christmas, my family and I spent two weeks traveling through the southern Indian region of Kerala. The highlight of our trip was spending Christmas on a private houseboat for 25,000 rupees, or about $300.

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