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Munroe Island (Malayalam: മണ്‍റോത്തുരുത്ത്) or Mundrothuruthu is an inland island group located at the confluence of Ashtamudi Lake and the Kallada River, in Kollam district, Kerala, South India.

It is a group of eight small islets comprising a total area of about 13.4 km2.

The island, accessible by road, rail and inland water navigation, is about from Kollam by road, north from Paravur, west from Kundara and about from Karunagapally., the administrative village of Mundrothuruth (which includes nearby small villages as well) has a total population of 9599, consisting of 4636 males and 4963 females.

This island is also known as "Sinking Island of Kerala".

Homestay (also home stay and home-stay) is a form of hospitality and lodging whereby visitors share a residence with a local of the area (host) to which they are traveling.

The length of stay can vary from one night to over a year and can be provided for free (gift economy), in exchange for monetary compensation, in exchange for a stay at the guest's property either simultaneously or at another time (home exchange), or in exchange for housekeeping or work on the host's property (barter economy).

Homestays are examples of collaborative consumption and the sharing economy.

Homestays are used by travelers; students who study abroad or participate in student exchange programs; and au pairs, who provide child care assistance and light household duties.

They can be arranged via certain social networking services, online marketplaces, or academic institutions.

Social networking services where hosts offer homestays for free are called hospitality exchange services.

The Kerala backwaters are a network of brackish lagoons and canals lying parallel to the Arabian Sea of the Malabar coast of Kerala state in south-western India.

It also includes interconnected lakes, rivers, and inlets, a labyrinthine system formed by more than of waterways, and sometimes compared to bayous.

The network includes five large lakes linked by canals, both man made and natural, fed by 38 rivers, and extending virtually half the length of Kerala state.

The backwaters were formed by the action of waves and shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.

In the midst of this landscape there are a number of towns and cities, which serve as the starting and end points of backwater cruises.

There are 34 backwaters in Kerala.

Out of it, 27 are located either closer to Arabian Sea or parallel to the sea.

The remaining 7 are inland navigation routes.

Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).

They carry free, calm surface flow under atmospheric pressure, and can be thought of as artificial rivers.