Kerala Backwater-honeymoon Package

By Author: Sanjay Gopinath
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You have been planning for long to escape with your love to a locale which is exotic, and yet does not drill a hole in your wallet, right? Or you have just tied the nuptial knot and want to experience the privacy in the lap of Nature.

Whichever the case may be, your destination is Kerala, a green strip of land nestled in the foothills of Western Ghats in the southern Indian peninsula.

Kerala boasts of all-in-one geographical features. It has everything from hill stations to backwaters; something for every taste. Perhaps, a wiser thing may be to sample all the major features—eastern hill stations, midland adventure sports, coastal calm and romance or a night boat ride holding a communion with the sailing moon above and lapping waters below.

Backwaters are formed where sea water meet fresh water rivers from the hills. Small though this place is, it is blessed with 40 rivers, many of them perennial. In Kerala, they constitute the canals, lakes, lagoons and estuaries. The entire network includes five large lakes connected by 1900 km of canals, 900 km are navigable. Most of them are natural, ...
... however, there are man made canals as well.

Kerala is one of 50 ‘must see' destinations of a lifetime chosen by National Geographic Traveler. Why?

This linear strip of green land is believed to be the dowry Arabian Sea paid to groom India. She is a beauty beyond words, and when you float about the sparkling backwaters in a houseboat, hand-in-hand with your sweetheart, you will suddenly know why.

As the boat slides by at night all you hear is water lapping at its hull and the myriad night songs of water life and cicadas, the orchestra you had never heard before, having lived in urban centres.

The 7-day backwater package the premier tour operator SLS tourist arranged allow you a hassle-free trip where you are taken care of from the moment your plane makes the touch down at Kochi international airport. The trip covers the heartland of backwaters—Kochi, Kumarakom, Alleppey and the nature-fortified Kovalam beach locale.

The best part of the bargain is when you travel in the tastefully decorated house boat which is floating house containing in everything you need. You and your love could cook or help the boat cook making delicacies, savour a drink or two and then drink in the bewitching charm of the water-ruled Kerala. It's simply celestial, something like being part of a beautiful dream. Night is what makes Kerala beautiful.

Once you begin from Kochi, the leading port city of Kerala, you end up in the southern-most district of Trivandrum where the Kovalam beach is. The jutting rocks forming the fort of sort to the land and the unceasing sea breeze take your love to loftier realms. The beauty is that SLS people do not make you travel by road another 250 kilometre to catch your flight. The Trivandrum airport is nearby and you could get into the linking flight to return home.