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Kerala Backwater-honeymoon Package   By: sanjay gopinath
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. Kerala Tour Operator, Tour Packages Kerala offers Kerala Tour Packages hillstation and wildlife tours a wide range of customised and cost-efficient tours to India and beyond. , ayurveda packages, kerala (read entire article)
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Kerala Holidays: Something For All   By: sanjay gopinath
Kerala, a small strip of state on the southern tip of India has many distinct features scarcely seen in other parts of the country. Set in a perennial greenery, it has three geological traits: hills, midland, and coastal plains that allow every taste of the visitor. Hill stations like Munnar in Idukki or Palakkad offer adventure tourism of many varieties including rope climbing, tree-top houses, living secluded in caves which the ever-willing operators arrangfe. If you want a mix of pleasure and scenic splendour in equal measure, districts like Kottayam, Kollam, Thrissur, Kozhikode provide you both. And, if you have the oceanic tastes where you want to walk on sugar-sands on naked foot while naughty waves laps at your feet, then coastal districts of Eranakulam, Kannur, are the right places. This state is so blessed with natural bounty that it has everything except snow to boast of. The extensive network of backwaters gives the romantic and poetic minds enough food for contemplation. The meandering backwaters (inland lakes) networked with canals stretch to over 1900 km. A boat ride on a moonlit night along backwaters has treats you to other-worldly ambience that has to be experienced to be believed. Many operators in the coastal Alappuzha town provide boats. Being a coastal state, Kerala has been a place where great many sailors and overseas traders have frequented for ages. Little wonder it has assimilated a lot many varieties of faiths and cultures, consequently very many different architecture and monuments. This also happens to be the most-literate state of India and people know English fairly well. Kerala cuisine has a uniqueness of amazing variety. The boiled cassava roots and fish curry, for instance, are a healthy combination you can savour to your heart’s content. If you are romantic, you rather visit the state at the onset of South-West monsoon inn June-August. Though travelling takes longer time during rainy time, it affords the heavenly loveliness of misty mornings on the hillside tops. More, this is considered the right time to go for health rejuvenation with medicated oil massage and strict diets. One week to 3 weeks rejuvenation therapy at one of the reputed Ayurveda firm like Kottakkal will take 10 years off you if the regimen is kept as per scriptures. If you are finicky of weather, you had better visit this state during winter—October to December when the state weather is temperate . European visitors prefer this time of the year while people from middle-east like to be here during rainy season for witnessing the exhilarating rains and go in for Ayurveda therapy. Whatever, a fortnight holiday for a communion with nature or health re-creation or honeymooning, or adventure in Kerala is something you can savour for life. And, it all comes with a reasonable price tag.(read entire article)
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Heavenly Abode Called Munnar For Honeymoon   By: sanjay gopinath
You just got married and want to be with your love at the top of the world for your honeymonn. You want to be the first to see sunup and sundown. You want to listen to myriad cicadas and other nightly beings striking up an unceasing orchestra through the night. And, all this must be in a “winter like” temperature at the peak of summer. There is only one destination that answers all this in the southern state of Kerala in India—Munnar. This heavenly abode is nestled among hills some 6,000 ft above sea level. It is 132 km from Cochin airport and is a 3-hour pleasant cab journey from Cochin. Munnar is out of the way of air and rail link. Tourpackage Kerala has cabs and tie up with the best hotels in Munnar to befit the melodious beginning of your love life. A summer hill station of the British rulers, Munnar is sought after by the newly married because it looks so surreal that you live in a dream. Witness how Nature unveils its glory in a slow motion at dawn when the ogling sun’s golden rays tries to peep through the shrouds of grey clouds and white mist that clothe the serrated hills--A sight beyond words. As you wake your love up and sip the steaming cup of tea made of Munnar’s own tea gardens, life seems like an extended sweet dream. The daylight noises slowly sink the nightly music as the day progresses. But the heavenly smell of spices lingers all around for Munnar is known for tea, coffee, and cardamom estates. The day is just breaking and a long day of excitement awaits you. The Ramble Munnar has several spots of tourist interests. Sprawling tea plantations (30 of them), winding lanes, picturesque vistas of hills and valleys and wildlife sanctuaries, all bewitch you beyond imagination. This marvellous hill resort lies at the confluence of three mountain streams namely Mudrapuzha, Nallathanni and Kundala, You two could get going on a bicycle, holding communion and sometimes debate with fauna. Or, you could get the cab and go around all the places during day and lunch on a stream bank or in the forested hillocks. Better still, you could simple take a two-wheeler and go about the places with helpful tips from our staff. The Mattupeety Lake is one of the major tourist attractions around Munnar. Closeby is an Indo-Swiss cattle-breeding centre. Some 17 km from Munnar is the Rajamalai Wildlife Sanctuary. Mountain Nilgiri Tahrs that walk on rocks like we do on level earth is a major attraction. The sanctuary also offers wondrous vistas of the valley. For adventurous activity seekers trekking is an option in the sanctuary. If either of you or both are animal lovers, you must visit the Ernakulum National Park. The park is 19 km from Munnar. A day trip to see the prehistoric burial sites - Muniyaras / dolmens - near Marayoor could take you back the hoary past. Further ahead along the Udumalpet road lies Chinnar wildlife sanctuary. The road cuts through the sanctuary and it is not uncommon to see wildlife such as elephants, langurs, peacocks , right on the road especially early mornings and late evenings. The sanctuary is also known for its star turtles and grizzled giant squirrels. There are prehistoric rock paintings and some more dolmens deep inside the forest. To see these, you need to engage a forest guide from the checkpost at Alampetty. You can also trek to the horseshoe shaped Thoovanam falls - visible from the road. After you come back, if it is a moonlit night, your happiness would be complete. The soothing, soft moonlight bathes the whole surrounding in mil-white and the silence, barring nightly beings, is so divine that speech seems sacrilegious. Let your eyes and hearts speak. Kerala Tour Operator, Tour Packages Kerala offers Kerala Beaches , ayurveda packages, kerala Tour Packages hillstation and wildlife tours a wide range of customised and cost-efficient tours to India and beyond.(read entire article)
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Boat Race Begins: Visit Kerala   By: sanjay gopinath
If you want to enjoy an all-in-one tour meaning bodily rejuvenation, spiritual enrichment, pleasure of sports, and educational sojourn, this is the time to visit Kerala, the southern most tip of India. A series of snake boat racing are to begin soon in the State. This time monsoon begins to taper off but lingers on, and the magnificent festivals of boat races begin in the unfolding sheets of backwaters of this land. Made world famous by the participation of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1952, boat races or snake boat races are a treat to the eye that no visitor to Kerala wants to miss. Beginning with august 15, some a dozen or more boat races are to take place in the backwaters of southern Kerala. Though the most famous is the Nehru Trophy boat race, locally known as “Vallamkali,” other boat races have earned a name with their novelty and excellence. This splendour is also a photo-op for the lens-lovers. Each boat is a 100 or more ft-long and accommodates a 100 or so men, wsho are trained for this sport. Both ends of the boats are raised from water level. The rear end has a height of about twenty feet from the surface of water. Nearly eighty six persons are rowers, ten to fifteen are to give the rhythm, four are to steer the vessel. Their rowing in unison in the background of music and limericks is something that would surely enthrall you. It takes several months of rigorous regimen and practice to participate in the festival. Today the competition is so tough that the boats go like arrows to outbid the rivals. Since it is a team sport, not individual, each participant has to sync in with the others. If one misplaced note can mar the symphony, one out-of-turn paddle can spoil the chance of a boat. SLS Tourists has a tourpackagekerala that would serve you pretty well. This time of the year is also good for Ayurveda treatment or rejuvenation therapy as the state has a temperate weather following months of rainfall. Check with SLS Tourists and pick your choice. It is not a bad idea to go on your on in a backwater cruise in one of the houseboats or canoe at night and watch the sports during day. Those go for sheer pleasure or to indulge your love or savour a bit of culture the trip would prove extremely beneficial. “Money well spent,” is how a blogger from Germany wrote about the season. Kerala is rich in water and it is not surprising water sports have taken roots in the State. After monsoon most of the 40 rivers and hundreds of kilometers of backwater lakes would be brimming, giving a fitting time for water sport.(read entire article)
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Kerala Tourism, A Destination For All Reasons   By: sanjay gopinath
Kerala, a strip of land along the south-west coast of India, looks like a piece of earth stuck to the mainland as a divine afterthought. It indeed is, for this state is something quite different from the rest of the Indian states. Kerala is not only pretty and prim, it is only here you can enjoy an all-in-one trip—health tourism, pleasure tourism, nature tourism, educational and eco tourism, pilgrimage and so on.(read entire article)
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All Roads Lead To Kerala: A Tourist Paradise   By: sanjay gopinath
One land and several avenues--that is the tiny small green land called Kerala in the peninsular India. Forests, sea, backwater and midland—all give different attractions to different guests. An amazingly large network of backwaters and cool green hills offer a golden opportunity for the newly wedded to spend their first few weeks of the new llife in a seemingly unreal world: hop in to a floating house lazing along green-clothed canals or explore the cool, hill stations the state is dotted with(read entire article)
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Wedding Goa And Kerala Together!   By: sanjay gopinath
If you are planning to get all what Nature has to offer except snow-caped mountains, you could fulfill your desire dating Goa and Kerala along the western coast of India.(read entire article)
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Ponmudi, Thenmala Invite Brave Souls   By: sanjay gopinath
If you are a lover of hills and adventure you have two places inviting you tantalizingly. Both are in Kerala and both are quite easy to reach (60 km and 72 km respectively) from the Kerala Capital—Trivandrum-which is well linked by air, rail, and motor vehicle.(read entire article)
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Float Along The Heavenly Abode Of Kerala   By: sanjay gopinath
Kerala, the small piece of earth at the southern Indian peninsula, is equal to Shimla or Kashmir in the northern India for the scenic beauty and numerous choices it offers to the short vacationers.(read entire article)
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Many Attractions, One Land That Is Kerala   By: sanjay gopinath
Kerala has many unique features that prove a delectable experience for the visitors. What the natives take for granted are however quite thrilling for vacationers.(read entire article)
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