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The Backwaters Of Kerala
Are Making Waves As They Are Swamped With Tourists From All Over. A
Night In A Kerala Houseboat On These Backwaters Are What Dreams Are
Made Of
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Kerala on the
South West coast of India is fast evolving into a top world
tourist destination for both budget and high-end holiday and
vacation packages
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Conducting tour-packages
to India and especially to Kerala for sight seeing as well as for health and cultural tourism.
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Booking accommodations such as
hotels, apartments, resorts and houseboats
in India and especially in Kerala.
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Arranging conveyances by car, coaches, rail and other conventional means
for tours to the different parts of India.
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Providing guides and
tour related services in India and
especially in Kerala. |
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THE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER
in its 2009 survey ranked Kerala in the 23rd position
alongside the Stonehenge in England and Petra in Jordan,
among the 133 world famous tourist destinations. In this
list the backwaters of Kerala scored higher than Bali, Athens,
The Niagara Falls, Ankhor Vat, The Dead Sea, the Taj and other
top destinations . The above-said 133 destinations
considered by the Natgeo, came in many categories such as
urban centers, monuments, open spaces, wildernesses,
places of natural beauty etc. If the factor of natural
beauty alone is considered, then Kerala ranks among the
first five most beautiful paradises on earth.
Obviously, Kerala with its striking natural beauty, is the top destination
in India. So
if you are considering a honeymoon, holiday or vacation in India, in an environment of breathtaking
natural beauty, then Kerala and its backwaters are your best bet for
the unforgettable tour to cherish for a lifetime |
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In October 1999 The National Geographic Traveler showcased Kerala as one of ten most beautiful "Paradises Found" on earth and recommended it for the "Tour of a Lifetime" Bill McKibben of The National Geographic goes on to say, "Statistically Kerala stands out as the Mount Everest of social development; there's truly no place like it". Ever since Kerala has experienced an unparalleled surge of tourists and vacationers from both from within India and abroad. Now Kerala is a top-class world destination for travelers and vacationers seeking natural beauty in an ambience of exotic cultural and social developments.
In addition to its unparalleled
beauty, what makes South India in
general and Kerala in particular
attractive to the tourist is the
price range of tourist services
available. Thus budget tour packages
can be had for as little as US$25 a
day including travel, accommodation
and food. At the other end of the
spectrum, there are 5*
accommodations at US$500 a night and
correspondingly high-ended cuisine
and travel.
Two of the many
destinations that takes the credit
for billing Kerala as a paradise are
Munnar with its extensive tea
estates and Kumarakaom with its
houseboats.
Munnar lies on the
mountain ranges to the east of
Kerala. Munnar has been termed the
Switzerland of the East. But that
would be an underestimation. Range
after range and valley after valley
of verdant tea plantations of Munnar
assuredly excel Switzerland in
natural aesthetics. Indeed
there are few places like Munnar on
earth when it comes to natural
beauty.
If they are the
mountains that make Munnar
breath-taking beautiful, then they
are the placid backwaters that
contribute to make Kumarakom a top
destination of a different
kind.
The backwaters are a
unique feature of Kerala. Kerala
consists of tens of thousands of
islands of all sizes spread out like
dots and dashes on the Arabian Sea.
Protected from the natural elements
of the open sea, the backwaters
between these islands form placid
lakes and channels. At Kumarakom
these back waters widen out into a 9
Km stretch which provide an
unprecedented experience to tourists
and travelers seeking unique
holidays and vacations.
The houseboats of
Kumarakom are famous the world over
for unique holidays and vacations.
The houseboats are a modern development
in Kerala whereby the old
country-boats called 'kettuvallams'
were modified to accommodat tourists
and vacationers of all kinds. At
present these houseboats of
Kumarakom feature multiple bedrooms
and even conference halls to seat up
to 200 participants.
The honeymoon packages
on these houseboats are
popular the world over. Away from
the madding crowds of the cities,
these houseboats provide a an
affordable hideaway for the
honeymooners on the placid backwaters
of Kumarakom. It may be noted that
the houseboat packages are mostly
for 24 hours and inclusive of a
range of breakfast, lunch and
supper.
A honeymoon on the
placid backwaters and lagoons of
Kerala is something to cherish
for a lifetime.
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Kerala Houseboats For Unforgettable
Honeymoons, Holidays And Vacations
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“There are few places on earth that can match Kerala in its natural beauty. There are even fewer places to match it in History, and Culture. With its wealth of natural resources like spices, timber, sandalwood and ivory, Kerala has attracted traders from the orient and the occident from the times of the Phoenicians. Intrepid travelers of yore like
Marco
Polo, Ibn Battuta and
Ma He The Chinese Eunuch Admiral, made a beeline for Kerala and stopped over in Kerala for years, enchanted by Kerala’s beauty and prosperity.
After the Ottomans had blocked off the conventional
land and sea lanes
to India,
the Europeans searched desperately
for a sea-route to India and the
spices of Kerala. It was in search of a sea-route to India and Kerala that
Columbus
and his men stumbled upon the Americas in 1492. Columbus thought it was India he had set foot on and called the natives Indians and the land (West) Indies. Six years later a Portuguese explorer called
Vasco Da Gamma succeeded where Columbus 'failed'. Gamma landed in
Calicut, Malabar, on the northern
coast of Kerala.
One of Gamma's
crew-members, Pedro
Álvares Cabral was later put in
charge of Portuguese possessions in
Kerala. On one of his voyages to
Kerala from Lisbon, Cabral sailed to
the South and West to catch the
favorable winds to India. But Cabral
went too far to the SW and landed in
Brazil
in 1500, and is now considered as
the first European to have set foot
on Brazilian soil.
At the time, the
discoveries of America and Brazil
paled in comparison with the
discovery of a sea-route to Kerala
in commercial terms and
consequently, at the time Gamma was more of a celebrity for landing in Kerala than Columbus was for landing in the
Americas and Cabral was for landing
in Brazil.
EITC offers you a unique opportunity to be a part of that tradition of these great travelers and adventurers and to take in India and Kerala in all its varied dimensions of natural beauty, culture, cuisine and ecology.
In addition to
conventional tourism and
vacationing, Kerala is attracting
more and more visitors seeking
affordable but world-class Medicare
especially for cosmetic/plastic
surgery, cosmetic dentistry and
ophthalmologic surgeries and
implants.
We at Explore
India Tour Company have
strived to contribute our mite to
this huge success story that is Kerala
Tourism and Vacations.
We have the state of the art
infrastructure and contacts. Above
all we have a group of dedicated
personnel who are ever at the beck
and call of the explorer-tourist. We
leave no stone unturned and spare no
effort great or small to ensure that
our customers feel at home here and
then leave us with a huge satisfied
grin on their faces.
We offer many
packages of different durations and
tariffs to suit every purse from the
budget tourist to the high-end
explorer. It may
be noted that we have now started
offering cruise-packages to
Lakshadweep on ships operated by the
Lakshadweep Administration, an
undertaking by the Govt. of India.
For more on these packages see http://www.eitctours.com/Lakshadweep.htm
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Kerala &
Lakshadweep The Top Holiday Destinations In India For
Memorable Honeymoons, Holidays And Vacations
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