Showing posts with label Aleppey. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Kerala the Romantic Destination for Honeymoon Couples

The romanticism of Kerala has always fascinated the tourists more of all to the couples who are newly married. The plush greenery, interesting sightseeing attractions, luxurious jade hill station and the salubrious weather condition, makes Kerala a place of romanticism, where couples would live the love in the air and the bliss in every tourist places they visit.




Kerala since ages has been the apple of an eye of the newly married couples, as the place provides them with all the luxury facilities, activities to enjoy and share the light moments full of happiness and joy, interesting places to explore and delicious delicacies to relish and much more. While in Kerala, couples can enjoy a lot more than their expectation as the land of coconut and land of backwaters is sure to lure you with its appealing and inviting glory.

Packages
Kerala honeymoon can be made more enjoyable and exciting by selecting interesting packages as they come with well organized services, guided sightseeing tourist attractions and more of all accommodation in a luxurious hotels and resorts. More of all, the package also provide pick up and drop facilities and 24 hours assistance to make the travel more enjoyable and hassle free.

Tourist Attraction to visit While in Kerala
Kerala is the land known of many wonderful tourist attractions and all are exotically beautiful and appealing. While some are known for their evergreen and appealing charm, some are known for their historical appeal, some for their backwater while some for their pristine beaches. While on a honeymoon tour, you are sure to have a wonderful and romantic time, which both of you will love to write with the inks of Gold.

Few interesting places to mention on the list are Munnar a hill station which is located at a distance of some 140 kms from Cochin, Aleppey a beautiful backwater town and exotic Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary, Kanyakumari the place where one can enjoy the beauty of both sunrise and sunset, Kovalam the place considered to be the finest beach resort in the world and Cochin a gateway to Kerala with both historical and natural magnificence. These interesting sightseeing places are sure to make the honeymoon tour truly romantic and full of fun.

Best time for Honeymoon Vacation in Kerala
Kerala is the destination of all season, even the monsoon honeymoon is slowly picking up. So you can plan for romantic honeymoon tour at any time of the year. But if you are looking for perfect vacation, the best time is from October to March and during these time of the year, couples from across the world visit Kerala for honeymoon holidays.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Kerala’s Houseboat


Kerala is a south Indian state where you can enjoy your leisure time. It is a second home for tourism as the state is blessed with the natural amenities and the humbleness of the inhabitants. Along with many other tourist destinations Kerala’s backwaters is a prominent place for the tourism sector to prosper. As it provides picturesque scene of the lagoons, lakes, rivers and canals that run through the exotic areas of the state.




One of the paramount ways to enjoy these backwaters of Kerala is to hire a houseboat. The houseboat tours let you enjoy the scenic views the various water bodies of Kerala along with the magnificent landscapes of this wondrous state. These houseboats are also called ‘kettuvallam’. Cruising in these backwaters while discovering the water kingdom of Kerala, will provide you ultimate satisfaction. In early days the actual purpose of these kettuvallams was to transport goods to different parts of Kerala form the remote villages, but as the routes started being developed with roads and bridges to increase the prospect of tourism in Kerala in a much larger panorama, these boats were less used for transport and stared being used to amuse tourists through the backwaters of this state.


Present day houseboats are much bigger than the earlier ones. The kettuvallms are now converted into houseboats. Almost everything that is put into construction of these houseboats is natural. While making a roof bamboo mats, sticks and wood of the areca nut tree are used, for the floor, coir mats and wooden planks comes into play and wood of coconut trees and coir are used to make beds. To provide light inside the houseboat, solar panels are used. They last for generations if maintained properly.

There are several destinations through which you can experience the fun of cruising through the backwaters of Kerala.


Vembanad Lake is one of the largest lakes and also one of the tourist backwater destinations. You can visit many other destinations through these backwaters. Alleppey, also known as the "Venice of the East" has a large network of canals which passes through the town, offering scenic views of the coastline of Kerala’s landscapes. A very famed race, ‘The Vallam Kali’ (the Snake Boat Race) is held in this place every year which attracts a lot of tourists to this area.


Kumarakom is a famous destination that will take you through bird sanctuaries which are located along the shores and also the simple village lifestyle which will give you a general knowledge of the primitive culture of Kerala.


You will get services of all three time meals on a full board houseboat cruise. These meals will be served in an admiring and luscious manner. You will get to try some local cuisines along with the international ones.


Tourists are welcomed in these areas with a lot of modesty as for their culture. When you reach at different houseboat tours in Kerala, you will be welcomed with a coconut or a fruit juice and some general information about the tour and the local attractions will be given to you. The houseboat vacation to Kerala is available throughout a year only that it will be a bit down during hot and humid, and the rainy season.
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