Learning about Indian temples with India Tour Packages

An ancient culture India that has a civilization and culture of thousand years could be better understood from its temple tours.  Indian temples, a place of worship for its majority group Hindu are scattered across from north of India to south of India that you can see on India tour packages. However, a better view of Indian temples could even be better assessed and analyzed with South India temple tour on Kerala Backwater tours as well.             

Birla Temple Delhi

A structure of Hindu temples is mostly made on the basis of its believes rooted deeper somewhere in Vedic traditions and cultures.  A layout of the Hindu temple illustrates the ancient rituals, beliefs and values related to the various schools of Hinduism.        

On an elaborate manner while visiting Indian temples on India tour packages you will find them to be made in different styles, diverse locations in different construction methods and manners in praise of various deities and regional beliefs.

Chamundeswari Temple 

In form of Indian architecture for Hindu temple generally has two forms as house and palace. House based architecture of the temple is generally consisted of simple shelter that is a deity’s home where a devotee can go and worship as he is visiting a house or a palace. Whereas the palace themed temples are more elaborate and made of monumental type of structure and architecture.

Meenakshi Temple

On India tour packages tour you will find Hindu temples to be constructed according to set believes near water bodies surrounded by natural beauty. Most of the south Indian temple that you even watch on India group tours is similar to this. You will also see them at confluence of rivers, river banks, lakes and seashore.  Moreover they are constructed inside caves and carved stones, on hill tops affording peaceful views, mountain slopes overlooking beautiful valleys, inside forests and hermitages, next to gardens, or at the head of a town street.

Khajarho Temple

There exist an entire art and discipline on making temples known to be as Vastu-Sastras thus a temple design follow the rules and principles derived from vastu-purusha-mandala. Mandala means circle, Purusha is universal essence at the core of Hindu tradition and Vastu refers to the dwelling structure.

A Hindu temple mostly has a Shikhara (Vimana or Spire) that rises symmetrically above the central core of the temple and can be found at temple top in many design and forms. In very large temple that you will frequently visit in south India on India tour packages or on Kerala Backwaters tours there exist pillared halls known to be as mandapa.  One on the east side of the temples they are made for the waiting room for pilgrims and devotees. In older temples mandapa happens to be a separate structure whereas in newer temples this space has been integrated into temple structure.          

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Enjoy a great stay in KeralaHouseboats on India Tour Packages

If staying in houseboats in Kashmir is a great attraction for tourist visiting north India then a visit of Kerala Backwaters on India tour packages is incomplete if it is not matched with living in a Kerala houseboat.  Matching with an extensive expanse of Dal Lake offering a natural flow to house boat in Kashmir then the long extended chains of canals that even goes in length upto 1500 Kms and interlinked to network of 44 rivers, lagoons and lakes are prefect stream and water bodies for Keralahouseboats.

Kerala Houseboats 

This vast expense of canals that you will observe on Kerala Backwater tours with an expanse of India tour packages are sometimes are either manmade or the other time are naturally formed water bodies that has been in use for constant support of traffic of men and materials even before the arrival of modern means of transport like land and air transport being operational in Kerala. One such water transport form popular in the state was been known as 'Kettuvalloms' that terms as to be wooden planks tied together with coconut ropes and painted with cashew nut oil outside. They are 70 to 100 feet long and 15 to 20 feet wide. And it is that Kettuvalloms forms a basic platform for KeralaHouseboats.

Kerala Backwaters- Kerala Houseboats   

Thus cargo boats converted into present day houseboats are huge barges are actually now a days are being used for leisure trips on Kerala Backwater Tours. In earlier times a single Kettuvallams had the capacity to carry out tons of rice and spices. A Kerala houseboat can bear weight upto 30 tons.  To offer a comfortable stay during India tour packages a part of traditional Kettuvallam gets converted into a restroom and Kitchen with the help of bamboo are coir. Meals are cooked onboard from freshly cooked fishes obtained from the backwaters. 

Kerala House Boats

              

Present day houseboats are having all the means of modern luxury for visiting traveller. They are fully equipped with furnished bedrooms, modern toilets, cozy living rooms, a kitchen and even a balcony for angling. As most of the boats are poled by local oarsmen, some are powered by a 40 HP engine. Boat-trains – made by joining two or more houseboats together are also used by large group of visitors and tourists.

Kerala Houseboats

Made in unique design use of local and eco-friendly materials like bamboo poles, coconut finer ropes, bamboo mats, carpets etc., these Kerala Houseboats have single room, double room, triple room accommodated with private balcony with comfortable chairs. On Kerala Backwater Tours you will see a perfectly balanced man and nature with a stay in Kerala Houseboats. On India tour packages on Kerala Houseboat you sail through and across villages, schools, temples, churches, market and other places.      

Munnar, an exotic Hill station trip with Kerala Backwaters

Trip to south India brings you to extraordinary vistas of touring to India. South India showcases entirely different perspective of India in comparison of north and the rest of India.  The temples of south India and green flora and foliage spreads across entire south India and the coastal belt of India   makes South India an important India tourist destination. However, the most important tour package while travelling the south India is KeralaBackwaters Tours. Known among tourist for great lagoons falling into Arabian Sea, Kerala Backwaters is the most demanded tour package in God’s own country. Depending on your interest you can go on this tour either as on India Group Tour or on single India Day Tour.           

           

Munnar Travel Guide

Among a good number of destinations covered under Kerala Backwaters, one most important one is Munnar Hill Station that was once the summer holiday spot under the British government.  If you wish to learn something about South Indian countryside then there is no better place than Munnar and moreover a very vast tea plantation of the area brings an eye catching aura of entire area.   Situated at the Idukki district of south western Indian state it is located about 5,200 feet above sea level in the Western Ghats Mountains. The name Munnar referring to the confluence of three rivers Mudhirapuzha, Nallathanni and Kundaly rivers. The Munnar town is located on the Kannan Devan Hills.       

In the recent times due to excessive tea plantation activities the natural flora and fauna of Munnar has been disturbed that has led to survival of many species. There, a good number of protected areas have been developed in the region where endangered species could live in ease and comfort. Some of the popular protected areas in the region are Kurinjimala Sanctuary to the east, the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Manjampatti Valley and the Amaravati reserve forest of Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary to the north east, the Eravikulam National Park and Anamudi Shola National Park to the north, the Pampadum Shola National Park to the south and the proposed Palani Hills National Park to the east.

Among all the important tourist destinations,   Other animals that you can found at Nikgiri Tahr are Gaur, Langur, Lion-tailed macaque, and Elephants depending on the season and time of travel.

Watching Clouds at the Top of the Sky   

Eravikulam national park is one of the prominent tourist attractions where endangered species of Nikgiri Tahr (Mountain Goat) is being protected.

Trekking in Munnar 

In addition to Eravikulam national park other places of tourist attraction on KeralaBackwaters tour   are Atukkad Waterfalls, Mattupetti Dam, Mattupetti Indo-Swiss Farm, Better known as Mattupetti (cattle village), Echo Point, Elephant Arrival Spot and Kundala Lake are other important spots of tourist attraction there.

Eravikulam National Park

Get wild on Kerala Backwater tours with Periyar National Park

A trip to India whether you have decided to go to tour it as solo or part of an India group tour you can’t avoid travelling God’s own country, Kerala, that has unique space in any travel itinerary to India, moreover a trip to India is considered un accomplished unless is not matched with a trip to Kerala.

Periyar National Park

Trip to Kerala popularly known as Kerala Backwaters is a very extensive tour to great India lagoon surrounded with lush greenery in Kerala. Along with trip to extended water canals, beaches, house boats and another added attraction of Kerala Backwaters for wildlife lovers is a Periyar national park.

Periyar national park situated along a huge artificial lake has been extracted from Periyar River in 1895. The entire Periayar park is been extended in an area of 780 kilometers of which around 350 square kilometres is the core park area. Periyar is recognized as one of the most popular national parks in southern India. Among a range of wild animals this park is exclusively known for its elephants.

Periyar Boat Safari, Kerala Backwater Tours

Periyar is situated in Thekkady district that is four kilometre from Kumili in the Idukki district of central Kerala. As for reaching Idukki, the closets airport is Maduri in Tamil Nadu and Kochi in Kerala resepectively 130 and 190 kilometers away. What makes Periyar unique from other national parks in India is its accessibility throughout the year. However, the best period of the year to travel park is in cooler and drier months of October to February.  Visiting the park in months of monsoon has it has their own unique charm. 

Periyar Lake

The park remains open daily from 6 am to 5 p.m. The Periyar Tiger Reserve also offers a slow boat ride within the park for about one and half hours.  Safaris there are generally taken by boat thus making Periyar to be a most exclusive, unique place to live and enjoy oneself. What makes Periyar a unique place to further enjoy the great wildlife is eco-tourism exploits at the wildlife park.  These excusive wildlife eco tours there includes as guides, bamboo rafting, night time jungle patrols, village  trips, bullock  carts and extensive tribal  heritage visits with these usual Kerala Backwater tour packages trip.  

           

Another great added attraction of Periyar wildlife reserve is Elephant rides that are being carried out in countryside arrange by many hotels where you may be staying in. An average elephant ride includes vistas of farm tourism, elephant rides, feeding and bathing. For lodging purposes there are many hotels of Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) that run three popular hotels within the park including Lake Palace, Aranya Nivas and Periyar House.

Elephant Rides Preyiar

  

What makes Kerala Backwater So Special!!!

It is not wrong to term Kerala Backwater Tours like visiting the Venice of east where Kerala Backwaters is a network of about 1500 km of canals artificial as well as natural, 38 rivers and 5 big lakes extending from one end of Kerala to the another end. A lagoon finally dispersing into the sea, Kerala Backwaters is a land filled with immense greenery and pacifying and soothing watery island with a mesmerising aura that a traveller will always remember after having a KeralaBackwatersTour to India. 

Originally once used as a transportation canals at present backwaters offer a rejuvenating touring experience to tourist visiting Kerala. One can enjoy a trip to backwaters by hiring a boat for a day long trip or fully enjoy house boats available to stay with a navigator and a cook with additional offerings and facilities. So what makes Kerala Backwaters so special for the travellers is its uniqueness of offering on India Group tours packages in addition to offering of hill resorts and beaches are beautifully carved out house boats that passes through on tourist tours across the long minutely created out lagoons, lakes, canals, estuaries and deltas of several rivers that flow into the Arabian Sea. 

This way Kerala Backwaters is one of the richest fresh water sources highly rich in marine life and as well as blesses with astounding natural beauty. The entire Kerala backwater is divided into many region and areas. 

The most scenic and accessible area of Kerala Backwaters is Ashtamudi Lake located in district in Kollam. It is counted as one of the largest fresh water lakes in India with a large number of navigable canals and river connecting to the all parts of south Kerala. It is also home to several endangered marine species with rich bio-diversity.

Vembanad backwater stretch expands into the districts of Ernakulam, Alapuzha and Kottayam area. The Cochin coast on this backwater stretch is dotted with numerous islands interconnected by ferries and bridges. 

The third backwater region is located at Kannur-Valiyaparambu Backwaters located in districts of Kannur and Kasargod, which is yet to be explored with respect to tourism activities, yet a small number of tourism activities has commenced here. 

Apart from these, three major backwater regions, smaller lagoons could be found in almost all coastal districts of Kerala.