India is the land to travel to, a sanctuary
of tourism escapade, and a civilization to
tour through.
Tourists come to India for its
affluence of sights, cultural excitement, and
diversity of landscape and in search of that
extraordinary something, an extra punch that
only India promises and delivers.
Swarming with over a billion people who voice
over a million concerns in fifteen hundred
different languages, |
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India is where people
live with assortment, blossom on multiplicity
and are too familiar with expansiveness to
let it boggle them. Garish luxury and flaccid
living are populace of the same lane.
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From the murky mangroves of the Sunderbans to the scorching Thar Desert, blistering cities like Mumbai and Delhi to the scintillating villages of Khajuraho and Hampi, from the heights of the Himalayas to the deep blue waters around the Andamans are the attractions of Tourism India.
It is a tourism package that frustrates and delights, as demanding as it is pleasing. |
It demands that the traveler be prepared for its own bizarre forms of tourism offerings - the crowds at Pushkar, for aggressive mendicants at Haridwar, for high commercialism at spiritual retreats.
But equally, it means that he be prepared for an irresistible warmness in the people, ease of conversation, and to be astonished into speechlessness by the exquisiteness, sometimes the manmade and often the natural.
But what accurately is it that gets two and a half million people to pack their bags, book their tickets, buy industrial size cans of sunburn lotion and enough toilet paper to supply the whole populace of Liechtenstein for a month, and wing their way to India? |
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Given that this is the land of the Taj, granted too that tea, tobacco, tempestuous egalitarianism and terrific travel are a great combination but certainly that's not reason enough.
There must be more because between truisms and half-truths, India has enthused more than any one place's fair share of travel tradition. And, perhaps that's what it is - the myths of India - that's what inspires people from far and near to travel here, to sort out for them what's true and what's just a whole lot of tourism leaflet hype.
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Medical Tourism in India
