All Entries in the "India" Category

No one can ever, get bored traveling in India! Except for Bollywood and terrorist attacks, India is favorite tourist destination among most of the tourists for its still preserved culture and customs. India is a beautiful blend of modernization with touch of colorful festivals, diverse culture and language. The best time to visit the India is in winter and summer i.e. September to May. Avoid going between June and August as its rains heavily during these months. I can go on and on about India. So I’ll just, start on with my traveling experience in North India. Out North India tour started off, when my flight from States landed in Mumbai, Maharashtra, after around seventeen hours. Having heard so much about Mumbai, its culture, movies (Bollywood) and nightlife, I decided to stay couple  [...]

There were times when tourists avoided traveling to cities in India due to the tackiness, stench, and insecurity (post 2008 terrorist attacks). However, the tourism industry boosted after Slumdog Millionaire snatched eight Oscars, and we were among the many Americans foreigners who arrived on this cultural land to witness and compare the slumdogs in the movie and reality. Famously known as Reality Tours, Elisa and I decided to witness the paucity and griminess in the streets of Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum vicinity in Mumbai, India. We hired an Indian guide, Satish, who dwelled in the same filthiness, to get a closer and perfect tour around the area. Prior to entering the poverty border, Satish informed us that over 55% of Mumbai’s population dwelled in these slums, which was staggering  [...]

India has always been an attractive places to explore some new things of life, specially given its love for people and other valuable things of life like lovely backwaters, exotic spices, tantalizing sea food and the most appealing its beaches – this could be found no other place than Kerala, as they say God’s own country! I was seriously mesmerized by the beauty of its surrounding area when I first arrived at kerala, it’s the place where people LIVE LIFE KING SIZE! There are no worries, no office tensions; you just get engulfed in its lovely environment and peace of mind weather. There are rice boats, which are floating across the backwaters, and the sailors lazily enjoying the sun with perches above. Kerala is the place where you can see lots of vibrancy in customs, traditions,  [...]

Today in the time of global meltdown, where everyone is sacked off from their jobs, some are going through throbbing salary cut offs and most of them are suffering ill effects of recession in the face of unemployment, some one are at the verge of losing their jobs. Our Ministry of tourism has found some fresh interesting tactics and strategies to entice the tourists from all over the globe. The idea behind this is to escalate foreign currency in the country and also to increase tourists visits to create employment. And what is conspicuous presents a new and enhanced ‘upscale India’. The secret to touch the summit of success’s answer is the very idea of branding in a fresh way, truly this has helped India to gain globe trotters from all around the world. This is not my word but  [...]