India Offers a wide range of adventure sports for tourists. Trekking and Skiing in the Himalayas, White Water Rafting on the Ganges and Beas, Camel and Jeep safaris in the deserts of Rajasthan, Paragliding in Himachal, Watersports in Goa and Scuba Diving in Lakshadweep and Andaman are just some of the options available to the adventure seeking tourists.
India is the perfect tourist place where you find most beautiful hill stations. The picturesque Indian hill stations are among top hill stations of world. Hill stations of Kashmir such as Srinagar, gulmarg, sonmarg are among most beautiful hill stations of India and world. Hill stations of Himachal pradesh like kullu manali, dalhousie, chamba, solan, shimla are equally beautiful.
A family trip combined with a beach holiday is one of the most enjoyable ways of spending a vacation. For a beach holiday on any one of the unmatchable beaches of India is the perfect holiday that has something in it for everyone. The sun, sand, sea and surf are just the ingredients for mixing some high spirits and enthusiasm in your life!
India has long been known as a very spiritual, religious heavy area of the world. in India, religion is a way of life. It is an integral part of the entire Indian tradition. For the majority of Indians, religion permeates every aspect of life, from common-place daily chores to education and politics. Secular India is home to Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and other innumerable religious traditions. Hinduism is the dominant faith, practiced by over 80% of the population. Besides Hindus, Muslims are the most prominent religious group and are an integral part of Indian society.
You're welcomed aboard your luxury train with a warm smile and a bottle of the choicest wine or champagne. There are no porters to haggle with, no lost luggage to worry about. You sink into the comfort of plush coupes and get ready for the ride of your lifetime. Be it the heritage spots of Rajasthan, the gentle slopes of Shimla, the colorful towns in and around Darjeeling or the Maratha heartland with its tales of valor, there's a shining steed of steel that's ready to whisk you away to all these destinations in the kind of comfort you've only dreamt of.
India’s image of a wild and exotic country full of snake charmers and fakirs is not far from the truth. For besides the metropolises and their surrounding urban areas, much else of India continues to be undeveloped barren wilderness and deep dense jungles that are home to the second largest base of bio diversity in the world!
Though India is often and justly described as a land of many religions and innumerable languages, it might well be described as a land of festivals as well. One conventional authority, the Encyclopedia Brittanica, rather unabashedly and with the customary cavalier attitude with which India can be treated, says of Hindu festivals that these arecombinations of religious ceremonies, semi-ritual spectacles, worship, prayer, lustrations, processions (to set something sacred in motion and to extend its power throughout a certain region), music, dances (which by their rhythm have a compelling force), magical acts -- participants throw fertilizing water or, during the Holi festival, coloured powder at each other -- eating, drinking, lovemaking, licentiousness, feeding the poor, and other activities of a religious or traditional character.
When you go on a cultural tour of a country, it isn’t just trinkets, souvenirs, photographs and memories you should be taking back with you, but also a deeper understanding of its people, their faiths, traditions and superstitions, and if possible, the jealously guarded recipe of their gourmet dish! For only then will you have had a truly unique experience that is unmatchable and adds to your range of experiences to make you a richer person.
The Indian culture has enjoyed an international reputation for the brass and bell metal work. The technology of metalworking had been entrenched in the Indian Culture by 2500 B.C. This technology then was manifested in myriad exquisite and sturdy images and icons. These images and icons are still found in temples. They are still being produced in household niches such as lamps, platters and other items required for acts of worship. The metals being used for these products are mostly gold, silver, copper, brass, bronze, and other mixed metals and alloys.
