Village Tourism in India
Viewed from a distance, an Indian village may appear deceptively simple. A cluster of mud-plastered walls shaded by a few trees, set among a stretch of green or dun-colored fields, with a few people slowly coming or going, oxcarts creaking, cattle lowing, and birds singing--all present an image of harmonious simplicity.
Indian city dwellers often refer nostalgically to
"simple village life." City artists portray colorfully garbed village women gracefully carrying water pots on their heads, and writers describe isolated rural settlements unsullied by the complexities of modern urban civilization. Social scientists of the past wrote of Indian villages as virtually self-sufficient communities with few ties to the outside world.
In actuality, Indian village life is far from simple. Each village is connected through a variety of crucial horizontal linkages with other villages and with urban areas both near and far. Most villages are characterized by a multiplicity of economic, caste, kinship, occupational, and even religious groups linked vertically within each settlement. Factionalism is a typical feature of village politics. In one of the first of the modern anthropological studies of Indian village life, anthropologist Oscar Lewis called this complexity "rural cosmopolitanism."
» Rajasthan Village Tourism
Mandawa Village:
Located in the semidesert region lies in the triangular area between Delhi, Jaipur and Bikaner. Famous for its painted havelis (mansions) is also called as " Open-Air Gallery of Rajasthan".
'Shekhawati ', meaning "the land of Shekha 's dan " derives its name from Rao Shekha (1433 AD-1488 AD) a scion of the Kachhwah family of Jaipur. Earlier a part of the former Jaipur state, it now comprises of the districts of Jhunjhunu and Sikar.
Distances
Jaipur (120 km), Delhi (200 kms), Bikaner (180 kms)
It is 19th km from northeast of Fathpur.it has some fine havelismand is becoming and is becoming increasinging. popular with travellers,which accounts for the alarming number of antipe shops cropping up along the main drag.
» Himachal Pradesh Village Tourism
KINNAUR Village
Located in the dizzying heights of the Himalayas, with passes that remain closed for six months linking them with the rest of the world, Kinnaur, Spiti & Lahaul were till now a forbidden land. Only a chosen few were granted permission to visit this secret world, officials, Moravian missionaries who settled here in 1853 and a few mountaineers.
Now this area has been opened for the daring and adventurous to discover what had been hidden from the world for centuries.
From the riotous green of the Sangla Valley filled with orchards of apricots, peaches, chilgozas and apples to the magnificent desolation of the Hangrang Valley, Mother Nature's portrait is an ever changing one in Kinnaur. This land lying on the ancient trade route between India and Tibet, ringed by the majestic mountain of the Himalayan and Dhauladhar range is the land of plenty.
The gushing rivers of Kinnaur abound in Trout-the angler's prize catch, their waters have over the centuries chiseled beautiful gorges across this picturesque land and nurtured one of the most unique societies on there banks. In the lush land live the descendants of the Kinners-the demi gods of the Hindu pantheon, whose deeds have been immortalized in epics and the poems of ancient Sanskrit poets.
GENERAL INFORMATION
AREA 6401 sq. kms
POPULATION 70,931
LANGUAGES Kinnauri, Hindi, English, Tibetan are understood and spoken by the people engaged in tourism trade.
ALTITUDE 2670m (Kalpa)
CLOTHING Light woollen in summer
Heavy woollens in winter
VISITING SEASON May to October
(July to October for a circuit from Shimla to Manali & Jeep Safaris as well as trekking and climbing or vice versa).
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