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Tourism in India:
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
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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.
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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?
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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