The cultural tourism option envisages travel for purposes of widening one’s knowledge about other places and people, their ways of life, their culture and it includes journeys to places of art and heredity, treasures, religious shrines and other civilizations. It also gives more insight into contemporary developments in various spheres of human activity and the progress made in scientific, technological, educational, sociological and other related fields. In
Kerala holiday packages related to cultural tourism may also combine rest and relaxation, with culture as the basic purpose of their travel plan.
Kerala state is home to diversity in culture and cuisines. This small state consists of 14 districts. Even though Malayalam is the spoken language in all the districts, even this language is spoken differently in different tones by people of all the 14 districts. As you go to the north, the diversity is more prominent. In places like Ottappalam, the spoken dialect is more musical. A southerner will be totally amused to listen to this dialect.
Along with the diversities in the spoken tongue comes the mind-boggling range of local cuisines. Even though there is little documentation and the modern generation has taken to the fast food culture without any inhibition, hundreds of locally made mouth watering cuisines are now available not at the local eatery, but at the prominent star hotels even though the rates may seem a little bit high. All through the year scores of food festivals are conducted in almost all the districts by the prominent hotels chains.
Onam is the main festival where the entire cultural diversity of the state unfolds in its entirety. In almost all the districts cultural programmes are organized in the prominent stadiums. Even though illuminating the prominent buildings and places of tourist interest was initiated, the economics do not permit such an extravaganza during some seasons. For the cultural enthusiast the best place to visit Kerala is during the Onam season.
