Kerala, the small piece of earth at the southern Indian peninsula, is equal to Shimla or Kashmir in the northern India for the scenic beauty and numerous choices it offers to the short vacationers.

You could ensconce in a natty hotel or friendly home atop scores of green hill stations. You would swim or paddle a canoe along the vast vistas of backwaters. Perhaps, you long for a light sun tan and sea breeze to revitalize? Beaches galore in Kerala. Midlands offer rolling hills, numerous lakes, some 40 rivers crisscrossing the small state of just 38,853 square kilometers of landmass.

Dense forests, sun ‘n’ sandy beaches, inlets, streams, backwaters, sacred groves, ethnic Ayurveda massage and cure, the best sea food, the best communication network in India are some of assets this state hold for visitors. Little wonder, The National Geographic Traveller has rated Kerala, one of the 50 ‘must see locale in a lifetime’ place on this planet. So have millions of tourists to this place. And, above all, this State is the safest for vacationers with grievous crime rate one of the lowest in the country.

If you want to be transported to a dream world, go to Kerala’s Quilon, and ask your tour operator to arrange a boat ride on moonlit night along the Astamudi Lake. These placid waters with several archipelagos and sandbars sporting crop of green, will unveil to you and your partner a world wholly different from what you have so far known. It’s a  place where silence is deafening except for the orchestra the nightly creatures strike up. Canoeing will be a better option if the operator finds a good oarsman, or, boat will do.

As the mystic poet Omar Khayyam sang of the virtue of wine and proximity of a beautiful lover in the moonlit night, so will you be in the benign mood and at your creative best when you are boated away from the bank and float along the waters and islands in this stretch of backwater lakes. Don’t be surprised if the same place loses much of its charm in the day, for lunar magic adds an eerie charm to the whole place.

During day, you could travel to the nearby Varkala beach or Kovalam beach that offer rocky comforts and Ayurveda massage by trained men and women. Varkala beach is a good bet for the day. The constant sea breeze, profuse greenery, ethnic seafood dish make you vigorous, and at night you could get into the waters and float about in a different world.

Compared to many other places in the world, these places are the least crowded and less expensive, and yet, the value you get for your money is several fold more.

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