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India, one of the most popular tourist destinations of people around the world is known for its natural beauty, exotic cuisines and great hospitality services. India is truly said as Incredible India as it offers a complete travel package. There are tourist places in India that belongs to old times as well as modern time.

If you are enthusistic about Indian history then you can visit famous monuments and forts of India. You can visit various hill stations or beaches of India if you like natural beauty. If you like adventures then you can enjoy many adventurous activities like river rafting, skiing, and trekking. India is seventh largest country of world in terms of area.

India is a place with unity in diversity. This is the only country in world where you can find so much diversity in language, culture, climate, customs and religion. Despite of such diversity, India is bound together in the bond of love and unity. Many renowned authors have described about India in their books.

Although India is a very vast country, yet you can visit here and enjoy all major tourist attractions in few days if you have planned your journey in advance. Planning your vacations in advance will help you in exploring the beauty of this country to fullest. Tour India can be intense and exciting but it is not very expensive. You can find cheap travel options, cheap accommodation, and cheap food than many countries.

If you are planning for a tour to India then you must first know about the places where you want to visit. You should also check for all flights available along with their prices. Although it is tedious to check airline prices one by one yet you can use some good travel portals like Yatra, Clear trip or Make my Trip. As these sites also provide discounts and many seasonal offers so you can find some discount on air tickets also. In addition to this you can also find information about some of the key places to travel at your destination, weather conditions, available hotels and other important things.

Major airline operators in India are Jet Airways India, Indian airlines, SpiceJet, Kingfisher airlines, Go Air, Jet Konnect and JetLite flights. These operators are very reliable and provide best services at cheap prices. Some of these are no frills services and hence they provide cheap flight tickets.

Some other travel tips that you must take care of while planning your tour to India are as follows:

It is good to avoid travelling on weekends and you will find rush in flights. As said earlier, make booking in advance to avoid last time hassle.

Know about weather of your destination. As you know there is huge climate diversity in India, but normally it is hot from March to August. In India May and June remains very hot while from July to August there is rainy season. Hill stations have different climate from grounds.

Ticket and hotel prices tend to increase during holiday season like in June, July during school vacations. Hill stations remains full during these days. December and New Year season is also peak time. So before visiting India plan your journey in advance to get cheap air tickets domestic in India.

Meenakshi Amman Temple or is a historic Hindu temple placed in the holy place city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is dedicated to the god Shiva – as Sundareswarar or Beautiful Lord and his consort Parvati in the form of Meenakshi. The temple is the centre, the base of the yr 2500 the old city of Madurai. The complex houses 14 magnificent gopurams or towers, including two gold gopurams main gods, the richly carved and painted. Temple is a heavy symbol for the Tamil masses and has been mentioned since antiquity in Tamil literature, although the present structure is believed to have been reinforced in the 1600th’s highest temple tower is 51.9 meters (170 feet ) tall.

According to Hindu caption, Shiva came down to earth in the frame of Sundareswarar marry Meenakshi, an avatar of Parvati. Parvati had descended on earth as a minor baby in response to the great penance Malayadwaja Pandya, the ruler of Madurai. Later on development to maturity, she began to dominate the city. The Lord appeared on earth and offered to him. The wedding was to be the biggest event on earth, picking up land near Madurai. Vishnu, Meenakshi’s brother, was to preside over the marriage of his holy remains Vaikuntam.

The most crucial fete in the temple are Meenakshi Thirukalyanam (The divine marriage Meenkashi), noted each year in April.

The towers of the temple were covered with staging for picture and March 2009. The work was realised in former April 2009 aside craftsmen who abstained many temple of a number of shortcomings that should be eligible for the job. So almost of the work of archaeological recovery of the paintings, walls, texts, statues at bottom the temple were carried out on a war basis. The temple adorns a very newly feeling now.

Find out other interesting India attractions and sights on travel guides.

An Indo-European or Indo-Aryan language, Hindi is spoken widely in the central and northern part of India. The language, or its dialects, is spoken by about 41 percent of the people of India. Several hundred languages are spoken by the people of India. The estimated number of language used is 415. In terms of language groups, the Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by about 74 percent of the population while the Dravidian languages are spoken by 24 percent, the Austro-Asiatic (Munda) by 1.2 percent and the Tibeto-Burman by 0.6 percent of the population. Some languages spoken by sections of people living in the Himalayas are not yet classified.

Hindi is the official language of India besides English. There are 22 scheduled languages in India and Hindi is one of them. Fiji, where some 48 percent speak dialects of Hindi, has Hindi as one of its official language. The origin of Hindi is said to be Prakrit. It developed local dialects like Braj and Awadhi and evolved into Khari Boli later in the tenth century. Khari Boli, the dialect spoken in the Delhi region, got Sanskritised to become Hindi. It also got Persianised to become Urdu. The persianisation was over a period of a thousand years when the region was ruled by the Mughal kings whose official language was Persian. The neighboring countries of Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan also understand Hindi. Some sections of people in Uganda, South Africa and Singapore also speak the language. After Mandarin (Chinese), Hindi-Urdu is ranked second in terms of the most spoken language, spoken by about 429 million people. A broad variety of Hindi languages including Bundeli, Brij Bhasha, Khari Boli, Kannauji, Awadhi, Maithili, Marwari, Bhojpuri, Magadhi and Bihari languages together is considered to constitute the Hindi language.

Hindi language has been standardized for teaching in the schools across the country. The English, Persian and Arabic words have been removed from Hindi and the language further Sanskritised to develop and promote the official Hindi by the government. But the Hindi used by the media is more neutralized. The government of India has the official policy of encouraging people to learn to speak Hindi.

Hindi and Urdu were two standardized form of what is actually one language in the early 19^th century with Hindi being identified with the Devanagari script while Urdu was identified with the Perso-Arabic script. Devanagari script was originally used to write Sanskrit. It was only later that Hindi and Urdu began to be treated as separate languages.