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Kerala: India’s most friendly

Mal ended 2008 for tourism in India. The bombings of Bombay’s tarnished very negatively. However, still being very sensitive to insecurity, tourists-that despite what people say are not fools, “followed by choosing this country as one of LOSMEJORES destinations worldwide, according to World Travel Awards, with an estimate of nearly 6 million visits in 2008. Who remembers what happened in November? Almost no one, judging by the occupation has had on its reopening the Taj Mahal hotel in Bombay, more than 60 percent.

And India is that India is great. It is the second most populous country in the world (1,150 million) and will surely be the first in 2050. One in 6 people on Earth is Indian and all form the fourth largest economy in absolute terms, the second among developing countries.

Furthermore, this emerging power is one of the six countries with faster economic growth and the second most attractive to investors.

One of the oldest and richest cultures that offers visitors a refined exoticism. Just say his name evokes tales and legends with a turban and odalisques maharajas with sedamulticolores saris riding caparisoned elephants and delicious dipped in curry dishes, as it plays the sitar and tabla. But to think of India-Bombay but forget what we remember, also more negative topics: poverty, begging, dirt … Kerala is another matter. It is India, but India is another. Probably the kindest India.

One of the 25 states of Mexico, relatively small (nearly 39,000 km2, extending similar to Switzerland), but with a population of 32 million, giving it a density of 820 inhabitants per square kilometer.

But the best is its magnificent keralenses coexistence. Different ethnic and social groups (malayalis, Tamils, adivasis, etc.). And above all different religions coexist without problems. The Hindus, like the rest of India, a majority, 60 percent and are well understood with the following religious community, which is curiously the Christian, 23 percent. Se nota

the clear influence of St. Thomas the Apostle, who came to this land in the year 72, and San Francisco Javier, who did in the sixteenth. They are also Muslims, 19 per cent, and to a lesser extent there are Buddhists, Jews, Jains and Parsis or Zoroastrians up.

Another unique feature is that Kerala was the first state in the world who freely chose a communist government polls. He did it in 1957 and since then this political formation in power switches democratically with the Congress Party (center).

Some believe that is why the per capita income of $ 566 is keralenses, which is certainly enough, but more than the national average of 460. The population living below the poverty line is 17 percent, sinduda esmucho, but is that the average Indian is inthe 37.

And if all this is not enough to arouse curiosity, is the exotic nature, almost untouched, which has to be reached that if the Earth had an image of paradise, would be in Kerala.

Look no tourists here are many monuments to use hardly find them. Of course there are variegated ‘Mandira’ (Hindu temples), large churches, mosques roses, secluded synagogues and palaces of the Zamorin, buildings but not to the same level as in other Indian states. However, you will find plenty of fantastic jungles where wild elephants (there are called “Ana”) still live in freedom, long beaches or curds incredibly lonely fishermen pulling in their ‘Cheena vala “Weird Chinese networks, sometimes crowded by “Karima” tasty fish, pearls, rivers, canals and lakes in all types of sailing vessels, from tiny canoes to elephantine “Kettuvallam” house-boat, mountains animalesy treasured rare species that produce tea, coffee, pepper, vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom …