Cultural and Village Excursion
Cultural Village is a rural area that offers a whole atmosphere that reflects the authenticity of the countryside, both in terms of social culture, customs, daily life, traditional architecture, village spatial structure, and has the potential to be developed various components of tourism. Cultures are what make countries unique. Each country has different cultural activities and cultural rituals. Culture includes material goods, the things the people use and produce. Culture is also the beliefs and values of the people and the ways they think about and understand the world and their own lives.
India will always turn between the urban and rural, yes I’m talking about the peoples who used more of city life and the lesser explored countryside. As a traveller I’ll always try to escape from the routine to a non-comfort zone and far from mobile networks, shopping malls, traffic snarls, hooliganism, and last but not the least OFFICE. I would like to see myself… wearing a Dhoti (traditional cotton wear) and bathing in water drawn from a nalkoop (hand pump) under the open sky, in a panchayat under the banyan tree than yawning at a conference meeting, in a clay walled and thatched-roof hut instead of lavishly painted brick walls and plastered ceilings. So the traveller in me, dreams of a rural landscape in India that leads to discover how silkworms turned to smooth flowing drapes, how turmeric roots became face cream, how Neem Patta (Nimtree leaves) became a component to preserve the shine of our teeth in the form of Neem toothpaste, how tigers of your calendars ravaged villages and how sowing of seeds develop into vegetables and these seeds are later served as a palatable dish.
The rural side in India seems to be a wonderland that gives insights to a lot of mysteries. It’s not only about a ride on a bullock cart… but here it goes…