India beautiful

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charminar hyderabad

Bahai Temple(Lotus Temple),INDIA,New Delhi

 

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kerala

 

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BOAT HOUSES KERALA

 

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[aristocrat]

oops!!!!!!!!

 

[SpArK]

India bags international tourism awards


India on Friday won three prestigious awards at the international travel mart in Macau for its rural and eco-tourism projects, an official said here. At a glittering function organised by the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Travel Mart, the tourism ministry bagged the PATA Grand Award and


two PATA Gold Awards, the official said.
PATA, founded in 1951, is a non-profit membership association and works for building responsible development of the Asia Pacific travel and tourism industry.

While the PATA Grand Award was given under the heritage category for the Rural Tourism Project at Hodka village in Gujarat's Kutch district, the two other awards were given to the ministry for marketing its products in an innovative manner.

About the Gujarat project, the organisers said: "The scale of this project is very welcome and could have major positive impacts on the community."

The rural tourism project is owned and operated by the Village Tourism Committee of the people of Hodka village. A rural resort, which boasts of totally modernised facilities, it is surrounded by the natural beauty of Kutch.

Art, craft and textiles made by the villagers is sold to customers, thus providing a livelihood to the villagers.

While the first marketing award was for promoting various destinations in India, the other was for creating a buzz about eco-tourism products.

Every year, the PATA Travel Mart gathers tourism stakeholders from around the world to network and seek business opportunities.

PATA's membership boasts more than 100 government, state and city tourism bodies, over 50 airlines and cruise lines, and hundreds of travel industry companies.

Around 1,000 delegates from across the world congregated for the three-day event. The Indian delegation was led by Tourism Secretary R.H. Khwaja.

The PATA Travel Mart 2011 will be held in Delhi in September, the official added.

India bags international tourism awards - Hindustan Times

 

[siegecrossbow]

I've seen elephants swimming in open water before but never elephants and mahouts wadding in knee deep water on a beach! Great pictures.

 

[secularguy]

I've seen elephants swimming in open water before but never elephants and mahouts wadding in knee deep water on a beach! Great pictures.

saw it on discovery(or NGC -India feed) about these Elephants Who are used to Move logs in Wood Industries of Andaman&Nicobar Islands.They Swim from one island to another!

 

[Bharat Muslim]

Yep we know that Indian Occupied Kashmir is beautiful.

Why not put pictures of places in India's Punjab or Assam or Bombay.

A small India-centric question: Why do many Pakistanis call Mumbai as Bombay? Is it habit? Is it because they read Bombay in history books???

 

[flyinfishjoe]

Cross posted from CWG thread. I think it's relevant here too.
These pictures are from mithun_chakroborty from the SSC forums, who screen captured them from Doordarshan.

JLN Stadium during CWG closing ceremony.

Recently renovated Connaught Place.

JLN Stadium & Vicinity

 

[aristocrat]

some images from bhopal [mp]

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Built by the Chola(Tamil) emperors.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Forts built by Rajput warlords.