Holidays in India, awesome in her size and diversity. This virtual sub-continent, stretches fromthe lofty Himalyas , a series of 2000km long mountain ranges in the north, to the extensive deserts in the west, the lush evergreen forest in the south to the far-flung sub Himalayan forests in the North East. Containing within it three mighty rivers, the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra, the immense Indo-Gangetic Plain, the Deccan Plateau and the two major hill chains of the South, the Western Ghats, bordering the southwestern coast from Maharashtra, across Goa and Karnataka into Kerala and the Eastern Ghats on the Coromondal Coast. Finally, the Lakhshadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.For a holidays in India with a difference try cycling the Backroads of Kerala. Travel across a timeless landscape through villages and plantations, stopping off to see some of the sites en route. Visit Anjengo fort, built by the British East India Company in the 17th century; see the Manarasala snake temple where women seeking fertility come to worship; and find the oldest European Church and the oldest synagogue in India amongst the Portuguese houses and Dutch palaces in Kochi.
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