Click to play videoRajasthan: Indian tourism ministry has decided to cash the most mundane of the Indian identity—its village life.
The tourism ministry has identified 36 villages across 20 states, for promoting tourism into the earthy rural culture of our country. The ministry's website and missions abroad allow travelers to come for the trips in batches
“A lot of tourists do want to see how the countryside of India looks like. They don’t went to just see the sites, they want to see the culture as well,” Chloe Sharpe a tourist from UK says.
Villages may not look like the best face of India, but the culture and typical Indian feel that lives in them makes the tourism quite a marketable option in far flung undeveloped corners of our country.
Carla Flores a tourist from Peru visiting a small village in Rajasthan says, “This place is unbelievable. I’ve started to understand the villagers’ language slightly. I feel a little bit like them now.”
And the real India capsule has much to tempt tourists—a baithak (sitting space) at the village chaupal, a jig with local artists, a chance at making baajra rotis, a safari on camel cart, an evening of bonfire and hukkah with villagers.
The tourism ministry believes that this could be one out-of-the-box idea that would really work wonders for the Indian tourism industry.
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